http://www.indy.com/posts/4132 en-us Nina Mehta I scored a Hulu.com invite, so I spend about 20m or so watching programs shows online. Plus, I'm too cheap to even pay for basic cable. But honestly, spending time with friends and meeting new people is a lot better than watching others hang out on TV. Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:13:14 -0500 http://www.indy.com/posts/4132#comment_12455 http://www.indy.com/posts/4132#comment_12455 caralyn Between the writer's strike and several small children actually [gasp] going to and staying in bed at a decent hour I've taken up knitting, reread Lamb (Christopher Moore) for the fifth time [really not joking] and finally cracked the spine on Dave Eggers What is the What - which is phenomenal so far. Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:52:14 -0500 http://www.indy.com/posts/4132#comment_12454 http://www.indy.com/posts/4132#comment_12454 StellarSwarm I'll let you know in 8 weeks when I run out of new LOST episodes. Season premier TOMORROW NIGHT!!! Woo Hoo! Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:40:56 -0500 http://www.indy.com/posts/4132#comment_12452 http://www.indy.com/posts/4132#comment_12452 john.king I love the WGA strike. So many people -- not just ones posting here -- have turned to books and their own creative expression. The WGA should do this more often. I've read Nick Hornby's "Slam," Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" and "No Country for Old Men," and I just started Hornby's "A Long Way Down." And I'm finding time to write for the first time in a while, which is comforting. Thanks to Netflix, any downtime is taken up with film. I have Julie Delpy's 2 Days in Paris at home now. Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:27:19 -0500 http://www.indy.com/posts/4132#comment_12449 http://www.indy.com/posts/4132#comment_12449 frogmajik I'm tending to watch alot of movies and now that Netflix has unlimited instant browsing I've been able to find all kinds of cools shows and movies to watch on line.I may not return to watching much traditional TV. Oh yes I too have been caught actually reading again. Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:19:31 -0500 http://www.indy.com/posts/4132#comment_12272 http://www.indy.com/posts/4132#comment_12272 kimikokopuffs Lots of DVDs (which we did anyway, but moreso now) and lots more reading. Tackled the almost 1,000-pager "Shantaram" -- epic. Would highly recommend it if you haven't read it. I got through it in a week. So don't be intimidated by the size! Just finished "One Hundred Years of Solitude" too. Also great. Back to some Christopher Moore frivolity next. I've read more in the past three months than I have since college, I think. No. Wait. I didn't actually read in college. High school maybe? Yikes. Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:56:23 -0500 http://www.indy.com/posts/4132#comment_12258 http://www.indy.com/posts/4132#comment_12258 baggles I've been reading a lot more too!! Right now I'm reading a book on the Spanish flu of 1918, fasinating stuff! I sort of missed it (think I took a couple of months off post-graduation just because I was so burnt out... now I just want to go back to school!!) I have also turned my house into a shrine of cleanliness, I feel like I'm constantly cleaning the place. But its very nice to sit down and read in a completely clean house. :) Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:38:40 -0500 http://www.indy.com/posts/4132#comment_12254 http://www.indy.com/posts/4132#comment_12254 Ben Neff I've been spending more time learning how to make make music on my new MacBook Pro, drawing more often (though not often enough) and I broke out my old comics and graphic novels. I never really watched that much TV anyhow, so I guess these are mostly things I've been doing to be less lazy at home and to keep from getting the mid-winter blues. Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:12:40 -0500 http://www.indy.com/posts/4132#comment_12123 http://www.indy.com/posts/4132#comment_12123 joe.shearer Movies, movies, movies. We're thinking of getting a(nother) PS2 just so we can play Guitar Hero, but not sure if that's going to happen. I just cracked open the book "Hollywood V. Hardcore" last night, about censorship, Hollywood, and the MPAA. Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:35:24 -0500 http://www.indy.com/posts/4132#comment_12120 http://www.indy.com/posts/4132#comment_12120