say good-bye to PBS as we’ve known it

You may remember the time, many years ago, when you could sit down to an evening of Masterpiece Theater or Mystery! on PBS, and after a brief reminder that the forthcoming entertainment was brought to you by Mobil Oil, that was it: you were done being advertised at. No more…

‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “A Good Man Goes to War”

I am not convinced that everything we see here is totally kosher or, you know, real. There’s a whole lotta stuff going on here that is about names meaning different things, and things not needing names because it’s completely obvious what they are, or things appearing to be one thing and turning out to be something else entirely.