Wednesday, December 26, 2007

I am delicious, Master

Just in time for Boxing Day, a gingerbread K-9. (John Leeson sold separately.)

Friday, September 14, 2007

links for 2007-09-14

• icWales - Dr Who fans will flock to his church
  Our Doctor, who is in the vortex, Tennant be thy name...
  (tags: doctorwho)
• EXTERMIKNIT! Dalek knitting pattern
  Ickle evil cuteness.
  (tags: doctorwho)

Monday, September 3, 2007

links for 2007-09-03

• BBC NEWS | Entertainment | BBC reveals Doctor Who 'gap year'
  Well, putting the best spin on it, at least we won't go a full year without any Who at all.
  (tags: doctorwho)

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

links for 2007-08-01

• ThinkGeek :: You Never Forget Your First Doctor
  It's true. You don't. (Of course, having a very long scarf hanging in your closet to remind you helps.)
  (tags: t-shirts doctorwho)
• Woolgatherer
  My pal Nick is off tonight on a 10-month journey around Eastern Europe and Asia, and he's set up a special travel-log to keep us posted. I am sooooo jealous.
  (tags: succa travel)

Monday, July 16, 2007

links for 2007-07-16

• evhead: I might start blogging in September
  Good for you. I hear it's all the rage.
  (tags: weblogcommunity)
• A high-flying conversation with John Barrowman, star of BBC America's "Torchwood."
  A wonderful (spoiler-free) interview with John Barrowman, Torchwood's omnisexual, heroic hunk, Captain Jack Harkness. (Note: contains the phrase "titty wank".) [thanks Lilly]
  (tags: johnbarrowman captainjack torchwood doctorwho)
• 5 segundos
  Brilliant. Just brilliant.
  (tags: video)
• "The Paul Lynde Halloween Special" coming to DVD
  Oh Sammy! If you have ever seen this (and few have; it aired only once back in 1976 and has survived only in bootleg form), you know why this is a must-have.
  (tags: halloween paullynde dvd television video)

Friday, July 13, 2007

Clearing the Cache: July 13, 2007

• Iconfactory : Freeware : TARDIS In Trouble
  Nice desktop wallpaper, also available in iPhone format.
  (tags: doctorwho desktop wallpaper)
• The horror of blimps
  A classic.
  (tags: humor schadenfreude blimps)
• Why a giant duck? This summer, why not?
  Ducky!!
  (tags: rubberduck)
• How to Travel the World with 10 Pounds or Less (Plus: How to Negotiate Convertibles and Luxury Treehouses)
  "Practice in 30-plus countries has taught me that packing minimalism can be an art."
  (tags: travel)
• Rob Cole, 76; gay journalist helped make the Advocate a national paper - Los Angeles Times
  "Rob Cole, a pioneering gay journalist whose efforts helped create a national readership for the Advocate, the long-running gay publication, died June 30 at his home in North Hills. He was 76."
  (tags: obit gay gaymedia)

Monday, July 9, 2007

Clearing the Cache: July 9, 2007

Tricked out Dreamliner 787VIPs: If I had one, I would totally make it look like the inside of the TARDIS.

I don't know. If I ever saw a penis that looked like that, I'd run in the other direction. Folks, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and a concrete traffic post is just a concrete traffic post. [via Obscure Store and Reading Room]

Peter Davison joining the cast of West End Spamalot. "On second thought, let us not go to Castrovalva. It is a silly place."

Rick & Steve, Logo's new animated series about the world's happiest gay couple, premieres tomorrow night. Voice talent includes Alan Cumming, Billy West, Laraine Newman, Margaret Cho, Peter Paige and more; it's created and directed by Q. Allan Brocka (late of Boy Culture) with music bits by Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez (Avenue Q etc.).

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Reverse the polarity of the…oh, nevermind

Oh dear. A brilliant and dead-on lexicon for those of us without lives. The Doctor Who Fan's Phrasebook.

“That bit was completely ripped-off from Star Wars.”
I believe that the world began in 1977.

“That bit was completely ripped-off from Buffy.”
It's a little known fact that Joss Whedon actually invented not only television, but also the Internet.

“I think James Marsters would be a brilliant choice for the next Doctor.”
I am twelve and have only ever seen one other television show in my life.

Monday, June 11, 2007

Clearing the Cache: June 11, 2007

• This is about eight different kinds of wrong, but it's at least a couple of kinds of funny: United 300 or What happens when the Spartans play air marshalls? (Everybody loves a muscle boy!)
  
• A remarkably comprehensive site dedicated to the British police box, otherwise known as the most famous TARDIS disguise in all of time.
• Fission adds a progress bar to the address field of Firefox.
  

Monday, April 2, 2007

links for 2007-04-02

• Vote Saxon - The People's Campaign - Home
  This is going to become very important in the next few weeks.
  (tags: doctorwho)

Monday, March 5, 2007

links for 2007-03-05

• Chocablog: Dalek Chocolate Cake
  Extermination by chocolate...brilliant!
  (tags: doctorwho chocolate)
• Jockstrap Central - jockstraps, men's underwear, athletic supporters and suspensories
  I tend to stick with a classic Bike model, but it's always nice to...ahem, browse.
  (tags: shopping)

Sunday, February 25, 2007

links for 2007-02-25

• shigella: EXTERMINATE!
  "Can you feel the cuddly evil?" Yes, friends, it's a crocheted Dalek. Delicious.
  (tags: doctorwho crafts)

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

links for 2007-01-31

• Doctor Who Tardis 4-Way USB Hub
  Yes, please.
  (tags: doctorwho wishlist)

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

links for 2007-01-30

• DOCTOR WHO - Wanted: Sex-mad Britney clones
  "Doctor Who writer Russell T. Davies has targeted pop princess Britney Spears as a desirable guest star to feature in the next series of the science fiction show." No. No no no no no no no no no no no no. Oh hell no. No.
  (tags: doctorwho)
• Features : Radar Online: Prank Call to Arms
  They want you. They want you. They want you as a new recruit.
  (tags: gay humor)
• My basement Mac collection - a photoset on Flickr
  Dayum! Next time I start to think I have a few too many pieces of antique Apple hardware cluttering up my basement, I'm gonna go back and look at this.
  (tags: macintosh)
• Battlestar Galactica: Season 3 Gag Reel - Google Video
  Frakkin' sweet, for the Gaeta moments if nothing else. But there's more. So much more.
  (tags: battlestargalactica)

Friday, June 16, 2006

links for 2006-06-16

• BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Billie Piper to leave Doctor Who
  Buh. I am sadness.
  (tags: doctorwho)
• Gay Until Penetration
  "Hetero men grapple with being taken for fags..." (Props to the Jocko.)
  (tags: gay gayvague)
• Woman uses dead Chihuahua as weapon
  I'm sorry. This is horrible. I know. But I couldn't stop laughing for 15 minutes when I saw this headline. (And, thanks to the paper's molasses website, the story took that long to load anyway.)
  (tags: schadenfreude)
• How to Stop Laughing when You Laugh at Inappropriate Times
  "I'm the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral" is not just a song lyric. I've done it. Hey, I've got funny friends. Even the dead ones. Hell, my mom and I cracked each other up at my dad's service. Still...dead puppies. As weapons. Stop giggling.
  (tags: laughter)
• LRB | Jenny Turner : Across the Tellyverse
  A review and consideration of Kim Newman's Doctor Who: A Critical Reading of the Series. Most recommended.
  (tags: doctorwho)

Saturday, May 13, 2006

Clearing the Cache: May 13, 2006

• Wired News: Airlines Try Smarter Boarding
  Now if they could just devise a system that kept the idiot in front of me from trying to cram his too-big bag six different ways in the overhead compartment.
  (tags: airplane travel airlines)
• Cybermen are Human 2.0? (plasticbag.org)
  The delicious Mr. Coates prudently refuses to buy into the hype.
  (tags: doctorwho)
• Grocery lists wanted...
  My pal Bill is looking for grocery lists for his upcoming book.
  (tags: ephemera)

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Step 1: Do not undertake this project downstairs.

How to build a Dalek. [via This is Pop!]

Monday, May 13, 2002

Death Comes to Time

MOVED: Last December, I enthused about Nick's Friggin' Homepage, one cutie's website chock full of linky goodness. Nick's in a new place these days, and has made a rather appealing promise that may hasten my return to Los Angeles.

VAST WASTELAND: Someone is shopping a "half-hour reality make-over show" called "The Queer Eye for the Straight Guy". The premise is that some poor straight schlub gets redecorated by five representatives of the fabulous set, to wit:

The half-hour show assembles an elite team of professionals from the worlds of fashion, interior design, grooming, food and wine and culture and mercilessly throws them upon a straight male subject in need of a makeover. Combining the relevance and substance of Esquire Magazine with the wit and sarcasm of "Will & Grace," "The Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" is informative, entertaining and bitingly hip.

There are a few problems with this pitch, kids, not least of which is that using the word "wit" alongside "Will & Grade" should be a punishable offense. I really chuckled at the last line in the casting breakdown, though: "Queer yes, camp not necessarily: Professionals first, gay second. Not looking to fill stereotypes ...". "This," he said cynically, "I shall believe when I see." [hat tip to Matt Kingston]

DEATH COMES TO TIME: I was a huge Doctor Who fan for years, so much so that I'd spend Sunday nights sitting close to the TV, fiddling with the antenna, trying to pull in a snowy signal from a public television station broadcasting from 100 miles away. I joined a fan club. I went to conventions. You name it, I've been there, done that, got the scarf (and the frock coat and the fedora and a lot of badges). The obsession has faded for me, supplanted by a dozen other media fascinations and hobbies, but I was still saddened to hear of the recent death of John Nathan-Turner, the program's longest-serving producer, famed for his Hawaiian shirts and his jovial demeanor with fans.