A Fortnight and Counting

A relatively engaging interview with David Tennant in today's Observer.

He goes on to enthuse about the way in which Davies, since he took over, has invested the characters with an emotional life that wasn't foregrounded in the earlier series, so that in many ways it is a love story. 'I mean, they're not shagging, but in every other way, they're a couple. Like John Steed and Emma Peel. Mind you,' he adds, 'he is about 900 and she's 19, so it'd be a bit ... Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones.'

Just over two weeks to go until the Christmas Special airs.

Top Games

One of the highlights of the occasional trips to Brooklyn, Ithaca, or wherever the Cryptonauts gather is the gaming, whether it's one of the Baseball-Beat-Your-Neighbor-Leg-in-Pot-Bitches-of-Eastwick poker variations or Settlers or Sucking Vacuum or Dark Tower or what have you. Here's what looks like a great list of possible additions to the canon: Top 100 Games.

Hidden Agenda

Thomas Veil still won't find out who erased his life, but at least the sadly unappreciated Nowhere Man will finally see the light of day again.

The Prime of Darren McGavin

ABC's Night Stalker has apparently been axed. I tried watching it, but there was really wasn't much to recommend it. Off work today and, as it would happen, Sci-Fi is running a Kolchak: The Night Stalker marathon. It's very 70s, that's for sure. The first episode I caught featured the least convincing werewolf I've seen this side of Rolf the Dog after a rough night banging out tunes at a roadhouse. Still, they're mildly entertaining, enough so that I've sat through the wererolf, a zombie, a smarmy satanic Senator, an Indian Spirit jewel thief played by none other than Richard "Jaws" Kiel, a vampire cornier than Count Chocula, and now super strong Jack the Ripper. Not sure if my continued viewing is more a comment on how watchable the show is or a condemnation of the rest of daytime TV.

No Wonder Koko's Been Hoarding One Dollar Bills

The gorilla likes what it likes.