Links...

Links:

• Neil Gaiman's script for Doctor Who - omitted food dialogue
  
• The appearance (or non-appearance!) of the original TARDIS.
  
• Stolen Van Gogh painting - have they questioned Eroica? Neil Caffrey?
  
• I have a very tiny hear of heights. It usually doesn't bother me, except at the top of very, very high escalators. But I'm a little freaked by stairs where you can see between the steps. So these shairways make me shudder, except for the rather splendid bookcase one. There's another set here.
  
• Loved this Dave Hill photography site.
  
• I just discovered, via a book maaseru has, that Marlon Brando was bisexual. How cool is that? There are some people on that list I'd like to look up, too.
  
• And on the list above, I saw another of my favourite actors: Jeremy Brett. It's funny how so many of my favourite celebrities and historical figures turn out to be bi, even when I originally had no idea. A certain personality type, perhaps?
  
• Why does so much contemporary/modern architecture look to be either too square or simply nonsensical?
  

30 Day Book Meme Day One: Series cut short in their prime...

Since I have finished the thirty day movie meme, I might as well feature the Thirty Day Book Meme. Making this Day One. I got the meme from the book meme lj community and marifee's blog and Dreamwidth's Anna Genoese. (Thanks to them all!)

Day 01 – A book series you wish had gone on longer OR a book series you wish would just freaking end already (or both!)

1. I don't care if series I don't like go on and on. Let them! I don't have to read them.
   
   
2. Wanting more: The "Dumarest of Terra" series by E.C. Tubb. It's a series of space adventure novels about a man from the planet Earth, a planet that has been lost and forgotten and long considered a myth. Earl Dumarest stowed away on a spaceship as a child, and now, as a battle-toughened adult, is trying to find his way home, wandering from planet to planet, taking high-risk, high-paying work (bodyguard, gladiator, bounty hunter) to earn his way back to a place which may no longer exist. And there's a sinister quasi-religious organization who wants him dead.
   
   I always pictured Dumarest as a youngish Clint Eastwood.
   
   ( I loved those books. )
   
   
   
3. Wanting more: The notorious series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin, a dark medieval fantasy about a world falling into chaos. Beautifully, beautifully written - until Martin began running out of steam and wandering away from his own storylines. Projected publication dates for A Dance of Dragons have become more and more fanciful and some of us think Martin never will finish this saga. It was magnificent for a while.
   
   Very soon the first book, A Game of Thrones, will be an HBO miniseries starring Sean Bean as Eddard Stark - brilliant casting. I'm looking forward to this.
   
   The story has a cast of way too many people and huge diverse families - I'm delighted to see people putting together and encyclopedia with cast list on Tower of the Hand.
   
   
4. Wanting more: I hope there will be more Torchwood novels.
   
   
   

Happy birthday, maaseru!

To maaseru:




Wishing you health, happiness, and good travels.