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I'll start.
Reading ( Prose ): The Sherman Alexie book " Indian Killer ", a multi-perspective murder mystery about a Spokane-Indian themed serial killer who scalps their victims. Given Alexie's literary background, the focus is more on the wave of anti-Native American bigotry sparked by the murders, rather than the mystery itself.
Reading ( Comics ): Invincible Iron Man by Matt Fraction and Salvador Larroca is my favorite superhero comic on the stands at the moment, for so directly and brutally addressing Tony Stark's self-hating ablism by forcing him to sequentially lobotomize himself ( I won't spoil how the World's Most Wanted story wrapped up here, but....damn ). For graphic novels, I finally got my own copy of We3 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, a brilliant animal rights story with surprisingly non-anthropomorphized protagonists.
Watching ( TV ): Teppen Toppa Gurren Lagann, the anime by Studio Gainax that could be considered a Crowning Series of Awesome. Galaxy-sized drills powered by sheer determination? Sold!
Watching ( Movie ): Planet 51, an awful animated movie I saw on behalf of a young boy I've done some behavioral work with. I'm glad he enjoyed it, because I only got five minutes into the " the alien world is like 50's America and the human is the alien " gimmick before I was terminally bored by the predictable puerility.
Playing: Super Smash Bros. Brawl for Wii, the greatest feat of Nintendo nostalgia porn to date, with a pretty good fighting game attached as well.
Any others?
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Reading: 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee and the giant 860 page history of manga 'A Drifting Life' by Yoshihiro Tatsumi.
Watching: You. Through your bathroom window. (Okay, now that I've successfully skeeved you out, I'm really not watching anything at the moment. Not a big TV person. I saw 'Inglorious Basterds' a couple weekends ago and thought it was awesome. I guess I'm also watching 'The Wire' and 'Rome' on DVD on my laptop. So I'm wrong. I am watching something.)
Playing: I don't play videogames anymore. Not because I've matured or any silly notion like that, but because I don't have the money to buy new games or the time to get immersed in a really awesome game that will suck in my life. The last great game I played was 'Fallout 3'. Before that, 'Bioshock'. I will get 'Bioshock 2' when it comes out, but these days my game playing is few and far between.
