Saturday Waffling
Well, I imagine come Sunday this will become the "let's discuss the Sherlock finale" thread. But since we need something until then, and about a dozen people have brought it up to me already, I suppose...
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Outside the Government: Mark of the Berserker
It’s November 3rd, 2008. The X Factor finalists are at number one with “Hero,” which lasts the entirety of this story. Beyonce, Kanye West, Girls Aloud, Britney Spears, and Pink also chart. In news,...
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An Unearthly Book Launch
Slightly later than initially predicted, the revised and expanded version of the first TARDIS Eruditorum book, covering the William Hartnell era, is available for purchase.If you bought a copy of the...
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Outside the Government: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
It’s November 17th, 2008. The X-Factor finalists remain at number one, but are unseated by Beyonce for the second week of this story. Killers, Girls Aloud, Britney Spears, and Leona Lewis also chart....
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The Tek-Judges of Anubis (The Last War in Albion Part 27: Judge Dredd,...
This is the third of ten parts of Chapter Five of The Last War in Albion, covering Alan Moore's work on Future Shocks for 2000 AD from 1980 to 1983. An ebook omnibus of all ten parts, sans images, is...
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Outside the Government: Enemy of the Bane
It’s December 1st, 2008. Take That are at number one with “Greatest Day,” and are unseated a week later by Leona Lewis’s “Run.” Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Akon, and Kings of Leon also chart. In news,...
View ArticleSaturday Waffling (January 18th, 2014)
I'm out of town for the weekend for my annual bit of intellectual masochism at MIT Mystery Hunt, and so am writing this several days in advance. For those who are unaware of this bizarre practice, it's...
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So You're My Replacements (The Next Doctor)
What do you mean they've cast him? He's, like, five yearsold!It’s Christmas, 2008. X Factor winner Alexandra Burke is at number one with a cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” narrowly beating Jeff...
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So, Mystery Hunt is over. I typically post a wrap-up about it somewhere - I used to do it on LiveJournal, where there was once an active Mystery Hunt community, but that's semi-dead, and I've not...
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Outside The Government 16: The Matt Smith Announcement
On January 3rd, 2009, Matt Smith was unveiled as David Tennant’s successor in a television special on BBC One. Hindsight, if it ever bothers to look at these relatively ephemeral documents in the first...
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The Comedian Is Dead (The Last War in Albion Part 28: Alan Moore's Earliest...
This is the fourth of ten parts of Chapter Five of The Last War in Albion, covering Alan Moore's work on Future Shocks for 2000 AD from 1980 to 1983. An ebook omnibus of all ten parts, sans images, is...
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Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 79 (Hamlet)
It’s a time-honored strategy. A skilled actor defined by one major role does some “challenging” work on a serious project to show that they’re flexible in anticipation of moving to a more serious and...
View ArticleSaturday Waffling (January 25th, 2014)
Right - finally placed the physical book orders for the Kickstarter. Which means there are something like three hundred books on their way to me, and many more whizzing about the globe to various other...
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You Were Expecting Someone Else 27 (The Eyeless)
It is not as though there are not writers from the Wilderness Years who carried on writing tie-in material for the new series. Several have, from both the Virgin and BBC Books eras. And, of course,...
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Consider this an entry into the "blogger details treatment by a company on their blog" genre - the one that's usually done in order to gin up outrage at some customer service nightmare. Except for the...
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Another Look For My Recorder (Planet of the Dead)
Roughly speaking, the tagline for Planet of the Dead was"David Tennant and Michelle Ryan went to Dubai and stoodsexily in front of a London double decker bus we smashed.It’s April 11th, 2009. Lady Gaga...
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The Sentinels Lied About All Them Space Wars (The Last War in Albion Part 29:...
This is the fifth of ten parts of Chapter Five of The Last War in Albion, covering Alan Moore's work on Future Shocks for 2000 AD from 1980 to 1983. An ebook omnibus of all ten parts, sans images, is...
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Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 32.5: Star Cops
Iain Coleman offered me a guest post on Star Cops ever so slightly too late to make it in for the holiday run of them I did, so I held it for later. Since running one this week massages my schedule...
View ArticleSaturday Waffling (February 1st, 2014)
Hello all. Just got back from taking the quite lovely wife out to a birthday dinner, and am rather exhausted, so going to keep this brief. And. Um. I suppose I should come up with a conversation...
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Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 80 (The Thick of It)
We’ve talked about comedy a few times before, and The Thick of It, in many ways, extends from those discussions. It is of course ridiculous to talk about British comedy as a monolithic entity, but if...
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