Comment on this post and I will pick seven of your interests. You then explain them in your journal and re-post. My interest selection below courtesy of supergee.

bleeding-heart liberalism: I believe that fairness doesn't preclude compassion. I believe the point of government is to provide infrastructure and access to the necessities for those who lack it for whatever reason. If you have access to clean municipal water, a 40-hour workweek, or similar benefits, you can probably thank a liberal.

john gorka: Many years ago (early '90s?), my record-club flyer compared Gorka to Lyle Lovett and I bought a couple of now-out-of-print CDs (careful -- autostart music at that link). I fell in love with his music, all full of wordplay and bleeding-heart liberalism (see above), and now that I've seen him in concert a couple times, I know he's One of Us (that is, a wordgeek, and just an all around lovable nerd). He's an old friend of elisem's, and I made him stammer and have to regroup once when I dropped a note from her on his music stand during a set break.

jonatha brooke is one of a bunch of singer-songwriters that I groove on. My favorite album of hers is Steady Pull

lgbtqi: I have several versions of this initialism (lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer/questioning, intersex) in my interests list as part of my general desire for both outness and creation of safe space for people of all genders and sexual orientations.

my niblings: Munchkin The Elder and Munchkin The Younger (wtfpotatoes), my sister's children, are so much a part of my heart that calling them "interests" really waters down what they mean to me.

nanci griffith: Oh, my, Nanci. If you need introducing to Nanci, my best recommendation is The MCA Years: A Retrospective, but she never stops putting out wonderful music, so just grab you some. If you own any contemporary folk/rock singer/songwriters' work, you probably have heard her in the background already -- not only does she write kick-ass songs, but she has a reputation for being a real working member of the music community, and she seems to be almost entirely without any ego of the toxic sort. She also put out a marvelous album of her renditions of American folk music called Other Voices, Other Rooms. It has Arlo Guthrie, Odetta, Emmylou, John Prine, and many others on it.

wallyware: One day in San Diego, someotherguy and I were in the Goodwill store and we saw this silly little plate. It looked like it might have been made in ceramics class. It had a dog and a cat on it. The cat was, if I remember right, dressed in black lingerie. The dog was taking video. The caption was something like "Wally and Socks Clinton collaborate on a controversial video". It was so full of WTF that we had to have it, and it was only three dollars. When we got home, we saw the word "Wallyware" on the bottom of the plate, and went to google to find the artist's web store. Now we collect the stuff (when I can find it cheaply, on eBay). I broke our favorite one, where Wally gets an NIH grant to turn the Weinermobile into a safer-sexmobile, and he's driving around in a condomed hot dog. :-) sogwife got us four mugs for Giftmas, so we now have something like two plates, two bowls, and five mugs.