Yep.
Lauryn, I believe the words you are looking for are: “This is so very wrong, and yet, so very right.”
October 2, 2009
July 12, 2009
we are coming
Watch Torchwood: Children of Earth when it rolls around on BBC America next week. Just watch it. I don’t care if you’ve never seen Torchwood, or if you don’t like science fiction, or if you don’t get BBC America, or if you don’t own a television, or if you don’t have eyeballs. Find some eyeballs and watch it. Best piece of serialized science fiction television ever. Ever.
“But, Andy, Battlestar Gal-“
“EVER!”
(do not question me, for I am GEEKUSA.)
What’s it about? Well, without spoiling anything, it’s about this: one fine day, every child on the planet stopped and said, in unison, “WE ARE COMING.” Turns out the “we” is an alien species who’s using the kids as a megaphone to announce their arrival. The aliens do not have the best of intentions. Neither, in fact, does the British government. Things go very quickly from Independence Day to V for Vendetta. And that’s all I’m going to tell you.
March 14, 2008
DJing Renee’s St. Patty’s Day party….
…and I was pointed in the direction of this Van Halen/Doctor Who cross over t-shirt:
Lord, I want this.
February 29, 2008
Gaydolph Titler rides again
Nathan Thornburgh wrote this piece on Yahoo about Barack Obama’s middle name, which happens to be Hussein, which happens to be the last name of some guy we didn’t like. It also, by the way, happens to be the name of the former king of Jordan (an amateur radio operator, as my Dad would tell you) and the name of the guy who directed the first episode of Doctor Who back in 1963.
(Okay, okay, because you all want to watch it, the YouTube link is here. Really, it’s a stunning and spooky piece of 1963 television with lots of nifty visuals and cool ideas and it kicks off the whole modern telvisiual mythos of Doctor Who quite well and there’s a police box in a junk yard and you don’t care moving on.)
The Yahoo article is entitled “Why Is Obama’s Middle Name Taboo?” My take on it is this: if you’re the sort of person who might conceivably vote for Obama, it’s fine to refer to him as “Barack Hussein Obama.” If you’re a sweaty, high-strung conservative with a talk show who shouts a lot and you pronounce it “Barack HUSSEIN Obama”, it’s not. Like most things, it’s all in the inflection.
By the way, I found this awesome picture of Barack and his mom from the mid-60s:
February 8, 2008
brief note, and the onion needs to stop making fun of me.
First off, thanks to Julia, Alyssa, Lauryn, Lauryn’s mom, ChrisClark, and everyone else who hung out with GeekUSA on Super Tuesday. There was many a witty and insightful comment that was, unfortunately, eaten by the interwebs as I consolidated all my posts into one. For the record, Lauryn said something really funny that I can’t remember and Julia schooled me on Super-delegates.
Secondly, the big Onion article everyone’s passing around these days is called The Knights Who Say “Nerd”: Twenty Pop Culture Obsessions Even Geekier Than Monty Python. As I’ve stated previously on these pages, there’s a slight but significant difference between geeks and nerds. If you’re a nerd, you’ll read the article and start indignantly composing a list of factual errors. Geeks, however, will start counting the number of geek obsessions they have, and half-seriously blog about it in the following way: dude, I got six out of twenty! WHO WANTS TO DATE ME??
I would have had seven out of twenty, but I gave up on MySpace months ago.
November 27, 2007
I’m a few days late on this, but…
Verity Lambert, first producer and co-creator of Doctor Who, passed away last week, the day before the 44th anniversary of the first episode.
November 11, 2007
People’s Choice Awards
Yeah… y’all need to go vote for Doctor Who in the Favorite Sci-Fi Show category right now.
It’s the first time the greatest television program of all time ever has been nominated for a major award in America, and it’s up against Battleyawn Galactisuck and Stupidgate: Atlantis. Both of which are very good shows, but you should still vote for Doctor Who because I’m always right.
November 3, 2007
songs you don’t know: “The Stowaway”, Yamit Mamo and Murray Gold
Some of you may be somewhat aware that I have been known, from time to time, to watch a British show called Doctor Who. Some of you may have seen this show yourselves, in which case you’ve probably already formed your opinion on Murray Gold.
September 1, 2007
speaking of theatre…
This from gallifreyone.com’s news page:
The Royal Shakespeare Company have announced their 2008 line-up, which features David Tennant in two roles.
From July 24th until November 15th 2008, Tennant will be starring in the title role in Hamlet, alongside Patrick Stewart playing Claudius. Dude. Dude. Dude. DUDE!!
Behold: an excuse to fly to England next year. Doctor Who and Capt. Picard, together, on-stage, in Hamlet. Who wants to go with me? WHO’S WITH ME?
Hamlet: (to audience) What a piece of work is man, oh, HUMANS! They’re BRILLIANT! This o’erhanging firmament, mind you, been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Still ::sigh:: …. man delights not me. Oh, now, wouldn’t worry! Ooh! It’s King Clau-clau-Claudius! How would you, my liege, like to spend the evening at the theatre?
Claudius (tugging on his shirt): Yes, well, young Hamlet. Make it so.
..I’ll stop there.
August 11, 2007
omg fanvids lolz: “The Black Parade”/Doctor Who
More Doctor Who fanvid lovin’, this time from the amazing Calapine, who has tons of amazing Who vids over at YouTube. Her style is to combine clips from both the new series (2005-present) and the old (1963-1989), blurring the line between 20th century and 21st century television and storytelling, and using the medium of video collage to celebrate the vast and elaborate canon and universe of the world’s longest running sci-fi series. She also picks amazing music – in this case, it’s My Chemical Romance’s Queen-esque epic “Welcome To The Black Parade.” I love her style, and you will too, even if you can’t tell a Tardis from a Toclafane.
