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I've been reading Fit and Feminist with interest for a few months now. The author's a solid age-grouper (just broke a four hour marathon) and has some great personal reflections on the interaction between training and body image issues.

She linked Kat Whitfield's blog for her little booklet on understanding the modern fitness industry, but the whole blog's looking like a great take-down of bullshit claims.

I've also been finding a lot to like on Yoni Freedhoff's blog.

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Covert Affairs S4, From the Earth to the Moon, Arpeggio of Blue Steel, Yu-Sibu, Attack on Titan, Lately My Little Sister Has Been Acting Strange, No-Rin, The Pilot's Love Song, Shura no Toki, Indian Summer, Sora no Otoshimono: Angeloid of Clockwork, Penny Arcade books 1-6, Practical Unix & Internet Security, Wizard's Holiday, Spice and Wolf 1-3, Magic for Beginners, Racing Weight.
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So, "our" new place has a nice big front window with a bench in front where I can sit and look out on the street. It's nothing special: the front lawn, the street, a glimpse of the Sangres through the trees. But it's amazing just how happy it makes me, even now when the weather's kinda crappy. I'll have to keep that one in mind: sit by windows more often.

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Not a lot this month, largely because I read all the 2013 issues of Runner's World (except July, the Boston issue, which I got when it came out.) Probably will keep up with that, but library rather than personal subscription. Other than that: Dance in the Vampire Bund 14, The Planets, Sword Art Online: Extra Edition.

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Sharing Knife, Smart Home Hacks, Samurai Flamenco, Galilei Donna, Ace of the Diamond, Walkure Romanze, Wanna be the Strongest in the World, Non Non Biyori, Gingitsune, Kill la Kill, Beyond the Boundary, Samurai Girl Real Bout High School, Much Ado About Nothing.

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I just had to dump ten bottles of mead. It was the ill-fated "Christmas" batch and hasn't improved one bit in two years, so it hardly seemed worth schlepping around. Still feels wrong to pour that much down the drain.

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The Mirage, A Wizard Alone, Teller's War, The Bourne Identity, The Runner's Yoga Book, Some Remarks, The Commanders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Love Lab, Sekirei: Pure Engagement, Log Horizon, Burn Notice Season 7 (and last), Iron Man 3.
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The New Rules of Marathon and Half-Marathon Nutrition, Libriomancer, The Black Moth,
Just a Geek, Henneko, Silver Spoon, Sekirei, Skin Flick, Star Trek: Into Darkness.
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I'm a fan of the dry martini and have been collecting recipes for a bit. Surprisingly, only two are from M*A*S*H:

"You pour six jiggers of gin, and you drink it while staring at a picture of Lorenzo Schwartz, the inventor of vermouth."

Open a bottle of gin and whisper "vermouth" across the mouth of the bottle.

Going back a bit further is Winston Churchill's recipe. Vermouth being primarily French in origin, and there being some sort of European disturbance while he was prime minister, he would drink a glass of gin having first raised it in a toast in the direction of Paris.

Finally, one attributed only to "T.K." from the fortune file, gets right to the point: "The perfect martini is
a belt of gin from the bottle; anything else is the decadent trappings
of civilization."

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The Wizard's Dilemma, The Sleepwalkers, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Warehouse 13 season 4, Super, Skyfall, Ichigo 100% 15-19, Geo-Armor: Kishin Corps, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU, Sunday Without God, Chronicles of the Going Home Club, Aiura, Flowers of Evil, Sasameki Koto, Fate/keleid liner PRISMA ILLYA
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A Wizard Abroad, Stranger Things Happen, Iron War, In a Glass Darkly, The Manhattan Projects, Swim Speed Secrets, Swim Speed Workouts, Swim Workouts for Triathletes, The Truth (With Jokes), Daniels' Running Formula, Covert Affairs S3, Encouragement of Climb, Kotoura-san, Brothers Conflict.
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High Wizardry, Medicine for Mountaineering, Space Adventure Cobra, Rush 30th, Pioneer One, Elementary S1, Covert Affairs S1 and S2.
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The Book of God and Physics, The Left Hand of Darkness, Apollo 18, Top Secret!, Dog Days, A Roiling Original, No-One Has to Die, Sacrilege.

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Sword Art Online, Tylor OVAs, Seikon no Qwaser, Hagure Yuusha no Estetica, Girls und Panzer, Problem Children are Coming From Another World, Tenjou Tenge v. 3-5, Between Silk and Cyanide, The King's Fifth, Relentless Forward Progress, Ph.D. movie.
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As has become usual after a tragedy, the Onion's coverage is surprisingly good. You'll laugh, you'll cry, etc.

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State of Denial, A Memory of Light, Say I Love You, Freezing, Dance in the Vampire Bund 10-13.
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I suspect some people on my flist will encounter this soon, so to pre-empt, here's Popehat on the difference between maximum sentences and actual.

(While you're there, read the post on Aaron Swartz and maybe we can get some anger going on the abuse of plea-bargaining.)

Kimi ni Todoke, Sora no Otoshimono, Sora no Otoshimono Forte, Medaka Box Abnormal, Brave, Kentucky Fried Movie, Last Resort, Touching the Void, Bush at War, Plan of Attack, Going Long, Missing Signals.

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Totals for 2012: 4 games, 58 volumes of manga, 38 books, 6 shorts/novellas, 12 seasons of TV shows (plus 1 abandoned), 11 movies or TV specials, 31 seasons or OVAs of anime (plus 15 abandoned), 3 anime movies, and 1 graphic novel. Again with the four games, and a large increase in anime and manga at the expense of live action TV, movies, and books.

Fortunately, quite a bit of the anime flood was very good. Working!! scratches the ridiculous comedy itch. Moretsu Pirates meets the needs for light-hearted adventure. And High School of the Dead represents the best of zombie post-apoc. The real standouts, though, were the thriller-drama Eden of the East and slice-of-life tear-jerker AnoHana. For anime film, I highly recommend Arrietty.

Manga's an easy decision: Twin Spica.

Despite the drop in novel reading, I still encountered some first-rate writing. The balance of Scalzi's Old Man's War series lives up to the first book; The Last Colony is particuarly well-crafted. Cashore's uncompromising Graceling series raises the bar for YA fantasy. Set This House in Order gets my "if you only read one book" recommendation.

Neither live action movies nor TV had obvious bests. I enjoyed Avengers and Dark Knight Rises, but they aren't instant recommendations. Sadly no games were easy to recommend.

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