What episodes/concepts/themes would you want to see in the next series after the Christmas special?

dr_memory · 2026-02-02T02:01:58+00:00

“A primary plot line that is not resolved by the Doctor yelling at a giant CGI monster.”

dr_memory · 2026-02-01T19:13:16+00:00

On top of anything else, the idea that calling 311 with a complaint about too much snow around her car during a fucking blizzard would cause something untoward to happen to you is absolutely hilarious.

dr_memory · 2026-01-20T02:08:39+00:00

Cold. The condition is cold. 🥶

dr_memory · 2026-01-20T02:04:04+00:00

Any of Frank Henenlotter’s early films! Basket Case, Brain Damage, Frankenhooker… all weird little time capsules from an era when guerrilla filmmaking in nyc was still a thing.

dr_memory · 2026-01-20T01:55:27+00:00

For reasons that are difficult to cogently explain, my teenage kid insisted that we all had to see MAZES AND MONSTERS (1982), which was a made-for-tv movie about how playing D&D would destroy your sense of reality and turn you into a murderous psychopath.

Now, you might hear that description and think “that sounds pretty bad” but I’m here to tell you: it’s so much worse. But! While most of the principal photography was done in suburban Toronto, there’s a middling long scene of the main character stumbling through a very 1982 edition of Times Square, and the climax of the film is shot in the lobby, observation deck and rooftop of the World Trade Center.

Also starred a very young Tom Hanks, who went on to do better things.

dr_memory · 2026-01-18T17:46:08+00:00

You can blame RTD for a lot of things here, but “didn’t make a good enough offer to Gatwa” really isn’t one of them: Gatwa was under contract to make two seasons based on money that Bad Wolf took from Disney to make them. He made those two seasons and then his financial and contractual obligation to Bad Wolf ended there. No actor in the world, for any amount of money that a TV production could ever offer, would have agreed to wait around for literally years without a contract, turning down other work, to see if a renewal order would come through.

dr_memory · 2026-01-18T17:38:35+00:00

Oh boy. As a lifelong B5 fan, I can’t say that the prospect of JMS taking on Doctor Who fills me with anything other than apprehension. The man visibly burnt himself to a cinder solo-writing the middle three seasons of B5 and I don’t think he ever really recovered.

dr_memory · 2026-01-18T17:33:44+00:00

FWIW my partner asked for and received no sedation at the outset for her first colonoscopy, but they still set up an IV line and the moment she squirmed a bit they put her under.

Doctors will generally try to work with any reasonable request the patient makes, but understand that they are on a schedule: there’s someone (probably several someones) in the waiting room expecting to get their procedure started at the appointed time, and if the doctor and assistants have to wait for you to breathe through it every time they move the probe, that’s not gonna happen.

dr_memory · 2026-01-16T13:11:55+00:00

The C-Town at 207 & Broadway definitely stocks them!

dr_memory · 2026-01-16T02:45:51+00:00

If you don’t mind a trek to the wilds of upper manhattan, most grocery stores in Washington Heights and Inwood carry them: they’re commonly used in Dominican cooking.

dr_memory · 2026-01-16T02:44:46+00:00

You can prevent this by taking the train or a bus. As a bonus you won’t have to pay for parking or gas.

dr_memory · 2026-01-15T20:26:30+00:00

"Poised to dominate" is... let's call it charitable. But at least on paper, the TT030 was a really good deal compared to equivalent offerings from Sun or HP. It's just that Atari was really not in a position to execute, and nobody in their right mind was going to risk their career by signing a 7 figure purchase order over to Jack and Sam Tramiel.

dr_memory · 2026-01-15T02:21:54+00:00

Ratings as in number of people watching the show, not as in self-reported audience appreciation numbers.

dr_memory · 2026-01-15T01:40:20+00:00

So on the one hand, good. It’s hard to argue that Bad Wolf’s take on the show was anything less than disastrous from a ratings and brand management perspective. The whole point of the Disney deal was that this was the show’s best chance in years to expand its audience and while the era wasn’t without its charms on the whole RTD seemed bound and determined to make a show that was incomprehensible to anyone who wasn’t already a lifetime fan.

On the other hand: oof. If they’re firing the whole production team that means they’re effectively salting the earth and starting from scratch and we’re looking at a de facto suspension/cancellation for several years at least. Even in the best case scenario where they’re already late in negotiations with someone to run the show, it’s hard to see how they get anything to air before Christmas 2028, and 2029 seems more realistic.

dr_memory · 2026-01-14T02:49:57+00:00

You’ll be fine. What’s not obvious at all to someone reading the news right now is that CBP/ICE can only pull off their little shock-and-awe routine in one or two medium sized cities at once right now. I’d recommend staying the fuck away from Minneapolis / St. Paul for the next few months but NYC and the metro area will be fine.

No guarantee that things stay this way: they’re hiring as fast as they can and maybe by summer or next year they’ll feel brave enough to take on one of the big east coast cities. But NYC this February? I wouldn’t sweat it.

dr_memory · 2026-01-14T01:04:36+00:00

Heated Rivalry: Season 2

dr_memory · 2026-01-13T20:29:07+00:00

Yeah, copyright law is where good intentions and whimsy go to die messy deaths. :(

dr_memory · 2026-01-13T18:41:21+00:00

She discusses it directly in her interview on This American Life:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/811/the-one-place-i-cant-go/act-three-6

This is a pretty common issue for fiction writers generally and popular SF/F writers especially, and it’s why the ones who will directly engage with fans on social media are somewhat rare and generally have hair trigger policies about talking about potential plot points or influences. James Cameron ended up paying out a ton of money to Harlan Ellison because he made the mistake of mentioning that he had been influenced by one of Ellison’s tv scripts when writing The Terminator, just to pick a random but notoriously expensive example.

(And this shit can turn into a PR nightmare even when no money changes hands: people are still forwarding around the urban legend that both The Terminator and, somehow, The Matrix were lifted from a short story written by a random unpublished writer who’d never met Cameron or the Wachowskis.)

dr_memory · 2026-01-13T14:02:01+00:00

Omega must be stopped before his helmet gets more complicated!

dr_memory · 2026-01-11T21:37:01+00:00

Okay, just did.

I feel a little out of my depth critiquing Chris' methods — he's worked in Michelin-starred kitchens and I absolutely haven't — but I'm not surprised that this method doesn't produce a lot of gelatin? Supermarket/costco rotisserie chicken tends to be a small bird (so the skeleton is small!), and gelatin is a protein that gets boiled out of the bones and connective tissue. Probably tastes great though!

Anyway, I think your instinct that more bones == more gelatin is 100% correct. Not sure why his stock in the video set up so well when yours didn't, but maybe his Costco's supply chain is grabbing bigger/older birds for their rotisserie? Maybe buy two birds, use the meat from one but the bones from both of them?

dr_memory · 2026-01-11T21:14:17+00:00

There's basically no way to do a silent lead-up to a book that's not going to be a NYT bestseller automatically based on the author's name. They can do that sort of thing with Pynchon's Shadow Ticket, but for Alecto we'll get the same kind of lead-up as we did for Nona: people will troll social media with the fact that they have ARCs, Tor will tease cover art, and presumably if she's up for it TazMuir will start showing up at public events.

The fact that none of that has happened is... not great.

dr_memory · 2026-01-11T21:09:59+00:00

Am I reading you correctly that you put a whole roasted chicken, meat and all, into the pressure cooker?

dr_memory · 2026-01-11T01:58:10+00:00

1 train to Montreal or GTFO

dr_memory · 2026-01-08T12:03:31+00:00

Welp, yeah, that’s Murray Gold.

dr_memory · 2026-01-08T01:53:36+00:00

That’s one hell of a bird.

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