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Writer. Podcaster. Author. Communications Director. Husband. Doctor Who fan. Record collector. Film, TV and music nerd. Friendly human being. The order of these things might shift depending on circumstances.
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For this entire century, 'politics' has meant 'what will the Boomers burn up before they die?'. Trumpism is basically Boomerism in scorched earth mode. The answer is everything. We get nothing.
Medicare is currently slated to end when the Boomers do.
It’s a great piece. There’s a tremendous coincidence, given their Doctor Who connections, that Terry Nation and Sydney Newman died six months apart of emphysema.
I like it!
All that said... the season 2 teaser is brief but it has enough to keep me optimistic that I'll love more of it this time. (especially Jessica Jones... and a brief glimpse of Foggy!)
I really liked Daredevil Born Again overall... but only loved about 20% of it. (That number was 30% but I rewatched all three seasons of the Netflix Daredevil). But I let a lot slide because Dario Scardapane had to build season one from the ashes of the legal dramedy that Kevin Feige nixed.
#EveryAlbumIOwn (Revisit) Please Please Me. The Beatles. 1963.
Top 3 tunes: I Saw Her Standing There, PPM, Twist And Shout
You can skip: Love Me Do (sorry!)
Rating: 9/10
Most 60s bands' debuts are full of tedious blues numbers; the Beatles covered girl group b-sides which is why they are best.
Trump's Board of Peace meets up without him after Air Force One has to an urgent diversion to get the president a Big Mac...
Absolutement!
There was a Toronto-based BBS that was, no joke, devoted to discussions of the Bible and discussions of Doctor Who. (Not both). This would be 1993 or so before I discovered Usenet and email. I spent so much time on the Doctor Who part of it. And discovered Sylvester McCoy haters and IRL fans.
This just gets more Kafka-esque. My changes to the wiki were rejected with the response “Google it. It happened!”
Google’s AI is generating that the obituary (that I wrote in 2010) is legit because it sourced it from the Wiki page, generating a false positive.
It even links to my long-dead blog as a citation! I presume this was done before AI (because my blog has been down for a decade) but… dude, it’s a short story…
I wrote a short story 15 years ago about the life and career of Canadian superhero Johnny Canuck after his comic was cancelled. There was a mention of an obituary in a (real) Canadian newspaper.
Turns out a fandom wiki cited the newspaper in my story as a legit source!
I always wondered was there a reason the gun and holster was removed from Steel when he was brought back for All-Star? (I think it wasn’t even an actual gun). I thought it added something to the overall design and was sorry to see it go.
Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
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There’s a congressman that got Superman 1 from the Library of Congress and I still think that’s so cool, even though I’d probably use my family’s copy of The Good News Bible from the 1970s for sentimental reasons more than anything.
Three ghosts take Pierre Poilievre on spiritual journey through time to no effect
Lovely and very generous appraisal of our podcast in The Guardian, courtesy of @nickabadzis.bsky.social
Man you went into some deep cuts like Rina and Angela Blake (who were John Wells tryouts, trying to mix up the cast like he did on ER). I kind of wish they had done something with Elsie Snuffin.
Cleaning out the notes app. I *think* this is a list of West Wing characters who go missing without explanation, but why would I even think I needed that?
The years 2004-2021 (after Frasier but before Only Murders) were the Golden Age of Nobody Saying the Word “Jejune” on American Television.
I really enjoyed Avatar Fire and Ash. There’s not a lot of humour to it though. The only line that made me laugh was “Cover me and try not to shoot anyone you love”. But I’m with you that’s not necessarily a problem with the film either.
Re: the Avatar discourse. The criticism that nobody can think of quotable lines is based on the misconception that good dialogue = dialogue that lends itself to being quoted. But if you come out of a film having been engrossed by the story and the characters, not remembering a quip is not a fault.
Episode 228: Is It the Ship's Vampire?
With guest @graemeburk.bsky.social!
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I’ve been seeing this cover over and over and I just…
In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.
That seems possible in terms of why it appears in the book. In Newman’s case it’s a mistake because he was still at ABC in ‘62. Though perhaps Newman relied on the book for the date when he wrote to Caversham?
