Watching Doctor Who

After a week and a half of downtime, after a bit of up and down, Watchingdrwho.com is finally back online. Apparently the hard drive died over at HQ. I know that they were ordering a bunch of new equipment, so here’s hoping that it’s smooth sailing from here on out. In the event of future downtime (God forbid. Knock wood.) you can keep track of my complaining about it on my Twitter account. Thanks for sticking with me through all of this.

I’m celebrating our return by showing you the picture of the Secret Diary of a Call Girl that Erik saw on the Sunset Strip down in Los Angeles. Like the nice guy he is, he snapped a picture and sent it to me. Thanks, Erik!! (Apparently the pictures of Billie have been on buses, too.)

Also, have you heard that Doctor Who is finally showing series three in Australia? They’ve finally seen the last Christmas special, Voyage of the Damned. Yay!

Well, I’m off to try and catch up on my posting. Stand by for a Postalanche.

So, there I was, heading home from my vacation, and what did I see? An exit off of the 101 marked “Tennant Ave.” Being a good little fangirl with a sign obsession what could I do but snap a couple of pictures through my windscreen as we went zooming by? Sadly, I didn’t manage to get the picture of the actual exit sign, but I did get a shot of the 1 mile marker as we went under it (above) and the half mile road sign (below) as we drove by. I apologize that my windscreen was a bit dirty, but it had been sprinkling a bit when we started for home. You know how it is. Now I wonder if there is an Eccleston Rd. out there somewhere…

And for an added bit of silliness, with spoilers for The Unicorn and the Wasp, here is a link to a terrible pun at the Livejournal community called “Ihasatardis,” home of the Doctor Who Cat Macros. (Like LOLcats, but Doctor Who related instead.) If you like puns, I’d advise that you wait to drink anything until after you’re done giggling.

Tennant Ave, Ihasatardis, Doctor Who

Remember how I mentioned the other day that I am now the proud owner of a box of Doctor Who coolness? Well, let me give you a better idea of what I’m talking about. (All hail Michael for giving this stuff to me.)

Okay, here’s a sort of top view of the magazine stack. I’m currently in the process of organizing all of this. Hey. I’m a Librarian. What do you expect?

This side view gives you a better idea of how big the stacks actually are. …And a lovely picture of part of my knee.

In case you were wondering, that is in fact Jon Pertwee’s autograph. Yes! Now I have both the 2nd and the 3rd Doctors’ autographs.

I even received three 45s of coolness. Now I just need my husband to fix that speed on my record player.

Anyway, at some point I obviously need to have a contest, as I have a few duplicate Classic Who magazines now. I’ll have to come up with something fun. Perhaps for the 2nd anniversary of this blog in November. Hmmm…

There you go. This way we are guaranteed bits of flashback fun during the Who drought.

Doctor Who, Jon Pertwee

moar funny pictures

(Maybe I should go to bed now, and stop playing with LOLcats.)

The official BBC Doctor Who Site is ramping up for the upcoming beginning of series four. The date is still listed as Spring 2008, but the current internet rumour is listing the UK premiere as 22 March. Of course, this means that they’ve posted some new pictures for us. Yay for new wallpaper! (Yes, that is the source of the picture above.)

The 6 March 2008 Doctor Who Magazine apparently features the Doctor Who Writing Team choosing their favorite Doctor Who deaths. Steven Moffat chose Pete Tyler’s death from Father’s Day, if you’re curious.

Video Game Alert! It looks like Eidos will be announcing a release date for a Doctor Who game in the near future, according to SciFi Wire. All that is known currently is that it will be available for the PC, PS2, and Nintendo DS. I wonder if it will be easily available in the U.S. I hope so.

The Official Doctor Who Site has announced that Doctor Who has been nominated for an International Interactive Emmy Award for their interactive online content. The winner will be announced on 8 April 2008 in Cannes. So…if they win, do you think that folks outside of the UK will finally get to play with the Comic Maker?

A Dad in Manchester recently surprised his boys with their own TARDIS! Apparently it makes all of the right noises and everything. His next planned project? Sonic Screwdrivers, of course. Good on him. I want my own TARDIS.

Billie Piper has been nominated for a Golden Rose award (Rose d’Or) for her portrayal of Belle in The Secret Diary of a Call Girl according to The Sun. The Rose d’Or Festival will take place May 2-6 in Lucerne, Switzerland. Here’s hoping.

I would like to remind you all about a little thing I like to call “My First Doctor.” If anyone out there would like to tell me about their first Doctor or their first encounter with the show, please either comment here or use the contact link. I always like to hear how others first encountered the show. I’ll post any entries here for everyone to enjoy. You can find all previous entries here.

Doctor Who Magazine, Doctor Who, Steven Moffat, Father’s Day, Billie Piper

Today I come to you live from my husband’s laptop, as mine is still a brick. Sigh. Anyway, I was able to access only a couple of photos from day two of Gallifrey One, but that is better than nothing, yeah?

Day two saw me going to relatively few events, but what events they were! We started out the day with the live commentary for Steven Moffat’s episode Blink. The room was packed. Seriously. There were about twice the recommended amount of people in there. (They’ve promised to do these in the Main Room next year, seeing as they are so popular.) Now, I am very claustrophobic, but I managed to not look behind me and instead to pay attention to the event itself. Mr. Moffat was fabulous. He accidentally said the name of his episode for next series at one point, then gave in and said it a couple times more. (It’s a two-parter, but one episode is called “S~~ in the Library” I could have sworn he said “Sleeper in the Library”, but Erik disagrees. So at least we have the “s” and the library part. Sorry. I know that I should have written it down.) We were also treated to his impression of David Tennant filming. Moffat can really switch accents perfectly. It’s difficult to recreate in text but, it was something like: (English)Take that you…(/English) (Scottish)Oh, Fuckity Bollocks.(/Scottish) Um…yeah. You’ll just have to take my word for it. (He and David are both from Paisley, after all.)

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Gallifrey One, Steven Moffat, Blink

Gallifrey One’s Nineteenth Symphony: Opus 2008 was possibly more fun than last year, even given that I had to drive the seven hours by myself again. (That drive is just exhausting. Remind me to take an extra day off next year so that I don’t have to go back to work the day after a drive like that.) I arrived in L.A. a day early, so my Evil Twin and I found some time to go over to the Harry Potter Store in Santa Monica. This also allowed me to call my Mum from just outside her High School.

Anyway, the day of the Con finally arrived and we drove there through slightly less traffic than I was expecting. Once we got our badges sorted out we headed straight for the Dealer’s Room. Sadly (or…perhaps not so sadly considering that I had much less money to spend this year) the fabulous artist from last year was not in attendance. Also, the jewelry artist from last year did not arrive until much later. It didn’t really matter though. There was still plenty to look at. And look I did. I purchased a couple of pictures almost right away. One was a sexy Billie Piper pic for my husband who could not join me, and the other was a publicity still from the Torchwood episode: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. I’ll be adding these to my Wall of Who, so you’ll be seeing them at some point. I just need to buy more frames. Thinking of the long drive home that I wuld be dealing with in a couple of days, I also bought the Big Finish Doctor Who Audio Adventure: The Marian Conspiracy. It’s number six of those adventures, but I’ve been told several times that it’s good, so there you are.

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Hello all! I’m back. I don’t want you all to think that I’ve forgotten about you, so here is my annual picture of me in front of the TARDIS to prove that I did in fact go to Gallifrey One 2008. This year I even remembered to take my hair down for the picture, so that I don’t look like I haven’t got any. Fabulous convention, by the way. I’ve already signed up for next year (and saved a bunch of money by doing so.) The Con reports shall begin tomorrow once I get home from work, but for now, I’m exhausted after driving for seven hours to get home. So, I’ll leave you with a picture of Five Doctors Dancing (thanks to Erik for this pic, as mine didn’t turn out.) I did take lots of pics, so I’ll sort through them and be sure to post the best.

Gallifrey One