document.write("<span class='menutext'><a href='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00009QGF2/ref=nosim/ishbadiddle-20' class='consuming'>Welcome Interstate Managers</a>. Susie & Mike gave me this album by their college buddies Adam and Chris, aka Fountains of Wayne. Their swirling guitars remind me of XTC, but of course 'Stacy's Mom' is total Cars. The first track, 'Mexican Wine' has a way of getting stuck in your head. In a good way.<br><Br></span>")

document.write("<span class='menutext'><a href='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000019PA/ref%3Dnosim/ishbadiddle-20' class='consuming'>In the Aeroplane Over the Sea</a>, Neutral Milk Hotel. I'm really into this, which I heard over at Andrea & Jay's some time ago and am just getting around to buying (hey, I'm only behind by five years!) and which got me through a lousy day of crisscrossing the city in the drumming rain. It's like a sestina. Oh, and I just read on the Amazon review that it's about Anne Frank somehow. Now I have to listen to it again.<br><Br></span>")

document.write("<span class='menutext'><a href='http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019130/' class='consuming'>The Man Who Laughs</a>. <br><Br></span>")

document.write("<span class='menutext'><a href='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140443266/ref=nosim/ishbadiddle-20' class='consuming'>The Crab-Flower Club (The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Volume 2)</a>. Cao Xuequin, trans. David Hawkes.<br><Br></span>")

document.write("<span class='menutext'><a href='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060938455/ref=nosim/ishbadiddle-20' class='consuming'>Fast Food Nation</a>. Because <a href='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/039397779X/ref=nosim/ishbadiddle-20' class='consuming'>The Jungle</a> needed updating.<br><Br></span>")

document.write("<span class='menutext'><a href='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/043935806X/ref=nosim/ishbadiddle-20' class='consuming'>Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.</a> <i>Finally!</i><br><Br></span>")

document.write("<span class='menutext'><a href='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006JZEY/ref%3Dnosim/ishbadiddle-20' class='consuming'>Icewind Dale</a> was another birthday present from <a href='http://www.ashidome.com/blogger/' class='consuming'>Liz</a> (thanks!) As a challenge, I'm trying to complete the game with just 4 characters: The Lady Drimmere (paladin), Xo Shaku (fighter / thief), Jibril Kohar (fighter / cleric), and Edomas (fighter / mage). So far, I've been kicking undead butt. Do skeletons have butts, really?<br><Br></span>")

document.write("<span class='menutext'><a href='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0879516283/ref%3Dnosim/ishbadiddle-20' class='consuming'>Gormenghast</a>. Part 2 of Mervyn Peake's trilogy.<br><Br></span>")

document.write("<span class='menutext'><a href='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684854678/ref%3Dnosim/ishbadiddle-20' class='menutext'>The Noonday Demon,</A> Andrew Solomon. Still wrestling with the black dog.<br><Br></span>")

document.write("<span class='menutext'><a href='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385720955/ref%3Dnosim/ishbadiddle-20' class='menutext'>The Blind Assassin,</a> Margaret Atwood. My Ridgefield book, so it's a slow read.<br><Br></span>")

document.write("<span class='menutext'><a href='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0688177883/ref%3Dnosim/ishbadiddle-20' class='menutext'>The Scientist in the Crib,</A> Alison Gopnik et al. Making sense of all this cognitive development I see Ben and Zach doing.<br><Br></span>")