In list form:
1. I’ve been reminded of how awesome Rasputina is and am currently obsessed with their album, How We Quit The Forest. Thanks go out to Weth and @zeichner, who both have recently put the band back on my radar.
2. I am still awaiting my shipment of The Blue Tooth from Big Finish Productions. It’s been three weeks and even coming from the UK, that seems a bit too long a time to wait. I’ve contacted BFP and am assured I should have it by Wednesday. Maybe I’ll open it and it will be autographed by you-know-who as an apology for the delay!? That would be simply lovely!
3. I’ve just learned BFP will release an episode of The Companion Chronicles starring Mary Tamm. I will be purchasing it as soon as it’s released. It’s doubtful the lovely Ms. Tamm will have penned a book about website layout to be shipped as a bonus for buying the CD.
Note to Mary: I still love you, you know. And really, what I said about buying The Key To Time? I meant it. I really did.
4. I’ve got a slew of new pictures to upload to my various (heart) categories. I know everyone’s very thrilled about that. It’s okay, you don’t have to tell me, because I’m thrilled about it, too.
5. I’ve just found The Official Honor Blackman website. She’s so fabulous, I can’t even tell you. However, I don’t know if charging £18 per autographed picture is exactly going to help move a lot of product. I’m glad I got my autographed photo for free, not to mention that playbill from a couple of years ago, though that wasn’t exactly autographed. And the wonderful story about how I got to stand this close to Her Fabulousness at the stage door after seeing her perform in Cabaret.
6. With all the Fake Sarahs running around my head lately, at this rate, I will have to move to Utah and convert to Mormonism.
7. The stack of books next to my bed at the moment easily tops two feet in height, and I just picked up another three today.
8. Revisiting “Spearhead from Space” on my iPod has been a delightful way to spend a few lunch hours as I work on my tan at the fracktory. Also, as I’ve recently observed, it seems I missed quite a few great lines the first time I watched it, as well as priceless screencapping opportunities. And I’ve just read the following, which makes me want to rewatch the two episodes mentioned:
The Autons would return in Terror of the Autons (1971) and Rose (2005) (each of which is the first story for a new companion, namely, Jo Grant and Rose Tyler, respectively, while Spearhead From Space was Liz Shaw’s first story). They also have a cameo in a specially-shot flashback scene in the 2006 episode Love & Monsters (which briefly revisits the events of Rose). The latter two stories contain scenes that deliberately echo the shop window dummy scenes in this story.
9. The software on my iPod is up-to-date, but I am unable to sync any of the video podcasts featuring different locations round London to it. It’s very disappointing, but I’m sure I’ve just missed a setting somewhere. I think.
10. I will be in Make Me Ill-inois in exactly three weeks, spending time with the sister and el cuñado and most importantly, Star and Bar.
