Tennant, Hamlet, Tall Ships, and assorted links...

[fajrdrako]

josanpq was over today for fun, frolic and goodies. She brought me two seasons of Black Books, which I never heard of before, but she thought I'd enjoy it. And a beautiful book from the National Geographic Society called Men, Ships and the Sea - the great selling point being the flyleaf diagram of a tall ship with all sails furled and labelled, and the lines, and the masts, and the knots. The book is full of beautiful pictures, as National Geographic Books are wont to be, and - being second hand - there's a note stuck between two pages, with a picture of a teddy bear holding a pen, and someone has written: Hold for John Walter. Ian - Jan 20/04". I love mysterious notes like that. Think it's in code?

josanpq told me about last week's episode of Grey's Anatomy, which had a subplot of a gay romance between two soldiers - she showed me the sequence on YouTube, but unfortunately that clip is now down. But there's another version here.

And she showed me a scrumptious publicity picture of David Tennant: one of my favourite actors in one of my favourite roles of all time.

I had fun browsing that site, with it's Doctor Who series 4 trailer and comments to which I could relate oh so easily:

...Every time Donna got to the "He looks like a man, but he’s a legend, and his name is the Doctor" bit, I would just be a screaming melting fangirl puddle of goo on the floor of that tiny Parisian hotel room. It was sad and pathetic. But this is who I am.

How is it that the Doctor does that so easily to us fangirls? I think I like this FlickFilosopher: she likes both Doctor Who and Slings and Arrows. Good taste.

And I love her eye-rolling conclusion after watching "Voyage of the Damned": They’re sick, these Brits. And I love 'em for it.

Then people posted cool links on the Bujold list today. Love it when they do that! james_nicoll posted the link to a fascinating look at our solar system at Solar System Visualizer, which doesn't look like so much at first, but when you start playing with it - wow! Check out the stuff orbiting around Jupiter. Or Saturn. (Love the name Ymir, well familiar to me from Thor comics.) Then Epsilon Eridani... that is just so - exotic. A name out of science fiction. Well, out of science too of course, out of astronomy, but I read more fiction than science.

And commorified posted the link to "Futility Closet", fun to browse.

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[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

I have found them. Walter Llewelyn Hughes, writing as Hugh Walters, did a series of 20 books, starring British astronaut Chris Godfrey. His three buddies were Tony (also British, the token young & brash one), Serge the Russian (this was 1967!), and the American was Morrey (which at the time I first read them, I had no clue about, but now, all I can think of is "young Jewish guy from the Bronx!"). I found 24 different volumes on abebooks, ranging from four dollars to over one thousand. I am pleased. I have a quest.

Lester del Rey did write a lot of the things I loved as a sci-fi-reading kid, but he didn't do this one. thanks!