Jottings

[poliphilo]

1. Why does the peril in Dr Who always have to be so apocalyptic?  Why can't we have villains who want to do something a little less extreme like- I don't know- invade Poland or something? 

2. Stevie Smith's Novel on Yellow Paper is all about voice. She rambles, she reminisces, she rants. It isn't a novel it's a blog. 

3. Commas:  I think I use too many. But then that's how I speak. With lots of loooong pauses.

4. Joe took a picture of his girlfriend and there were three orbs in it. The rational explanation is that they're dust motes caught in the flash and the other explanation is that they're bright little balls of spirit energy. Afterwards he went all round the house snapping away, hoping to duplicate the effect- and he couldn't.

5. Yes, there's a new girlfriend. She's called Vicky.

6. When I'm stalking Googling my contemporaries and near-contemporaries who wanted ecclesiastical careers and got them and are now retired or nearing retirement I think "Well, what good did that do you?"

Comments

[happydog.livejournal.com]

re: the apocalyptic peril. That's one of those things I wonder about too. It seems to be a standby for a lot of science fiction heroes. I remember in "The Man From Planet X," the villain on that piece captured a crash-landed alien for the purpose of picking its brain for information he could use to create technology to corner the stock market with. That was a surprising turn, and made it more interesting than "I will conquer ALL!" He just wanted to be rich. How refreshingly banal.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes- much more interesting.

All Dr Who villains are essentially the same. Only the costumes change.