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Books I've read so far on deployment:
War Elephants (current), John M. Kistler
House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
Idoru, William Gibson
God Knows, Jospeh Heller
Gentlemen of the Road, Michael Chabon
The Big Clock, Kenneth Fearing
The Color of Magic, Terry Pratchett
The Audacity of Hope (not finished), Barack Obama
The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 14 Favorites in Suspense, various authors
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Horace McCoy
The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain
Lone Wolf and Cub: The Assassin's Road, Kazuo Koike, ill. Goseki Kojima
The Human Stain, Philip Roth
Dragons of Eden, Carl Sagan
The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes, Neil Gaiman, ill. Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster, ill. Jules Feiffer
The Yiddish Policeman's Union, Michael Chabon
Blaze, Stephen King
A Cook's Tour, Anthony Bourdain
Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko
The Penitent, Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Chain of Chance, Stanislaw Lem
She, H. Rider Haggard
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
Skinny Dip, Carl Hiaasen
Branded Woman, Wade Miller
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs
The Girl with the Long Green Heart, Lawrence Block
Lisey's Story, Stephen King
The Crimson Petal and the White, Michel Faber
Say It With Bullets, Richard Powell
The Lamplighter, Anthony O'Neill
A Soldier in the Great War, Mark Helprin
On Beauty, Zadie Smith
Movie Wars, Jonathan Rosenbaum
Plays of the Contemporary Theatre, read three plays:
Streamers, David Rabe
Marco Polo Sings a Solo, John Guare
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You, Christopher Durang
Me, Jimmy "Big Boy" Valente, as told to Garrison Keillor
Dark Horse, Fletcher Knabel
The Vengeful Virgin, Gil Bender
Watership Down, Richard Adams
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
Shooter (not finished), Jack Coughlin
The King of Lies, John Hart
Conquistador (not finished), E.M Stirling
Tie Your Camel! (links)
A talented photographer who's not afraid to go abstract -- she inspires me.
The Telltale Weekly's library of free audiobooks. Some wonderful stuff -- check out "The Girl Detective"!Save The Robot
Thoughtful pop culture and gaming critic; links to really fun stuff.
Music from the massively talented Farideh Olsen. 
The equally talented and wonderful Nina McSweeney, lead singer of the Bombay Pirate Society.
Influ3nza: brilliant. Also a terrific photographer. 
The coolest in homemade movies from a friend who's deployed to Iraq now. He's an amateur, but he's become quite an accomplished editor. It's all done with an ordinary digital camera and Microsoft Movie Maker. Click the eyeball at the bottom of the page.
Here's another amateur filmmaker whose movies are largely centered on his own hilarious performances. You've never quite seen anything like it. 
Like podcasts? Like movies? Check out Filmspotting, the best film podcast on the Web. Or grab their feed directly from Feedburner here:
The most thoughtful and serious living American film critic, Jonathan Rosenbaum, recently retired from The Chicago Reader, a paper which performs a great public service by publishing a free archive of his reviews and those of his predecessor, Dave Kehr.
Free, public-interest radio, paid for by your tax dollars and contributions and now available for download every day on the Web. Never mind the bias, here come the Sex Pistols!
And speaking of unabashed bias, this is a really good news-collecting blog that leans decidedly progressive and gives you a great encapsulation of the day's most important stories.
