@thane15  I am *so* glad to hear that your mum is doing better — have never forgotten her comment here that she’d be, er, tits up in a matter of months, so the doctors said, yet here she is still!  That’s great news.

And in one sense I’m in a similar situation to hers — I’ve bought S10 through iTunes, downloaded it today, and got — only the s…[Read more]

@thane15  and Puro: You’re welcome, always.  And venturesome is better — it dispenses with the whiff of aggressive action that “adventuresome” has, I think.

@missy  Sounds like some cold hard days . . . My memory has pretty much edited my young childhood out, but I swear that I remember a guy driving horse and cart showing up once in a while to collect worn out things — “We Buy Old Clothes!” he would call out.  We lived in a tenement on the upper West Side, 102nd Street I think, where “tenements” w…[Read more]

@mudlark  Smuggery over here, too, over The Snow Queen — seems a long time ago, now.

@thane15  You know what?  You did me a favor, bringing this assignment up.  Writing out some sketches of ideas for you has really energized me in my own blankness — the gears are clicking my brain again, and I’m thinking about stories *I* need to be writing right now.  If I can write out a few prompts for you, what’s to prevent me writing som…[Read more]

Sorry, all — that post should probably be moved over to — where?  Not “music”, I think!

@thane15  So far it’s 2 hours and that’s all I know. think It can be on any topic and even Sci-fi or a thriller detective story.

Huh.  Well, that’s something, I guess.  Is this writing your story on a tablet of some kind, or a pen and paper exercise? You can punch out a longer, more detailed story on a keyboard than on a paper pad in two hours,…[Read more]

@whisht  “I Can’t Wait”  — best “waiting song EVER, because I am terrible at waiting, much as Dirty Old Bastard seems to be — now I am hyper-jazzed for next weekend.

@thane15  We were given 3 stories to read with 10 questions. Things like: “what is the name of the character?’ or “what street does she live in?” No questions on structure. Mum and I are going ‘spare’.

That sounds — weird.  Not going spare — being given some stories to read, as prep for writing a story for an exam?  Are you supposed to us…[Read more]

@missrori  Yup, we’ve got screenings next Saturday night and the following Wednesday evening, at a theater near me (and one on the other side of the river).  Local Whovians make it a bit of a party, these occasions; and — very soon now — off we go!

@arbutus  Thanks for the link!  Apparently there was also in interview with the Radio Times that has drawn a good deal of ire — seems they sent a reporter with no notion of who (or Who) she was talking with, and does not watch “Doctor Who”, and her comments on his comments are being read as deeply rude and dismissive.  I haven’t found the RT…[Read more]

@severusoswald  Great!  Always happy to see someone back here again!

@mersey  Makes sense to me.  Except for perfection . . . an episode that seems perfect to me now I might see very differently a year from now, with or without arguments one way or another.  It doesn’t change; I do, and as a growth-oriented person, that’s a good sign to me.  In…[Read more]

@janetteb  Yes, that’s a good point — they say Bill is the first “openly” gay character, which strictly speaking is different from “first openly bisexual character” (Captain Jack), or first “openly pan-sexual-but-often-ace character” (the Doctor himself; those Zygon fronds); and Clara could hardly be more “open” about her own sexuality than…[Read more]

@janetteb  there were plenty of hints that Clara was bi

Indeed.  Little wisps of stuff — and for the Doctor’s tastes being varied as well (that lightning  exchange in HoRS — “Stephen Fry!”  “Cleopatra!”  “Same thing.”  As I recall; plus “I snogged a Zygon, once.  You titillate the fritillaries like this — ” more or less).  Exactly the kind of…[Read more]

Okay, found the announcement of news that took me completely by surprise when it came up here on another topic — here’s the link:

http://www.thegallifreytimes.co.uk

Mersey  The more I discuss Doctor Who the less I like it

That’s sad — I know what you mean, I think, but it doesn’t bother me.  I’m probably inclined to be lenient in my judgement of the show because I’m so used to seeing the gaps in my own and my colleagues’ work between the ideal and realization on the page.  Luckily for us fiction writers, fo…[Read more]

@joshamus   I agree — it’s the fans on such a show that I’d worry about.  If it were actual actors and crew *on* the show, I’d be thrilled to watch.  Rachel Talalay’s essays on her blog about directing episodes in S9 are wonderful and enlightening in so many ways . . . most fans, though, judging by their comments on reddit et al, neither know no…[Read more]

@joshamus   Welcome, then!  “Aftershow” means actual TV time after the show?  Or something on the internet?  There are brisk comments on sites devoted to popular shows here in the US; waste of time, mostly, people with none of the analytical distance from the thing that makes conversation about any art form interesting.  But, as the man said, tapp…[Read more]

@missy  “In the Loop” made me laugh.  Now it kinda makes me want to cry . . . so innocent, compared to what’s going on now!  Well, so it seems to me, anyway.

More madness — we live in mad, bad times . . .