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Monday, February 8th, 2010
8:41 pm	If I had another Userpic it would probably be the TARDIS. I just got done reading The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter and while I don't agree with everything it's full of funny, clever, touching, reassuring with the writer's block and the frustration and the rethinking and the getting-a-cold-when-you're-done. And, oh yes, story ideas. Which I will be stealing. This was nearly the 2009 Easter special, for example. Not as shiny and full-colour and big and sumptuous as the hardback, obviously. And hardly any doodles in the new 300 pages. But still, liked it, liked it. (Comment on this)
2:30 pm	Okay, got a Conpulsion adventure blurb sent in. Having been prodded to. A bit of new Who with a plot stolen from Russell T. Davies, no less. With a subplot stolen from Golden Heroes. How's that for, um... mixing sources of British science-fantasy with spaceships and stuff? ... Don't look at me like that. Current Mood: busy Current Music: Murray Gold, The Doctor Forever (Comment on this)
2:46 am	Sporting Event The Saints never got here before, The Colts didn't care as much. And apparently the best QB of all time goofed at a fatal moment. The Who hinted at playing songs that aren't CSI themes. CSI New Orleans seems much more viable than CSI Indianapolis. Someone tell me what the cool adverts were, eh? Current Mood: good Current Music: Rogue Traders, Voodoo Child (Comment on this)
Saturday, February 6th, 2010
10:37 pm	NEIL GAIMAN WRITING DOCTOR WHO! After a good couple years of good-natured question-dodging (including my own at the Book Festival) he confirmed it at the SFX Awards. And revealed a title that may or may not be used. Current Mood: squee Current Music: Mirrormask soundtrack, Close To You (Comment on this)
2:07 pm	Well, it amused me. I happened to be in front of the start of Channel 4 showing another season of Why Isn't Superman in Costume Yet? in its Saturday-morning wacky yoof strand, and the presenters introduced it like so: Boy: Y'know how cockroaches can survive a nuclear war? Apply that kind of indestructibility to an American teen action-drama with a supernatural twist. Girl: (excited) Buffy's back?! Boy: Uh, no, it's Smallville. Girl: (dejected) Aw. Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
5:52 pm	Hrm. I sent my Doctor Who Fifth Doctor And Nyssa pitch to Big Finish. And so did 1200 other people. Current Mood: intimidated Current Music: Dum-da-dum, dum-da-dum... (4 Comments |Comment on this)
5:43 pm	Give Sally Sparrow an Oscar! And Up. Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)
5:23 pm	Excerpt from Sir Terry Pratchett's Richard Dimbleby lecture Funny while also, inevitably, deeply sad. (Not included: his joke about how he now has a sword properly smelted, but due to society being as it is, despite being a knight he is not allowed to carry it in public.) Current Mood: touched (Comment on this)
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
11:32 pm	Doctor Indie, come back home now! A Strange Charm, 24-hour indie-tastic not-at-all-Who game. Cute. In other news, I still have no bloody idea what to do for Conpulsion. There's already a pulp action game on saturday afternoon, and a Doctor Who game on Sunday afternoon for that matter. Neither of which appeal to me as a player (the first uses SotC, the second specifies old continuity and is set at a football match) but both of which overlap a lot with my default running. Current Mood: blah Current Music: Moby, Everloving (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
5:54 pm	Anybody else seen the advert for the Winter Olympics on the Beeb yet? It's not as geek-whoa as the Jamie Hewlett version of Monkey we had for Beijing, but black-and-white Inuit superhero versus giant demon bear is still pretty cool. (Comment on this)
5:35 pm	The Woman In Black is coming. To the King's for a week in February. Well, that's handier than going to London just to see it, which I've been considering for a year or so now... Current Mood: excited Current Music: Lisa Gerrard, Lament (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
11:50 pm	And now for something I actually find cheering and surprising. AXE COP! A comic written by a five-year-old and drawn by his generation-older brother. Current Mood: amused (2 Comments |Comment on this)
11:38 pm	So, that's the biggest movie ever. Eh. The red dents on the bridge of my nose from watching Avatar are going away now, which is nice. ( I neother feel the magic nor hear the roar. ) At least last time James Cameron made the biggest movie ever it had Kate Winslet. Trailers: Percy Jackson And The McGuffin Of Strange Familiarity, Britain's first 3D revival movie... which is a documentary about street dance... and the kids' version of the film directly following it. The Danny Glover Orange ad was quite amusing, though. Current Mood: bored (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
8:29 pm	I exhibit no surprise. The Week Zoolander Came True Current Mood: amused Current Music: Josie And The Pussycats, Three Small Words (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
1:26 am	If I smoked, I would so get one of this week's Warren Ellis T-Shirt Of The Week. Current Mood: amused Current Music: Murray Gold and Neil Hannon, Love Don't Roam (Comment on this)
1:00 am	Ianto Jones IS Doctor Watson! from Varyar and Bailywolf, inevitably: And some other guy is Sherlock Holmes. And Tony from Desmond's (aka security guy from Enterprise) is Iron Man Moriarty. Or something. Current Mood: amused (13 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 25th, 2010
11:43 pm	Looks like Eden Studios might actually be able to release books this year. Not the five completed Buffy and Angel books, of course, and the only Cinematic Unisystem book on the slate is one that I will not be buying, so it's of mostly academic interest to me. But hey, maybe they can get Arrgh, That Be Zombies out in time for Pirates 4. Current Mood: blank (Comment on this)
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
1:59 pm	Johnny Depp in a kilt. In Burton's Wonderland. Don't say I never gave you anything. Current Mood: amused (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
1:00 pm	Big Finish Audio looking for a 25-minute story for the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa. I have no idea what Nyssa talks like, but hey. Current Mood: thoughtful (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
9:11 pm	What? What? ... WHAT?! RTD writing US Torchwood pilot? Current Mood: confused (4 Comments |Comment on this)