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If all goes well I'll be posting my new story later today.  Wheeee!!

What a long week with LJ being down.  I hope the DDoS attackers are traced and prosecuted. 

We finished watching Tom Baker and Mary Tamm in the Key to Time season.  It was good.  It was a really interesting experience going back to watching Tom Baker.  Four is so clearly the model for our current doctors (obviously he would be)... but at the same time, he is so much more innocent before the Time War. The dark side just isn't there... at least I didn't see it.  He's a hero, plain and simple. 

We just started watching season 6 (the first half), which we purchased from itunes for a very reasonable fee. The first ep has a very scary monster, good interactions between the companions, and an awesome guest star that we really love.  O hai thar Crowley!!

I really wish I could cosplay as Ten for Halloween this year. I am no stringbean however!!! Last year I went as Kolchak the Night Stalker.  I was not widely recognized!  My offspring says he would wear a K-9 shirt.  :)

My Nine and Rose figures arrived, to join Ten.  They have not had any adventures yet.  They are still arguing about who gets to stand closest to Rose.  She is being very mature about it.  The Nine figure is excellent and bears a very good likeness to Chris.  Also, pink-shirted Rose looks great and is ready for action!  Nine is really not interested in sharing his sonic, and Ten is a little put out.  I think he is pouting and hopes it will earn him sympathies from Rose.

One final thing to recommend:  we bought the three Doctor/Rose adventures read by David Tennant off of itunes. They were expensive but Well Worth the Money!!  We listened to them all while driving on vacation.  Tennant is a superb reader, as you might guess.  He narrates  in his own Scottish accent, which is adorable, but then he also does voices for all the characters with their own accents--including the Doctor, of course!!  His soft, femme imitation of Rose is just so awesome!!  For most fans I think the Stone Rose is the favorite, but honestly, I thought all three were great. 
The Stone Rose involves a lot of time travel and partially takes place in Roman days.
The Resurrection Casket is a retelling of Treasure Island, in Space, with Robots, and has several great twists.
The Feast of the Drowned is creepy, features awesome heroics, and takes place in modern-day London.

It is nice to know that the Boys are back in Vancouver and working on Supernatural (I still love it even though I am taking the summer off.  It's just like my semester in England!!) 

* the Cat (offspring) is Away, so the Mice (Orator and I) will play!

*  last night, saw "Beginners" at our local theater.  Hip hip Hurrah! Ewan McGregor plays a 38 year old man trying to understand his  and his parents' life, after the death of his dad (Christopher Plummer), who came out and lived the last four years of his life openly gay, after being closeted in a marriage for 44 years. It's beautiful, sweet, and ultimately hopeful (but not pat), and very stylish in terms of the wonderful film-making.    Also stars an adorable little Jack Russell terrier who gets subtitles, and a beautiful French woman who is Ewan's love interest.    Interesting explicit parallels are made between the little dog and the French woman.  I was distracted by Ewan's American accent (he did a perfectly good job, but I'm bats over the Scottish accent..... ) and thought how it must be very familiar to him to make love to a French woman (in real life he married Eve Marzakis in 1995 and they have two daughters together).  For me, Ewan McGregor is like Cary Grant, or Paul Newman -- just that gorgeous, perfect, irreproachable actor who makes (almost) anything watchable.   [said the old Obi/Qui lurker with 14 Jedi Apprentice novels in her attic] Anyone up for a repeat viewing of The Island???  I could also offer Velvet Goldmine, possibly the slashiest film ever made. Is it still slashy if it's actually gay??  Hm.

* also on DVD saw the Coens' "Burn After Reading."  the Coens could make an extremely well-crafted and entertaining movie out of the phone book.  Excellent performances by a raft of fantastic actors, including Frances McDormand, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovitch, Tilda Swinton, and my one of my old favorites from TV, David Rasche, who played the lead on the satirical humor/cop show, Sledge Hammer.  He delivers tons in a tiny little role.  :D  Really, the Coens have A-listers glued to their windows like cats around a curiosity shop.

* today, must read very thick book about the Civil Rights movement and Communism.  Awesome!  Need Caffeine.

* Next week, will be Largely Away from Internets.  In the wilds of the North Carolina Sandhills.  It will be hot.  There will be swimming and Family Times.  That is all.

* Am rolling happily in the "Whoniverse" (first time typing out my new fandom's little used name).  Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible, a much-reviled Who novel about Karn by Mark Platt, author of the hot mess Lungbarrow (value = $100, or free on scribd!), just arrived.  Am very excited.   Picture my Simpsonsesque fingers of greedy enjoyment. Also, "The Second Coming" has shipped.  And Who s6 awaits on itunes for a mere 13USD (bucks).  And, my Nine and Rose figures shipped!!!  And I did NOT buy the purple shirted Rose, but rather, the s1, Cute Rose, that actually looks like her. And Nine, unlike my Ten, has not Lost his Sonic. :D  Will they scrap over the Sonic, or over Rose? or BOTH.  mmmmm, Nine and Ten are scrapping in my head :D

* Having restrained myself in my Whoniverse purchases, I attempt balance out greedy acquisition with Charitable Giving.  Please consider giving to the Red Cross at this time.... the many horrible disasters around the US include the complete and utter flooding of the very sweet little town of Minot, North Dakota, displacing Twelve Thousand People, whose worldly goods have been Submerged.  My new Who friend, who_in_whoville ,  used to live there.  :(

* am attempting to start a no_soul_sam comm with the lovely monicawoe , a shining light in the world of Love for the fascinating Sam who Has No Soul, yet walks around with such a Gleam in his eye that women everywhere would have sex with him without even demanding monetary compensation.  He is very Firm.  * Please allow me also to Heap Praises Upon datenshiblue , a goddess among no soul sam lovers, who is co modding, and has also made our comm banner!  am hoping she will link her magnificent s6 codas over there right away.  :)

* Have a good time all you Potterites.  My love for JKR and her world died a sad, sad death with Snape WHO SHOULD'VE LIVED, AND IN FACT DID LIVE, and runs an apothecary under an assumed name in Spain, the end. Interesting commentary on NPR this morning where a 16 year old was saying how this was the story of her generation. I am 43 and truly grateful to JKR and her amazing contribution to imaginative literature for children (and adults).  I grew up in the 70s, and I was considered Horribly Weird for enjoying SF.  Times have changed indeed, when thousands of costumers overrun cities like Baltimore at con-time...  it's a beautiful new world out there, thanks largely to one Brilliant and Persevering Redhead (even tho SNAPE IS SO UNJUSTLY DEAD, or actually ALIVE AND WELL IN SPAIN).

* okay, time to put in Hours, so that my organization will Have a Fall Schedule.  then eat breakfast, get dressed, and hie me to the library. 

* the Washingon DC Metro Area is having the MOST AMAZING WEATHER.  Breathing deeply (and not choking!)