Posted from my Nokia n800. Thanks to DJ Bryan for the tip!

Can someone please get Russel T. Davies the hell away from Doctor Who? This man writes all of the cliche episodes that inevitably end with The Doctor doing his billionth monologue about, “Oh humans you are so great, in love humans you humans are walking around-omg humans humans humans I LOVE HUMANS I LOVE THEM HAY HUMANS WOW HUMANS WUT HEY MORE HUMANS HELLO LOVELY HUMANS.”

It has gotten to the point where if I see his name in the opening credits I can be confident we are about to see another simpleminded episode. Each time another writer steps in the quality markedly improves. For example, season 3’s “Blink”, written by Moffat kicked ass.

A simple episode is fine once in awhile, but not for 90% of the damn series.

I became a bit dubious the end of season one. It became The Billie Piper Show. It was all about her character, Rose and Rose’s family. When they replaced Rose with Martha Jones, I was hopeful. However I quickly found that Martha may very well go down in history as the most wasted character evar.

Indeed, Martha had no personality. All she really did was complain that the Doctor ignored her. Truthfully, David Tennant’s Doctor was a huge dick to her. I joked that the show should be called “Dick in a Tardis”. I started disliking him. The writing painted him as either a psycho, or a jerk. True he was upset about losing Rose, but it wasn’t delivered in such a way that consistently showed this or made you the least bit sympathetic for him.

All it did was make me wonder:

1. Is The Doctor a kid toucher? A timelord who lived for hundreds of years is the alien equivalent of a perv when paired for romance with a human. Age difference with any human is hundreds of years. Humans are essentially children to his people. This is why the show avoided him being interested in his companions prior to this.

2. Is he racist? Martha was his first dark-skinned companion. He can barely manage being civil to her.

I’m not saying these are true. I am just saying these are things the writers (specifically Davies) chose to ignore, along with all the plotlines in the old episodes. He just says everyone died. It’s sloppy to not recognize things and wildly ignore things by simply saying that they died. WHY did they die, Russell??? I doubt you’ll say. It’s not simple enough. ;/ Still, I enjoy much of the show. When it’s good, it’s great. I think it will be interesting to find out what happened to Rose.

I’m just disappointed that they were unable to make any other character that interesting.

Here is the srticle:

Actress Billie Piper is to return to Doctor Who, the BBC has confirmed.

She will star in three episodes of the sci-fi drama, reprising her role as the Doctor’s companion, Rose Tyler.

Rose’s return will mean the Doctor has three assistants in next year’s series – Donna, played by Catherine Tate, and Freema Agyeman as Martha.
Continue Reading »

Right now, the media is flooded with vapid bug glasses wearing idiots who are famous for no reason other than they bought it. Most of the attraction to this kind of entertainment seems to be the shock and awe of how absolutely idiotic, stupid, and selfish that these people can be.

I saw a few seconds of The Simple Life once. Nicole Ritchie irresponsibly leaves her purse unattended in a pool hall. It disappears, so she felt it was OK to scream as loud as she can while dumping bleach all over the pool table and damaging people’s things that had nothing to do with the theft. She leaves the place laughing while the owners of the place are left with a huge mess to clean up. She pays for the damage weeks later, so I guess in her mind this means it’s OK.

Nothing matters. She can pay for it. It doesn’t matter that she was rude and upset the owners of the establishment. It’s OK if she destroys anything she wants to destroy. I have no idea who watches this show. I couldn’t stand it. I don’t find watching this much stupidity amusing. It just depresses me. She is so absolutely stupid that she doesn’t even understand that this kind of behavior is mean.

If you’ve ever wondered why a kitchen spatula is smarter than Paris Hilton crowd, Forbes has your answer:

You know the dream: Get the kids into the right preschool so they can get into the right grade school, which will guarantee them a spot in the right high school, so they can shoot for a spot in the Ivy League.

Educational achievement will then open doors for the kids and lead to their prosperity and happiness.

Such is the aspiration of the middle class. Say it all pays off. Once those dreams are achieved and enormous wealth results, educational achievement and other normal middle-class parental aspirations for their children, like family and marriage, fall by the wayside.

So says a survey of the mega rich by Connecticut firm Prince & Associates ( www.hsgrove.com). Barely more than half of those surveyed who have net worths over $10 million said educational achievement was an expectation they had for their kids, and just 33% said they expected their kids to one day get married. Forty-six percent said they expected grandchildren.

Compare that to the “working affluent” (those with between $1 million and $10 million net worth), for which 84% cited educational achievement for their kids, 74% cited marriage, and 71% cited grandchildren as expectations.

Russ Alan Prince, who runs the firm that tracks the habits of the rich, says the super rich simply don’t view education as the be-all-end-all, mostly because their wealth and connections can already open doors for their kids that the less wealthy have to struggle to pry open.
Continue Reading »

In weird nows, a soldier returns from Iraq and is told that his wife may have been cheating on him. He finds an extra Mii on his Wii console. Then he sees that his wife has played Wii bowling with this guy…and it leads to all hell breaking loose and now a divorce is happening.

Link via Shiny Shiny.

This video scared me so bad. It’s a parody video made by Panasonic for the 2004 Athens Olympics…but that doesn’t make it less scary! I think I felt sick…it’s the love child of a bad acid trip at the furry con…

Well now, it is not every day that you find headwear that makes it look like you are being shit out of a frog. Fun for the whole family, or ethical debate? Is the frog gay or just happy to see her? Is this vertical frog goatse, or ? Nobody knows.

Link.