February 2012
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Doctor Who reviews on The Onion's AV Club
There are some quality write-ups of Classic Who series on The AV Club worth reading. To get you started, here are a couple entries from the mid-late 1980s:
1. “Vengeance on Varos.” Colin Baker, as the much-maligned Sixth Doctor, hangs out with a character that quite frankly resembles Mr. Hanky from South Park. The quality of the episode is roughly the same as Mr. Hanky, come to think...
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January 2012
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December 2011
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Even though the cultural tides are turning, a Cherokee-run company in North...”
– Why The ‘Native’ Fashion Trend Is Pissing Off Real Native Americans
November 2011
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Fun times in Cleveland TODAY!
Here’s the best answer to the question asked in the Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism video, “Who the f—- still uses a payphone?”
October 2011
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Raven's Nest: Something starting to bother me... →
You must have been reading my mind, as I was thinking about this topic while washing dishes (well, how else can one get through such a mundane task?). Ten is, in many ways, the ultimate Control Freak Bad Boyfriend of the Universe. He demanded loyalty, trust, and love, and immediately got it from Rose as she desperately needed a father figure in her life. I’m not sure what Ten saw in Rose, or...
Can I borrow a Bowie? I'll pay you back next week.
David Bowie, in his Aladdin Sane guise, is featured on the new local currency you can only use in the Brixton district of South London. Known as the Brixton Pound, or the B£, the first round of the notes in 2009 featured Olive Morris, the radical political activist who founded the Brixton Black Women’s Group and played a pivotal role in the squatters’ rights campaigns of the 1970s; scientist...
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Raven's Nest: So, I hear a lot of people... →
It’s your last paragraph that I find rather compelling about Eleven. Gone are the wild mood swings of Ten, which always came across to me as a way to disguise his insecurity at his past actions in the Time War. Now, with Eleven, it’s personal—the Time War has barely been mentioned in Eleven’s era, but Eleven is all too aware of how he’s treated those who have traveled...
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Raven's Nest: A Perception Filter as big as the... →
A similar theory, per conversing with keithjacks, is that the fixed point in time was the Teselecta, in disguise as the Doctor, had to die at Lake Silencio. This theory would close the loophole of having the entire universe needing to believe that the Doctor was dead in order to keep the universe from collapsing in on itself. Personally, it feels like discovering Bobby Ewing in the shower, but it...
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A Perception Filter as big as the universe
I believe I’ve figured out “The Wedding Of River Song,” as the resolution was hidden in plain sight all along. One of the recurring themes over the last two seasons of Doctor Who has been how one shouldn’t trust what one sees. It is very easy to change or alter one’s perception so that one can see only what one wants to see. Likewise, it is also easy to make others...
September 2011
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August 2011
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July 2011
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Esoterica: Random Fashion Musing →
It’s bad enough that high-waisted jeans have made a partial comeback. High-waisted overalls? No thanks.
karnythia:
Okay, this is a screenshot from an ep of the Cosby Show. Sandra is wearing tight high wasted plaid overalls that seem to be what happens when you let Steve Urkel design women’s clothing. I’ve seen a lot of 80’s fashion return in the last couple of years & I have to...
June 2011
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A long -overdue update on my photo-centric blog, Into The Lens Cap.
Doctor Who Season 6A Thoughts & Ideas
Feel free to skip if you really don’t care about my thoughts regarding a revived British sci-fi TV show. The rest of you can read on, as there are some good bits, though sadly, Marvin will not appear later on…or at all. As River Song would say, “Shhhh. Spoilers!” Therefore, take that as your only warning in case you decide to read onward.
Perhaps it’s due to the...
I just had a thought. Shh, spoilers!
CAL seems an awful lot like the old Matrix (which has yet to be revived in the new series). I wonder if it would be possible to “download” her memories into another person, though coming up with someone as a recipient with the same genetic make-up as River would be difficult to do. On the other hand, since she is officially dead, this partially answers the regeneration question: she...
May 2011
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Yep. One of the many reasons why Season 3 was horrible, IMO. Martha was totally wasted as a character, the Master’s fey-hipster recreation was scarcely believable, the “Lonely God” plot about Ten was insulting to every other incarnation that came beforehand, and in spite of her absence, Rose hung over the entire season like a stale fart. There were so many good individual...
The injuries that accompany hitting F5 repeatedly. →
We’re Sisyphus, and social media is often the stone we push up the Mountain of Completion. The stone slips, and we obligingly trudge back down to get it with the hope that this time, we’ll get caught up. And we never do.
I have the sensation, as do my friends, that to function as a proficient human, you must both “keep up” with the internet and pursue more serious, analog...
April 2011
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long time running (reblogged with permission)
For my own edification, as I appreciate the self-examination Ruzz details with regards to his upcoming 40th birthday. I also have empathy for his desire to draw the proverbial line in the sand once that day approaches.
see-ruzz:
okay. so here’s the thing. i’m encouraged by spring enthusiasm to try to make some changes and there’s been a confluence of things in my life lately which are all...
Oracle gives up on OpenOffice after community... →
Worth reading for the story as well as the accompanying photograph:
