Outis

Pet peeve.

Via my friend Claire Light, Some of the Best Books Since 1990.

I haven’t been able to read books since I was in college. (That is so sad.) Sure, I read quite a bit — about two to four hours every day. But mostly I read magazine articles, essays, blogs and, um, that’s about it.

So, now that I find myself traveling more often and have found the Nintendo DS to have a pretty craptaculous selection of titles, I am looking forward to reading more books. The last one I picked up, The Orientalist, is really good.

Which reminds me, I’ve been meaning to take a picture of our bookshelf. When we moved from San Francisco to Madrid, we sold and/or gave away about three bookshelves worth of books (and the bookshelves, as well). The remainder we shipped to my parents’ house for storage. All but one of the boxes made it across the country via the U.S. Postal Service.

Now that I’ve got my books back (550 lbs. of them, which, shipped UPS from NJ to LA will run you about $600) I can enjoy the fun of physical data storage.

The following happened (almost) completely by chance:

Foreign Policy’s Passport blog is among the best on the web.

“Ley y Orden: Acción Criminal” was one of the few American shows I got to know during my year in Spain and now that I’m back in the U.S., and can see the original version, I’m disappointed.

Vincent D’Onofrio is simply a much better actor with Rafael Calvo as his voice.

From Pentagon Orders U.S. Reporters to Exit Guantanamo:

“The Bush Administration is afraid of American reporters, afraid of American attorneys and afraid of American laws.”

(via Passport)