Gallimaufry

[neadods]

Dedicated with love to karenmiller and lizbee: this YouTube link found by tamnonlinear.

I've finally gotten around to putting Naughty or Nice up on Teaspoon; I'm confident it'll get through the queue rapidly. (ETA: Yup.) I'd put this up too, if I could think of a title. Suggestions welcomed.

You snooze, you lose: while I've been waffling if I have the time to do the Who reviews, or if I'm just in it for the egoboo, the eminently suitable ponygirl72 skipped the public angst, pitched, and got the job. Serves me and congratulations to her; her first review is excellent.

(Speaking of reviews, I've told RtE I'll stay, but I'm out of books at the moment. Cross your fingers for me, y'all, as I gave a hopefully not-too-late request to get a book I've been waiting to be released.)

No wonder David Tennant was so grumpy about being put in the harness "that hurts your back" for the Tinkerbell Time Lord scene: he's got a bad back. And it's keeping him offstage from Hamlet. I hope he feels better soon.

(And yes, I would be really pissed if I go see it and he's not there. I don't happen to like Hamlet as a play, and really am just going to see him, even though I'm told Gertrude is amazing. I've already seen Patrick Stewart's Maccers, so him doing Shakespeare has no novelty. Shallow Nea is shallow.)

I am in the wrong country to see Captain Jack's stories of Christmas past. Damnit. (And what's with this lock anyway? They didn't lock it for the first two years, so why start punishing the overseas fans now?) Bless the person who put it on YouTube (Seriously, BBC, like you didn't know that would happen in 7 seconds?)

Comments

[tabula-x-rasa.livejournal.com]

Epic fail, BBC. I hate region-locking; it's so pointless. It's not like they're selling it and have to worry about the rights. Thank you so much for the link, though!

[neadods.livejournal.com]

What I don't get is that they didn't lock from the beginning. Used to be that the site was only locked until the show aired - that's how they did Who for 2 seasons, Torchwood for one, and SJA for one.

So I keep wondering - why were the rules changed?

[tabula-x-rasa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's bizarre.

Of course, when I was in London the site didn't always work for me either, so I guess I can't bitch too much about this year.

[purplecat]

I think, though I could be entirely making this up, that there was a vague outcry from some quarters along the lines that the BBC was being anti-competitive by making this stuff free which it could only do because of government subsidy via the licence fee and so the BBC restricted it to UK only in order to be able to claim that, by and large, only licence fee payers were actually getting the benefits of what they had paid for. There was also a lot of whimpering from ISPs about bandwidth overload and yet more accusations that the BBC was being unfair though that doesn't seem immediately obvious here.

[jigglykat.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link! I'd like to think that because of Torchwood, Jack does public service announcements all the time about monsters. Or if he doesn't, he SHOULD.

Also, that little boy had DALEK WRAPPING PAPER <3 <3 <3

[neadods.livejournal.com]

if he doesn't, he SHOULD.

Needs to be a cartoon, doesn't it?

[karenmiller.livejournal.com]

LOL! If only they were exaggerating ...

[neadods.livejournal.com]

What *is* that thing in the shell? A rabid hermit crab?

[karenmiller.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I don't know! I tend to stay away from critters like that. On principle. *g* Everything else I recognise though, which is a bit sad.

If you're shallow, so am I.

[flaviarassen.livejournal.com]

I skipped an entire horror convention because I couldn't
get in to the one panel to see Bruce Campbell. I actually
went & demanded my money back. Now, is that more or less
shallow than going to a convention of a genre I detest
just to see one actor in the first place?

Re: If you're shallow, so am I.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

If that's your only way to see the actor, it makes complete sense to me. And getting your money back was a wise option. (These were sold as nonrefundable tickets, and as they are providing an actual performance, I don't think I have a leg to stand on.)

[tempestsarekind.livejournal.com]

Man, I do NOT envy that understudy! While I'm usually no fan of the gratuitous standing ovation (they're so coercive--you can't stay seated when everyone else around you is getting up, or you look like a churl), I was glad to read that they'd given him one, because it can't be easy stepping into those shoes.

I do hope David gets better quickly, though.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I was glad to read that they'd given him one, because it can't be easy stepping into those shoes.

Ditto. The whole world knows that they were there to see David, so it shows great class that he was accepted warmly.

[tempestsarekind.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I always like it when the better angels win.

[ponygirl72.livejournal.com]

congratulations to her; her first review is excellent.


Aww... thanks. :-) That means a lot to me-- I am painfully aware that I haven't the first clue about writing fair and helpful reviews.

One of my mottos is "Jump first. Think later." It's served me well in my life.

Yeah... okay. Actually, that's a bold-faced lie. It's gotten me into a lot of trouble in my life. But it's also opened some fun and interesting doors.

Six months from now, when I'm trying to prep half a dozen horses for sale, polish up that blasted DWAD audio script, make some forward progress on my novel, and work a full-time job, you'll be able to snigger quietly at me as I whine and bemoan on LJ that I don't have time to write the stupid Big Finish review for Unreality SF.

Because I can TOTALLY see that coming a mile away.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

"Jump first. Think later."

Not a bad motto, actually, and if I hadn't been feeling generally stressed, I'd've written the review that evening.

?you'll be able to snigger quietly at me as I whine and bemoan on LJ that I don't have time to write the stupid Big Finish review for Unreality SF

You could always ask for a pinch hitter! ;)

PS - your take on 45 strikes me as being perfectly fair and helpful.

[ponygirl72.livejournal.com]

You could always ask for a pinch hitter! ;)

What an excellent suggestion! Consider yourself at the top of the list... in fact, consider yourself the only person *on* the list! :-)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

*salutes crisply*

[ponygirl72.livejournal.com]

Well, guess what? There has been a "development" at Unreality SF. The other reviewer fell through for some undisclosed reason, and now they're shuffling things around, and they still need someone to tackle the Big Finish back catalogue.

It's not nearly as time-sensitive as the reviews on the new releases... mostly, it's just an as-and-when-you-have-the-time kind of assignment. Dan asked if I wanted to try to do that, as well as the new stuff. I said no, but that I knew the perfect person... ;-)

If you're interested, drop me a note at jwelch at centurytel dot net.