there’s a doctor for everyone

I have this bad habit of frequenting Half Price Books shops around Austin. My personal favorite is the one on North Lamar. I’m not sure what the deal is, but every once in a while they’ll have, like, 30 Doctor Who Target novelizations. I found these the last time I was there:

Don’t worry. I bought a good handful of them!

The other locations tend to have New Who stuff, like those Doctor Who Encyclopedias and weird paper-doll-like books that you can make sonic screwdrivers and psychic paper with. Which is fine I guess, but kind of boring.

The Cedar Park Half Price Books is like this. They only have new stuff with David Tennant’s face plastered all over everything. But they did have this attached to one of their bookshelves:

I love this for a number of reasons.
1) Disney Princesses do make really great Doctors!
2) Girl from Brave as Six? It’s like a beautiful melding of Six and Mel.
3) Rapunzel’s hair. It’s the scarf.
5) Not only is there gender-swapping at play, but different ethnicities, races, and body styles are present.
5) The artist is given credit!
6) It’s just plain adorable.

Kudos to the Cedar Park Half Price Books for having a nerd on staff!

For a better-quality version of the fanart and info on the artist head over to The Mary Sue.

this week’s faves

5. Sweater poncho. I want you.

I would never be able to wear this in Austin but I want to make this with every fibre of my being.

4. Julep’s Oxygen Nail treatment:

This is my go-to inbetween manicures. It has a great, subtle pink hue and after 24 hours I can really feel the strength in my nails return, especially if I had to buff down splitty/chipped ends. Also, if you’re not a Julep Maven…why not?

3. I’m not sure there has ever been a thing as Me as this:

Oh ModCloth. You so get me.

2. Traditionally the 50th anniversary is celebrated with gold. But when you’re Doctor Who, you celebrate with chrome. More specifically, a chrome teapot.

If this doesn’t make its way Stateside I am going to be so sangry (sad and angry).

1. Leave it to Purlbee to come up with the most adorable pillow EVER.

Another thing to add to my never ending list of things to knit. It’s a long, long list.

announcing doctor who: time signatures

After three years of people asking and me shrugging it off, I have finally succumbed to the podcasting bug and have started one of my own. The idea behind “Doctor Who: Time Signatures” is to have short, informative episodes about various topics relating to the music and sound design (special sound, effects, etc.) of Doctor Who.

You can check out a preview episode here:

Episode #1 will be available after SXSW. The show will also be up in iTunes at some point.

Follow along at @DWTSPodcast on Twitter and www.dwtspodcast.com. The direct feed for the podcast is timesignatures.libsyn.com/site.

Cheers!

gallifrey one 2013 retrospective :: invasion of the dinosaurs

From the program:

From the covers of major magazines like TV Guide to news media coverage to ‘event television’, the Doctor is everywhere these days. Now that the show’s back on the air, there’s been an entire new generation of Doctor Who fans brought into the fold. For those of you who have joined fandom with the new show: what has attracted you and made it your favorite? And for those of you from ages past: how do you cope with the sudden influx of fans who just can’t get enough? This panel will explore the cross-generational divide, and come to consensus about how possible (and realistic) it is to be a fan of the entire 50 year saga.

Steve Hill, Marcia Franklin, Derek Kompare, Kristen Roach, and Steve Traylen lead the discussion, including what good entry episodes are for the classic series, and how they all entered the program themselves. A surprisingly large amount of the audience had never seen any classic series Doctor Who before… read more

gallifrey one 2013 retrospective :: edge of destruction

One of my absolute favorite texts on Doctor Who is Wiped! Doctor Who‘s Missing Episodes by Richard Molesworth. In it Molesworth goes through great lengths to address, dissect, and illuminate the phenomenon of Doctor Who‘s missing episodes. There really is no rhyme or reason as to why certain episodes are missing, but there are factors that may have resulted in certain eras (particularly the late 60s) suffering the worst. Videotape was frequently reused by the BBC to save money, tapes were not saved unless a request was made (it was not standard practice to save anything), and Terry Nation’s push in the UK and US to have a Dalek franchise all contributed in one way or another into the retention of Doctor Who‘s stories. This seems strange to us, as we now live in a media-dominated age where nearly anything we want is at our disposal digitally.
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