Hey! Yuri whatsisface from Waters of Mars is a nurse!

HE CAN BE THE FIFTH MEMBER OF NURSE COMMANDOS!

The Hero: Rory
The Lancer: Strax
The Smart Guy: Yuri
The Big Guy: the Garm
The Chick: Nurse Hame

WOOHOO! Five man band accomplished! (And Yuri's totally my favorite character in WoM anyway...)

So, I'm about halfway through The Lost Hero. It turns out that this isn't a third series per se - it's a direct sequel (series) to Percy Jackson. Only this time with Romans! They wear purple - cuz they're Romans! Ah ha, and there aren't actually any yet, except for our amnesiac main character, who hasn't quite figured it out yet ( Read more... )

So, as I started to say last night, yesterday we saw Cowboys & Aliens down at the Dollar Theater. The Other One is probably going back to see it again on Tuesday.

The quote of the evening, from the Other One is: "Daniel Craig is like the male Summer Glau." On that logic:

( Daniel Craig Beats Up Everybody (contains spoilers) )

...passes the Bechdel Test.

Ya know, for the record.

...also known as "Tropes Are Not Bad: The Movie." Seriously ( Read more... )

So, we finished up The Key To Time last night, which was always good fun. It's got John Woodvine in it, which is never a bad thing. And it's written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin - awesome! We hadn't seen those guys for ages!

Poking around on tvtropes this morning, I discovered three surprising things.
( Cut for Whovian pedantry )

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... )

It's a trope! Quote of the day (from the "Hot Scientist" entry):

"Also, Peri is a botany student. But probably not a very good student as she's dumber than a box of sonic screwdrivers."

I...don't know why I find this as funny as I do. But it's true. And not the screwdrivers in the box, mind; poor old Peri is dumber than the box they came in. ( Read more... )

Outrage! updated. Huzzah!

In other news, I've become fascinated by the Bechdel Test, and its variants. I'm pleasantly surprised that Doctor Who (at least, the original series) passes with more frequency than one would expect - as early as the sixties, in fact ( Read more... )

Our favorite bookstore just went out of business. It was very sad. In typical Columbus fashion, there were two phenomenal used book stores across the street from each other. We would go into the other one more often, because it was on the same side of the street as the Farmer's Market, and I liked the unexpected finds you get from the huge ( Read more... )