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Today’s to-do list

January 12th, 2012 · No Comments · stuff, television

1. Finish review book 2. Start drafting review 3. Tidy up in kitchen 4. Tidy up in bathroom 5. Start organizing office [bah...this can wait...] 6. Watch new Downton Abbey episodes And speaking of Downton Abbey, Sir Richard is also Father Octavian from those second Weeping Angel episodes of Doctor Who: And apparently the actor, [...]

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Down I spiral, down I spin

December 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · flashbacks, music

This is something I wrote on Tumblr earlier today, as part of an ongoing music meme. Each day presents a new theme, and anyone can post a song that relates to that theme in some way. I’ve recently gotten back into it after a couple months of non-participation, and I’m remembering how much I enjoy [...]

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Books! I read them, you know

July 15th, 2011 · 1 Comment · books, reviews

In a new year resolutionish daze I started making a list of all the books I’ve finished, but I don’t know where it’s gotten to. I was curious about how many I actually read in a year, considering that I go through an average of six or seven titles a month for review, and I [...]

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Doctor Who Revisited: “Dalek”

January 25th, 2011 · No Comments · doctor who, reviews, television

DALEK: I am alone in the universe. DOCTOR: Yep. DALEK: So are you. We are the same. The Daleks have been around since the very beginning, almost, of the Doctor Who series, and they’ve remained virtually unchanged since then, if not slightly updated. They were created out of the Kaled race on the planet Skaro [...]

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Oh, hi.

January 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment · books, cross stitch, knitting, projects, reviews

First, a big hearty cheers to anyone venturing over here from the Five O’Clock Cocktail blog, where I have a post today. *clink* Second, hi! I’m here. Been letting the blog lie fallow for a little bit in the hopes that it will eventually yield . . . you know, I’m not a farmer. Do [...]

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Doctor Who Revisited: “Aliens of London”/ “WWIII”

January 5th, 2011 · No Comments · doctor who, reviews, television

I’ve been putting off writing these recaps, even after opting to smush the episodes together, because I have very little to say about them. Not among my favorite episodes, these; in fact, pretty far removed from that list. I think the story — aliens who look like this yet masquerade as humans in order to [...]

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Books and stuff

December 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment · books

I had half a mind to let today slink away without posting. I’d feel guilty about it; this resolution to post every week day would get added to the extremely long list of unfinished, petered-out resolutions, projects, and things of a general nature; which would then pad the case against my being a Person of [...]

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Doctor Who, “The Unquiet Dead”

December 14th, 2010 · No Comments · doctor who, television

I think of “The Unquiet Dead” as the last installment of the retooled Doctor Who‘s introductory trilogy. We’ve met him, travelled with him far into the future and met all sorts of aliens — good, bad, and neutral — and now, we go with him to the past. It’s Victorian England (my favorite!), and someone’s [...]

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Repost: Doctor Who, “End of the World”

December 10th, 2010 · No Comments · doctor who, television

Here’s the other Doctor Who post from June. Look for new ones early next week. – I’m a Time Lord. I’m the last of the Time Lords. They’re all gone. I’m the only survivor. I’m left travelling on my own because there’s no one else. – There’s me . . . Right, so: after the [...]

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Repost: Doctor Who – “Rose”

December 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments · doctor who, television

Hey guys. I’m cheating a bit with the “blog every day” thing, but it’s been so long since I first wrote these Doctor Who posts that I thought it would be a good idea to refresh before I do the third episode of the first season. So. There it is. And here you go. ++++++++ [...]

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