A reader came to the website recently, looking for information — according to the search string Google passed — on “Coldplay Fonts.”
Coldplay uses Albertus MT for their logo typeface. COLDPLAY. See? (Assuming, of course, that you have Albertus MT installed on your machine. As I do.)
No, I don’t have a font problem. I can quit them any time. 
So I’ve been reading the Doctor Who graphic novel, The Flood, starring Paul McGann’s Doctor.
And I have decided.
“The Land of Happy Endings” may be the most perfect Doctor Who story ever. Dr Who and his grandchildren, John and Gillian, have a little adventure on a very sad planet. Sad grey aliens, flying robots, a Flash Gordon-style city, and then a final page that, maybe better even than the seventh Doctor’s closing line in “Survival” explains why it is the Doctor does what he does.
Also, for Doctor Who fans familiar only with the Eccleston or Tennant version of the character, the final page of “The Land of Happy Endings” has as palpable a sense of loss and longing as anything in “Gridlock” or the …
I don’t often share YouTube videos, but I saw this video and was rather impressed. Someone put together a trailer for Doctor Who: The Time War. The Time War, for those unfamiliar with it, is the conflict that’s been mentioned in the new series on several occasions in which the Daleks and the Time Lords fought for all creation, and the Time Lords lost leaving Gallifrey a burned husk and the Time Lords exterminated.
The trailer is fanwanky as hell, from an ominous Tom Baker voice-over (taken from “The Deadly Assassin” and “State of Decay”) to the fate of the eighth Doctor, and it uses far too many clips of the Daleks from “Parting of the Ways” (but really, what other options were …
My friend Todd “Scavenger” Kogutt keeps telling me about the Doctor Who spin-off he’d love to see: Abslom Daak: Dalek Killer, starring Bruce Campbell. The first time he told me this I must confess that I snarfed coffee on my monitor–I just didn’t see it. But after the recent Dalek two-parter Todd brought the idea up again, and I considered it.
Abslom Daak. For those unfamiliar with the character and his origins, WHOniverse offers a Discontinuity Guide-style entry on his first appearance, the New Zealand fanzine TSV has a detailed article on Daak’s history and appearances, and Wikipedia has a good summary of the character:
Convicted of “23 charges of murder, pillage, piracy, massacre and other crimes too horrible to
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Road trip. Friday. Me and my dad, on the way to Baltimore.
It’s a long trip from Raleigh to Baltimore. Six hours, under the best of conditions. The roads, at least from Raleigh to Richmond–half-way there–are desolate stretches of the American landscape. Boredom inducing.
I took two Doctor Who audios for the ride–Real Time and Shada.
Didn’t listen to Real Time. My dad and I listened to Shada.
I hadn’t heard this since, oh, December 2003.
Shada was written by Douglas Adams as the season finale of season 17, way back during the Tom Baker era in 1979. Due to an electrician’s strike production of the story was halted, and ultimately cancelled with the six-episode story half-completed. Fast-forward two decades and …
