RTBTCKI (Spring is in the Air) Edition
Posted By Kathleen David on April 25, 2008
And my sinuses are sort off letting me know it. I was proactive with the antihistamines so I am really OK today. More than one person including Shana has recommended a Neti Pot so I am looking into where I can get one today.
Got some stuff done yesterday and will get more done today. The general body ache is now down to a dull roar and the bruises are healing up nicely. I am almost feeling like myself again or some current version there of.
New Doctor Who on tonight long with a Sarah Jane Adventures and a BSG. Fun night of television on the SciFi Channel. To answer a few questions, I am watching both the BBC version and the SciFi Channel versions. I have seen all of SJA and Torchwood and I love both. Caroline is very partial to Sarah Jane Adventures but she does love the Doctor too. Ariel is still only seeing certain episodes of Torchwood after we vet them. We saw the last episode of Torchwood on the first night of Passover on BBC America which is a channel I really really want Cablevision to get. (Shout out to the Mad Scientist, we got your package in the mail yesterday).
Just a general note about the current season of Doctor Who, it just goes to show how fans can be so mean and declaring that they will never accept something or someone but after an episode or two they change their tune and sing the praises of the change. Happened when Eccelston became Tennant. Happened when Rose left and Martha showed up. Happened when Martha showed up on Torchwood. And it is now happening with Donna who is rapidly going up my pantheon of companions as my favorite. I like her in the Runaway Bride but how they are playing her is a breath of fresh air in Doctor Who.
NOTE: Please do not put any spoilers for Donna in the comments. Save it for each episode review entry. General comments are OK but let’s avoid the spoiler specifics.
I am reading Michael Moorcock’s “The Metatemporal Detective” and am remember why I started reading Moorcock in the first place. He is a good writer who can tell a story. I started reading the Eternal Champion series starting with Elric because all my other D&D buddies were reading it and we were passing the books around. We were also listening to Blue Oyster Cult at the time. So this is taking me back to my teen years in a funny way. Now I just need it to be summer and Mary Aileen and I are holed up somewhere reading books to complete the feeling.
So what books or authors do you read that take you back to an earlier time?
I am grateful for good reads still by authors I liked when I was a teen.
The idea of Neti Pots makes my skin crawl, though I thoroughly understand how they’re supposed to work. I take the wimpy way out with plain Saline nose spray; I swear it works 12 hours at a time, with no side effects at all.
Teen reads…. would have to be early Trek novels, mostly still Bantam, or later on, anything Weiss and Hickman, or Zelazny. Other than that, I was already well onto the Nerdly road of psychology and science books (e.g., I just finished Mutants by Armand LeRoi, about the origins of genetic mutations, which I cannot recommend highly enough.).
Go for the Neti Pot (or the plastic bottle thingie which is the same thing but a different shape…it works really well for me. i think i’d wind up dumping a lot of water out if i used the little watering can type). And let us know how it works if you try it.
I didn’t use mine for the three nights of the con and i could really feel it.
As for Donna..i only get to see the show on SciFi so i’ve only seen the two shows. But i really like here..its refreshing to see a real looking woman as a companion again. AND a red head. Its also nice to see somebody who is all crushin on the tall skinny guy in the suit.
I did find it a real “hmmmm’ moment with Rose.
The guy playing Donna’s granddad looked really familar though. I’m just not sure if i’d seen him in movies or tv or what. (And something in the back of my head keeps thinking he was the Beatles manager in AHDN…but my head still hasn’t gotten enough sleep from last weekend so i’m probably wrong).
Does anyone know who he is??
Jeane: That would be Bernard Cribbins. He played the same character in ‘Voyage of the Ðámņëd’ (he was the newspaper seller) and was also one of the Doctor’s companions in 1960s movie ‘Daleks: Invasion Earth’.
Kath: I started reading Moorcock in the 1960s and loved all his fantasy novels of the 60s and 70s, those dozens of books all linked through the concept of the Eternal Champion. However, I find his recent books very heavy going. The pulp vigour of his early Elric, Corum, and Hawkmoon novels has been lost, alas.
oh thanks,Rob…at least i know i’m not losing my mind..i KNEW i’d seen him somewhere on something in the 60s. (and since i saw those old Who movies on Sir Graves Ghastly Sat afternoon horrow show that would make sense why it would be stuck in my head with movies!)