Enuff already with the Daleks. How about talking about a more contemporary kids show. One which is altogether more bonkers that even Doctor Who was in its turning Tom Baker into a cactus days. Saturday morning kids TV has become a playground of halfh[…]

“Dalek-like behaviour”: no sign of this on the Times website, so this is quoted without comment from a (koff) prominent Dr Who news website: ‘According to an article in the June 26 The Times, Sylvester McCoy, with the help of Camden[…]

This “owning” of the characters appears to be unique to British TV and I’d love to know exactly how far it goes in copyright law. Terry Nation’s copyright claim is based on him typing the work “Dalek” and attributi[…]

Well, that was fun.
Headline watch: many variations on “Acropolis Now”, and both the big tabloids went for “Grecian 2004”. The winner though is surely The Sun’s “YOU’RE ATHEN A LAUGH”.
Isabel has fallen[…]

My turn.
I’m Bill, whom some people know as Tep from abbreviating my last name, and I’ve been thinking all weekend about what on Earth to post about, while being engrossed by cooking: it’s Independence Day, and a holiday for me is p[…]

How
best to say hello?
I work in a restaurant. It’s an okay sort of place, not much in the way of bells and whistles; there will be no Michelin star forthcoming, but we do knock out a jolly nice leg of lamb. To put it another way, whilst I am n[…]

Underworld by Don DeLillo
You can’t help but be impressed by the scope and ambition of this book: it sets itself up as a (the?) Great American Novel of the second half of the 20th Century, starting with a famous 1951 baseball game* and trying t[…]

Oh no! EVIL Daleks! Oh no!
Following up on Tom’s notes below, he may be right that it’s no bad thing not to have Daleks in the new Dr Who, but I was delighted by the reason. Apparently they are owned by the estate of Terry Nation (and we&[…]

White Pride. Ryman before he discovered white on white
Robert Ryman is known as white on white, 30 years of painting nothing but white on white, the pure minimalist who concentrates not on the artists hand but on the nature of pigment and what that p[…]

Drowned by beer[…]