Speaking of anime... I know it's old-school by now but Funimation just released all of Samurai Champloo on youtube. I think that's pretty great. Personally I haven't watched any new anime since s1 of Space Dandy (I had season 2 on my DVR but when it died it took all of Dandy with it). I almost did a rewatch of Last Exile but got bored.

I haven't RPed in a while. One thing I did find was that it was a wonderful tool for understanding characters and their motivation. I think all the time I put in at Milliways really helped me with my writing.