I Ain't Afraid of No Daleks

I made a stab at trying to find the new Torchwood series 3 episodes, the Children thingy.

I confess, I am not an avid follower of the series. That's not because I don't like it, it's because I don't have tele, and finding things online is a bit of a bother. Quite honestly, I only do that when I'm very desperate, and it's the only way I have to see something--as opposed to literally never seeing it at all--ever.

I watched bits and pieces of the end of the latest episode (5??) But, the videos were kind of broken up, with some missing, so I had no idea most of the time, exactly what was happening...but damn, that was good writing...and acting, what little of it I've seen.

I understand Ianto was killed off. That's a shame, I rather liked that character..but, stuff happens. Sometimes stories just have to move forward. Life changes, whether we like it or not--or, maybe Mr. Davies got tired of writing the character, who knows? Some of the fans were seriously pissed off though, and too many of their remarks were boorish and moronic and...just crap. Half of them can't even write English properly, but were insulting the writers in text-speak. How pathetically lazy is that?

I am afraid some people are internet cowards, and find it easier to be bullies behind people's backs, so to speak, where they don't have to look the person they are hurling abuse at, in the eye. Out in the world, we'll always encounter the zeros, cardboard people and the intellectually and socially lazy...but they really are quite a mob, on the internet. And a few of these so-called "fans" today, prove themselves to be nothing more than a rabble of foul-mouthed, infantile lazy slobs, who find it easier to hurl insults, than stop and ask questions and think.

Not sure why these fans today, think it's OK to rip into people who make these shows. OK, I got really, seriously upset, when I thought RTD had killed off Tennant's Doctor in episode 12 of Series 4--to the point where I cut myself off from Who for months...stopped writing fan fics, stopped (mostly) watching it, left the boards. I can honestly say, that that is the very first (and I hope, last) time that a TV show had that effect on me.

Why? Loss. I just lost my mum, my home, my car, 2 jobs, 4 cats and a chunk of my possessions. Getting Doctor Who back in my life (thank you RTD), pretty much saved me from offing myself. So, when RTD pulled the rug out from under me in 2008, I...didn't take it very well, I'm afraid. I hated RTD's guts for about 2 weeks.

Of course, I realized how totally irrational that was, and got over myself...eventually. Still, yeah, it rocked me to my very core--and that's when I realized that I was too close to a television programme.

I don't always agree with RTD, and I wouldn't want to. It really was daft of me to be angry with the man. It's not like he knew about my situation--and let's face it, even if the man did, he wouldn't give a rat's fart about me, anyway. Seriously, Davies will do what he wants to do, and whether some loser woman in some dumpy little town 3000 miles away was fine with it, or had some painful wounds re-opened...well, come on. Let's get real: Davies just plain wouldn't care. He's a total stranger, living thousands of miles away, in a world I can't even imagine--any more than he could fairly grasp what it's like living in my world, probably.

Before episode 12 of Series 4, I was watching Dr Who on my computer (or VHS) every single day--and I mean, every single day...from July of 06, until late June of 08.

But, when I realized what a huge emotional toll episode 12 took on me...well, I'm not sure which shocked me more--the Doctor's "surprise" regeneration, or my reaction to it.

So now, I take it all with a grain of salt. I'm not the obsessed fan that I was, but I came back to it. And...I probably always will love The Doctor. How could I not?

Oh, I'm rambling. Sorry. I'm quite exhausted....long day. Got up early, did chores, pedaled over to the laundromat with some dirty's, did some more chores at home, went to the beach, then stopped for ice cream again, shopping at the One-dollar and Tractor Supply shop, dinner at Taco Bell...and blogging. Ready for a nap, me.

The Fourth Doctor, actor Tom Baker, known for his curly locks, pop-eyed stare and long scarves, will be reprise his role as the Doctor, in four new audio adventues.

Also doing a new audio adventure is 10th Doctor, David Tennant.

It is rumoured that the 11th Doctor, Matt Smith, may be doing some audio adventures as well, in 2010.

President Obama caused an uproar, when he weighed in on the arrest of a Harvard scholar in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The man was arrested by police, after they got a tip that some suspicious black men were trying to break into a house. In this case, the man was merely coming home after a trip overseas.

When police confronted the black man, he allegedly got agressively defensive, and refused their request to see his I.D. Police then arrested him.

Meanwhile, down in the truly stupid state of Texas, where no one should be allowed to swim in the national gene pool, without first taking an I.Q. test, a judge in Paris, Texas let a murder suspect walk free.

The man was accused of running down a black man he knew, dragging him 70 feet under his pick up truck, to the point where the black man's body was literally torn apart. This is just ten years after two white supremecists dragged a black man to his death behind their pick up truck.

The accused was set free, due to "lack of evidence." OK, there's no CSI in Texas--I mean, there was no blood or body parts showing up under the truck? Then, if there was no physical evidence of a man being dragged under this white trash bloke's truck, then...why was he even arrested. A white trucker from Texas, months after the death, week's into the trial, miracuously decided to step forward, and confess that he "may have accidentially" run over the black man.

Also, the judge in the trial of the suspect, was the suspect's former attorney. The suspect served 4 years in prision previously, for the murder of another friend...the judge in the present murder trail, was the suspect's defense lawyer, in the previous murder trial. It is significant that this judge did not recuse himself, until AFTER objections were lodged.

And, to make matters even more sickening, one Texas official down in Texas said that the dragging to death of the black man ten years ago, "didn't matter" in this case, and "should be forgotten," has it has no bearing on what happened in Paris.

The release of the accused, has brought out Black Panthers and KKK members alike.

And, what does Obama say about all of this?

NOTHING.

A friend of his gets arrested for failure to comply with a police request, he calls the officer's actions "stupid."

A bunch of for-real stupid people in Texas deliberately botch the trial of a man who may have (and probably did) gruesomely murdered a black man---silence from the White House.

In the end, the Obama/Harvard story isn't about racism---it's about wealth and power.

The real thing is, a rich and prestigious and educated black man is arrested, and there's an uproar.

A poor, unknown black man is horribly murdered and his potential killer is given a mockery of a trial....and no one in Washington, D.C. gives a flying turd.

I think that says more about our society, culture and "education" in ths country, than any else I can think of.

New proof of former president George W. Bush's post-9/11 maddness has surfaced recently.

Now, it has been revealed, Bush wanted to send in US military troops to apprehend six terror suspects outside of Buffalo, NY.

Why is this madness? Because that sort of thing just isn't done, in the United States of America. Ever. Never, ever, ever.

Yes, you can send in the National Guard, which is our last remaining official state voluntary militia. But to send in professional soldiers--that's just not...no. That sort of thing has not been done since the 1860's, when President Lincoln (also a repbulican) used professional troops for domestic law enforcement.

For one big reason: It's against our national constitution. Basically, it's against the law to use the US military for domestic law enforcement. Period. End of discussion.

It a prime example of republican oxymoronship, George W. Bush and his republican party fly the banner of the US Constituion whenever their gun rights are threatened, but conveniently ignore it--basically they spit on it, when it blocks them from getting their own way.

But, Bush and his republicans aren't the only guilty parties, here. The FBI also freaked out and used the constituion for toilet paper, by granting Bush the authority to use professional soldiers, ignoring the importance of proper law enforcement, and using "national security" as an excuse to do what should never have been done in a truly democratic nation.

At the last possible moment, Bush, for his own reasons, decided against using federal troops to enforce that law. Yet, the fact that a standing U.S. president even considered this, is unprecidented. Roosevelt didn't even think of such a thing, right after Pearl Harbour was attacked, in WWII--a much bigger threat to American lives, and disaster to American security, than (sorry, but it's true) 9/11 ever could be.

. Where are you heading for your holiday this summer?

I'm actually on my holiday--four days of it. I doing Lake George village, a resort town just up the road about 7 or 8 US miles.

2. Is it going to be a camping, hotel or even a caravan type holiday?

Don't need to go away. I'm in my tiny little flat, as usual.

3. Do you travel light or insist on taking 4 suitcases with the kitchen sink in?

Well, if I'm staying local (I actually lived in Lake George before I moved down into this city), I only take my backpack with a book and any other little things I think I might need.

4. Do you prefer a beach holiday topping up the tan or do you do all the sightseeing you can cram in?

Even tho' I am actually hitting the beach tomorrow afternoon, I am very much NOT a beach type of person. I don't like tons of sightseing, either...I like a nice mixture...sightseeing, culture, leisure activities and free time/relaxing, when I go on holiday.

5. Will you go by train, car, plane or boat?

Red trolley bus, cos' it's $12 one-way by cab, to go there. It's actually cheaper to take the Trailways coach to the trendy city of Saratoga Springs a roughly 30 mile round trip--than to go less than half that distance round trip to Lake George, by cab.

(Sigh.)

I just got back from running down to the shop down the way, before it closed--forgot to buy milk. Cold cereal without milk in the morning, for me, is a bit..meh.

On the way down, for the second time today, while i was in posted crosswalk (zebra crossing)--I mean, posted: "NY State Law--MUST stop for pedestrians in crosswalk." Plunked right down in the middle, in reflective florrie green.

This afternoon, I was in the middle of the zebra crossing--agagin, big sign in the middle of the blinking road, telling vehicles it's against the law not to stop--and I had to jump back, literally, as a green van (the equivilent to a white van) slammed on its brakes to avoid hitting me smack on. Two blokes in the front seat...what were they doing, playing with themselves? I am a 210 imperial pound woman, and I was wearing dark peach coloured shirt and a khaki colour baseball cap--HOW could you blinking MISS seeing me???

Tonight, I again, was going through a posted crosswalk--off my bike, walking it across for (ironically) safety, when this little sports car, that was half a block away, suddenly speeds up towards me. Blimey! Again, had to bustle out of the way. They made a hard right around the corner, laughing at me out the window. Bastards.

Crossing the street to the shop, some blokes came speeding by, one yelled at the top of his lungs out the window at me, "IT'S RAINING!!!" No, it's sprinkling, numbnuts, and...who cares? Drunks are only amusing to other drinkers. To the rest of us, you lot are all just a bunch of dumb

Have I mentioned that Glens Falls is Redneck Hell, USA?

If you don't believe me, try reading the reader's comments in the news section of our local paper, The Post-Star ( www.poststar.com )...scary stuff...not so much the comments, but that these mooks are allowed to vote, drive, own guns and have unprotected sex. (Shudder.)
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Anyway, get home with my milk in one piece, and decide to check my Dr Who fiction blog...haven't done any proper editing of any of my stories for a while. Wordpress is a bear when it comes to editing, freezing every few minutes, while it "auto-saves," stuff I don't need auto saved.

I noticed I had a comment. I've had all of maybe 6 comments on there in the past 13 months or so. Spam is what I usually get, most of it totally meaningless burbble with some links thrown in. Tonight, I had an actual comment on one of my stories (Rain of Terror). It wasn't rude, but it wasn't nice, either. Well, everyone's a critic, yeah? Though a little constructive criticism would be nice, instead of insults by some bored troll. That's what they make the "delete" button for.

Well, at least he or she read it, I suppose. That's something. Most peole don't read my creative writing...which means it's either totally naf, or I'm not writing anything anyone wants to read. Whatever. That makes me sad, but only for a little while. Then...I get over it. Move on, another day, another night, ho-hum.

I copy/pasted the comment before I deleted it:

Nancy G, read rain of terror. It is the worst drivel I have ever read. You write like an American. Your lame attempts at humour were pathtetic. Your dialog was stilted and unrealistic. The plot was all over the place, and barely a plot at all. The aliens were boring"......."in all, I'm sure Russell T. Davies would regurgitate all over it, if it was ever submitted as a script. Stop writing fan fiction and stick to blogging about the weather.

Ouch. Well, he told me, ey?

I "write like an American"??? Erm--maybe because I am an American citizen, educated in New York state and Vermont?

What the hell though, would RTD have anything to do with it? I wouldn't submit a script to Doctor Who--that's impossible. Unthinkable.

Not to mention the fact that well I know tht very probably Russell T. Davies wouldn't care if I live or die, and he wouldn't touch one of my stories with a 10 meter pole. Besides--he's gone. He doesn't do Doctor Who any longer! At least, not so far as I know. It's all in Moffatt's and Wenger's hands, now.

No, I'm not a gifted or talented writer. I'm average. That's all I am...if that. I can't compare myself to a professional writer--that would be like comparing apples to oranges.

And if this bloke or gal didn't like Rain of Terror--fine. I don't know what his or her expectations or criteria for a good story were, but obviously, I didn't meet them. Oh well. Although I truly am a bit baffled as to why he or she decided to drag the former producer/writer of Dr Who into it, though....that was just a bit---weird.

I was going to post this to my A Leaf on Life's Stream blog on Wordpress. But, since I'm going to delete that blog some time in the near future, I am posting this on here.

It sucks like a Hoover, like all my poetry, I won't deny it. It just popped into my head and I wrote it. It's stupid, but then I'm not the sharpest tool in the poetic toolbox, so there ya' go.

I AM A FUN BLOG POEM

Whoopie!
Pop
The Champagne and the
Party crackers
Blow
Your horns
Dance
Put a lampshade
On your head and
Conga my words, baby!
I'm hitting these keys, a
mad madam
waxing
Poetic on her blog
Fly words, fly
Hurray for me, hurray for
Fridays
Silly
Words to drive away the
Boredom and loneliness

Sunday's the big day for us Whovian Yanks, as David Tennant and Russell T. Davies, John Barrowman and director Eros Lynn hit the California coast, to join Julie Gardiner and BBC America for Comic-Con, and, the premiere of Planet of the Dead on BBC America, Sunday, 26th July.

I will miss it on both counts of course, being on the opposite side of the country, and, not having cable (or any) television.

(I just use the 25 year old TV someone gave me in 2006, to watch VCR tapes, now that analog TV is stinking gone...oh, don't get me started...)