Home on short-term medical leave (I had my gall bladder removed after a couple trips to the ER for gallstones), I’ve had some time to reacquaint myself with something that used to be called “leisure time” but what is now called “unhoped for and needed respite”. Below is a list of items I’ve either read/viewed recently, am regularly reading/viewing, or wish were on at present (TV programs with an asterisk are currently showing or are available “on demand”).

Current Book:

• Nietzsche’s New Darwinism [hardcover; 300 pages; 2004], by John Richardson

Regular Blogs:

• Daylight Atheism
• Pharyngula
• The Loom
• BLDGBLOG
• Cosmic Variance
• The Nonist
• Things Magazine
• 3 Quarks Daily

Recently Read:

• Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia [trade paperback; 416 pages; 2004], by Tom Bissell
• After Dark [hardcover; 208 pages; 2007], by Haruki Murakami

Must-See TV:

• Tell Me You Love Me *
• Mad Men *
• Dexter *
• John From Cincinnati
• Big Love
• The L Word
• Five Days *

Movies:

• Into the Wild
• Tsotsi