fun & hobbies

enjoyment, escapism, making and general lollygagging

Line drawing portrait of a Chinese woman in 19th century military dress.

Ahoy, ye scurvy knaves!

By Anna on 2012-09-19 • ( 5 )

It be annual Talk Like a Pirate Day.

A fluffy Himalayan cat lles on a pink chair looking moderately perturbed by the rasher of bacon taped to its flank

Scalzi on being a good commentor

By tigtog on 2012-09-19 • ( 7 )

John Scalzi at Whatever asks 10 useful questions we should all be asking ourselves about our commenting habits.

A movie-style poster in Wild West fashion for *A Town Called Mercy* - everything is rendered in a dusty overlay. We see a pair of trousered and booted legs in gunfighter wide stance, but the arm hanging beside where we expect to see a gun holster is instead some sort of cyber-cannon. Through the legs we see the Doctor, Amy and Rory staring the gunfighter down.

Doctor Who: S7 Ep3 – A Town Called Mercy

By tigtog on 2012-09-17 • ( 4 )

SPOILERS!

So the theme for this season now seems more clear:

The first thing we notice is what appears to be a museum exhibit showing a stegosaurus and two pterodactyls, then it registers that they're standing in a corridor next to a picture window through which we can see planet Earth and its Moon - then we notice that the Doctor is riding the stegosaurus.

Doctor Who: S7 Ep2 – Dinosaurs on a Spaceship

By tigtog on 2012-09-09 • ( 16 )

Now I want a t-shirt that says “Move Away From The Pterodactyls”

New Who: S7 Ep1 Asylum of the Daleks

By tigtog on 2012-09-03 • ( 18 )

We watched the show on iView last night, via a recent update to our venerable PS3 which allowed us to hook our TV directly into ABC’s iView interface. Noice. It will be broadcast on Australian free-to-air next Saturday September 8th. Who else has geeked out already?

Quick Hit: Dudebros don’t like it

By Mindy on 2012-08-28 • ( 7 )

There has been a change for Captain Marvel fans. I think I may have to start buying these comics. The author of the linked article tweets as @missrenne. SotBO: Not every guy is a dudebro. I’m sure you can work… Read More ›

Cumberwatch: Parade’s End

By tigtog on 2012-08-27 • ( 5 )

Parade’s End is Benedict Cumberbatch’s latest televisual outing, and is being described all over as “the thinking person’s Downton Abbey“.

Photograph of Martin Place in Sydney, looking west

Book Week: Looking For Alibrandi

By Mary on 2012-08-22 • ( 3 )

In response to Tansy Rayner Roberts’s Blog Book Week challenge, I remember how I read Melina Marchetta’s Looking For Alibrandi when I was in high school.

Photograph of a street in The Rocks, Sydney, circa 1900

Book Week: Playing Beatie Bow

By Mary on 2012-08-21 • ( 7 )

In response to Tansy Rayner Roberts’s Blog Book Week challenge, I remember how Ruth Park’s Playing Beatie Bow affected me as a young teenage reader.