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Torchwood
Five reasons why it's kicking arse.

1. Serial format. Telling a story in five hour-long episodes instead of one or two. Allows for themes to be developed, storylines to be spun in depth, and some actual anticipation to build.

2. Edge. We actually feel like there's risk.

3. Atmosphere. All that 'We are coming' stuff is simple but it works. And the way we don't get to find out quite what Awful Thing has happened in the past, but hints keep being dropped, is delicious.

4. Acting. Peter frigging Capaldi, and Ian Gelder in particular. They make it so easy to suspend disbelief.

5. British SFness in ABUNDANCE. We're back to the good old days of Quatermass and classic Who, folks.

Tourist attraction seeks paid live-in actor to misrepresent English history to tourists
Wookey Hole Caves are apparently looking for a new 'witch' to teach visitors about witchcraft and magic. No doubt this will involve repeating most of the usual disproved horseshit. The statement from Daniel Medley hardly inspires confidence:

"Wookey Hole wants the appointee to go about her everyday business as a hag, so that people passing through the caves can get a sense of what the place was like in the Dark Ages.

"This was when an old woman lived in the caves with some goats and a dog, causing a variety of social ills including crop failures and disease. So the job is straightforward: live in the cave, be a witch, and do the things witches do."

Unfortunately, any incumbent of this position is going to be doing one very important thing that witches DIDN'T do: exist.

Causing a variety of social ills? What kind of cretinous statement is that? 'Being blamed for a variety of social ills', more likely.

Current Mood: weary and pissed off

About time to post this again I think
NOT safe for work.

Current Music: do Torchwood know about this?

lulz
http://thereifixedit.com/

Fresher than Failblog and more lulzworthy, IMO.

Also reminds me of certain friends.

grrrrr
Waiting on a number of different emails from a number of different people.

Aha! I have mail!

... oh, it's spam.

Aha! Mail!

... a bot is following me on Twitter.

Woo! Mail!

... oh, it's more spam.

It's just somehow more annoying when you really, really want it to be something else.

For the record: how to get into the RPG writing industry
I received an email yesterday from a guy who had a very polite request:

'I want to make a living designing role playing games. I have no idea how to achieve this. I would like to know how you did it, to give me insight on what I must do.'

( This was my response. )

More from the 'pagan stuff that doesn't suck' department
(From the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten, translated by Andrew Pardy)

Worshipers of the Norse gods get their own memory grove - shaped like a ship.

The Pagan fellowship Bifrost will be allocated a separate field for Adults cemetery in Oslo, dedicated those who believe in the Norse gods.

”This means very much for both Bifrost, it's members and those who follow the Norse tradition” says Stine Robertson of Bifrost, who has worked with Gravferdsetaten, the owners of the cemetery, on the graves issue.

The agreement is that Bifrost pay for the development - and that the site will be used solely for crematory urns.

”If an organization is registered as a religious, so we will do our best to accommodate them when we receive such inquiries” says director Margaret Eckbo of Gravferdsetaten.

The site is the first of its kind in Norway, although Denmark received such a site earlier this year, when a tree in a cemetery in Odense was inaugurated. ”The Danes are our beliefs and have been an inspiration for us in this matter” says Robertson.

Bifrost envisions that the site be located within the ship-shaped rock formation. Memory plaques of those who are buried there will be placed on the stones. The ceremony, which is held prior to the placing of the plaque will be based on pagan traditions and spirit.

”We are now working on several proposals relating to the ceremonies in connection with funerals, and the law gives a certain level of freedom. We are quite free to grant the deceased their wishes” says Robertson.

Bifrost had ideally wanted a site outside the main cemetery, but is satisfied with the solution agreed with Gravferdsetaten, and do not think there will be much reactions to the site.

”There are already sites for Muslims and other faiths, therefore I can see no reason why there should be any fuss about this” says Stine Robertson.

”The site incorporates an unconsecrated chapel and sites for many faiths. The church is no longer responsible for the cemetery, the local people and Gravferdsetaten run it. I do not believe that the addition of a Pagan site will arouse any reaction” observes Pastor Anne Pettersen.

Blood for blood!
'Asmodians are AWESOME, y'all.'

And the most gratifying observation:

'The writing is terrific, with strong characters deftly created.'

I am Jack's totally unbiased smugness.

hahahahahah awesomesauce
21 minutes in.

'What do they do, these pretend witches? Don't they ever notice their spells don't work?'