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Lock up your archetypes: Sarah Jane Adventures mini-icons have arrived!
After what feels like years of procrastination*, the time has come to fill in a glaring omission in my icon coverage of the Whoniverse: yes, it's time for Sarah Jane Adventures mini-icons, featuring a...
View ArticleIt's not their fault that they are mad. They've tasted Hell.
Before we get on to Ashes to Ashes, here are some nuggets of trivia for the week.When the company L'Oréal was first founded, back in 1909, it was called the Société Française de Teintures Inoffensives...
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Where angels' feet are red
Doctor Who, part two of two: I've now watched it, how about you?Some thoughts on Flesh and Stone:So last week's not-very-cliffy cliffhanger culminates in the discovery of... a Corridor! And we all know...
View ArticleLadies and gentlemen, we are floating in space (possibly)
Well, I'd like to give you some cogent and perceptive thoughts about Ashes to Ashes 3x06, but I'm afraid you'll have to settle for a few bits of incoherent and overexcited babbling:I think my brain has...
View ArticleWhen it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night
Ah, I do love a lavishly mounted costume drama, preferably one set in historical Italy, with a star-studded cast, filled with power, passion, political intrigue and gratuitous displays of muscular...
View ArticleYou pays your money and you takes your choice
Before I get on to tonight's viewing, I apologize for my lack of Ashes to Ashes commentary this week. I blame overwork and sore shoulder muscles, but I shall endeavour to post some enthusiastic...
View ArticleSlouching towards Lancashire
Are you excited about the upcoming finale of Ashes To Ashes? I certainly am, and I was intending to assemble a semi-coherent collection of thoughtful theories, intellectual insights and perceptive plot...
View ArticleLights go out, walls come tumbling down
And now, one of the most predictable blog posts ever, even by my own high standards of predictable blogging.Yes, it's some thoughts about the series finale of Ashes to Ashes. Well, I don't know who...
View ArticleDishing up love for a Hungry Earth?
I think I'm still slightly a-quiver from last night's Ashes to Ashes, but the fannish world shuffles on fast and suddenly it's time to talk Doctor Who again. Crikey.Here are a few thoughts about The...
View Article"What play thing can you offer me today?"
I'm a bit bored and fancy doing some icon-making, but don't know what to draw. So perhaps foolishly, I've had the following idea.The Mini-Icon All-Suggestions-Welcome Long-Weekend...
View ArticleMumblings underground
Alas, it's farewell to Dennis Hopper, an actor who deserves to be remembered for many things, including some of the most enthusiastic swearing in cinema. He never appeared in Doctor Who, but perhaps...
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Mini-icon Requestathon round-up!
My Mini-Icon Requestathon has now drawn to a close. Sorry I couldn't do everything everyone asked for, but there are only so many hours in a long weekend, and some of them have to be spent at the...
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That certain hair of savoir faire
As regular readers may know, I like to collect odd bits of trivia and file them away in my head for the purposes of entertainment or enlightenment. Among these mental collections (unusual names, men...
View ArticleAn ear in Provence
Before I get on to tonight's Doctor Who, I turned on the TV just before the episode and caught the last minute of Shrek 2, which I believe to be a charming landmark moment in children's movies. Yes,...
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Happy birthday livii!
It's always so hard to know what to give to the woman who has everything, but then I remembered that you mentioned the desirability of Bernard from Black Books icons a couple of weeks ago. Although I...
View ArticleFirst date: upstairs inside
With the sound of vuvuzelas echoing in the televisual distance, it's time for my brain to pull together a few lines on this week's Doctor Who.So here are a few thoughts about The Lodger:Well, at the...
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Box frenzy
Time for the penultimate dose of Doctor Who of the season, so with a loud creaking noise, here are some thoughts about The Pandorica Opens:Oh look, it's everybody who's anybody from this series,...
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Size isn't everything
Ah, now that's what I call great telly. What a terrific series finale, with ultra-lavish production values, characters I'd grown to know and love despite their many flaws, top-notch acting from a...
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Doctor Who mini-icons: fresh off the wrist of a handsome Time Agent?
The Big Bang has banged, the Pandorica has been put back in its box, and the cracks in my sanity have opened just enough to let out a final burst of space-shaking silliness. Yes, it's time for some new...
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I would devour where others merely nibbled
Indulge me, if you will, by taking part in a not-entirely-serious piece of international linguistic research. You will need to examine the following visual aid first.View Poll: Cake QuestionWell, to me...
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