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Running commentary can be found in my log.

• Books
• Movies
• Music
• Television
• Words Which Will Make Me Leave The Party

Books

• The Book of Lost Tales, Part One (The History of Middle-Earth, Vol. 1), J.R.R. Tolkien
• After the Ice Age : The Return of Life to Glaciated North America, E. C. Pielou
• The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
• Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J. K. Rowling
• The Peoples of Middle-Earth (The History of Middle-Earth, Vol. 12), J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Burton G. Malkiel
• The Word Detective, Evan Morris
• Sea Of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842, Nathaniel Philbrick
• Persuasion, Jane Austen
• A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals, Tim Flannery, Peter Schouten
• Summers at Castle Auburn, Sharon Shinn
• Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode, J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays, J.R.R. Tolkien
• America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction, the writers of The Daily Show & Jon Stewart
• The System of the World, Neal Stephenson
• Just a Geek, Wil Wheaton
• Dancing Barefoot, Wil Wheaton
• This Immortal, Roger Zelazny

Movies

• Ying xiong (Hero)
• De-Lovely
• Hidalgo
• 13 Going On 30
• The Lady's Not For Burning
• Band of Brothers
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Love Actually
• The Last Samurai
• Sense and Sensibility
• The Matrix Revolutions
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
• Once Upon A Time In Mexico
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• Pride and Prejudice
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Music

• Virginia Creeper, Grant-Lee Phillips
• This One's from the Heart, James Darren
• Closer, Josh Groban
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Howard Shore
• Rush in Rio, Rush
• Mer de Noms, A Perfect Circle
• Vapor Trails, Rush
• The Prince is Dead, Long Live the Prince, Various Artists
• Learning to Fly Straight, Various Artists
• Hop In, Mahmood / Boo Go Gee, The Lozenges

Television

• Battlestar Galactica
• Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars
• Gilmore Girls
• Good Eats
• Divine Design
• Keen Eddie
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Stargate SG-1
• Iron Chef
• Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
• Monk
• Trading Spaces
• Enterprise
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Angel
• Who’s Line is it Anyway?
• Star Trek: The Next Generation

Words Which Will Make Me Leave The Party

• Onramping
• Socialize the Idea
• Deep-diving
• Incentivize
• "You can attend the party for free, but your wife has to pay $20."
• The Next Level
• Shock and Awe
• Exegisis
• Utilize
• Postmodernism

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