{"id":5008,"date":"2010-10-28T18:30:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T22:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5008"},"modified":"2010-10-28T16:45:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T20:45:34","slug":"thursday-various-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5008","title":{"rendered":"Thursday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/22\/science\/space\/22moon.html?_r=2&#038;hpw\">There&#8217;s water on the moon<\/a>. What are we waiting for? [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>I have to admit, when people talk about <i>Doctor Who<\/i> continuity, I just laugh and laugh and laugh. Case in point, the tempest in a teapot over <a href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2010\/10\/revealed-how-many-regener.php\">how many regenerations the Doctor gets<\/a>. Russell T. Davies, who recently changed it to 507, says:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s a fascinating academic study to be made out of how some facts stick and some don&#8217;t\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhow Jon Pertwee&#8217;s Doctor could say he was thousands of years old, and no-one listens to that, and yet someone once says he&#8217;s only got thirteen lives, and it becomes lore. It&#8217;s really interesting, I think. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m quite serious that that 507 thing won&#8217;t stick, because the 13 is too deeply ingrained in the public consciousness. But how? How did that get there? It&#8217;s fascinating, it&#8217;s really weird. Anyway, that&#8217;ll be my book in my retirement!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Frankly, I sort of feel about it the same way I do when I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2009\/05\/the-good-the-bad-the-mary-sues\">arguments like this<\/a>, that Stephen Moffat&#8217;s characters are all Mary Sues. That&#8217;s an interesting and amusing idea, but it sort of ignores the fact that he &#8212; and in the case of the 507, Davies &#8212; is creating the show. It&#8217;s not fan fiction, it&#8217;s canon.<\/p>\n<p>And it was a canon that was ridiculously, horribly, gloriously, convoluted when they were both just fanboys watching it from behind the couch.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/beatonna.livejournal.com\/140802.html\">Kate Beaton on <i>Dracula<\/i><\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Here we have Bram Stoker&#8217;s <i>Dracula<\/i>, a book written to tell ladies that if you&#8217;re not a submissive waif, society goes to hell and ungodly monsters are going to turn you into child killing horrors and someone is going to drive a bowie knife through your heart\/cut off your head\/etc. As you deserve! Thanks Bram! I wrote it down so as to remember it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a little more going on it the book, but yeah, she&#8217;s not wrong.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/08\/us\/politics\/08donate.html?_r=1\">Money Talks Louder Than Ever in Midterms<\/a>. Looking at how campaign finance works now, thanks to decisions like Citizens United. It isn&#8217;t exactly pretty. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, Terry Gilliam&#8217;s next movie? No, not that <i>Don Quixote<\/i> adaptation he refuses to let go of? <a href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2010\/10\/terry-gilliams-bizarre-ha.php\">A filmette for NASCAR<\/a>.\n<p>With this and the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smart.co.uk\/dreams\/arcadefi.htm\">Arcade Fire concert webcast<\/a> &#8212; as well <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smart.co.uk\/dreams\/tgdfaust.htm\">the opera he&#8217;s reportedly going to stage<\/a> &#8212; Gilliam does seem to be picking some very weird, much smaller projects. Maybe he&#8217;s just trying to keep busy until some new kind of funding comes along?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s water on the moon. What are we waiting for? [via] I have to admit, when people talk about Doctor Who continuity, I just laugh and laugh and laugh. Case in point, the tempest in a teapot over how many regenerations the Doctor gets. Russell T. Davies, who recently changed it to 507, says: There&#8217;s &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5008\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16,18,176,70,60,14,6,38,113,10,111,12],"class_list":["post-5008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-doctor-who","tag-feminism","tag-horror","tag-money","tag-movies","tag-politics","tag-science","tag-space","tag-various","tag-writers","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}