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Pete Seeger (1919-2014)
When I realized that my Wonder Woman book needed to be called something other than Paradise Dungeons, the title that sprang to mind first was A Golden Thread, which on the one hand refers sensibly to...
View ArticleGuest Post: Torchwood and Cardiff
Steffan Alun writes on the subject of Torchwood and Cardiff...It's October 22nd, 2006. I've been back in university for a few weeks, and I've just come back from a choir trip. Some music is in the...
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Outside the Government: Torchwood: Children of Earth: Day One
The Last War in Albion will run tomorrow - scheduling snafu meant I failed to get it imaged up in time. Though frankly, this is not as dissimilar as TARDIS Eruditorum sometimes is.It’s July 6th, 2009....
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I Must Protect This Bag of Meat (The Last War in Albion Part 30: Plagiarism...
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...
View ArticleSaturday Waffling: February 8th, 2014
First off, some news and a request. Next weekend, at the Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles, Paul Cornell is doing a reading of This Point of Singularity, aka my essay on The Three Doctors. It'll...
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Outside the Government: Torchwood: Children of Earth: Day Two
[previously] It should, of course, be remembered that the character who makes this proposal, Denise Riley, is the same one who we’re told is going to succeed the Prime Minister following Bridget’s calm...
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Sometimes I get random questions through certain means. Here are several of them, and answers. (Sorry for the late post - Blogger error.)What are your most valuable Doctor Who related possessions in...
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Outside the Government: Torchwood: Children of Earth: Day Three
[previously] It is here, then, we have to turn to Jack’s sexuality. One of the most enduring discussions about Jack is the way in which his sexuality evolves over the course of the series, as he goes...
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The Day I Finished It, He Died (The Last War in Albion Part 31: Abelard...
This is the seventh 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: Torchwood: Children of Earth: Day Four
[previously] Reproductive futurism invests itself in a future without content. It has to, because the future is defined as the place where we don’t live but where our children do. But Jack, as we said,...
View ArticleSaturday/Sunday General Breakfast Buffet (February 15th, 2014)
Hello all. Not sure why this didn't post this morning. Here it is.This week has been pretty focused on Last War in Albion, and it looks like I'll have about half the Skizz/DR and Quinch chapter done by...
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Outside the Government: Torchwood: Children of Earth: Day Five
[previously] On the other hand, the idea that the Doctor would deliberately murder a child to save the day is unthinkable. In fact, the degree to which it is unthinkable is central to Moffat’s soft...
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Portrait of a Monday
I probably could have found something interesting to bang out here this week. But instead I spent all day signing and packing books for the Kickstarter.The books to sign. $2500 worth of books (and...
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Outside the Government: Prisoner of the Judoon
It’s October 15th, 2009. Chipmunk are at number one with “Oopsy Daisy,” with Shakira, the Black Eyed Peas, and two separate Jay-Z tracks also charting. In news, since July, Ireland approved the Lisbon...
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Even Reverse the Flow of Time (The Last War in Albion Part 32: Alan Moore's...
This is the eighth 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: The Mad Woman in the Attic
It’s October 22nd, 2009. Alexandra Burke and Flo Rida are at number one with “Bad Boys,” with Robbie Williams, Black Eyed Peas, and Michael Buble also charting. In news, about all I can actually find...
View ArticleSaturday Waffling (February 22nd, 2014)
Well. This has been a week.Let's see.Jed Blue is Kickstarting the second volume of My Little Po-Mo over here. Jed is good people. You should consider helping him out.This raises a plausible and...
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Outside the Government: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
It's October 29th, 2009. Cheryl Cole is at number one, with Whitney Houston, Black Eyed Peas, Michael Buble, Jay-Z, and Robbie Williams also charting. In news, Morrissey collapses while performing...
View ArticleSpike and Rape Culture
A bit ago, someone gave me cause to write a brief thing about Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and particularly the way in which his character is handled after the moment he sexually assaults Buffy...
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Outside the Government: The Eternity Trap
It’s November 5th, 2009. Cheryl Cole is at number one with “Fight For This Love,” with Michael Buble, Robbie Williams, and two separate songs by the Black Eyed Peas also charting. In news, Rhode Island...
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