Serge and The Doctor

I just finished reading Electric Barracuda by Tim Dorsey. If you're not familiar with Tim Dorsey, he writes awesome novels about Florida. His main character, Serge Storm, is a serial killer who kills bad guys (sexual predators, misogynists, bankers) in all sorts of creative ways.

Serge also sincerely loves Florida and its history. And he delights in enjoying life--playing on a playground, collecting shells at the beach, swimming in a swimming hole--in a way that the non-crazy just can't.

Aside from the serial killer part, he reminds me a lot of the 11th Doctor. Some of the lines The Doctor has been saying lately (Bunk beds are cool! A bed with a ladder? You can't beat that!) could come out of Serge's mouth. I shudder to think what Serge would do with a TARDIS.

What's been keeping me busy: Doctor Who

The sole and only comment from yesterday's post was on Doctor Who, so I guess I'll write about that first. There will be spoilers, because I'm writing about shows that aired in 2008 and before.

As I said, we're getting to the end of David Tennant. Last night we watched the last two episodes of Season Four and tonight we're planning to watch the Christmas Special, which if I have done my math right should be the introduction of Matt Smith.

Tenth Doctor Things I Love

• David Tennant is yummy.
• Captain Jack is an awesome character and I love everything about him.
• I thought Martha was a great companion because she's smart and strong. I even enjoyed her struggle with herself over her crush on The Doctor because that happens to strong women sometimes.
• Donna was so much fun, full stop.
• I LOVED the Doctor/Donna.
• The Face of Boe! Is he Jack? 
• Rose got her own Doctor!
• Mickey got a life.
• Shakespeare! 
• Those angel/statue things were so cool. 
• I totally thought Matt Smith was coming when The Doctor regenerated, but then he used his hand to fake us out!

That's all I've got for now. I can't believe I never watched Doctor Who until now. What kind of geek am I? At least I'm catching up now.

Update 6/30/13: We still have three episodes left of David Tennant! Woo-hoo! I've never been so happy to not have my math right.

Update 7/1/13: I forgot the Ood, which may be my favorite species in all of sci-fi.

Circles and more circles

This morning I saw this on Facebook, from my friend Erin who is raising money to help Barbara Garcia, who is the woman who found her dog in the rubble of her house in Moore, OK.

Erin DeRuggiero

If anyone knows how I can reach John Barrowman, I'd love to join forces. He's trying to help Barbara as well, and is not answering tweets or emails. https://twitter.com/Team_Barrowman

Like ·  · 12 hours ago via GoFundMe · 


So I Google John Barrowman and decide I don't care who he is. He's some actor and then it turns out he's helping Erin raise money, so that's a good thing.

Then this afternoon I check in on the Wheatons on Twitter and I see this:

Wil Wheaton ‏@wilw3h

Also, John Barrowman held my hand on the way back into the building because we were using the Buddy System and it was magical.

Anne Wheaton ‏@AnneWheaton2h

The best part about evacuating convention center is Wil dropping my hand like a hot potato to hold @Team_Barrowman's hand walking back in.

John Barrowman News ‏@Team_Barrowman2h

. @AnneWheaton and I'm with him now... pic.twitter.com/wZC7DI7UuC

So I Google John Barrowman and I'm all, "Didn't I already Google John Barrowman today?" And I totally did. Only THIS time, I'm all, "Why is he at ComicCon?" So I look more closely and find out he's Captain Jack from Doctor Who, which is actually quite cool indeed.

And THEN we were watching Doctor Who on Netflix, and The Doctor makes a Back to the Future reference, and I've just watched ALL THREE of those movies in the past week with Boo. And John Barrowman wasn't even in the episode.

It's getting freaky around here. Freaky, I tell you.