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I shall miss the Doctor, Rose, Mickey, the 51st Century American flyboy, even the nasty Daleks. Nasty, nasty Daleks, all flying naked in space like Cylons and killing people. Ick.

And how old is that new Doctor? Thirteen, maybe fifteen. New teeth, too.

No Battlestar Galactica until God knows when, now no Doctor Who until 2006 and no more Star Trek:Enterprise ever. Oh wait, that last one’s a good thing. So I guess TV’s not all bad.

Now check this out: The Cutest Dalek.

And welcome back, tnir.org!

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Who doesn’t like the Muppets?

If you don’t like them, don’t answer. I want to preserve my illusions. (And if you really don’t, click here. Thanks.)

So anyway, I signed up at their website this morning and it asked for postal information, which was optional. I figured WTF, it’s the Muppets, what am I going to get? Snail-mail spam porn of batrachian-porcine bacchanaliae? (Oh, wait, that would be cool…)

I fill it all out, calling my one-room shack Suite 7, just for crazzy fun, then I go to click on my country in the drop-down list. Guess what? No, seriously, guess. Whoa, yer way ahead of me. Yup, no Canada in the list. Not alphabetically, not at the top with the US, as some pages do, not stuck in some random place in the list, nuthin’.

So I ended up telling them I live in Toronto, Ontario, Antarctica. Seemed right.

You just know that there’s some Americans who think there’s an Uncle Arctica too.

Craig Charles is joining Coronation Street!

If you don’t know what that means to me, then you’re not my friend. If you ever were.

Did I ever smeggin’ like you? Did I ‘eck as like.

I lost almost all my mp3s in a hard drive crash last week due to the heat and humidity - it was brutal - but now I don’t care nearly as much.

(Just making a half-full glass of lemonade here, people! Yee ha!)

Last night there was this new show on Comedy called Distraction.

Now, the first time I saw the commercial for it, I groaned as I realized what it was about. “This looks idiotic.” But by the end of it I was laughing and actually looking forward to seeing the show, at least the first episode, just to check it out.

Well, Sunday night at 9:30 is bookmarked for this show.

It was dopily hilarious. The premise is that four contestants answer general knowledge questions while being Distracted.

One round required them to put as many clothes pins on their heads as possible while answering the questions.

Another round had them being hit over the head with movie stunt glass objects if they didn’t buzz in to answer fast enough, or if the other guy was right.

The lowest scoring player is eliminated in each round.

The end had the winner (of a brand new car!) answering questions and then having the car damaged by the previously eliminated players on every wrong answer.

The host is a funny Brit named Jimmy Carr. The Distracting is hilarious, but he’s the star.

Okay, Reid, there’s a horizontal rule embedded just above this line and it’s not showing up in MSIE 6.

So…

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Now the other cool thing that happened last night was that I got Doom 2 working under Windows 2000 on an Athlon Duron.

It worked badly if at all under Windows 98 on a Pentium or a Pentium II. It froze or stuttered or wouldn’t even run.

Hell, last night I played for about three hours, and I haven’t played anything like that since I don’t know when.

I’d forgotten the rush from the triumphs of the killings or the weapons acquisitions and the plummeting bummer of getting offed by bot monsters I wouldn’t give the time of day to in real life. Very refreshing for some visceral, primitive, atavistic, anachronistic reason.

Plus which, it’s summer party season and I am booked up! Woo-hoo!

Not really, I’m fishing.

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Jokes with realistic endings. Seriously.

Who’s here.

Okay. I love the new Doctor Who. I liked the Slitheen story-line. I liked the London Blitz story-line.

I like story-lines that combine other story-lines. It’s basic story telling. Vergil incorporated the Trojan War story and the separate Romulus and Remus legend with a (probably totally) made-up story-line about Aeneas and Dido, to explain the classic and traditional enmity between Rome and Carthage. (It was really territorial and small ‘i’ imperial ambitions and trade rivalries, but the slighted mad-woman love story schtick sold the whole thing a lot better than pie-charts and drawing pins on a map…)

So anyhoo, I think that maybe they shouldn’t have brought back the Slitheen so quickly (how ever much I liked the episode). It’s kind of like what all the Star Treks did in their first seasons, which was to bring out all the kick-ass TV SF tropes; in case the show didn’t last, they wanted to go out with a bang.

I don’t think this show has to worry about that.

If Russel T. Davies stays associated with it, I think this show will be around for a while.

Told you the Brits can do TV SF better than the Americans. Pace my beloved Battlestar Galactica.

There’s a picture of the next Doctor Who about halfway down this page.

It’s Italian text so no spoilers except for U-No-Who-isa…

Apparently the new guy is al momento impegnato nelle riprese di Harry Potter e il calice di fuoco.

Cool.

Gene Simmons is doing the voice of Old Sophie in the imminent English release of Miyazaki’s ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’, loosely based on Diana Wynne Jones’ novel of the same name.

Sophie spends most of the movie as an old lady, so it will be interesting to see what they do.

I’ve seen the original, subtitled, on DVD and it could do with a KISS soundtrack, believe you me.

Simpsons Movie!!!

Or I’ll send you this!

Ha!