A combination of insomnia, and my lamentation that I hadn’t found a valentine for my wife that wasn’t typical utterly sappy crap, led to this fun experiment. Click on the images for marginally larger versions, and feel free to print them out and give them to a geek you love! … Read more
Sadly, his last words were “six more weeks…”… Read more
Every year our Christmas tree is covered with clear, shining evidence that everyone in this house marches to a different drummer, assuming that they don’t have an entirely different band playing in their heads. These are just a few examples…
…that local TV station KHBS (my former employers, so it’s not as if they don’t know a thing about me!) couldn’t think of a way to localize this story by contacting, oh, I don’t know, a local author who’s written a giant book on the subject.
The above Twitter link led to this story, which was almost certainly relayed straight from the wire service.
Still, I’m highly amused at the thought of channel 40, or even their Twitter account, running a story about Doctor Who. 😆
Now, about all this Doctor Who business… … Read more
As we wait for all to be revealed about the recovered Doctor Who episodes, the thought occurred to me that we have a very good record of where this search was, this time 30 years ago.
From a page in the back of Peter Haining’s “Doctor Who: A Celebration”…
Between the publication of that book in late 1983 and the discovery of episodes of The Underwater Menace and Galaxy Four late in 2011, the total number of missing episodes of Doctor Who dropped from 136 to 106.
I wonder what that number will be here in a few hours?… Read more
Oh, well that changes things quite a bit, doesn’t it?
When the Daily Mirror broke the news over the weekend that “106 episodes of Doctor Who” had been located, it was easy to dismiss as another festering pile of Dalek droppings. The number alone was pure wish-fulfillment: since the 2011 discoveries of episodes of Galaxy Four and The Underwater Menace, only 106 episodes remained to be found, including episodes that had never been sold outside of the UK for a variety of reasons; the by-now-legendary major find in northern Africa, or Sierra Leone, or Nigeria, or Ethiopia, or whatever it was, couldn’t possibly complete the entire series. The fanciful discussion of the mythical find has even received its own name – “the omnirumor” – with True Believers and skeptical detractors lining up for or against its chances of actually being true.
Today, BBC News broke its silence, confirming that something has indeed been found, somewhere. An announcement will be made in a couple of days. Fandom is waiting to exhale. … Read more
Just one of those things I had to exorcise from my brain.… Read more
Thanks to all who have bought the unofficial Doctor Who Storybundle thus far – the feedback’s been great so far.
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Also: please remember to write reviews on sites such as Amazon and Goodreads, not only of my books but the others you read in the Who Storybundle. As I said in an earlier post, for those of us trying to hit escape velocity, break out of the orbit of our old lives and become full-time writers, you’re writing our new resumes when you review our books. If nobody reviews a book, it kinda looks like no one’s read it either.
Holding out for a physical copy? Hit me up at Glitchcon in two weeks, I’m always happy to sign ’em.… Read more
Exciting news: VWORP!1 is back in ebook form as part of the Unofficial Doctor Who Storybundle from Storybundle.com.
The official press release is after the jump. … Read more
After the collections of Star Trek and Star Wars music, this was pretty much inevitable, wasn’t it? This collection includes musical tributes to the world’s longest-running sci-fi series, taking in themes from both the classic and new series. In fact, it’s not unusual to hear themes from both ends of the spectrum within the same track. And as always, it’s lovingly turned into NES-style chipmusic – a real trip back in time. What if there had been an awesome 8-bit Doctor Who game, and this was the music from it? … Read more
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