I had wondered how they ever managed to afford the obviously hyper-expensive Impossible Planet/Satan Pit episodes (especially after spending all the money on the horse in The Girl in the Fireplace) and this episode helps answer that question: This and the previous Love & Monsters were two cheapo episodes.
What have the producers and writers of the X-Men movies got against Cyclops?
A couple months ago, I reported about Leonardo, the most amazingly preserved fossil. Leonardo mummified before fossilizing, making him an unbelievably preserved specimen, complete with tissue that normally does not fossilize, like his beak, his toenails, skin and even the contents of his stomach!
It’s been a good month for spiders trapped in amber… well, as much anyone can say you’re having a good month when you’ve been trapped in amber 100+ million years…
My wife brought the Reader’s Digest article to my attention the other day. Apparently Taipei came out at or near the bottom in terms of the Digest’s rudeness scale for cities. The article she was reading was in Chinese, so there wasn’t much point in my blogging it – and naturally, I haven’t read it.
Michelle recently had her 4th birthday.When she was born, we had a tree planted in our front yard, and each year we’ve taken a picture of her with it. This is the first year I’ve actually stitched them all together to see how times flies…
Cool news out of Great Britain today, the classic 2nd Doctor 8-Part serial, the Invasion, has been inconveniently missing parts 1 and 4, preventing it from being released.
OK, I have to admit, yesterday when I posted my initial reaction to Love & Monsters I was still in shock.
DaviesDavis Tennant and Billie Piper must have needed a couple weeks off from filming. The result, the worst Doctor Who episode ever made, including all of the Sylvester McCoy years.At least it had ELO music in it.
I just happened to stumble across 5 Takes this evening on TV.It’s a program I’ve never watched before, but was fascinated by the concept: 5 people are given a bit of money, a laptop and a camera (crew, perhaps) and sent on trips.