A Haphazard List of Possible Future Topics for Pleasure

This is the third installment of three sample documents dredged up from my old Brother WP-500 disks. I really have no idea what this is. Perhaps it had something to do with the Have Fun Club? That would place it circa 1992. I have no recollection of typing it, which is what makes rediscovering it so fun. This was written when I lived in Bloomington, Indiana, of course, but it’s kind of cool to note the New Orleans reference at item #3.

A HAPHAZARD LIST OF POSSIBLE FUTURE TOPICS
FOR PLEASURE

1. smelling old books
2. approaching Bloomington as a tourist
3. enjoying graveyards in New Orleans
4. graveyard picnics
5. visiting the laundromat
6. doing something that you just don’t know how to do
7. ice skating
8. rising early
9. staying up all night
10. naps
11. cooking
12. swimming in the winter
13. going to the mall
14. improvisational music/comedy
15. brainstorming
16. answering machine messages
17. funny names
18. riding the bus
19. obeying the speed limit
20. tailgating
21. cleaning is fun if you know how
22. reading “women’s” magazines
23. participant/observer activities
24. going to church
25. dawn
26. browsing at the library
27. rediscovering the lost art of conversation
28. getting into other people’s heads
29. snooping in your friend’s house
30. voyeurism
31. dressing funny
32. verbal games
33. joys of excrement
34. destruction
35. visiting the junkyard
36. memory
37. fun with Robitussin DM
38. hypothesizing about the future
39. dreams
40. masturbation
41. group gargling
42. pranks
43. frightening IU tour groups
44. making noise
45. pain
46. really gross things that taste good
47. writing letters
48. keeping a journal
49. rearranging furniture
50. building a sheet fort
51. the dialectical waltz
52. games at the grocery
53. skinnydipping
54. purification rituals
55. visiting neighboring towns
56. basic principles of pleasure
57. flowers
58. tempting fate
59. removing watch
60. getting rid of possessions
61. going to work
62. speaking your mind
63. saving money
64. walking
65. introducing yourself to complete strangers
66. slang
67. making fun of Bobby Knight, George Bush and others
68. going to see a sporting event
69. student recitals
70. live music
71. testdriving for kicks
72. meeting your neighbors
73. observing fractals in nature
74. cellular automata
75. getting caught in traffic
76. things that don’t normally seem pleasurable
77. falling off of tall buildings
78. getting arrested
79. being insulted by middleschoolers
80. climbing on roofs
81. scoping the opposite sex
82. unusual foods
83. reading other people’s mail
84. prowling about by night
85. keeping secrets
86. illicit love
87. starting rumors
88. doing evil
89. cognitive therapy
90. the problem of paranoia
91. death
92. the dark side
93. impersonating presidents
94. spiritual quests
95. suspending judgment
96. being slightly inebriated at a formal occasion
97. bouncing on the bed
98. playdoh
99. behind the stripmalls