Dreamwidth just lost an entire draft post.  :(  Bother.  To be fair, it may be related to the internet being out of commission for half the day, and not DW's fault at all.

As best I can remember it included talk of:

Doctor Who, Season 18, State of Decay.  I thought the plot was too much of a rehash of the old Sevateem idea (which was a good idea ( Read more... )

Mid-December, and Christmas is approaching rapidly - I've posted everything that needs to be posted - or I hope I have. Whether they get to the recipients by Christmas… well, I hope they do. Or the parcels, anyway, and most of the cards; the two cards I posted yesterday probably won't, but it's too late to fret about that. I plan to make a ( Read more... )

This first is very, very sad, but it is also a true story, of a woman who died as part of the struggle against Nazism.  I'm putting it up not that I've anything much to say except how hideously sad war is, and how amazing this woman was.  And that her story needs to be more widely known. (But seriously, not a post to be reading if you're not ( Read more... )

So... on the weekend I watched for the first time the movie His Girl Friday (1941).  Very interesting.  I had expected it to be about equality between men and women - a vindication of women's contributions to journalism (though I knew it was comedy, of course).  But it wasn't - the woman journalist was manipulated and used by the male editor ( Read more... )

I was going to post gloomily about the looming Australian Federal election, but I think I'll just let a Michael Leunig speak for me.   Whoops!  I tried to link to just one cartoon, but that link took me to 52 of them, so I've scrubbed it!  Suffice it to say that the cartoon I wanted to link to was pretty gloomy about the campaign, about the lack of ( Read more... )

I saw Pacific Rim yesterday.  It was the first contemporary big-action, humans-versus-aliens I've seen, and I found it enormously interesting, but it also left me with much to think about.

I really loved its look, which seemed to me in places to owe a lot to Blade Runner, by the way.  But then again, I was told by my learned companion that the film ( Read more... )