Been a while since I've gone on at length about stuff, so here goes:

Some quick manga hits. I'm now caught up with Bleach from Viz, and still enjoying it. It's a relief, after 12 volumes of her sitting around like a gerbil, to see Rukia doing something again in the most recent arc. I still like her and Ichigo better as friends. Love Attack 2 features one of the most over-the-top insane overprotective fathers I've ever seen in manga. Fairy Tail is unbelievably unoriginal, but great fun nonetheless. I'm also still enjoying Tears of a Lamb, showing I seem to have an affinity for Banri Hidaka's work. Ysa, Vol. 2 of ToaL mentions Takaya-san drawing art of Kyo (or Koyo, as CMX crappily translates it) in the clothes of her characters in Vol. 9 of Fruits Basket (the series were running concurrently).

I got, at last (it was delayed several months) the first Goon Show Compendium Box Set. The first 13 shows of the 5th series, which was the first where the BBC has a complete season, all uncut (as much as possible) and remastered. Complete with Andrew Pixley research notes for the CD booklet and Ted Kendall's painstaking notes on restoration, this is a must for any Goon fan. Most of these you have admittedly seen before, but Dishonoured is new to CD and hysterically fun, and Forog is new to CD and while not as good is pleasingly weird. Ying tong iddle i po!

The 2nd Woody Woodpecker DVD set ships this week, for those who missed me going on about it before.

Got the new Faction Paradox book out of New Zealand courtesy Lars from Mad Norwegian offering me a nice deal. It's Newtons Sleep, by Daniel O'Mahony, and the missing apostrophe is intentional. It's very long and very wordy, as I expected (it's Faction Paradox, after all, and I already know O'Mahony's prose from old Who novels), so I'm only about 18 pages into it. It's pretty cracking stuff so far, though, and will apparently feature poetess and spy Aphra Behn.

I also read the new Tank Girl novel at Anime Boston. Written by Alan Martin, it's very Tank Girl, circa her best writing rather than her worst. I'd only read it if you're a fan of the comics, otherwise the prose style and constant swearing will no doubt put you off, but it was fun.

Catherine Tate apparently has breasts. Or something.

In case people were wondering, the 160G iPod I got a couple months ago is now at about 120G filled, and no, I still haven't put any videos on it, that's just mp3s. I'm at the point now where I could listen to shuffle for 2 months and still not repeat anything. :D It is nice to be able to think 'Hrm, I feel like Talking Heads today, or Nirvana, or PDQ Bach, or Miles Davis, or the Goons, and not have to think about dragging out CDs when you get home.

But enough about me. How's everyone been? :)