Mostly Harmless

More Waters of Mars....

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:13:16 GMT

The closest thing to NA Seventh Doc we've had in all of Tennant's portrayal, and then he goes and crosses the line Sly never did....

I'll be in London end of December through the 3rd.....

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:23:43 GMT

So it looks like the last two I'll be seeing directly from auntie herself. ;)

Whose seen it?

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:50:26 GMT

Whose seen it?!

Happy Halloween!

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:11:16 GMT

Boogedy-Boogedy-Boo!

This is cool.

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:28:22 GMT

Hi, there.

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:17:16 GMT

Couldn't get to my friends page because the trailer I posted last week was covering the button. So, needed a post to scroll it down. Plus, I found this online, and love this series and it's music. So, have some Poirot theme. ;)

New trailer for Agora looks great!

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:26:20 GMT

It's about Hypatia, perhaps the greatest woman in history. She was a renowned scholar attempting to hold back the tides of ignorance and chaos at the fall of classical civilization in Alexandria. Carl Sagan called her the last Librarian at the great Library of Alexandria, and linked her death with it's destruction in his "Cosmos" series. For certain, at a time when Christianity sought to forcibly curtail knowledge and cast civilization into the dark ages of learning that were coming, Hypatia was one of the only people brave enough to stand in it's path. She was murdered by a mob for her convictions.

Torchwood blues....

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:59:16 GMT

I'm terribly depressed having seen the last two episodes tonight. I mean, it was bloody well fantastic, but so fucking gut wrenching. I felt positively ill at ease by the time it was done. Looking through some postings, on on the new Gally-Base forum, it seems to me that some of fandom is confusing the fact that it got them down with it's being somehow bad viewing. Surely the fact that this series was able to elicit such a gut response is proof enough that this was real quality we were watching! That's what good art's supposed to do, folks!

I certainly don't think Torchwood is over, particularly with the ratings it's been receiving this week. We know that that isn't the last we'll see of Jack, after all, as set reports place him as returning on Who at Christmas. Still, I loved this character, and I have genuinely been made to despise him by the end of the last episode. Fucking brilliant!

Torchwood?

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:07:30 GMT

Torchwood? Torchwood? Torchwood? TORCHWOOD!!!

Wow!

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:07:58 GMT

New element for the Periodic Table!

Dollhouse renewed!

Sat, 16 May 2009 16:13:22 GMT

Dollhouse renewed for a second season!

Escape from the Pub with no Doors:

Tue, 12 May 2009 21:24:10 GMT

You know it has to happen.

In honor of tonight's movie....

Tue, 12 May 2009 16:59:11 GMT

Gasp! Main stream Star Trek!

Mon, 11 May 2009 23:16:17 GMT

Hey, Texas!

Sun, 03 May 2009 17:10:31 GMT

Hell has frozen over...

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:20:28 GMT

... I have embarked into the facebook. *chills*

Opera gone Wrong!

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:55:56 GMT

When bad tenors go really bad...
I've never heard it run as far off the tracks as in these clips.... a nightmare waiting to happen!

What? Gwenyth doesn't know anything about Pediatrics?

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:31:06 GMT

Next you'll be telling me Jenny McCarthy can't cure autism! ;)

This article from the Guardian had me in stitches.

Behold, the most serious challenge to the Royal Society in that august body's 350-year history - the medical musings of Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow and Stella McCartney. These women are not just singers, or actresses, or fashion designers. They are distinguished professors at the University of Celebrity, and are coating your understanding of science like a totally amazing organic body oil.

On top of this, they are best friends, so we can say their pronouncements are peer-reviewed in the best sense of that term. Can you imagine their gatherings? It must be as if Isaac Newton were taking antioxidant tea with Robert Koch and Marie Curie.

We shall come to her latest discoveries shortly, but by way of background, do recall that Gwyneth has formerly claimed that eating "biological foods" can prevent cancer, reminding us that starring in Iron Man and maintaining a glittering career in clinical research are not mutually exclusive. Then we have Madonna, who has cited the extraordinary healing powers of Kabbalah water, which costs $4 a bottle, is said to have had energy injected into it, and may or may not have been blessed by the former insurance salesman who dreamed up her religion.

Other fields of specialism? Alas, Lost in Showbiz hasn't the space today, but Madonna has previously championed a soi-disant scientist who claims to have reversed the second law of thermodynamics. And then there's Stella, who launched her organic skincare range with the warning that "lots of skin products use the same petrochemicals as the antifreeze in your car!", and is one of those celebrities who thinks they eat "chemical-free" food and use "chemical-free" products. I beg you not to tell her that water and trees are made of chemicals. The shock could finish her off.

So then to Gwyneth's latest thesis, published not in the British Medical Journal, surprisingly, but in Goop, the newsletter she sends out to her flock every week. According to Gwyneth, she bowed to crushing demand for this service from friends who were always asking her for restaurant recommendations and low-fat recipes and where to find reproduction art-deco taps. It is now Earth's most invaluable resource for all those unable to locate the perfect £650 cashmere egg cosy (remember: never eat the yolk, it gives you Aids or calories or something).

Entertainers being what they are, it was only a matter of time before Gwyneth branched out into bacteriology, and in her most recent communique she is good enough to explain her fears that household products are causing autism and cancer in children.

"A couple of years ago," she writes, "I was asked to give a quote for a book concerning environmental toxins and their effects on our children."

But how preposterous. I assume she replied: "I am an actor. My job is pretending to be other people. This does not qualify me to discourse on paediatric medicine"? Alas not.

"While reading up on the subject, I was seized with fear," Gwyneth continues. Lost in Showbiz hasn't the strength to bore you with it in full, but it's something about foetuses and young children being unable to "metabolise toxins" - toxins that come from all the "chemicals" we fill our environment with. "The research is troubling; the incidence of diseases in children such as asthma, cancer and autism have shot up exponentially ..."

No matter that there has been very little change in the rate of childhood cancers detected in recent years, and no matter that various leading experts have exploded in exasperation at Gwyneth's general hokum. Like her coterie of fellow scientists, she is indifferent to the critics, whom the form book suggests she would dismiss as "haters".

So if you hear anyone disparaging our three brainiacs, you tell them this: if we understand more than we did five years ago about how holy water can cure verrucas and how shampoo causes cancer, then it is because we are standing on the shoulders of these giants.

• Marina Hyde's book, Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over The World And Why We Need An Exit Strategy, is published by Harvill Secker

House WTF?

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:02:07 GMT

I'm really rather pissed about what they just did on House tonight....

Actually, I'm also rather pissed that they did much the same thing on The Sarah Connor Chronicles on Friday so casually...

Information age prayer!

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:18:24 GMT

Don't have time in your busy daily schedule for prayer? Maybe you love Jesus very much, kind of, but just don't have the time to talk to him? Ever? Or maybe your one of those agnostics, you don't really "believe" believe, but you'd like to hedge your bets? Boy do I have the site for you: Information Age Prayer! For the low price of $3.95 a month, they will run your prayer of choice through a voice synthesizer every day, and allow the computer to speak to god for you. Is a loved one sick? For only $9.95 per month, the computer will beg god to help them 5 times a day!

Isn't that nice?

So my parents are moving to London...

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:53:43 GMT

... I know. I'll have to be manufacturing many reasons to visit them in the next couple of years. ;)

Alternate lyrics to Carmina Burana.

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:44:09 GMT

Ganked from the Bad Astronomer's Blog....

Ten years later, the boys from the Dwarf are back!

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:33:37 GMT

OMG! John McCain and Sarah Palin recetitivo!

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:36:02 GMT

Ganked from jvowles

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:42:44 GMT

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