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Looking Back at Doctor Who: End of the World

June 15th, 2010 · View Comments · doctor who, reviews, television

– 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 introductory episode in which we establish that the Doctor is alien and has a spaceship that [...]

In which I start talking about mysteries but wind up elsewhere

June 14th, 2010 · View Comments · books, projects, writing

I went to a marvelous place on Thursday night called the Mysterious Bookshop. Mysterious indeed. Not only is it a speciality bookstore dealing only in mysteries, thrillers, crime and espionage novels (as well as rare and out-of-print editions), but I had no idea it existed, despite its being around for almost 30 years. It used [...]

Looking Back at Doctor Who: Rose

June 10th, 2010 · View Comments · doctor who, reviews, television

If you’re from another planet, how come you sound like you’re from the North?
Lots of planets have a North.

Confession: Though I enjoyed the few episodes I watched, I was never a huge Doctor Who fan. If I remember correctly, in the early 80s the show came on directly after 3-2-1 Contact, and I remember getting [...]

Thoughts on Lost – The End

May 24th, 2010 · View Comments · lost, reviews, television

I had this dream last night — Jack and Sun somehow got together after they were tasked with setting everything on the island back to rights. I’m not kidding. There was a Jack-Sun hook-up. This is not the first LOST-related dream I’ve had in the last five months, either.
Here’s another story: In my junior year [...]

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Thoughts on Lost – What They Died For

May 19th, 2010 · View Comments · lost, reviews, television

I wonder if anyone else writing about this show found it hard to formulate thoughts about this penultimate episode, since it built up such a nice momentum going into the finale that I’m almost content to wait and see how it all plays out on Sunday. (I can’t believe this is going to be over [...]

Very Concise Thoughts on Doctor Who – “Flesh and Stone”

May 17th, 2010 · View Comments · reviews, television

Alternate title: A Brief Sketch of My Thoughts on the Latest Episode of Doctor Who, in Roughly Chronological Order:
1. Nice.
2. Awesome.
3. OMG SCARY.
4. Awesome.
5. And also scary.
6. Seriously. Creepy.
7. Ha!
8. Aw. Sniff.
9. Ha!
10. Ha ha!
11. Nice.
12. Ugh.
13. UGH.
14. REALLY?
15. Seriously, REALLY?
And now a bit more detail: We just came off a season during which there [...]

Tomato Canapes ala Esquire’s Handbook for Hosts

May 14th, 2010 · View Comments · books, food, seriously?

In honor of Friday, in honor of it being the 15th of May [update: except it's the 14th. Don't mind me. I have absolutely no concept of time anymore], and in honor of this vintage ad Dan posted to my Facebook Wall yesterday:

(Tomato jam? Delicious. Tomato Jell-o? Bluh. Discuss.)
May I present to you another offering [...]

Quickie Review(ish) – An Education

May 13th, 2010 · View Comments · movies, reviews

(Also known as the latest in an ongoing series which should be titled You Know That Movie Everyone Else Saw Six Months Ago? Yeah, I Just Watched It.)
Actually, let’s get the review part out of the way: For a movie with a familiar, arguably tired narrative, wow is it good. Somehow, no matter how many [...]

Thoughts on Lost – Across the Sea

May 12th, 2010 · View Comments · lost, reviews, television, writing

Here’s the thing about origin stories: they’re never going to fully satisfy one’s need to know everything. Origins — true beginnings — simply don’t exist. There’s always something that came before, always the question “How?” looping back, over and over, until finally you get to a shrug and the unknowable.
The Mother says as much to [...]

Thoughts on Lost: The Candidate

May 5th, 2010 · View Comments · lost, television

I’ve been reading a good deal of posts and tweets and other sorts of status updates about this episode, all from people who were absolutely devastated, reduced to a blubbery mass of tears, over what transpired in the second half of this episode.
Me? Not so much.
It upset me, for sure (my refrain last night was [...]