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  • Marc A. Price 2:01 pm on April 27, 2009 Permalink  

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  • Marc A. Price 6:29 pm on April 26, 2009 Permalink
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    Doctor Who Assistant Announcement 

    Well not really. This title is a bit mean for those of you that you found the post via Google Search. Lizo Mzimba, he from the BBC with close links to Doctor Who, bumped into Hannah Murray today and asked her the obvious question. For those not aware there has been a number of rumours going around that she has signed on the line as Doctor Who’s new assistant when Matt Smith takes over.

    Anyway Lizo has this announcement to make about the encounter.

    News hot off the press. Just spoke to the lovely Hannah Murray who says she definitely isn’t going to be Matt Smith’s assitant in Dr Who. (From http://twitter.com/lizo_mzimba/statuses/1621533863)

    I’m proper sorry for those that had put money on her. I was not at all excited by the rumour as I’d personally like to see someone a bit older (Gillian Anderson perhaps – ha ha ha). So anyway perhaps we can put that particular rumour to bed and get on with the important task of make up new shit.

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    • Joe Bua 11:30 pm on April 27, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I still want it to be true so I’m gonna sit here with my eyes shut really tight and will it to be true.

      Starting … now!

  • Marc A. Price 2:00 pm on April 26, 2009 Permalink  

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  • Marc A. Price 4:18 am on April 26, 2009 Permalink
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    This Week in Tweets (w/e 2009-04-26) 

    • Time for bed, my eyes are bleeding. #
    • Go on Posh! Championship football here we come! #
    • t’Internet is painfully slow today. Reminds me of the dial up days. Am I being throttled? How can you tell? #
    • Feeling apprehensive for The Posh today. Could do with MK Dons dropping the ball today. #
    • unashamedly linking Twitter with FB again and then preparing for the usual complaints. #
    • Great sense of humour that some policemen have. No better than the thugs that he is supposed to protect us from. http://bit.ly/4faGP #
    • I’m done with MySpace. #
    • I wonder if google maps will ever be updated so that my house is on it?
      http://bit.ly/F35Rr #
    • The beer monkey stole my money and beat me up while I slept. Evil beer monkey. #
    • Wha?!? Where did that sleep go? I was enjoying that. #
    • Well that Tuesday at work is over and done with. Time for some fun now I think. #
    • Maybe I was wrong. Today might be a good day for lazing around in the garden. #
    • Morning all. Today feels like a good day for getting stuff done. #
    • Should have followed advice from @bazluhrmann about the sunscreen #
    • Off for a lovely cycle ride to Overveen. That is if we don’t get lost. #

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  • Marc A. Price 2:00 pm on April 25, 2009 Permalink  

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  • Marc A. Price 12:23 pm on April 25, 2009 Permalink
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    The Contrast play May Day Festival 

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    The Contrast have announced another live date for 2009. As soon as they come out of the studio after recording their 6th album (first for Wicked Cool) they will play a May Day festival on home turf. Details are below:

    Peterborough Trades Union Council May Day Festival 2009

    Radius, Northminster, Peterborough
    http://www.bizwiki.co.uk/night-clubs/411603/radius.htm

    The Contrast will be supported by

    • Pet Slimmers of The Year
    • Punky Rebel Media

    (First band on at 8.30pm – Admission FREE)


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  • Marc A. Price 3:01 pm on April 23, 2009 Permalink
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    Gillian Anderson for Doctor Who? 

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    The media are having a feeding frenzy again about who is cast opposite Matt Smith’s 11th Doctor. SFX have posted a story about a story that ran in the Telegraph. Are you keeping up with this? Apparently it pained them to post this rumour because they don’t normally do that sort of thing. Be that as it may, it sounds like someone somewhere may have seen one and one and made eleven or three. Both of which are sort of right depending on who you ask. Chinese whispers can be a dangerous thing. I’ll wait for a proper announcement from Mr Moffatt and Co.

    Here is an excerpt from their article.

    Normally we don’t bring these kind of stories to your attention, because the British press so often gets the wrong end of the stick (or in the case of some newspapers, make things up entirely). But we thought this story from The Telegraph was worth mentioning because a) it’s The Telegraph, not usually prone to reporting utter bobiins and b) because, to be honest, we want it be true: The X-Files’ Gillian Anderson to play The Rani opposite Matt Smith’s Doctor.

    via SFX: the leading science fiction, fantasy and horror magazine.

    The Rani? Why o why o why would anyone bring back that 2 dimensional piece of crap character. In the Telegraph article they mention first that there were going to be new monsters and villans, then in the next breath come out with this horse chestnut. If she was going to to be a companion… now  that would get my vote.

    Kasterborous, also keeping up their usual standards of high quality journalism have also run the story peppered with the standard amount of daft comments and practically insulting remarks. This immediately caught my attention. My emphasis…

    An appearance by one of the hottest women in sci-fi is another matter entirely of course, especially if this is only half a rumour, and Anderson is in fact lined up as the visibly mature companion to young-looking Matt Smith’s Eleventh Doctor.

    Visibly mature! What is that supposed to mean? Gnash gnash snarl snarl. I used to really like that site but most times that I go there these days I come back with something else that pisses me off.

    The original Telegraph article is here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/doctor-who/5204395/Gillian-Anderson-being-lined-up-for-Doctor-Who-appearance.html I’m off to put my head in the sand until it all goes away.

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  • Marc A. Price 2:01 pm on April 22, 2009 Permalink  

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    • Sturgeon’s Law is the name given to two different adages derived from quotes by science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon. The first (which was first stated in the story “The Claustrophile” in a 1956 issue of Galaxy) is “Nothing is always absolutely so”, while the second, and more famous, of these adages is: “Ninety percent of everything is crap”. Sturgeon himself commented that Sturgeon’s Law was originally “Nothing is always absolutely so”; the second adage was originally known as Sturgeon’s Revelation, formulated as such in his book review column for Venture. However, almost all modern uses of the term Sturgeon’s Law actually refer to the second adage, including the definition currently listed in the Oxford English Dictionary.

     
  • Marc A. Price 1:58 pm on April 21, 2009 Permalink  

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    • One of the benefits of having a website is that it brings me into contact with other writers I might never have otherwise had the opportunity to meet. Even better, many of these writers, inspired by the comics material on my website, tell me they would like to try writing comics and ask me for advice about how to write a comic book script.
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  • Marc A. Price 6:53 am on April 21, 2009 Permalink
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    Iranian Sniper or Wookiee? 

    Real live Wookiee?

    It was really difficult not to post this image. It is a lazy article (both on here and the guardian) but still pretty funny.

    I always imagined Iran to be kind of sandy, so big men covered in grass with guns should stand out like a Wookiee.

    Does this also mean that some of those Australian Jedi that I’ve been hearing so much about are available as back up?

    Or perhaps Tim needs to get this book:

    Tim Dowling on how to tell an Iranian sniper from Wookiee? | World news | The Guardian.

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