2. Direct a feature film
3. Travel across Europe
4. Live in New York
5. Live in Paris
6. Work in California
7. Meet Hank and John Green
8. Meet Maureen Johnson
9. Go to Australia
10. Go to Alaska
11. Go to a red carpet event
12. Perform stand-up
13. Be a stunt-man
14. Visit the City Lights Bookstore
15. Invent something
16. Build a robot
17. Make a puppet
18. Create a web-serial
19. Create a TV show
20. Write a stage-play
22. Create a comic book
23. Create a webcomic
24. Learn to dance
25. Learn martial arts
26. Paint something beautiful
27. Learn guitar
28. Learn piano
29. Direct a music video
30. Host a variety show
31. Put together a Roast (Friar’s Club, Dean Martin) for a friend
32. Run a movie theater
33. Run a drive-in theater
34. Create a t-shirt
35. Pull off a prank on a friend (large-scale)
36. Build something
37. Rebuild a car
38. Get a tattoo
39. Get a tattoo from Kat Von D
40. Do a “Merry Pranksters” style bus tour
41. Write a song
42. Be a pirate
43. Be a ninja
44. Go to a Renaissance Fair
45. Attend a LARP session
46. Visit Jim Morrison’s grave
47. Go to China
48. Meet Uwe Boll (smack him upside the head?)
49. Meet the Dalai Llama
50. Attend a seance
51. Get a spiritual tattoo
52. Meet Stan Lee
53. Meet the Pope
54. Go on an ACTUAL Walkabout
55. Learn to fly
56. Skydive
57. Para-sail
58. Tour with a band
59. Be on Saturday Night Live
60. Go to the Playboy Mansion
61. Pay back my parents
62. Go dog sledding
63. Introduce Jenkins to Jorga Fox
64. Smash a guitar on stage
65. Get in the Guinness Book of World Records
66. Lead a parade
67. Meet Rachel McAdams
68. Throw a block party
69. Kiss a girl at random
70. Give a complete stranger a hug
71. Be on a late night talk show
72. Go out in public and throw a “money shower” (make it rain)
73. Fall in love
74. Dance in public
75. Pull off a public prank
76. Run with the bulls in Pamplona
77. See the Eiffel Tower
78. See Mt. Rushmore
79. Climb a mountain
80. Go to Tibet
82. Go to a Nerdfighter Gathering
83. Teach a class
84. Travel the Amazon
85. Work with/for Adult Swim
86. Punch Nicholas Sparks in the face
87. Preach a sermon
88. Perform a wedding ceremony
89. Visit New Zealand (addendum: see item 193 for further instructions)
90. Visit Easter Island
91. Go deep sea diving
92. Go to the Cannes Film Festival
93. Learn a foreign language
94. Have an action figure made of my likeness
95. Live in Key West
96. See Stonehenge
97. Ride a horse
98. Ride a motorcycle
99. Ride a camel
100. Drive a big-rig truck (18-wheeler)
101. Write Timelord Rock
102. Write Wizard Rock
103. Learn to surf
104. Learn to skateboard
105. Meet Rob & Big
106. Create a Rube Goldberg Device
107. Go Geocaching
108. Hug Beccah (lisasimpson from YouTube)
109. Introduce my mother to Andy Griffith
110. Learn a new dance
111. See Antartica
112. Go to the Sundance Film Festival
113. Go to the Tromadance Film Festival
114. Work for Troma
115. Meet Lloyd Kaufman
116. Visit Vienna
117. Make someone’s day
118. Give as many hugs as possible in one day
119. Have a picnic
120. Ride an elephant
121. See the Statue of Liberty
122. See the Pyramids
123. Take a slow boat to China
124. Go to a MAJOR Comic Book Convention
125. Adopt a cat
126. Create an alternate reality game (like the Lost Experience)
127. Experience weightlessness
128. Stand at the edge of a volcano
129. Swim with dolphins
130. Run a marathon
131. Meet William Shatner
132. Make a grand entrance
133. Lunge wildly at the Pope [just to see what would happen] (Thank you Bill Bailey!)
134. Visit Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory
135. Be a guest on “Nevermind the Buzzcocks”
136. Drive a dune buggy
137. Meet Christopher Titus
138. Ride a Zip-Line
139. Have a conversation with Alan Moore
140. Be in a demolition derby
141. Walk the Great Wall of China end to end (from Lindsay H.)
142. Ride in a hot-air balloon
143. Do something crazy/stupid with the Nitro Circus crew
144. Have a news story about me in the paper with a headline that starts “Local Idiot…”
145. Flip a house
146. Make a discovery
147. Invent a word that makes it into the dictionary
[148-165 come from a blog post by Maureen Johnson]
149. Make some soup
150. Get a hat
151. Read every day
152. Make a friend on BEDA
153. Say something nice to someone
154. Work on my moves
155. Speak for an entire day in a fake accent
156. Cultivate a completely imaginary relationship with someone famous
157. Do something completely secret (or “sekrit” as MJ puts it)
158. Go into a store and pretend not to know how something works
159. Spend one week completely offline
160. Plan to go somewhere
161. Hit the shiny red button
163. Learn to sew on a button
164. Admit it
165. Try again tomorrow
166. Meet Adam West
167. Successfully complete NaNoWriMo (in progress)
168. Have a “13 Little Blue Envelopes”-style adventure
169. Set up a “13 Little Blue Envelopes”-style adventure for a friend
170. Tug on Superman’s cape
171. Spit into the wind
172. Pull the mask off the ol’ Lone Ranger
173. Mess around with Slim
174. Feed the Mogwai after midnight
175. Watch a demolition derby live
176. Participate in a demolition derby
177. Leave 100 Nerdfighter notes in 100 John Green books (15 so far)
178. Write a blog at least once a week in 2011 (in progress)
179. Complete Script Frenzy
180. Publish a novel
181. Find and visit the mailbox on Wrightsville Beach
182. Sell a screenplay
183. Make a toast at a friend’s wedding
184. Make a toast at a stranger’s wedding
185. Create an old school radio play in serial format (in progress)
186. Make a web video that goes viral.
187. Hug everyone on my Hug Bucket
188. Race a Radar Sign
189. Go Globe Riding at the Zorb course in the Smoky Mountains
190. Jump in a taxi, point to another and yell, “FOLLOW THAT CAB!”
191. Write at least one movie review a week.
192. Engage in some positive pranking (care of Miss Amy Krouse Rosenthal, also check out John Green’s video about TPing)
[193-198 come from Jill Pantozzi’s Nerd Bucket List article on Newsarama]
193. Take Lord of the Rings Tour (*addendum to item 89)
194. Shake hands with Nathan Fillion (*also see item 204)
195. Hear Lucy Lawless do the Xena yell in person
196. Get David Bowie to sing “Magic Dance” with me (why didn’t I think of this one?)
197. Own a DeLorean (this is actually an old goal. I want to create the automotive hall of shame)
198. Voice a cartoon or video game character
[There is now a Nerd Bucket List tumblr. You can submit your own items. I plan on submitting nerdy things that did not come from Jill. Item 199-200 comes from that tumblr]
199. Go to Hawaii and find the beach where LOST was filmed.
200. Visit Metropolis, Illinois and go to the Super Museum.
201. Create the Automotive Hall of Shame (DeLorean, Edsel, Gremlin, etc.)
202. Have a funny image of myself submitted to DFTBA Expressions.
203. Have someone make an animated gif of me.
204. Photobomb with Nathan Fillion (*addendum to item 194)
205. Become a Youtube Partner (decided it actually is important to me).
206. Send at least 10 messages in bottles out into the world.
207. Visit Abbey Road and recreate the Beatles cover.
208. Recreate the Usual Suspects shot.
209. Make Stephen Fry laugh.
210. Dance Like Nobody’s Watching with Angela Trimbur.
more to come…
