"Hello faithful readers," says the man who has listened to maybe a few too many Russell T Davies commentary tracks recently.
I've been writing the last handful of bonus essays for the Tom Baker book, but I feel like it needs one, maybe two more of those bonus essays not actually on stories that I write for the books. Stuff like the UNIT dating or "How Does the TARDIS Work" essays from past books. I've got one on the very obvious topic of what, if anything, Genesis of the Daleks changes about Dalek history, and an end-of-book "Now My Doctor" essay, but I feel like I need at least one more.
The book's on the first three Tom Baker seasons - Robot to Talons of Weng-Chiang. Ideal topics are things I didn't cover particularly in the entries and things that would benefit from a bit of a wonkish approach. Ideas and requests in comments, and a hat tip in the book if I use your suggestion.
Speaking of suggestions, have you ever thought, "you know, TARDIS Eruditorum is absolutely great, but it would really be a lot better if only it were about My Little Pony?" Thankfully, if you haven't, Jed Blue has, and has been blogging the hell out of Friendship is Magic over at My Little Po-Mo. I admit freely to not having gotten around to watching Friendship is Magic yet, despite the cheery adamance with which Web Kobold Anna Wiggins has hyped the series. This, however, has not proven any barrier to enjoying Jed's marvelous work, and I admit to having made a noise not entirely unlike a squeal of delight when I discovered that a My Little Pony blog overtly modeled on my work existed.
In any case, Jed's Kickstarting a book version of My Little Po-Mo over here. He's a good bloke and deserves to have this come together, and I hope you'll go kick him $10 or $20. If nothing else, it's clear that Friendship is Magic is a tremendously important show in the development of popular culture, and Jed's doing bang-up work with it.
And if you've got a bit of cash left after that, I'd be lying if I didn't say I thought Alan Moore's Kickstarter was pretty cool. If you've not seen the first two of the five "Jimmy's End" films, they're basically Alan Moore writing David Lynch movies, a phrase that should parse as "shut up and take my money" to more than a few of my readers. But it's at goal now and doesn't strictly speaking need your support, whereas Jed's only a couple hundred bucks short of goal and a nice push from you lot would be more than enough to bring him over the line.