The Late Great Molly Ivins once spoke fondly of that Endangered Species: The Liberal Republican. There actually were a few in the old days—& Bush the Smarter started out as one. Basically, they were rich people who were conservative about money but didn't want to mess with anybody's private life.

Ian McDonald's Ares Express features Glenn Miller on Mars—in the far future....

I've read that Oates didn't leave simply out of nobility. He was also tired of That Idiot Scott...

Not fully in character, but here's an extra from the Torchwood DVD's: [www.youtube.com]

Gregory Keyes wrote a series called Kingdom Of Thorn and Bone—marketed as a fantasy. Various somewhat-European cultures deal with eldritch doings on a planet much like Earth. There's a sort-of elvish, non-human race & memories of the Skasloi, monsters who'd enslaved the humans until defeated by the founder of the…

The artist is not a guy!

What non-sentient clumps of cells were used instead of being flushed away?

Especially after that long term boyfriend had a baby with the girl who played The Doctor's Daughter—& then married her. And his new wife is really the daughter of a previous doctor...

From producer Bryan Burk on 12/22/11: "There are amazing villains all throughout the Star Trek universe, as well as new villains as we did in the last film. There are a lot of directions we can go in the film and in this particular case we chose to do something that we thought would be original and unique and…

That's three hours. Each episode is 90 minutes long....

But much was revealed—for all genders & orientations! (Well, a few prudes were upset.)

They finished shooting Parade's End just before Christmas. (Last time I checked, IMDB still showed it in pre-production: Wrong!)

Cumberbatch's role is Smaug (& possibly The Necromancer). He'll be providing the voice & doing motion capture. So his involvement won't really take very long....

Does you GF have his picture up in her locker? (Nowadays I suppose she'd feature him in her Tumblr account.)

he Hollywood Reporter says that Cumberbatch will play the villain in the new Trek movie. [www.hollywoodreporter.com] And it's not Khan....

I first encountered Perrineau as Mercutio in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet. He tripped out in drag, then broke my heart in his death scene....

There's a lovely little one in Houston's Menil Museum collection:

I just read The Hobbit again after MANY years...

I love The Doctor's Wife quite madly—although there have been many fine moments on New Who.

I have no problem with seeing what was going on elsewhere while Bilbo & the dwarves were questing. Tolkien left a lot of work unpublished when he died & the movie folks won't be making stuff up out of thin air.