Smith and Jones and AHHHHHH!
Cross-genre fiction … ever heard of it? That’s when a writer mixes a couple of different types of story into a single piece of fiction: a novel, short story, screenplay, etc. A good example is the...
View ArticleThe Time Traveler’s Life (Part I)
It seemed apropos that, on Groundhog Day, I’d post a picture of the first actress I had a crush on … oh, wait! What I mean to say is that I’d be asked to post an article on G+ about the challenges of...
View ArticleThe Time Traveler’s Life (Part II)
The second part of this series on writing time travel fiction is precautionary. Hopefully it will help you avoid stuff that’s just weird. A good example of weirdness is not Lea Thompson playing...
View ArticleFish and TARDIS Sauce
Fish and TARDIS sauce! Oh, man, I kill me. It’s a good thing I came ready-made with a martini-dry sense of humor; otherwise I’d never be able to entertain myself! But the TARDIS part of (my really...
View ArticleDon’t Blink
I was chatting with a friend a few days ago, and he allowed that he’d never seen Doctor Who before, despite being a lifelong science fiction fan. His thoughts were eerily similar to my own as recently...
View ArticleBad Does Not Spoil The Good
“The way I see it, life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them...
View ArticleClutter
“All the world’s a stage” ~ As You Like It, Act II Scene VII, by William Shakespeare, used without his permission. It’s been a stressful couple of months for a number of reasons (long hours, stomach...
View ArticleSoul
Okay, so I finally watched the Doctor Who Christmas Special from 2011 titled “The Doctor, Widow and the Wardrobe,” and reminded myself that I need to remind myself that I need to ask the question that...
View ArticleChange
This week The Parker Institute for Time Travel Studies (The PITTS) takes a hard look at three major changes that rocked the science fiction and fantasy world this past week. And when we say “hard...
View ArticleBootstrap
This week, The Parker Institute of Time Travel Studies (The PITTS) — in conjunction with State and Local Officials — has devised this warning for all time travelers and others involved in temporal...
View ArticleLust
I’ve noticed I frequently post a picture of Doctor Who’s companions on my blog. Lest you think I’m a total lech, the main reason for doing this is to draw attention to my blog. After all, photos of...
View ArticleDiscovery
I just got back from the beach, where I listened to the audio version of Stephen King’s The Shining. And while I was listening I realized that I had never seen Stanley Kubrick’s interpretation of...
View ArticleHumour
EDIT: The BBC announced today that Peter Capaldi will play the twelfth Doctor. We, of course, knew this beforehand and after-hand and simultaneous-hand. It’s really hard to surprise time travelers....
View ArticleBummed
PRESS RELEASE, Trenzalore (14th August) — The Parker Institute for Time Travel Studies (The PITTS) has annouced that it will delay publication of the next issue of its popular Fish and TARDIS Sauce...
View ArticleChristmas
I love the Doctor Who Christmas specials. In fact, those episodes tipped the scales when I was deciding whether to invest my time in a program that’s about to be 50-years-old. But there was simply no...
View ArticleYabe
Welcome to Yabe Auctions! Ending times are nonnegotiable; condition assumes caveat emptor; quantity to be verified by purchaser, also caveat emptor; Just Buy The Damn Thing prices listed when...
View ArticleGrave
“The fate of all is always dust.” ~ So say The Whispermen when The Doctor encounters them on Trenzalore, the place of his death, the place he is buried. In the seventh season finale, which may be the...
View ArticleCyborg
Cyborg. Ha! Gotta have a huge shout-out to my man, “MirkinFirkin”, and his hilarious blog, www.JustJiggleTheHandle.com. If you’re a fan of the satirical newspaper, The Onion, you will love his...
View ArticleAntagonist
“Welcome to the final resting place of the cruel tyrant.” As we usher out Matt Smith and usher in Peter Capaldi as the twelfth Doctor, it’s useful to reflect on just why “The Name of the Doctor” is...
View ArticleMadness Rising, A Novel
Nina’s prep school life consists of boys, books and bottles of wine, until the body-snatching starts. That’s followed by the monster and the madness. Survival is expensive. Madness Rising (A...
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