Who arrived in my mailbox?
Exactly. I got the latest UK Doctor Who DVD release in my mailbox today, Mark Of The Rani starring Colin Baker.
This whole mess started when I got the Vengeance Of Varos region 2 DVD from the UK several years ago, and later wound up picking up the other Colin Baker releases to date from the UK too. I just thought it’d be amusing to get all of the Colin Baker DVDs from the UK. Might look a little weird on the DVD shelf, but what the heck – there are only so many Baker stories that can be released, so it’s a nice finite thing for a Strange Subcollection. (All of my eighth Doctor DVDs are from the UK too. I’ll let you work that one out.) Though it’s almost inevitable that Trial Of A Time Lord will wind up coming out as a box set someday – remind me at that time what a good idea I thought it was to do this. 😛
You know what I hate? I hate it when someone calls me, starts a conversation, and says “Well, I’m gonna call you back later, I need to eat dinner/do the laundry/floss my nostrils/go somewhere.” Why the hell didn’t you just wait until that other thing was over and done with before calling me? Gah.
Interesting job turned up tonight on Monster.com, and I’m seriously planning to go for it. Though if I did land this gig, not only would it nearly double my income, but due to the nature of the job and some of my recent rants here, it would send the needle on the irony meter spinning at about 400rpm. But more than that I shall not say. I’m more than ready to get out of the broadcast news biz, at least where this part of the country is concerned.… Read more
