Incidentals...

I don't want to live. I want to love first, then live incidentally. - Zelda Fitzgerald

I'm not sure how 'incidental' my life is, but this sounds like a good recipe for happiness, if I read it right - a sort of Zen approach, where love is appreciation and acceptance, not desire and demand. Love expands and enhances. Life... goes its own way.

Though the sentence "I don't want to live," sounds suicidal or nihilistic, taken out of context.

All different ways of saying, "A loving person gets more out of life than a person who is mostly focussed on him or herself." But my goodness, it can be so difficult to break out of cycles of emotional need.

Gotta love X-Men...

The new Heroes graphic novel begins: "My name is Logan. Penny Logan. And I'm the best at what I do."

Love it with a passion. Oooh, those X-Men. Even when they're sort of ... X-Men manqué.

And it turns out to be a good story, too.

Doctor Who: Moffat the Magnificent...

At long last the announcement: Steven Moffat is taking over from Russell T. Davies. I am, in fact, surprised. There have been rumours enough about Russell T. Davies leaving, for long enough, that I would have been surprised if he didn't. But Moffat taking over? As possibilities go, it seemed too good to be true. I half-expected some no-talent I'd never heard of. Or, worse, some of the half-talents I've seen associated with Doctor Who projects but in whom I have no faith.

But of course I have faith in Steven Moffat. He is one of the gods in my pantheon. One of the best writers in television, if not the best. I don't just love his writing style; and it isn't just that he has such a grasp of cinematic style; I like the way he thinks. His originality. His approach. I'm not sure he has Davies' sense of romance; we shall see.

So now, I'm really, really looking forward to series 5 of Doctor Who. It's going to be an excruciatingly long wait, the equivalent of waiting for Dorothy Dunnett's Checkmate to come out, or - say it ain't so - the apocryphal and much-awaited A Dance of Dragons by George R.R. Martin.

Here's the "Tv Scoop" story.