GREEN THUMB LANDSCAPING AND IRRIGATION

My father does not use social media.

I LOVE AMERICA BY TADEUSZ GAWEDA

My grandfather's memoir. Me too Granpda, me too.

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S'COVILLE SAWCE

Local hot sauce by my good friend DJ Coville.

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GOODYEAR.COM

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Terry Pratchett

Discworld Series

FOR AI STUDENTS - Feets of Clay and Hogfather

Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series

Dan Simmons

Carrion Comfort, Hyperion, and Fall of Hyperion

Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Frank Baum

Land of Oz series and The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

Max Brooks

The Zombie Survival Guide, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, and Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men and East of Eden

Kurt Vonnegut

Harrison Bergeron

Clive Barker

The Hellbound Heart

Chuck Palahnuik

Fight Club, Survivor, and Choke

Joseph Heller

Catch-22

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

Mick Foley

Have a Nice Day! and Foley is Good

Isaac Asimov

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and I, Robot

Books on Self Defense

Morihei Ueshiba - The Art of Peace

Sun Tzu - The Art of War

David Bayles and Ted Orland - Art and Fear

Adele Westbrook and Oscar Ratti - The Dynamic Sphere

Shunryu Suzuki - Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Yamamoto Tsunetomo - Hagakure - The Book of the Samurai

Miyamoto Musashi - The Book of Five Rings

Books on Survival

John Plant - Primitive Technology

Bernard Shanks - Wilderness Survival

Books on Acting (also useful for Teaching)

Charna Halpern, Del Close, Kim "Howard" Johnson - Truth in Comedy

Viola Spolin - Improvisation for the Theater

Uta Hagen - A Challenge for the Actor

Konstantin Stanislavski - An Actor Prepares

Robert Cohen - Acting Professionally

Marina Caldarone and Maggie Lloyd-Williams - Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus

Eric Morris and Joan Hotchkins - No Acting Please: "Beyond the Method" A Revolutionary Approach to Acting and Living

William Ball - A Sense of Direction - Some Observations on the Art of Directing

FOR GAME DEV STUDENTS - Raymond Obstfeld and Franz Neumann - Careers for your Characters: A Writer's Guide to 101 Professions from Architect to Zookeeper

Karel Capek - Rossum's Universal Robots

Edward Albee - Zoo Story

William Shakespeare - Hamlet

Adam Long, Daniel Singer, Jess Winfield - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) - Ask me to sing the Othello Rap

Martin McDonagh - The Pillowman

David Mamet - Sexual Perversity in Chicago and The Duck Variations

Henrik Ibsen - An Enemy of the People

Earthbound (also known as Mother 2)

My first RPG and my first online fan club (The Sharks).

Other similarly themed games - Undertale, Deltarune, There Is No Game, The Stanley Parable, The Binding of Isaac, and The Backworld

Final Fantasy

FOR GAME DEV STUDENTS - Final Fantasy 6, Final Fantasy 7 (original and remake), and Final Fantasy Tactics

Hideo Kojima

FOR GAME DEV STUDENTS - Metal Gear Solid Series, Death Stranding Series, and Silent Hill Series (not all by Kojima)

Valve

Team Fortress 2 - My Apple Earbuds are for sale, but you can't afford them.

Left 4 Dead 2

Portal

Portal 2

Uno - My speech therapist used this to correct my lisp.

The Game of Life - I like to make up stories while I play about the tokens' lives.

Scrabble

Solitaire, Hearts, Spades, Poker (preferably Seven-card stud, but Texas Hold'em will suffice)

Munchkin - Kneepads of Allure is banned.

Magic the Gathering - I enjoy Book Burning and Browbeat.

Cards Against Humanity

Trial by Trolley

Joking Hazard

Truth or Dab

Ticket to Ride

Film

Comedy

The Naked Gun Series

Hot Shots Series

Scary Movie Series

Austin Powers Series (parody movies in general too)

Mel Brooks - Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Blazing Saddles, The Producers, Space Balls

Jim Carrey - Ace Ventura, The Mask, Dumb and Dumber, The Truman Show, Liar Liar, Man on the Moon, Bruce Almighty, Sonic the Hedgehog

Robin Williams - Mrs. Doubtfire, Aladdin, FernGully: The Last Rainforest, The Birdcage, Hook, Patch Adams, Jumanji, Toys, Good Morning Vietnam, Popeye

Simon Pegg - Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World's End

Kevin Smith - Clerks, Clerks II, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma

Adam Sandler - Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer, 50 First Dates, Mr. Deeds

Jack Black - School of Rock, Nacho Libre, Kung Fu Panda, Saving Silverman, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer

Dodgeball: A TRUE Underdog Story

Tropic Thunder

Talladega Nights: The Ballard of Ricky Bobby

The Princess Bride

Oh Brother, Where For Art Thou?

Super Troopers

Meet the Parents

American Pie

The Big Lebowski

Anchorman

Office Space

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Trey Parker and Matt Stone - Team America, South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut

Horror

Halloween Series

The Nightmare on Elm Street Series

Friday the 13th Series

Scream Series

Leprechaun Series

Black Phone and Black Phone 2

Terrifier Series

Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon

Jordan Peele - Get Out, Nope, Us

Stephen King - The Shining, It, Pet Sematary, Thinner, Maximum Overdrive

Thirteen Ghosts

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Exorcist

The Thing

Re-Animator

The Cabin in the Woods

A Knock on the Door

A24 - Hereditary, Bring Her Back, Midsommar, Talk to Me, Civil War, Heretic, Longlegs

Thriller

Fight Club

Se7en

Collateral

Phone Booth

The Butterfly Effect

American Psycho

Momento

Shutter Island

Gone Girl

The Manchurian Candidate

Law Abiding Citizen

Donnie Darko

Black Swan

Joker

V for Vendetta

The Watchmen

A Clockwork Orange

Action

Jackie Chan - Drunken Master, Game of Death, Enter the Dragon, Dance of Death, The Protector, Police Story, Police Story 2, Mr. Nice Guy, Rush Hour Series, Rumble in the Bronx, The Tuxedo

Keanu Reeves - Point Break, Speed, Johnny Mnemonic, The Replacements, Constantine, 47 Ronin, John Wick Series

Quentin Tarantino - Kill Bill: Volume 1, Kill Bill: Volume 2, Reservior Dogs, Django Unchained, Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Bastards, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Hateful Eight

Jet Li - Fearless, Hero, The One, Romeo Must Die, The Expendables

Godzilla - Godzilla King of the Monsters, Godzilla vs. Mothra, Terror of MechaGodzilla

Ip Man Series

Shoot 'Em Up

Sin City

The Butterfly Effect

Scifi

Firefly, Serenity

They Live

Stargate

The Matrix Series

The Terminator Series

The Planet of the Apes Series

Alien Series

Predator Series

Jurassic Park Series

Tron Series

Mad Max Series

Back to the Future Series

Interstellar

Independence Day

2001: A Space Odyssey

The Lawnmower Man

Equilibrium

Ghost in the Machine

Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049

Running Man

Tank Girl

Waterworld

Drama

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

What Dreams May Come

Big Fish

Snatch

Trainspotting

Requiem for a Dream

The Last Samurai

The Sandlots

Matchstick Men

Tom Hanks - Forest Gump, Cast Away, Big, You've Got Mail, The Terminal, Toy Story Series, A League of Their Own, Apollo 13, Philadelphia

Braveheart

Scarface

Good Fellas

The Godfather Series

Falling Down

The Whale

Animal Farm (1954) and Animal Farm (1999) - I highly recommend you watch both in succession and take note on how society has shifted Napoleon's presentation at the end of both movies.

Christmas

Christmas Claymation - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas Celebration, Jack Frost, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (linked because it is rarely available on streaming platforms)

Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Santa Clause Series

A Christmas Story

Movies about Numbers (I teach math after all...)

A Beautiful Mind

The Social Network

The Imitation Game

The Big Short

The Wolf of Wallstreet

Margin Call

Moneyball

Inside Job

Boiler Room

Glengarry Glen Ross

Good Will Hunting

21

Pi

Cube and Cube 2: Hypercube

Oppenheimer

Dangerous Minds

The Martian

The Number 23

Television