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Okay, well, let's start doing these posts that I said I would write:
First, 5 books that I would recommend to anyone. Well, I'm not going to be terribly original here; I feel like I should choose books that are somehow deep and meaningful, but I don't actually read very many of those nor do I find them particularly recommendable when I do. Melanie Rawn's dragon trilogies probably top the list, then Robin Hobb's three trilogies about Fitz and Fool. After that, it gets a little more challenging. Can I use comics because Sandman keeps popping to mind. I'll say A Sand County Almanac to assauge my guilt about not choosing any important books. I know I'm just not thinking hard enough ... I should make one of these movie posts for books and see what people say. Everyone knows that everyone has to read Hitchiker's. Atlas Shurgged was an interesting commentary. I also love Carol Berg and Sharon Shinn, but I don't know if I'd recommend them to everyone. As far as manga goes, Deathnote was amazing. Oh George R. Martin is amazing. There are also a few children's books that everyone should read - notably, Winter of Fire, Island of the Blue Dolphins and The Dark is Rising series. Am I getting out of hand? Perdido Street Station was also amazing.

There, I think that's good for now :p
Suggestions?

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Why do I like manga so much? The easy answer is that I don't. Manga is no different to me than any other media and I don't think I've ever come across a media that I don't like, although I do stay away from magazines for some reason.
Manga is nice because usually there's an end in sight so collecting it isn't a ridiculous passtime for an obsessive complusive like me the way comic collecting would be. The stories are sometimes good and sometimes bad, as is expected, and I only buy and read the good ones. There is a cultural difference in a number of the stories that gives them a different feel than the comics and books I'm used to.
Also, I like shiny, pretty things.

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If I had a time machine, where wouldn't I go? I mean, really.
Time travel's tricky though because I'm not really equiped to deal with a lot of the situations I would find myself in. However, if we make the assumption that I am somehow protected from harm or detection, I would want to see the dinosaurs because who isn't curious. I'd also want to see how the pyramids were build and a stonehenge ritual. We should probably assume that there would be laws governing my interference in major historical events, or there are a bunch of ways I'd screw things up. Warning Titanic about the iceberg for example.

Yeah, I think I'd want to go around and learn the answers to the big historical questions like the ones I already mentioned. Find out where Atlantis is and all that jazz.

There are probably people I want to meet too, but I can't really think of any right now. Cleopatra maybe. Or Nefertiti. Ghandi, Mao ... Admiral Tarkin.

I don't have any huge regrets in my life that I'd need to go back and change and nor do I think that it would be productive to go into my personal future.

Upon reflection though, even I have enough faith in the human race to imagine that in a few hundred years, we will still be holding on and if I could navigate to see that, I would probably try it and depending on what I found, I would go further. Our future is, after all, the biggest mystery of all. It would be nice to know what I'm working towards.

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So far I've gotten confirmation that Calgary, Guelph and TO are going to be participating in Earth Hour 2008. You can too!