Clearing the Backlog/Hi How are You?

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Eighteen days since my last post! A new record. I've been (mostly) keeping up in school and (sort of) looking into post-graduation stuff -- you know, the usual. And I've been going out. ^^; I saw the cast of Grey's Anatomy! At a bar past Main Street. They were so ordinary-looking I half-suspect the emcee was just messing with us.

I have fic ideas but no time. Completely unrelated to that, do we know anything about the ruler of En before Shoryuu? By we I mean the people who've read the 12K novels.

Linkblogging:

• Mashups. I like Numb Phone Core (Jay-Z vs Linkin Park vs Cake) and With or Without Glycerine (Bush vs U2).
  
• McMurder. The new socially-responsible site is nice, but the old one is hilarious. Consiracy theories FTW!
  
• Stranger than Fiction. A movie about Will Ferell discovering he is actually a character in Maggie Gyllenhaal's novel.
  
• Crack Death Note AMVs: One and Two. (These uh, are only funny if you know where the music is coming from.)

Backlog Meme
I've read a number of books and comics over the past few months that I've really been meaning to talk about, but somehow never got around to. That's where you come in! I'm going to list of everything I've read and watched in the last few months. If you see something you're curious about, please ask about it in a comment and I'll give my opinion. (In fact, please ask even if you aren't interested, because I should really talk about these before I forget them.)

•BOOKS
Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
Robertson Davies, Fifth Business
Roger Delany, The Fall of the Towers
Allegra Goodman, Intuition
Allegra Goodman, Kaaterskill Falls
Lolita Hernandez, Autopsy of an Engine: and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant
Diana Wynn Jones, The Magicians of Caprona
Diana Wynn Jones, Witch Week
Tom Robbins, Half-Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Celestine Vaite, Breadfruit
Jamaica Kincaid (editor), Best American Travel Writing

•COMICS
Brian Lee O'Maily, Scott Pilgrim 1-3
Brian K. Vaughn, Runaways 4-5

•MOVIES
Cutey Honey Live Action
Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eigth Dimension (rewatch)
Willard
Plan 9 From Outer Space
This is Spinal Tap
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Versus
Who Killed Vincent Chin?

•TELEVISION
Veronica Mars season 3

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To-read:
Amitov Ghosh, Glass Palace <-- currently reading

To-watch:
Mushishi 22-26
Avatar:tLA season 2 <-- I KNOW.
Nodame Cantabille (drama)
The Departed (movie)