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Top 10 Places:
1) My Grandmother's cabin (Northern MN)
2) Maplewood State Park (especially in the Fall)
3) Boundary Waters
4) My bed
5) Around a campfire in the country
6) Theaters
7) Chicago

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1. Chocolate in general is my most favorite food in the world. Preferably dark chocolate and white chocolate does not count- it contains no cocoa and that’s what I love.
(The rest of the food do not go in any special order)

2. The memory of eating Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches dipped in milk. Soggy, but the best thing to eat after school.

3. Tum-Tummo, a mild vegetarian Eritrean food that is eaten with injera. The family still teases me for eating it until I got sick when I was a child.

4. Ice Cream Sandwiches!

5. Chocolate chip cookies and Cranberry Juice. Strange mix that came from my sister’s 5th grade project (8 years ago) on Massachusetts.**

6. Amazing Thailand beef egg rolls with Tum-Yum soup (level 5 for spice) after shopping at Heartbreakers, Urban Outfitters, and Everyday People in Uptown.

7. Rosemary Garlic Barbeque Sauce on Tony Roma’s Ribs. Rosemary can make almost anything taste better- try it in popcorn :)

8. Home-made tacos and mashed potatoes, with all the right toppings including an Asian hot sauce -or as I like to call it: Asian ketchup- SriRacha.

9. Farmers market Basil. A bunch for just $1! McDonalds Dollar menu can’t even beat that.

10. Juicy mangos eaten right off the pit. Yum…

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**She had to bring one food item and one drink that represented Massachusetts. The leftovers created a love for the combination for cookies and cranberry juice.

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The Dream's Top 10 Movies

01. Do the Right Thing
02. The Gods Must Be Crazy
03. The Godfather
04. Malcolm X
05. City of God
06. Ali
07. Ray
08. Crash
09. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
10. City Lights

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10: My Interests: The Bible, Afro-History, Poetry, Economics, Video Games, Movis, Books, Technology, etc.....

9: My Greatest Fear: to be a failure and not live up to my full potential, and miss out on great opportunities which would be benefical

8: My Ultimate Hope: I want to grow to my maximum potential and acquire everything which I will be able to get in this life and help others experience that which I will come to have in my life.

7: My Skills: I have been blessed with numerous gifts, talents, and abilities which will not only take me far, but will aid in the development of my personal career, family, and community.

6: My Church: Has been a tremendous blessing in my life, and the people have help me grow in areas where I have been weak.

5: My Loved Ones: My heart goes out to my family and friends, and though I may not always express it I want to make sure everyone is full of joy, and all is well with them.

4: My Mind: I have been blessed with a beautiful mind and I am very creative, and I would call myself a visionary

3: My Heart: I am a man of compassion who would do just about anything for anyone

2: My Life's Purpose - Something I purpose with all diligence in hopes I shall be a blessing to others

1: My Faith - The center of my life and the center of my Joy, the thing which keeps me together

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The ten things that make me who I am....

1. MUSIC - especially Coldplay, the Goo Goo Dolls, OneRepublic, and the like...
2. POETRY - W.H. Auden, Langston Hughes, and Maya Angelou
3. RAIN - totally takes any stress or worry away
4. DANCE - whether it's ballet or the Thriller Dance, it always cheers me up:)
5. COLORGUARD - best people ever, enough said
6. SHOES - as long as they're my size, I'll wear 'em anywhere
7. MOVIES - it's fun to escape for a few hours into someone else's life
8. NEW SHEETS - nothing like climbing into what feels like a brand new bed
9. AIRPLANES - taking off is the best feeling in the world, I don't know why
10. FRIENDS AND FAMILY - the most important part of my life, these people are the reason I get up in the morning:)

Posted by Syressa Lewis at 11:40 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

These aren’t necessarily in order…..
1. Being goofy-gotta enjoy life, if we had to be serious all the time, we would all be sad.
2. Music- I love music “music is my boyfriend,� lol.
3. Dancing- its only so long that I can listen to music before I start dancing.
4. Thinking- this one maybe should have been at the top, because I do it a lot, maybe too much.
5. HGTV- I love the home and garden network what can I say
6. People's life stories- you can never really tell what somebody has been through just by looking at them
7. Girl nights- me and my friends have them all the time, occasionally a little too often
8. Creating- I think this is where my passion lies, that doesn’t mean it can’t be a challenge though.
9. Eating- I have to admit I do get excited about lunch time
10. Last but not least sleeping- im actually about to lay down, right now.

Me being Goofy...

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- Matt Taibbi, political journalist. He is the reason I subscribe to Rolling Stone mag.

- Walking, especially in the fall.

- Fruit, all fruit, especially cold pears.

- The way outside air smells dewy early early in the morning.

- Billy wilder films, Some Like it Hot kills me.

- Lost, Dexter, Big love.

- The time after waking up and before getting up.

- Eucalyptus shampoo

- A confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole

- Turning 21 this summer...

Posted by Sophia at 9:43 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

10.) Roller Skating
9.) Hanging out with friends
8.) Traveling
7.) Going to the movies
6.) Going out to eat
5.)Tweety Bird
4.) Cooking as well as eating
3.)Making Money
2.) Shopping
1.) Spending time with my family

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ok that is a quotation from the film This is Spinal Tap and i usually use it to refer to my very loud and enthusiastic daughter

top 11, coz 10 is not enough

1. Literature that rocks, moves, and thinks (e.g. salman rushdie's midnights children and morrison's beloved)
2. films that you watch again and again (e.g. fire, mother india, sholay, mississippi masala, masala, my beautiful laundrette, fresh kill)
3. television that makes we wish the episodes came faster (battlestar galactica, the wire, and the sopranos)
4. family that reminds what theory, stories, and community is about (my son, daughter, mother, father, grandmother, brother, and sister)
5. beautiful women who inspire me (ananya chatterjea and richa nagar)
6. doing things that involve parts of me below the neck (gardening, snorkeling, canoing, and hiking)
7. reasons i became a professor (because social change happens in classrooms, coz stories are impt)
8. food (all kinds, salt and pepper tofu, green mangoes with salt and cayenne, ripe juicy mangoes, aged gouda)
9. talkin migration, race, gender, sexuality, nation, empire with academic buddies (pretty damn nerdy)
10. children's books that take me places and provide refuge (harry potter, anything magic) and good mysteries by women of color (bad people die -- women of color solve and resolve all neatly tied up0
11. the me i have become that honors as many of the previous mes that have been

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TOp ten of things i really like !

10. being on time
9. people who love talkin politics
8. Chipotle
7. new prespectives on old thinking
6. a smile in passing
5. real had shakes
4.music
3. Shopping
2. facebook
1. MYSELF !!!!!!

Posted by simon440 at 12:05 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Everyone has been posting great general Top 10 lists, so I should do one too. Here's a list of favorite things (in no particular order):

• reading children's stories aloud
• summer home improvement projects
• university administratin' (although chairin' ain't easy)
• cleaning the house (!)
• Friday night horror movies at home
• San Francisco
• watching an episode of Millennium or The X-Files before bed
• strawberry-oreo malts at Annie's
• sneak-in double features at the movies
• tenure

Posted by Walt Jacobs at 8:55 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

1. Jesus
2. Family
3. Juni (my little brother)
4. Country(Ethiopia)
5. Sports
6. Love
7. Compassion
8. Meat
9. Movies
10. Third grade English teacher.

This is a skit i wrote and produced last semester.

Posted by Tsinu Heramo at 4:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Here's my top ten list^^ for the week:

1. Music
2. Nature
3. Things that have meaning/move/inspire me
4. Peace and quiet
5. Creativity and the ability of the brain
6. Spending time with the people who have touched my life in so many ways
7. Anime/Mangas/Books
8. Tamarind Candy
9. Romantic Comedies
10. Desserts

And a photo of me and my sister... we were bored and felt like doing something random so we starting taking pictures in the bathroom... lol =P

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top ten videos that inspire my work:

10. Yes We Can -- (4:30) Barack Obama music video by Will.i.am
9. Borders -- (4:00) featured at Stories for Change
8. DeSean -- (2:19) spoken word poet, featured at UrbanYouthPoet (see also Moira & Berato)
7. Dream Mural Project -- (2:47) teacher made video, featured at TeacherTube
6. Guitar Repairman -- (1:33) documentary piece, featured at Institute for New Media Arts
5. Scary Mary -- (1:06) recut trailer of Mary Poppins, featured at YouTube
4. Nice White Lady -- (2:39) parody of Freedom Writers, featured at MADtv
3. Transistor Radio -- (3:08) sketch animation Cloud Cult video, featured on YouTube
2. LYFE-N-RHYME -- (2:11) photo essay, featured at DUSTY (Digital Underground Storytelling for Youth)
1. Papie, Pizza & Poop -- (4:20) home video of my son, featured at BlipTV

Posted by Candance Doerr at 9:39 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Books (not in any particular order, I'd be sitting at my computer all night if I tried...)
1. Their Eyes Were Watching God
2. Malcolm X
3. (Most) any Roald Dahl Book--Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
4. Dictionary/Thesaurus--I love learning new words
5. The Wentworths--read it this past summer
6. Ghettonation--highly recommend it
7. Endless Love--deep...and disturbing
8.This one vampire book…I can’t remember the title…it was good though
9. Flowers in the Attic Series
10. Inside Reporting--Recommended for any aspiring journalist

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Posted by Jessica at 3:39 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

1. preservation of life
2. pursuit of happiness
3. Respect
4. Money
5. strong social and professional networks
6. art
7. faith
8. history
9. education
10. Friendship

Posted by Ernest at 4:44 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

This is a pic of me at the Minnesota State Fair last year.

It's hard to list just my top ten things, but these will suffice:
1. ben and jerry's half-baked ice cream
2. sex and the city
3. bbq
4. love
5. old school R&B
6. the internet
7. shoes, mostly flats and pumps
8. laughing
9. planning
10. playing taboo

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Hi everyone! Jen Smith here... This is a picture of me a year and a half ago, at Invisible Children's Displace Me event in Chicago.

My top ten list will be fairly 'random' and not in any specific order.

1. Doughy baked goods
2. Giving people things
3. White chocolate raspberry gelato
4. Warm days, cold nights
5. Ceramic heaters and fuzzy socks in the winter
6. Spending hours taking people's pictures
7. Raw, organic things
8. Sweet, catchy music
9. The movie, La Heine
10. Learning about international affairs

Hope you all had a great weekend, see you on Friday!

Posted by Jen Smith at 10:51 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Me with Cha Cha the Frog.

1. Radiohead
2. Quoting old episodes of "the Simpsons"
3. Wisconsin Mac and Cheese from Noodles
4. Slaughterhouse Five
5. Playing music with friends
6. The Minnesota Vikings
7. Jeff Tweedy
8. Catch-22
9. Fall, especially on campus.
10. 89.3 The Current

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why is my picture so huge?
TARA'S TOP 10 FAVORITE THINGS OF ALL TIME
1.) The Beatles
2.) My Dog
3.) Books
4.) Shopping
5.) Movies
6.) The boyfriend
7.) Maroon 5
8.)Christmas
9.) Hawaii
10.) Coffee

Posted by Audrey Hepburn at 4:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

[it's hard for me to narrow to just 10 top favorite things, okay!]

My top 10 favorite things to watch are:
1. The Professional
2. Say Anything
3. Breakfast Club
4 I Like It Like That
5. Senorita Extraviada
6. Nobody's Business
7. Niecy Nash and Clean House(!)
8. HGTV shows like House Hunters and Color Splash
9. CSI, Law & Order type shows, even Forensic Files and the First 48
10.Favela Rising

My guilty pleasures are:
1. Nelly
2. TI
3. pop music
4. McDonalds french fries
5. peanut butter and chocolate ice cream

My favorite things to do:
1. play with my kids
2. make movies (mostly documentary videos)
3. teach media and feminisms
4. mentor youth who want to make movies

Here'a a picture of me filming in Chile (for a doc coming out on PBS next year called Estilo Hip Hop [directed by Vee Bravo]):

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• In the Mood for Love
• Star Wars
• Pan's Labyrinth
• Double Indemnity
• Spirited Away
• Heart and Souls
• When Harry Met Sally...
• Aliens
• Charade
• Do the Right Thing

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