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What's Amusing Me Now: Dr. Who Series 6

No spoilers, just a recommendation.

I like my adventure stories manic. Plot is good -- plot is very, very good, but it's better with fast-talking, blink-and-you-miss-it humor, bizarre/awkward sexual tension, and pacing that packs a whole lot of important info into a few minutes.

I reeeally like new Dr. Who.

The most recent episode ("A Good Man Goes To War," the midpoint of Series 6) featured all of the above. Well-fleshed-out characters in an admittedly absurd universe is one of the best things ever, and this installment was running its dark/giddy scenes by us so fast I thought it might've been an episode of Venture Brothers. (The quick introduction of several new, very minor characters who could well have incredible backstories also made me think of VB. I know Dr. Who is a beloved cultural institution and the other's an Adult Swim cartoon, but both exist in detailed scifi universes that ask the viewer to follow a whole lot of threads, and are all kinds of fun to puzzle about.)

Dr. Who is on break 'til September (returning with "Let's Kill Hitler"[!]) but turns out you can follow the showrunner on twitter, if you're that kind of nerd.


Useful: Wikipedia's list of Dr. Who serials

New Feature: What's Amusing Me Now?

Attractively packaged wine! Clearly portable mini-bottles aren't for winos, they're for fun, young, splashy, hip summery people. This works on me. I even got the pinot noir over the type I'd probably prefer, because this package was bright pink. (I may be susceptible to things I wouldn't normally be into, if they are bright pink. See also: Nicki Minaj.)

une see fights: haters

I have a comic up today over at Une See Fights!

hex

In a notebook I recently bought there is an inexplicable hexagon in the lower-right-hand corner of each page. It is from here on known as "doodle food":

what wouldn't you want with an octopus

come on cephalopods
i see you jockin' me
tryin' to play like
you know me

lamps: still neat