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I always thought that too! Except, y'know, "Mary gonna kick some Nazi ass."

Writing is hard. Especially personal stuff. Work at least gives you deadlines, something to measure success against… but doing it on your own, when it's just you and the blank page…

If he sincerely enjoyed it, there's only one right answer.

Wrong! That sounds pretty cool. Very Three Musketeers-y, but with more dragons (probably?).

I've read both prose versions and poetry versions of the Iliad. I found the one with the poetry layout MUCH easier to read.

Dan Carlin's podcast Hardcore History just dropped it's third and final episode on the Persian Empire. It's five hours long. I started it Tuesday morning, and I'm a little over an hour into it…

We got the animated Lord of the Rings box set recently, and so we watched the Rankin/Bass Hobbit the other night. Made all the jokes about "hey, did we just cover the first Peter Jackson movie in twenty minutes?" out of the way relatively quickly and just enjoyed the quirky adaptation of one of our favorite books.

"You have no weapons, no defences, no plan!"

As one of my friends said, "He was the most British of the Doctors."

Hard to beat the GL ring. Of course, with my willpower, it would just fizzle and pop and do nothing, but still… it's nice to have dreams.

Last of the Breed by Louis L'amour. About an Air Force pilot captured by Soviets - only, he's also a Sioux, so he escapes into the Siberian wilderness and basically badasses all over the damn place. I read it as a lad when there was a Soviet Union to worry about, and I'm obviously getting much more out of it now, but…

I go for a walk or listen to some heavy metal or watch an episode of Farscape or play a really violent video game and get my aggression and anger out on zombies or robots or something.

There's something to that. But I think there's also something to being open and available to opportunities. I let something that could have been great pass me by because of insecurity. Next time I saw something with that potential, I pounced on it (after a couple months of psyching myself up).

I never realized until "Day of the Doctor" how much the bleakness of the Time War and its resolution bothered me. Because the Doctor is there to save people. That's his narrative function, it's why he has the name that he has, it's what he does for a living. There are always casualties, of course, because it's worth…

You're welcome.

There are people who don't like John Pertwee? Whaaaat?

My favorite bit is Barrowman's family.

Yeah, but… John Hurt.

I enjoyed them. It made me read the responses in a much different "voice" than I usually do, more high-energy and broadcaster-y, which made them much more amusing.