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Movies, Music, Theatre, Reading, Libraries/Archives, Web 2.0 stuff ...

Read this article A Hipper Crowd of Shushers from The New York Times!!! So Cool! Also take a look at this Squidoo lenses, Using Web 2.0 Principles to Become Librarian 2.0, which is from a workshop I took in grad school and bursting with cool Web 2.0 resources.

This is my 43 Things profile. You can list up to 43 goals you have for yourself. They can be long-term or short-term goals, and the site can show you other people with similar goals so you can be supportive of each other.

This is my del.icio.us page. You can bookmark and tag webpages on this site so you can access it, not only from your home computer, but from any internet connection. I also have a Digg account.

This is my Neighborrow profile. The site allows you to save time, money, and the environment by sharing things with your neighbors. You can list books, movies, music, games, and misc. items that you're willing to share with your neighborrow-ers in your neighborrow-hoods.

This is my Amazon Wish List. I've spent quite a bit of time compiling this list of media I would love to have in my own library (I have carefully prioritized the list).

Atheist Nexus is a social networking site started for Nontheists. Here's My Atheist Nexus Page.

Games--
Age of Mythology (the only computer/video game I've played beginning to end), Rampage, Alias, 007 Everything or Nothing, Spy Hunter, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, Cranium games, Scene It? 1st and 2nd editions & Turner Classic Movies and 007 editions. Hollie and I just got that new Pictionary Man game too.

This is my King.com profile. There are lots of fun games. You can play for free and earn jewels to unlock new features.

60's & 70's music- folksy, funky, rock, pop. Movie soundtracks and Broadway tunes. Also Harry Connick Jr, Henry Mancini, Vince Guaraldi.

I have a couple stations on Pandora.

I also have an iLike profile that is connected to iTunes.

Have seen nearly all the major Academy Award winners since they began in the late 20's up till the early 90's now. Here's a list of some movies I recommend. 7th Heaven (1927), The Champ (1932), The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), It Happened One Night (1934), The Informer (1935), The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Sergeant York (1941), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), The More the Merrier (1943), The Lost Weekend (1945), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Johnny Belinda (1948), All the King's Men (1949), Born Yesterday (1950), Stalag 17 (1953), Marty (1955), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Spartacus (1960), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Father Goose (1964), A Thousand Clowns (1965), In the Heat of the Night (1967), M*A*S*H (1970), Butterflies Are Free (1972), The Sting (1973), Chinatown (1974), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Network (1976), California Suite (1978), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Ordinary People (1980), On Golden Pond (1981), Missing (1982), The Last Emperor (1987), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Glory (1989) ...

Here's my Flixster profile. Take a look. Or get the Myspace Movies Application on your page. It's a window into the Flixster site!

I've also started an account on The Auteurs.

Heroes, Glee, Chuck, Leverage, No Reservations, House, Mythbusters, Family Guy, Movie Mob, other Reelz Channel shows, The Office, Futurama, MXC, Alias, Gargoyles, My Name Is Earl, Modern Marvels, other History Channel shows, MSNBC especially Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, a few shows on HGTV, Star Trek (Original and Next Generations), The Twilight Zone, Meet the Press, All in the Family, Boy Meets World, Your Show of Shows, The Sid Caesar Show, The Carol Burnett Show

I have all of L Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz series. I have read most of the other books in the Oz series by various authors. Recently finished Paradox in Oz and re-read Wicked. Read Maguire's Son of a Witch and A Lion Among Men also. After seeing a documentary about the making of Star Wars, I discovered Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces. I finished reading it and am interested in reading more from Campbell. I've recently been reading books about movies and/or philosophy. I recommend Action Philosophers! Giant Sized Thing Vol. 1, Vol. 2 and Vol. 3, Philosophers Without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life, Batman and Philosophy, 100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember -But Probably Don't, Adventures in the Screen Trade, Joe Leydon's Guide to Essential Movies You Must See, and Caesar's Hours: My Life in Comedy- With Love and Laughter. I'm currently reading Joseph Campbell's biography A Fire in the Mind.

Plays--
During rehearsals for Arsenic and Old Lace I read Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, Strindburg's The Ghost Sonata, and Chekov's The Cherry Orchard. I recently read An Inspector Calls and Laughing Stock (by Morey), but during Laughing Stock rehearsals I wasn't able to get any reading done.

I have a LibraryThing account at librarything.com/profile/hypathio7. And I recently started a Shelfari account at shelfari.com/hypathio7. Take a look.

Joseph Campbell, L Frank Baum, Sid Caesar, Dr. Seuss, Hypatia of Alexandria