Favorite comfort foods

Brook:

5. garlic bread

4. Ben & Jerry's ice cream

3. homemade chicken and dumplings

2. broccoli, cheese and rice casserole

1. chocolate chip cookies

Chris:

5. beignets

4. portabella mushrooms

3. jambalaya

2. chocolate buttermilk donuts

1. anything Chinese

Movies I watch over and over

Brook:

5. Miller's Crossing

4. Serenity

3. The Long Kiss Goodnight

2. Die Hard

1. Super Troopers

Chris:

5. So I Married an Axe Murderer

4. Ocean's Eleven

3. The Blues Brothers

2. Rushmore

1. The Hunt for Red October

Least favorite things about summer

Brook:

5. Baseball

4. Municipal water restrictions

3. Crappy network TV

2. High electric bills

1. Umm... It's really hot.

Chris:

5. Mosquitoes

4. Perspiration

3. Bright early mornings

2. The temperature of my car's interior

1. Relentless heat

Things I don't like about where I live

Brook:

5. Local radio blows.

4. The populace, by and large, is rediculously conservative.

3. It's oppressively hot here 10 months a year.

2. The traffic sucks.

1. The traffic is so bad, I'm listing it twice.

Chris:

5. Only two seasons -- summer and mild winter

4. Too conservative

3. The nouveau riche

2. The incessant heat

1. Traffic

Favorite things about where I live

Brook:

5. Tons of great restaurants.

4. Near (within 200 miles) much of my family

3. It's just big enough.

2. It's not in the Middle East

1. All my stuff is here

Chris:

5. Variety of entertainment choices

4. Great museums

3. Convenience

2. International Airport

1. Cost of Living

Favorite cookies

Brook:

5. Oreos

4. fortune cookies

3. oatmeal rasin

2. oatmeal chocolate chip

1. chocolate chip

Chris:

5. lemon

4. vanilla sandwich cookies

3. oatmeal

2. peanut butter

1. chocolate chip