When last we saw Jack Harkness he’d just gone Gandalf on a Balrog and died, only to return to life after seven days. Then, wandering through the Torchwood Hub, a peculiar wheezing, grinding sound was heard, a wind rushed through the Hub, and Jack Harkness was gone. Tonight, Captain Jack Harkness returns. And there areContinue reading “On Captain Jack Harkness”
Monthly Archives: June 2007
On a Cool Judge
When I was in college I’d play a little game with the papers I’d write–I’d sneak in Beatles lyrics. Sometimes it was a little challenging to find the right lyric to fit a paper on, say, the SDI ballistic missile defense program. Sometimes it would work. Sometimes it wouldn’t. But it was a game, andContinue reading “On a Cool Judge”
On Green Day's "Working Class Hero"
I have a few John Lennon tribute albums. One came out about ten years ago, an album called Working Class Hero. Q did one in honor of John’s sixty-fifth birthday. Neither could I recommend. There’s something about John Lennon’s solo music that doesn’t lend itself to cover versions. Some have said that Lennon did theContinue reading “On Green Day's "Working Class Hero"”
On the Latest Search Phrase News
Since I had to go onto the server last night, I did a search phrase dump. I have to tell you, there’s nothing surprising about the search phrases the last two weeks. Honestly, the top twenty are the same sorts of things I’ve written about before. No, Stephen Fry still isn’t writing a Doctor WhoContinue reading “On the Latest Search Phrase News”
On Steven Weber's Opinion
The actor Steven Weber, best known for his role on the sitcom Wings, weighed in recently on Paris Hilton. It is one of the… strangest opinions I’ve ever read. I couldn’t put a sentence together like that. Well, okay, maybe if I’ve been drinking really hard. Here’s an example: [S]he is like one of thoseContinue reading “On Steven Weber's Opinion”
On the Stomach
Sunday evening my parents and I took my grandmother to her favorite restaurant for dinner, Bullock’s. It’s a family restaurant out near Westminster. The place has a buffet. The buffet table is a covered wagon. It uses a yellow fluorescent tube. Food looks… well, not like food… under the yellow light. There’s a model trainContinue reading “On the Stomach”
On Sudoku Puzzles
I have to tell you, this has kept me up nights with worry. The world is not going to run out of Sudoku puzzles. It’s an obvious worry. You go in the bookstore, and you see hundreds of Sudoku books, many of them written by Will Shortz. Surely, you think, there’s a limit to Sudoku.Continue reading “On Sudoku Puzzles”
On Redecoration
I’d felt the itch for a few weeks. I wanted a different look and feel for the website. It wasn’t that I’d grown disenchanted with the Tarski theme, as I hadn’t. Truthfully, I think it’s a fantastic layout and extremely extensible as long-time readers of this website know–using the same basic layout I’ve gone fromContinue reading “On Redecoration”
On Green Blood
It turns out that you don’t have to be a Vulcan like Spock or Tuvok to have green blood. No, you merely need to have migraines. A team of Canadian surgeons discovered during an operation that their patient had dark green blood. Why? Because of the migraine medication he was on, sumatriptan. The result? ThisContinue reading “On Green Blood”
On a Crossover I Want To See
I went to the BBC’s website yesterday and downloaded some desktop wallpapers for “Blink,”, this Saturday’s episode of Doctor Who. And I was looking at some of the wallpapers and their depiction of crumbling angelic statues and their blank eyes, the craziest thought came to mind. I want a Doctor Who/Hellboy crossover. Because those statuesContinue reading “On a Crossover I Want To See”