Doctor Who

Special thanks to Malcolm King for helping out with some credits for this entry. His Scream! fan site, Back from the Depths, is huge fun and includes a few samples of these episodes. Check it out, and tell 'im your old pal the Hipster Dad sent you!

For lunch, Marie and I walked across the street to a place called Caney Fork Fish Camp. It's right next door to a Cracker Barrel on Music Valley Drive and it seems to only exist to provide seating for tourists who don't want to wait for a table at Cracker Barrel. Meh, so after that, we wandered bac...

I have some errands to run this week, and Saturday morning we're going up to Nashville to drop the kids with their mom for a day while Marie and I enjoy a first-year convention called GMX, which is being put on by the MTAC people. Brooke's asked me to sit in on or otherwise conduct three or four pa...

So anyway, I think I've mentioned that the first two seasons of Land of the Lost are the best adventure shows for kids ever made in the US. Compared to what dreck was passing for science fiction in this country before Buffy came around, they were the best SF, period, for American TV, for decade...

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Well, the other day, sprocketship phoned with a quite remarkable discovery at the Perimeter Mall Best Buy. The good people there, recognizing that the price of these damn Doctor Who DVDs are criminally stupid, reversed the price of the darn things, labelling the newly-released series f...

Here's how this works: I finish reading something, and I tell you about it, and I try not to bore you to death. This time, reviews, of sorts, of Doctor Who: The Glorious Dead (Panini, 2006) and Doctor 13: Architecture and Mortality (DC, 2007).