I occasionally go to a scfi-fi and fantasy film night. Last Friday I went along and the films on offer were Indian Jones and the Kingdon of the Crystal Skull and Total Recall.

I left and went home.

Russell T Davies and the death of Doctor Who.

Russell T Davies. Creator of Doctor Who (I'm being facetious). Killer of a program that was already dead? I think so.

I had great hope and excitement when Doctor Who got revived. I wasn't sure about Christopher Eccleston - about if he looked right for the part. He seemed fine in the few episodes I've seen though. David Tennant had a good look going on, but his thing for saying things very fast and running around wears out a bit in the end. Anyway, it's not about the actors - it's about the writing. The aforementioned Mr Davies seems to have missed the point somewhere along the way. Gone are stories which have cliffhangers and last for several episodes. Here are the all wrapped up in 45 minute versions. Ho humm. (I think some of the writing style is commented upon here http://thousandmonkeys.wordpress.com/)

Now, one of my favourite (top of the list I think) Doctors is Paul McGann - the audio adventures are fantastic and he plays the Doctor so well. The Doctor Who stories are so very much alive in the audio adventures, and I also think Mr McGann should have some more television series put his way - out of Russell control of course. I think it'll never happen. Prequels are popular at the moment though.

Now what should happen when we move onto the 11th Doctor? Well there are lots of musings about this, but I think a very suitable candidate has put herself forward. She'd be perfect in her delivery her performance and eccentricity.

Sandi Toksvig for Doctor Who!

AdSense and Sensibility

Seeing that this is probably, if not statistically, me rambling on to myself, no one will have noticed that I don't (now this is odd - actually having an italic button and having written emphasis that way rather than my _usual_ method) have any adverts on this page. The idea is reasonable I suppose, readers come in and click on the adverts and you may or may not get some cash out of it in the end. It is a _moral_ (see what I did there?) decision, and I have decided against it.

I suppose adsense ads are at least not too obtrusive, but is the interweb a place for non stop advertising for products and services? It certainly wasn't created that way, but let's not forget that a creation can evolve.

So, my position at the moment? No ads. Might that change in the future? Possibly.

Messing with the Blog

Continuing with nothing really to say and setting up this blog. As much as I'm not into advertising and don't tend to click or follow adverts myself, I might put some adsense ads on here, basically to see what goes on there.

So if you see some adverts sometime soon, you'll know why. It's odd this really; speaking (well typing) as though some one is listening (reading). A bit like a diary I suppose. Do you write purely and honestly for yourself of do you share your thougths assuming someone will read it? After all, observer alters observed. Not just in quantum mechanics.

Diary of a Nobody? Diary of this Somebody?

God. I've got a blog. Man.

If I have nothing to say, why bother?

Well, to be perfectly honest, most other people don't have anything to say either.

So, why am I doing anything here? I'm just poking around initially, but things come and go and this might be a useful place for publishing essentially.

yeknoMenO, isn't some perculiar love child of Yoko Ono and Brian Eno, but is in fact OneMonkey backwards. OneMonkey was already taken (boo!) and look like it's been dormant for a few years now.

Anyway.

Later.

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