@jphamlore

The thing is, as Time of the Doctor made abundantly clear, the Time Lords as we knew them in the classic series aren’t coming back. Ever. It is not possible as their return would start a new Time War. 

So CapDoc isn’t guilty of destroying his own planet and people any more — having found a way to *not* use The Moment instead of us…[Read more]

Hmm.  Just came across a series called “Chandler & Co”, two ladies who got into the private eye business with “Larry Blakeson” (PC) as a sort of mentor, circa 1994 I think — the ladies are grand, the stories are mostly about the perfidiousness of men.  Capaldi is only in the first series of six stories (by the time the series got renewed by B…[Read more]

@purofilion   Oh, the idiotic coffee drinks — I keep thinking of the flour-and-water sculpted hair-dos in the court of Louis XIV, galleons and coaches and any mad, extravagant thing, rippling with weevils come for the flour paste of course.  These crazy “coffee” drinks are pure decadence, nothing but hot egg-creams as far as I can tell, even if y…[Read more]

@purofilion   @Kharis  Re the Moffat-haters: I generally get a huge whiff of pure, plain jealousy in those posts.  The sub-text seems to be, “Moffat is so talented and I’m not, so he gets to have all the ‘fun’ *I* could have if *I* could be writing DW, only I have no talent and could never do a quarter of the job of Moffat and his team so I HA…[Read more]

@purofilion — Yup, but it’s *better* than legislation, which would never get past Congress as presently constituted (it’s full of moronic Republican hacks and infantile fools).  This is a Supreme Court decision, binding on all the states.  It was reached via a 5-4 decision, with the swing vote being, as always in these narrow liberal victories, J…[Read more]

@purofilion  — Um.  RPG = Role Playing Games.  GOH = Guest of Honor.  And thanks for filling me in re info on this Darville person.  Whew.  Lot of this odd appropriation of ethnic identity seems to be going around — have you seen any stories about a young woman here who pretended to be of African descent and got herself into the higher ranks…[Read more]

@Arbutus   — Definitely, to the teams!

@purofilion — Well, maybe Harlan’s objection to Platt goes back much further than I thought . . . We’re more civilized now (sorta).

Actually, most of my year is pretty quiet — and writing (or not writing, and doing a whole ton of other home-centered stuff connected with living solo now) is lonely…[Read more]

@purofilion  — okay, over to the Hoof.

@purofilion — Oh, they meant that Moffat “looks tired”, along the lines of the Moffat-haters who keep telling each other that he’s been writing the show too long and has gone “stale”, isn’t as good as RTD was (or was better, but is a better writer than he is a show-runner), or is irredeemably sexist, so he needs to move on.  Most that I’ve seen…[Read more]

Rats.  That ran on a bit; sorry for rambling so long!

@purofilion  — that would be Wiscon, yes; an interesting time was had by all, I’m sure — the convention is 39 yrs old, and last summer there was a super-bust up centering on sexual harassment complaints against a well-known editor (which should have been dealt with much sooner) and an uproar over dueling poets and racism.  Result: all my old p…[Read more]

@Arbutus — Wonderful!  Love it.  Thank you.  Shoosh.  I gotta get back to music again, been

too lazy and preoccupied.

ichi

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Macnee — I think I saw him in Marat/Sade back in mumble-mumble . . . A wonderful evening of live theater in New York.  Yes, blog please!

@purofilion   (#40794 above)   Hmm, my panel?  Can you give me a post #?  Did I mention a panel at Wiscon (Madison feminist SF convention, May 21-25)?  Blasted memory.  Remind me?  Thanks —

ichi

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@purofilion   Oh, no, there’s a ton more of GoT to go, most of it as yet unwritten by the author himself.  “Winter is coming”, as if we could forget it.  You know, I have to respect the effort being made in this series to show not just the standard degradation of women in comparatively primitive societies, but the ways in which specific, us…[Read more]

Good lord, can a person *be* “simply Welsh”?!  I mean, Wales is part of a large island, so they had to come from somewhere between there and east Africa, so — ?  This stuff can get so political — I went on a dig in Ireland years ago with a young archaeology prof who was eagerly seeking evidence of some level of early culture *before* the Celts c…[Read more]

@Whisht   GoT: I’m up to date on it, I think.  (trying not to do spoiler stuff below, but if you’re very averse to any kind of foreknowledge in your story-viewing, please be warned and avoid the rest of this summary ramble)

I’ve watched from the start, tailed off a bit lately — I find the compulsory minor-character-nudity empty and a…[Read more]