If you’re reading this then I’ve managed to write this for a fourth week in a row and nothing stopped me from clicking “Post.” Something always happens to me when I’m building up a habit and meet with some early success. I almost immediately start stressing about the habit is going to eventually implode. Not today, Satan! Welcome to season 0, episode 4!
It’s going to be a short one, though. If I do manage to pull off 52 of these in 2019, I anticipate that some of these will just be “proof of life” posts, and that’s okay. Again, this is only a test.
PROJECTS. Just… just don’t ask.
READING Still catching up on random LOCUS articles. Just downloaded the December issue, though. But at least the backlog–well, the LOCUS backlog–isn’t that long.
My NEW YORKER backlog, however, is a different story.
WATCHING. I’ll say this, now that I’ve had a chance to think about DOCTOR WHO Series 11: This was the 2005 Series 1 we should’ve had. I think some of the flaws, real or perceived, that some episodes had can easily be chalked up to being “series 1” flaws. I do think the decision to avoid revisiting the past took some things away; I get the “throwing out the baby with the bathwater” argument. But it was a good and much needed reset and I’m ticked that it’s not coming back until New Year’s, and that’s it for 2019.
I could go into lists of what I liked and didn’t like, but I think this tweet from a few weeks ago says it all…
On a strictly geeky note, I don't dig the new TARDIS console or room. I tried. But the new time vortex? Fucking awesome! #DoctorWho https://t.co/nKrcTNO73Y
— Don Pizarro (@DonP) November 11, 2018
IN THE WILD. Out with the old, in with the new…
