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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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I'm unfortunately not reading much of anything these days, other than random internet snippets between scrabbling for paying work and sending out resumes. So I'm busy, but at a fraction of the income I was making before the company I worked for went under, leaving me with little free time or money. So that kind of sucks.
However, in my internet readings I'm learning various super-hero related facts such as:
Superman apparently set up shop down in Mexico:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/photogalleries/giant-crystals-cave/index.html
Also, it's probably not too early to start designing your own functioning super-suit, since clothing that will do pretty much whatever you want will be available soon enough:
http://www.cracked.com/article/212_5-materials-that-will-make-world-as-we-know-it-obsolete/