I Ain't Afraid of No Daleks

I used to put coins in an old Jukebox just like this one, in the mid-60's. It was at one of the local diners.

I distinctly remember standing in fascination, watching the record being slotted into place, then going 'round, and that wonderful deep booming tone that reached down into your toes, from the speakers...what memories!

Well, bit of a rocky start for me this morning. Still a bit wobbly. I just borrowed the neighbour's phone to ring up the doctor's office. Have to go do some tests today, both at the hospital and some specialists. Won't go into details. It's one of those things that might be nothing...or something, if you know what I mean. And, they want to make sure right off, that it isn't the something.

And, I'm supposed to take it easy for a few days--yeah, and pray tell, how do I do that, when I have to work, do housework, shop, go to the laundromat and run around like a loon trying to get all these tests done? LOL!

Well, I've got some music on, and am trying to get a few chores done...still very weak, though. Told to take it easy--yeah, how? I'm on my own, if this stuff (shopping, laundry, housework, etc.) isn't done by me, it won't get done. I need clean clothing and the cats need food--and I'm out of milk and bread.

Well, anyway, at least the music's good.

SONG/ARTIIST

Who Knows/The La's
Sweet Surrender/Bread
I've Never Been So Much in Love/The 23rd Turn Off
I Kinda Got Lost/Chris Best
Rockin' Chair/Heartsfield
Move out of Here/Fifty Theiving Bastards
Man on the Moon/R.E.M.
Sultans of Swing/Dire Straights
On the Other Side/Landon Pigg
Help/Beatles
Everyday/John Denver
Dirty Barry Stole the Bluebird/The Fratellis
Last Train/Travis
When it's all over we still have to clear up/Snow Patrol
For Reasons Unknown/The Killers
A Rush of Blood to the Head (live)/Coldplay
Fun, Fun, Fun/The Beach Boys
You Baby/The Turtles
Tombstone Shadow/Creedence Clearwater Revival
Going Up the Country/Canned Heat
This is Not a Love Song/Runrig
Letter from America/The Proclaimers
Born at the Right Time/Lindisfame
Dreaming of the Queen/Pet Shop Boys
Disappointed/Electronic
Miss Teenwordpower/The New Pornographers
Weight of the World/Tarklo
Ruby/Kaiser Chiefs
Girl Sailor/The Shins
Traffic/Carbon Leaf
There She Goes/The La's
Shambala/Three Dog Night
I'm Gonna' Be (500 Miles)/The Proclaimers

"Well, I'm so devilishly sexy, I had my hairdresser curl two tufts of my hair to resemble little horns."

...the Onion--a mock newspaper, who...mocks things...did an "article" about high school teachers hanging out in the teacher's lounge, dissing their student's work. The subject was a student's Hamlet essay.

How many of us have wondered what REALLY goes on in the teacher's lounge between classes?

Read the "article" here

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38586

I don't trust Obama. Not one whit.

He says he's supportive of American Muslims, and yet...he's downright paranoid about them.

1. refuses to let a fellow politician speak to the Muslim community on his behalf.

2. refuses to be photographed with women wearing headscarves

3. insists that reporters accompaning him in Israel "avoid wearing green" because that is a "Hamas" colour...which isn't true. Green is the "colour" of Islam, not just Hamas--and it's nothing like "gang colours," where in places like Los Angles, if a person is seen wearing a rival gang's "colour" they can get attacked--Islam doesn't work that way! And, no Isrealli's would be offended by someone wearing green. I mean, maybe in certain parts of Ireland..but not in the Middle East--which shows up Obama to either be a complete ignoramus, or paranoid racist, I'm not sure which. Either way, I'm not impressed.

4. Screams foul over some stupid cartoon portraying him as a muslim. Okay, it was just a cartoon. But Obama's reaction was way, way over the top--beyond rational. The man's TERRIFIED of being thought of as a Muslim--why?

Personally, Obama sounds almost as much of a phycaitrist's field day, as Bush does!

You can give all the grand speeches in the world, but in the end, it's your actions and behaviour, that truly count in this life.

It has been in the press this week, that the BBC upped the ante, and sweetened the pot on actor David Tennant's pay raise, from 1.3 millon pounds to one and a half million.

Doctor Who is the BBC's #1 money-earner abroad, and the series finale drew in 10 million viewers inside the UK alone. Millions more around the globe--from Japan, to Australia, from North America to Iceland will tune in to the finale. Some estimates are that Episode 13 is expected to be watched by at least 40 million people, worldwide (while Series 4 is done in the UK, and winding down in the US, it is just beginning in other parts of the world, or has yet to be shown.)

Though David Tennant is still mulling it over, rumour has it that "he's very interested."

Well, DOH.

Yeah, well, wave the equivelent of a three million dollar pay cheque in my face, and I'd bloody well "be interested" too!

I mean, I suppose the man's wealthy enough, that he can afford to turn down that kind of money...but speaking as one of America's poor and downtrodden, "David, whattda' you, flippin' NUTS??? Take the effin' money boy! I know you have one of those expensive hybrid cars, and don't have to worry about the cost of petrol, but...geez".

Really hard to wrap my head around somone--who's not a priest or Mother Teresa, turning down an offer like that. Geez Louise. (I'm trying to stop swearing, hence the Yankee colouiqualism, or howsoever you spell that--what I really meant was "S !)

Tennant has already filmed the Christmas episode for 2008, and is slated to return to the BBC Wales studios in January, to film three Doctor Who specials, which will be aired in the latter half of 2009. It is not known who Tennant's new companion will be, for the specials. One rumour has it that Tate may evenually return--tho' Catherine Tate seems to be pointing in a different direction in her career, at the moment--The insider's rumours are mixed on this--with one person hinting yes, and the other saying absolutely not. But...hey, they brought back Rose, Davros, Captain Jack and Jenny--the Doctor's daughter all back from the "dead," so...? One thing I learned about DW a long, long time ago, is that...anything goes.

In Doctor Who, it ain't over till' it's over--and the Doctor regenerates!