Stuff I Want

This page exists primarily for The Wife. Invariably, around my birthday or Christmas, she asks what I want and I get can’t think of anything to tell her. So here’s a running list of stuff I would like.

The links provided are just to show you the product. Most everything on this list is available through multiple retailers and probably for less than the example I linked to.

The Most Wanted List

Orion SkyQuest XT8 Classic Dobsonian Telescope – So I can see stuff at night, yo.
Olsen Field at Night art print or the Historical Aggie Baseball print – I need stuff to put up on the walls in my office, yo.

Gift Cards

Music

I’ve kicked CDs to the curb, so iTunes or Amazon gift cards are the best bet.

Wii Games

DVDs/Blu-Rays

Books – History

31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today by Barry Werth
The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 by Terry Martin
Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew
Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union by Francine Hirsch
Energiya-Buran: The Soviet Space Shuttle by Bart Hendrickx and Bert Vis
Hatless Jack: The President, the Fedora and the History of American Style by Neil Steinberg
A History of Britain, Volume II: The Wars of the British 1603-1776 by Simon Schama
A History of Britain, Volume III: The Fate of Empire 1776-2000 by Simon Schama
Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick
The London Underground by Douglas Rose
The Longest Night: The Bombing of London on May 10, 1941by Gavin Mortimer
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Jeffrey Kluger and James Lovell
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,000 Bath Toys Lost at Sea by Donovan Hohn
Oh, Waiter! One Order of Crow! Inside the Strangest Presidential Election Finish in American History by Jeff Greenfield
Resurrection by David Remnick
Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World by David Maraniss
Rough Crossings: Britain, Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street by Michael Davis
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed
Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets by Stephen Smith
Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987 by Bob Woodward
White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters by Robert Schlesinger
Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commissionby Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton

Books – Baseball

Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston and the 1975 World Series The Triumph of America’s Pastime by Mark Frost
Is This a Great Game or What? From A-Rod’s Heart to Zim’s Head: My 25 Years in Baseball by Tim Kurkjian
The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty: The Game, The Team, and the Cost of Greatness by Buster Olney
Making Airwaves: 60+ Years at Milo’s Microphone by Milo Hamilton and Dan Schlossberg
A Six-Gun Salute: An Illustrated History of the Houston Colt .45s by Robert Reed
The Stark Truth: The Most Overrated and Underrated Players in Baseball History by Jayson Stark
Venezuelan Bust, Baseball Boom: Andres Reiner and Scouting on the New Frontier by Milton H. Jamail

Books – Other

The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
Blog Wars: The New Political Battleground by David D. Perlmutter
Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale by Russell T. Davis and Benjamin Cook
Madden: A Biography by Bryan Burwell
Our Dumb World: The Onion’s Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition by The Onion
The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification by Julian Montague

Miscellaneous

Keyless entry pad for garage (my garage opener is finicky though, so a hardware store gift card might be better)
Wall switch timer (I really need two)
Bookmark weight
A nice (high quality) American flag with a 3/4″ or 1″ wooden pole