Saturday Waffling (June 1st, 2013)
Well, that's another week over and done with, so it's time for the open thread. It was a blog-writing week for me, which is always a busy one - at the moment I'm about a thousand words into The...
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Sunday Pancaking (June 2nd, 2013)
Right. Another seven day week then, I suppose.So, first of all, let's all discuss and freak out over the regeneration news, shall we? Since everyone's going to do fantasy casting, let's go ahead and do...
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I Wasn't The One Holding a Gun (Bad Wolf)/A Fighting Hand (Parting of the Ways)
This entry should appear as two columns. If it is appearing incorrectly or unreadably, a simplified version is here, but does not provide the intended reading experience and is not recommended. Thanks...
View ArticleThis is Not a Review Blog
That's something I say on a regular basis - that what I do here isn't primarily to discuss what Doctor Who stories are good or bad, but to discuss what's interesting about them and to tell a story out...
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Outside the Government 10 (Doctor Who Confidential)
Let’s start with the end - the first season finale of Doctor Who Confidential, which culminates in a celebratory montage of the Ninth Doctor year arranged to Snow Patrol’s “Run.” To anyone with a...
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Blogrolling: Pushing Ahead of the Dame
I am, of course, terribly biased. Chris O'Leary is doing the copyediting on the first Tom Baker book, has written a guest post for me, and is solidly a friend. But, look, I like to think I have taste...
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Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 62 (Battlestar Galactica)
“What about the United States” is, of course, a terribly weird move to make right now. After all, by the time The Christmas Invasion, which we’ll deal with on Monday, aired in the UK, exactly zero...
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Saturday Waffling (June 8, 2013)
So, first of all, I'm running a contest, because I've never run a contest before and it sounds fun. The prize will be Volumes 1-3 of TARDIS Eruditorum (Volume 1 in its first edition state, obviously,...
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I Become Part of Events (The Christmas Invasion)
Tennant based his characterization on fellow ScotsmanGraham Crowden's nuanced portrayal of Soldeed in TheHorns of NimonBlogger's spam filter is being a bit frisky lately, and is catching a lot of...
View ArticleThe Victory of the Commenters
All righty. Our contest winners, though first, some honorable mentions, all of which get good old fashioned Marvel Comics No Prizes. I decided to get a little soft and not disqualify people for...
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Outside the Government 11 (Attack of the Graske)
For only the second time ever, December 25th, 2005 featured the debut of two separate new episodes of Doctor Who. Immediately after The Christmas Invasion viewers were invited to press the red button...
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A Brief Rumination on Iain Banks
I have not actually read any Iain Banks. I recognize that this is a problem. I just went and got the Culture books, and I'm hoping to squeeze some time in for them, but let's be honest, there's well...
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Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 63 (Life on Mars)
Part of its success, of course, meant that Doctor Who by 2006 had acquired stablemates at the BBC. This is a prime example. One of the first acquisitions Julie Gardner made upon becoming Head of Drama...
View ArticleSaturday Waffling (June 15th, 2013)
Howdy all. I'm in New York this weekend visiting friends (Alex Reed, actually, and his equally fabulous wife Meredith), and also seeing Frankenstein Upstairs by Mac Rogers, the fine gentleman I did...
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Nothing on Earth Changes Quite So Often As The Fashion (New Earth)
Blue Steel, you say...It’s April 15th, 2006. Gnarls Barkley is at number one with “Crazy.” The Black Eyed Peas, the Pussycat Dolls (with will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas), Pink, and Mary J Blige and...
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This is Not a Dream
“This is not a dream.” - Alan Moore, “Shadowplay,” in Brought to Light, 1988.Figure 1: The Great Bearded Wizard of NorthamptonThe Last War in Albion is a history of British comics. More specifically,...
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I'll Bite Your Nose (Tooth and Claw)
Awooooo! (Werewolves of Glasgow)It’s April 22nd, 2006. Gnarls Barkley continues to hold the number one slot with “Crazy.” Rihanna also charts, along with holdovers from the previous week: the Black...
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To Leap From One Universe To Another, Unafraid! That's Sorcerer's Work!
“To leap from one universe to another, unafraid! That’s sorcerer’s work!” - Grant Morrison, Zatanna #1, 2005Figure 5: A particular story from the slush pile, fromWatchmen #12, 1987The remaining nature...
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Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 64 (No Angels)
Call it a hunch - the sense that maybe having an essay like this written will eventually make sense in the same way covering Dark Season and Press Gang did.Even without that hunch, though, its...
View ArticleSaturday Waffling (June 22, 2013)
I've taken the Wonder Woman book back in house, and will be self publishing it. More news on that as it develops - I have to figure some things out there because I have too many books in too short a...
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