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
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 2
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 3
- Doctor Who Series 5
- Doctor Who Series 6
- The Civil War
- The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection – The Essentials (Manos, the Hands of Fate/Santa Claus Conquers the Martians)
- Star Trek: TOS Remastered
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









