I'm quite torn about the news that Stephen Fry is going to be replaced by Sandi Toksvig as the host of Q.I.On one hand, Sandi Toksvig is hosting a panel show again, and this time it's on television? YES PLEASE ( Read more... )

I knew that the ancient Egyptians considered lettuce to be an aphrodisiac-I even mentioned it in an Osiris/Set fic once-but I always assumed that it was one of those wacky things with no physical basis whatever which are so common in ancient medicine.

Then I learned from the latest episode of Q.I. (series L, episode 15, "Long-Lost") that wild ( Read more... )

The Big Fat Anniversary Quiz was pretty much everything I could have hoped for, plus all kinds of things I hadn't even thought of. I'd never seen Warwick Davis not in a movie, for instance, and he fit right in with all the returning panelists. It would have been nice if Richard Ayoade and David Mitchell could have been on this show instead of the ( Read more... )

Nine episodes from series I of QI are available for legal streaming in the U.S. on Hulu! I mean, this is clearly still less than ideal, but it's a huge improvement over the prior state of affairs where no episodes of QI were available legally in the U.S. in any format.

Also, I just caught that A Tale for the Time Being made the Booker shortlist, ( Read more... )

Stephen Fry called Alan Davies his little puppy on Twitter and my heart skipped a beat. Not least because I'm one of the authors who've used puppy imagery in their fic. But then, it is rather obvious, isn't it? I'm only surprised no one's written full-on puppy play, to be honest. At any rate, this sent me looking for previously-undiscovered fics in ( Read more... )

Daniel Radcliffe is so precious and clever and wee in his turn on Q.I.! I am sort of but actually not really distracted from waiting for yuletide to open.