What's hot:

• coconut ice cream
• financial districts/downtowns of large urban cities
• panoramic and aerial photography
• Apple product design, interfaces, and ads
• short fantasy fiction and lighthearted poetry
• beautiful piano melodies
• California poppies
• widescreen
• soup
• color pencil art
• wordplay

What's not:

• scratched or greasy surfaces
• PowerPoint lectures
• second-hand smoke
• Chinese opera
• spoilers (for books, film, TV)
• Microsoft WordArt
• anime
• sales taxes
• Fur Elise
• the V-fingers gesture done so frequently overseas
• overcast skies
• audience clapping evenly during a performance (particularly off beat)
• the term "un-American"
• most mobile phone ring tones
• schedules and routines
• horror films
• generalizations

Fears:

• deep sea (and the creatures in it)
• large, sharp knives
• large dolls
• sudden loud noises (like tropical thunder and balloon bursts)
• undivided two-way highways
• nuclear war
• death
• cockroaches
• concept of nonexistence
• The Book of Revelations

*Various updates during since 2002