@lisa  Thanks.

@lisa  I generally draw a blank when it comes to River Song, mainly because she was so time-hoppy that I could never figure out what the hell she was doing or trying to do — so I sort of stopped paying attention.  I recall her as pleasingly bold and tough, and I should have liked her — strong feminist overtones, and I liked her parents — but I…[Read more]

Wow. I never would of thought to think of that! Great pondering @lisa!

@lisa  — just came across some interview remarks with Steven Moffatt.  According to him, the Doctor is not a hero; he’s “a man who sometimes acts as a hero”, so that seems to be his definition.

On the other hand, in the same interview SM says that part of the Doctor’s non-hero identity is that he doesn’t go *looking for trouble*, which is, a…[Read more]

@lisa  The Doctor tries to do good, although sometimes he falls off the wagon into a vengefulness that can be pretty harsh for a show with a “family” viewership (Family of Blood, etc.).  I came across a very odd discussion on reddit about how the scripts hide clues that the Doctor was — the Devil, or at least demonically evil, in the past, but h…[Read more]

Just spent far too much time in the pub for the middle of the week, but such a joy to catch up with everyone’s recent contributions. Thank you all so much; I’ve missed being in here recently, some great conversations and memories shared.  So many places and ages and experiences and yet we come together happily in this little corner of the…[Read more]

@ScaryB   Yeah, yeah, we’re working on getting it sorted. In fact, some pundits here are following your election with close interest, because of the strong possibility of a minority result in our own election in the fall. Last time an attempt was made at a coalition here, the screams of outrage you would not have believed. “It’s not democratic! T…[Read more]

Hi fives to @Lisa

Grab a straw 🙂 (watch out for the dalek tho 😀 )

Woah… am I behind or what??

Missed our Emperor’s birthday – hangs head in shame and expects to get exterminated on the spot! Belated happies to @Craig ( 😆  at “the 45” – that’s brilliant)

Some absolutely brilliant songs of the day from everyone – @Lisa, @FatmaninaBox, @JimtheFish @Arbutus – lots of faves in there, thank you all. And…[Read more]

@purofilion the week has ended well. Son did get to his excursion yesterday though rather late. Now to get him to do his homework…

@lisa Yes I loved Hugo. Have watched it several times. The book is beautiful too which reminds me I have promised my youngest son a copy. Might be an idea for his upcoming birthday. A few years ago there was a BBC…[Read more]

@whisht — surprised that this one hasn’t been selected, so I’ll be Prosaically Obvious Guy…

@lisa — awesome Thursday choices. Really good.

ah @Lisa you’re still going strong!
(will have to listen tonight as gotta go to work now!)

Unfortunately the Thursdays I was finding on my library were all a bit underwhelming and has left me linking to something I’ve linked to before (apologies).

For Thursday a highly specific Thursday from Brian Eno

@lisa my SO will love those photos of Cthulhu in the tea cup. (Also love the early Melies films. A horse drawn carriage would be fine as long as it was bigger on the inside. Not sure that getting through space would be so good for the horses though.)

I had a really s**t morning this morning. The power went down in the night and so the alarm…[Read more]

oh @Arbutus I say “Bless these time zones” as they mean people are forced to look into the dustier corners of their collections!

Not to say that The Guess Who aren’t forever on your system…

;¬)

And @Jimthefish – ah, John Lee Hooker. Always fascinated by what he does, but completely impossible for me to play harmonica along to! ah well, serves…[Read more]

@LISA FOR THE WIN!!!!!!!

That has made my Wednesday!!

😀

and here’s all I had to offer… its an obvious pick when I plugged “wednesday” into me iTunes

Well, obviously @JimTheFish has already snuck in with a cracker. Nice work!
(and a great Moody one from @Lisa )
I’ll have to admit my library was rather mean in terms of Tuesday songs so I actually had to do some research(!)

I searched (and found stuff) far and wide, mulled over a few and then I came across two gold-plated wonders.
There are…[Read more]

@lisa  Thanks for the link — interesting reactions to GoT.  We watched most of it, though I never minded missing an episode —  women (and a certain eunuch) intrigue, men betray, everybody kills if they live long enough to do that, and they’re all moving around a large fictional geographical stage all the time, on foot, horseback, ship, etc.  T…[Read more]

@arbutus — was tempted to go with that track actually. Good call.

@whisht — good to have you back btw. God Help The Girl are a kind of spin-off from Belle and Sebastian.

@lisa — that Bangles song has so many memories tied up in it for me. Enjoyed watching that again.

@lisa – yayyyyyy!!!!

See jimthefish – Lisa knows how to play!

😀

That poor Hoffs woman – never able to look straight ahead. Terrible affliction.
Mind you, like the Who xmas special, I think I was sharing the same dream as her… remember it vividly…

[ahem]

@Lisa

I think there was a greek philosopher that wrote about them.

I think you mean Philo – who was a Hellenistic Jewish philospher who lived in Egypt. 😉

Did they have families? Maybe a lot did and a lot didn’t

Some Essene groups are argued to have families, yeah. We know others definitely didn’t. The point is that you can’t argue that J…[Read more]