"Puppet wrangler? There weren't any puppets in this movie!" – Crow T. Robot
Today, the spam poetry was a touch more minimalist — “The Moon and Stars”
by Vera Vobornikova*. It reads, simply, “I love thee.”
* Who may or may not be a real person. Vera, if you are, and you didn’t send me this little note, somebody out there has some explaining to do.
You know, I enjoyed The Dresden Files as much as the next guy, but this is a whole lot of wishful thinking.
It would be a little like me saying just because Farscape is now available via iTunes, there’s a good chance the show will come back with new episodes.
Today I received an incredible short poem in my in-box, entitled “THE BEST WORKERS ARE”:
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Eat that, Robert Frost!
Maybe I’m just reading too much into the performance, but Tennant’s Doctor feels a little more alien to me…there’s the occasional expression, or pose, or look in his eye that tells you “this isn’t a normal person.” Which is good, since the Doctor isn’t a normal person, and the occasional reminder that this character is not a human being, and is dangerous to be around, is what gives Doctor Who that additional level of gravitas that keeps it from being just another sci-fi superhero fightin’ the aliens-of-the-week.
I used to know someone who had done a stint working at one of the Laura Ingalls Wilder houses, and she swore the staff routinely found underwear and beer bottles on Monday mornings.
I would not have pegged the Little House on the Prairie as a good spot for drunken debauchery, but…well, I guess that shows how little I know of drunken debauchery, much less author homes.