I was waxing rhapsodic on here a couple of days ago about Rory punching the Doctor in the face. Since then, I've been noticing (and appreciating) people getting punched in the face a lot. For instance, yesterday I watched waaaaaaaay too much Babylon 5, and I think someone gets punched in the face in nearly every episode (in the first half of ( Read more... )

So...this is the second plot I've encountered that deals with stealing anti-matter from CERN. I mean, do people think they just have piles of it lying around? OH NO! Someone has stolen the anti-matter! Oh, good thing they didn't take the Tau-mesons while they were at it! Better check the neutrino vaults to make sure those didn't wander off too ( Read more... )

It's called "Piano Parchment" and it's by Johnny Pearson! Now I Know.

(the theme to All Creatures Great and Small, that is. I have to say, few things are more adorable than Siegfried and Tristan suddenly on the same side...)

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A good reason to read YouTube comments:

"I never would. Except when I was Tom Baker. Those were fun times."... ( Read more... )

I didn't get a chance to post on this earlier, and so I've been very full of this episode all day, with really no one to talk to. Now it's late, but I really want to put something down before we watch "Blink" tonight.

( He's dead, and you look like him )

I watched "Family of Blood" last night. And it reminded me of some things I'd been meaning to post for some time. But first: "Dear Show, Please stop problematizing...yourself. Some is good. Enough is enough. Love, Me."

In one of the attached "rants" to Arthur, King of Time and Space, the author writes:

"As readers of this space know, I ( Read more... )

I really have no words.

Scientists consider various scenarious of contact with extra-terrestrial intelligences.

The Whovian in me has to say: BUT WHAT ABOUT THE UNDERGROUND LIZARD PEOPLE???

(scenario 2 is basically Stargate. I love that!)

EDIT:

As goonlord so excellently put it: "The entire point of science fiction is so that you can say the same ( Read more... )

karakael has an interesting post about, among other things, the claim that we don't see Engineers as literary heroes before about 1980. One of the biggest counterarguments to this claim is Heinlein. (well, and Ayn freakin Rand, and Jules Verne, and, and, and...). But I thought I'd make a list. The novels themselves I pulled from Wikipedia, the rest is ( Read more... )

I speculated some time ago on the reuse of titles for things. It turns out I'm not the only one. It seems tvtropes has a List of Stock Episode Titles, based on data from the imdb. The title I was talking about, "The Enemy Within," is on there with 28 uses - although since this only counts episodes that number includes neither the book nor the ( Read more... )

Last night I schlepped out to Glendale to hang out with gwen for the evening. It was pretty awesome. She cooked Lamb Tikka Masala - which was fantastic - and we watched Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog (which I had not seen before). And I have this to say: Joss Whedon is an evil evil man. For the record. But you can kinda tell from the ( Read more... )

I know you can't copyright titles, but this is getting a little ridiculous.

I just opened up another of my 300 birthday books (remember last year? When I got 26 cubic feet of books for my birthday? Yeah, I think I've opened half of them). It was entitled The Enemy Within and is one of L. Ron Hubbard's science fiction novels ( Read more... )