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There are female visitations aplenty, of course, and female servants and relatives and bystanders, and a wife or two, and of course the witch in The Ash Tree: bu[…]

Nu-Who’s flaws elegantly nailed![…]

or “DEATHDEATHDEATHDEATHDEATHDEATHDEATHDEATH”
… being a show-by-show TARDIS-esque (ie in effect random) exploration of Doctor Who Soup to Nuts, begun at LJ’s diggerdydum community, and crossposted at FT.
Rider Haggard meets Mary Shelley this […]

A: where nun is a number
The King James Bible — unlike say Munich choir Capella Antiqua’s 1976 Polydor LP Paschale Mysterium — predates copyright, which is of course a key reason it gets to be at once pervasive, and so richly contra[…]

engelbert humperdinck is a TWO
hank williams is a THREE
andy taylor is a FOUR
james/jim morrison — it tiresomely turns out — is a FIVE
luckily michael/mike/mick/mickie/micky/mickey jones is a TEN! (more…)[…]

or “Robot mummies vs sweating gelignite”
… being a show-by-show TARDIS-esque (ie in effect random) exploration of Doctor Who Soup to Nuts, begun at LJ’s diggerdydum community, and crossposted at FT.
Lovecraft meets Von Daniken in the (ok quit[…]

“In the kitchens the famous cooks were preparing menus which included, for one course alone: ballock broth, caudle ferry, lampreys en gelantine, oysters in civey, eels in sorré, baked trout, brawn in mustard, numbles of a hart, pigs farsed, co[…]

Nicholas Courtney, born in Egypt in 1929: spoke French and Arabic. My favourite regular Who character — and I doubt I’m alone in that.[…]

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… and the world will beat a path to your door” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Lake and Palmer*

Rare photo of official stage prop being repaired, April 1973. From ELP official band archive, via Flickr.
Photo credit: Richard Kneubuehler.
*I felt[…]