A Doctor Who spinoff featuring a character we haven’t had the pleasure of meeting yet is set to start in Britain Sci Fi Wire — The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel Davies added: “He’s a bisexual con man. Hooray! We need more bisexual con men on our television screens, I think, don’t you think? Bisexual con men from the 53rd century, what could be better? He was so enormously successful that we’ve created a spinoff for him.” Well, alrighty then! This gives us something to look forward to – this character apparently shows up for a five-episode story…
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An old Highlander fan buddy sent me this link. I’m going to have to send it to the “big list,” where we’re all discussing SG-1 anyway. YouTube – The Star Gate Cantina I dare you not to laugh when the third verse starts: “His name was Yoda, he was a Muppet…”
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Chicago Tribune | Bush Marks Anniversary, Never Says ‘War’ WASHINGTON — President Bush marked the anniversary of the Iraq war Sunday by touting the efforts to build democracy there and avoiding any mention of the daily violence that rages three years after he ordered an invasion. The president didn’t utter the word “war.” “We are implementing a strategy that will lead to victory in Iraq,” the president assured a public that is increasingly skeptical that he has a plan to end the fighting after the deaths of more than 2,300 U.S. troops. Bullshit, Mr Resident. Mission not accomplished. It’s an…
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This is just… sad. Eleven or so years ago, I was still living in Seattle – it was a somewhat lonely existence, as pretty much my life revolved around a few favorite television shows, my cat Studebaker, and occasionally going out with friends to hear live music. As it happened, there were several shows that I was more or less obsessed with, number one being Highlander, which started in 1992 and usually aired on Saturday nights. In the fall of 1994, a new show was about to premiere, and I decided to buy a VCR so I could tape the…
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Friday, the SciFi Channel started showing the “new” Doctor Who, with Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor – two episodes, back to back. First, the one that establishes his new identity and starts off with a fresh Companion or two, and the next one was sort of a “Restaurant At The End Of The Universe” riff. David and I both watched the first one, set in present-day London, laughed delightedly at some of the bits that were meant to be funny, and also laughed at some of the things that were meant to be “cool.” It’s a pretty good entry in…
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Apparently I need to get Riley a Day-Runner so he can keep up with his exhausting Daily Schedule. It’s a hell of a thing when your cat has a busier social life than you do.
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BBC NEWS | Americas | US evangelicals warn Republicans Prominent leaders from the Christian right have warned Republicans they must do more to advance conservative values ahead of the US mid-term elections. I want to know why prominent progressive Christians and secular, non-religious political progressives aren’t contacting their Congresspersons to warn them they “must do better” in the struggle for the separation of church and state in this country. The story claims that about one-quarter of Americans self-identify as evangelical Christians. Of that number, how many are actually progressives, rather than conservatives? The way they run things in Washington, you’d…
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So I went back to work yesterday – wasn’t too sure about the weather, but I was feeling well enough to give it a shot and since I’m now on the antibiotics, I’m probably not too pestilential. It was a typically busy and frustrating first day back; it seems that my least favorite tasks were the ones that were stacked up in a holding pattern. I do wish that I’d had a little better “back-up” on one deal, which had been parked in my email rather than given to one of my backups. I have an issue with one cow-orker…
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Salon has posted an archive of Abu Ghraib photos. Boing Boing notes that no officer or CIA operative has ever been prosecuted or convicted – it’s just been the small fry in the photos. Also BB notes that Smartfilter would prevent viewing the archive due to “nudity.” This amounts to a worse kind of censorship than mere anti-prurient Puritanism.
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MILE HIGH COMICS presents THE BEAT at COMICON.com: A FOR ALAN, Pt. 1: The Alan Moore interview We’ll probably see V for Vendetta, the movie. Which is apparently fast-and-loosely based on Moore’s original premise, but the American comics-and-movies industry have screwed up Moore’s original vision. Keep in mind that the original has anarchists vs. fascists in the near-future tale, not Redstate vs. Bluestate. Moore has demanded that DC take his name off books and movies and stop sending him money, but they keep paying him. Also, they send him advance copies of books with poorly edited back copy: I have…