what’s in the box?

UPDATE: My spoilerific blogging now available here. Well, we know what’s in the box, but we still don’t know, really, what’s in the box, do we? At the Coventry Telegraph blog The Geek Files, Steven Moffat teases us some more about tonight’s finale (warning: spoilers for “The Pandorica Opens”!): The Doctor is trapped inside a … more…

classic ‘Doctor Who’ blogging all screwed up

I know. I’m behind in my classic Doctor Who blogging. I should have posted “Spearhead in Space” last week, and then somehow I promised both “An Unearthly Child” and “The Ark in Space” today. How did that happen? I do understand how calendars work, honestly. Anywhere, here’s the revised schedule: June 27: Spearhead from Space … more…

watch it: “The World’s First Bionic Cat”

Oscar from Jersey lost his rear paws in a terrible accident, but he’s walking around again: And more video of Oscar: I love how the cat, in this second video, is all like, “What? I’m walkin’ here! Lemme alone!” (*sigh* He looks like my Andie, who died many years ago, and without bionic feet.) More … more…

male gaze alert: ‘Toy Story 3’ short “Day and Night”

Anyone who’s seen Toy Story 3 knows that it opens — as Pixar films typically do — with a delightful animated short film. This one is called “Day and Night,” and it’s a personification of, unsurprisingly, “day” and “night” as vaguely human-shaped blobs moving about the natural world. Day, for instance, wakes up in the … more…