Fuzzy's Media Consumption

My brother and Kyle convinced me to give the new version of my childhood favorite Doctor Who and I tore through the episodes of seasons one and two on the train on my PSP. (Erica can't stand any version of Doctor Who, so it was easiest to watch it out of the house.) And that led me to the spin-off series Torchwood, which is kinda like The X-files only with more having-sex-with-aliens-and-time-travelers. There are a number of foibles to each series, especially when you binge on the episodes, but I have to say that I enjoyed them both immensely.

Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin.

It took me several months to finish this dense, rich novel, but it was well worth the time. It's just a freakin' awesome read.

The Last Days by Scott Westerfeld

I read a lot of Westerfeld last year, enough that I think I'm pretty much out of books until he writes more. Fortunately, he's prolific. The Last Days is a sequel to Peeps, set in the same world, but focused on a different group of kids, who are more concerned about getting their band together than the looming apocalypse.

A fast, fun read.

I watched Infernal Affairs and The Departed back-to-back this weekend. If you didn't know, the Scorcese film is a re-make of the 2004 Hong Kong movie about an undercover cop and an undercover mobster. In typical Fuzzy fashion, I've actually had Infernal Affairs lying around for a couple years, but only just got around to watching it. It's a good movie, but The Departed is a great one. Of course, it's also a full hour longer than the earlier film, so there's a lot more room to flesh out aspects of the movie.

The Oceans 13 trailer made Erica and I realize we hadn't seen Ocean's Twelve yet. We had both enjoyed Ocean's Eleven, so we figured it was worth a whirl. Ocean's Twelve is a delightful bit of brain candy. Fluff, but nice fluff.

By the time they get to Ocean's Twenty, introducing the characters is going to take most of the movie.

Penny Arcade Volume 3: The Warsun Prophecies by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik

Penny Arcade is a webcomic with lots of video game in-jokes, strong language, and juvenile humor. I love it. This book is a collection of every strip that appeared on the site in 2002. Let me emphasize that those strips are still online -- you can read them for free. But I like having them around in dead tree format. I sometimes laughed re-reading a strip that I had read a few minutes before. There's something about PA that (often) plugs straight into the humor receptors in my brain.