Thanks to Joe Lidster for pointing this out to me.  Why can't we do anything this silly in America?  Oh, I know, we're too concerned with screen time and what do I get out of it, rather than the cause.

The Song for Ten as performed in "The Christmas Invasion" without the sound effects.  This is the version I like.  The song ends at about two minutes.

Melissa Block, a correspondent for NPR, was in China when the earthquake hit.  She could have taught the Hindenberg reporter a lesson or two about composure.

So BBC America is running Doctor Who evenings at 6pm.  It's kinda like watching Star Trek when I was a kid.  They've started with Eccleston's episodes.  One of the commercials during the showing tonight was for the Sonic Scrubber - The Ultimate Power Cleaner.  I could just see it now, the adventures of Doctor Drew and his time travel machine in the form of a cubicle shower, fighting the monsters of the universe with his Sonic Scrubber.

So Entertainment Tonight has the first look at the American Life on Mars.  It looks like all the elements are there.  I'm game to give it a chance.  it's getting Thursday nights at 10pm after Grey's Anatomy.

Thanks to kateorman for pointing it out.

I'm sitting outside the house with the laptop as I post this.  I've just completed putting together Sue's Mother's Day gift - a new bench for the front of the house so she can sit down as the boys play in the front.  They've taken a shine to the front lately as we still have two trees there.  Eddie especially loves it as he has discovered he can climb them.  They're with me at the moment, gathering up grass clumps from the mowing I gave the front yesterday.  I'll get up and rake the remainder shortly.

To all the mother's on my f-list (that doesn't sound right, especially if you're a milf) the happiest of Mother's Days.  A special first Happy Mother's day to agirlnamedluna.  Sue and her mother are getting a break from us men by going out for the day and we're heading up to my sister's house to celebrate with the two mothers-to-be in my family.  (Well, they're already mothers and they liked it so much they thought they'd try it again.)

Is it just me or are these latest episodes feeling more like the old series?  There's just something about the pacing and the elements that, when put together, make the episode feel like something from the old series.  This was a better episode than I thought it was going to be.  The trailer was very misleading.  I didn't care for the cop-out ending, but otherwise I enjoyed this more than the previous two-parter.  Onward to Agatha Christie!

If you're interested, I've posted the notes from tonight's session of realm_of_correu.  These are some sick puppies playing this game.

Before this week's D&D gaming meeting.  You know, I'm looking forward to this.  Hell, it's more than that.  I'm excited.  I've missed this.  We're down one player this week, so he goes NPC, but otherwise it's going to be good.

Try as we might, we didn't manage to save Mikey from the experience.  He developed a 102.7 fever this afternoon and was projectile vomiting.  On the bright side, he is now taking chewable tablets as he fought us on the liquid Tylenol.  His fever came down and he was actually acting like his old self for a while this afternoon and evening.

He only recently turned two, but he's more aware of the world than Eddie ever was at that age.  I've mentioned how Eddie never asked for much and really doesn't now.  The first thing he ever asked for was a Spider-Man playset and that was when he was three for Christmas.

Mikey sees things and if he likes it, he asks for it.  He wants a fishing rod so he can go fishing with his Oppa (my father).  He has asked me to tape Power Rangers for him as he saw the commercials for the show on Toon Disney.  He likes the White and Red Rangers.  He's constantly asking me to get various cereals he sees in commercials, especially if they come with a prize.

He's a real kid.

And he's already correcting me when I call him my little baby.  "I'm a big boy, Daddy."

It's funny how sometimes his syntax is perfect and then at other times, he talks like a baby.

Sigh.

EDIT:  Don't read the comments as the spoiler is discussed in detail. 
FURTHER EDIT:  The rumors have been debunked.  Never mind.  it did seem a little too fanwanky.

Just read the rumors over at Digital Spy for the fourth series finale of Doctor Who. 

Mother allows two year old to smoke pot.  Besides being a poorly written piece, it fails to mention, as I saw on the news this morning, the mother who has the little girl temporarily taken away from her as she attends parenting classes. 

Parenting classes? 

To them, this is simply a matter of, "Oh you didn't know this is what you should do with a child?  We'll fix that with a parenting class." 

How about dealing with the fact that the 18 year old mother is smoking pot at all! 

Now, I'm not saying I'm against pot or anything, but there is a time and a place and it's not when you're with your 2 year old!  Parenting classes isn't going to correct that!

I thought about going in.  It's only a mild fever, but the simple act of getting up and putting together the lesson plans for my absence was enough to convince me it was a good idea to take one more day off.  I think I would have been all right at school.   I'm done with the sixth class and all, but sometimes, the hour drive really wipes me even though I sit and listen to my favorite podcasts and audio dramas.  Go figure.

A big welcome to deltagrl.  I believe you know a number of people here. 

I don't know which is creepier, the comment by the female reporter about knowing how to take a pass or watching weatherman Tex Antoinne's eyes light up at seeing the ladies of Geraldo Rivera's family.

Home sick again.  I have a 101 fever and a flaming sore throat.  Going to the doctor later.  Most likely she'll tell me it's a virus and to wait it out, but this is the third such virus I've contracted this year.  I'm never this susceptible.

So, my favorite baddies in the Doctor Who universe are back in a two-part episode that ended this past weekend.  So many people were praising this episode, but I found it extremely lacking.  Maybe I'm just thick (The Peanut Gallery may abstain from commenting) but,


On the other hand, the Confidential was one of the better ones I've seen in a while.  It had a nice piece about the history of the Sontarans.  It's sad how as time passed, they started looking worse so that by the time you get to the Colin Baker story, "The Two Doctors", they are so obviously men in rubber suits that you can see the rubber caving in at certain points when they move their heads a certain way.

Henry Mancini wrote the theme song to What's Happening. I never knew that, but the Lipchick caught it in the closing credits when I was showing half the Geek Patrol an episode the other night. It was funny though to see it listed on an album of Mancini's greatest screen hits, just after the love theme to Romeo and Juliet.

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