US cartoons:

Watched Justice League this weekend, "Fearful Symmetry." Blah blah blah
cloned Supergirl yadda yadda. But dude! The Question! Since I am not a
comics person much at all, who is this guy again? And apparently he has the
superhero abilities to...take on other people's faces and believe in really
complex conspiracies? I don't know. But I love him.

US comics:

Not-quite-US (Canada), but I got in my autographed issue of Cerebus
last week. The conversation between Swoony and Snuffy was amusing, as was
the talk between Cerebus and...elf girl lady pseudo-daughter thingy, but is
there a reason for all that irritating as hell eye-dialect? That
stuff annoys me, and it's hard to read.

Marvel-verse: I finally sat down and read Ultimate Spiderman #9 this
weekend. Eee! So cute and cool and gay. The fan service shot of Peter
checking his spandex pants for sand. "I want my boy." And Doc Ock reunited
with his arms! And Harry at the end with his "I'll kill you all." Is it
wrong that I want Volume three so much because of the cover art of Spidey
pinned to a wall by Doc Ock's arms, while the other shadow arms reach up to
molest him?

Anime:

Sat down and watched Volumes six and seven of Trigun straight through this
weekend. Ouch. Ow. Yeesh. And I know it just gets worse! But it did
provide some really good Wolfwood moments, especially with how 'Wolfwood
takes out Zazie to protect Vash' parallels 'captain takes out Rowan to
protect Rem' from the earlier episode. (Come to think of it, it also
parallels 'Iron Man takes out Norman Osborn to protect Harry' in Spiderman
9. It is my weekend of cosmically tragic misunderstood shootings!)

Weiss Kreuz: Daegaer has just gotten into watching it, and man, oh, man, the
memories it brings back. That Christmas break I spent reading every
single WK fic and website I could find. I've even read the drama cds.
More than once. And the Youji love, and the Assassin and White
Shaman manga Becca got me and the unfinished fics galore and the Bad
Fashion page (I still have some of those pictures on my back up cd. They
were hideous.) And my very personal revelation about the perviness of
Schuldich: Schuldich is a telepath. Guys think about sex every seven
seconds; women, slightly less often. The guy has a freaking live-action
porn show streaming in his head ALL THE TIME. No wonder he's always
portrayed as such a horndog.

American TV:

Monk! So, I saw the (end of) the episode where Monk goes to New York
on the trail of Trudy's killer and (the end of) the episode where Monk's new
medicine makes him non-OCD but obnoxious. And let me just say this: Disher!
Yay Disher! Love ya, dude. Seriously, the end of the season finale, with
him being all macho cop, "You shot my partner!"? Big, huge grin on my face.
It reminded me of--I believe it was the episode with the psychic--the
episode where the killer tries to attack Stottlemeyer and Randy leaps
over a coffee table to wrestle him to the ground. I love it when my
"Secretary Cop" gets to play hardball. (Favorite Disher moment though is
still Randy waxing enthusiastic about the car chase in the coma bomber
episode. Love that. So something I'd do/say.) Can I have my own Disher?

Books:

Reading all of the Mrs. Pollifax books I can get my hands on in
preparation for Nano. Also read Eats, Shoots & Leaves which is cool,
and as an occasional grammar nazi hit some of my kinks. (In case you
couldn't tell I have an unholy love of parentheses, and my view on the
"optional" commas is a bit like my view on cheese--the more the better.)

So, you know, good weekend. And I got a trenchcoat, so I can do Inspector
Gadget for Halloween. Or Lauren Bacall a la Casablanca. But probably
Inspector Gadget.

I finally got around to watching the commentaries to Pirates of the
Caribbean this weekend. Yay for obsessiveness! Now I've got an actual
timeline to work with for helping to fix that untitled St. Patrick's Day
fic. And I also now know why Norrington is so popular--Jack Davenport is
immensely fun to listen to.

Also watched Johnny English which was low-key and rather low-brow but
exceeded my rather low expectations because of Bough. Yes, Bough, he of the
cheekbones and comeptency and complete loyalty. (How did he happen to get
to Pascal's headquarters in time to rescue Johnny? Did he follow them
there? Was he too investigating Sauvage on his own? Do he and Johnny have
a secret telepathic link? (My personal money is on a tracking device,
probably planted in Johnny's wristwatch. Bough loves his gadgets.)) I can
feel the urge to fic calling for me.

I'm also re-reading all of the Nero Wolfe mysteries I have. I don't have
them all--yet--but I do have most of them. I'm not reading them in any
particular order, just novels first, then novellas and short stories, and
finally Death of a Doxy and A Family Affair. I figured it'd be fitting to
read those two back-to-back. I'll see if I can find some of the ones I'm
missing tomorrow, or even, if possible, Nero Wolfe of West 35th
Street which was the first piece of fanwork I ever read, back when I
didn't know what fandom was, just that I wanted to be cool enough to study
all about my favorite detective and write down all these cool theories about
him/them and then get it published. I've only seen a few of the A&E
episodes, but I'm tempted to see if I can rent them after I finish my orgy
of reading. I like their Archie. Mmmm....this weekend was positively
covered with dashing men of action. Too bad none of them were real. ^__~

Also, also, tomorrow I'm going shopping. And while I won't be anywhere near
a B&N (where is the nearest one I wonder? Is there one in
Alexandria, or would it be all the way in Lafayette?), there will be a
Waldenbooks. So while I'll hit the usual suspects (fantasy, scifi, mystery,
manga), also have comics--regular issues and TPBs. I've been nibbling
around the edges of the comics fandom recently, so I'm thinking of getting a
few issues. Anything in particular anyone would recommend? I know Joss
Whedon has an X-Men series out right now and there's also that Batman: True
Brit thing because I am a sucker for Monty Python. (Of course I shall look
for Captain Drew first, and if they don't stock it, I shall demand loudly
that they place an order for a hundred copies. Each issue. ^__^)

Also, I am happy because I got a review on my Croup/Vandemar story at ff.net
today. It used the word macabre, which has always been one of my favorite
words.