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Current earworm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjNVPO8ff84
Actually there's a whole genus of earworms, but that's in the lead.

Ongoing entertainment: episode-per-day group watch of Higurashi on reddit. It's like watching newbies watch Madoka, but four times as long!

Recent (since late April) book-length reads, selected from my CSV file:

Protection from Nargles -- Arpad Hrunta
_A Certain Droll Hivemind_ -- Earthscorpion
Enlightenment Now -- Steven Pinker
Hellas: A Portrait of Greece -- Nicholas Gage
Return to Aman -- bunn (Ao3)
Quenta Narquelion -- bunn (Ao3)
Hadrian's Wall -- Adrian Goldsworthy
_Issola_ -- Steven Brust (re)
Orca -- Steven Brust (re)
These Gifts That You Have Given Me -- arrogantemu (AO3)
Rise Again From Ashes -- Independence1776 (silmarillionwritersguild)
Lessons from the Mountain -- MithLuin (Sil Writer's Guild)
The White Devil of the Moon -- bissek (AO3)
How to talk to girls at parties -- Neil Gaiman
The world of the dark crystal -- Llewellyn and Froud
_Conflict of Honors_ -- Lee and Miller (re)
Brokedown Palace -- Steven Brust
Ada -- Vladimir Nabokov
Who we are and how we got here -- David Reich
The Will to Battle -- Ada Palmer
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil -- J. R. R. Tolkien
_A Captain and a Madman_ -- Raziel (fanfic)
Vignettes of the Blessed Realm -- Anna_Wing (AO3)
Tales From Watership Down -- Richard Adams

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Followup to https://mindstalk.dreamwidth.org/492576.html

I've actually been back a couple times, but Friday was most recent. Had Szechuan pork, medium spice. Paid $2 for a tiny bowl of rice. >_< The pork itself was good, and a good spice level, and the bowl was large, if largely liquid -- was almost like spicy pork soup. I ate all the rice but took a lot of the bowl home; I just had 1/3 of it over pasta...

Astro Boy and Sakura were no longer among the posters, though there was less Mao too. I think there was a One Piece poster? I forget.