mrwaverly

I was just listening to one of my favourite bands - Magazine, a post-punk band (1978-81), and, in particular, their song, 'A Song From Under The Floorboards' (dedicated to Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's beside the point, although in their song 'Philadelphia', there is the couplet: "I could have been Raskalnikov/But mother nature ripped me off". Well read band, they were.), describes me to a T.:...
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I have just changed my location on my profile. As usual, at this time of day, my mind started to wander, nay, saunter, or even, perhaps, sashay off on a completely random track, like those 'desire paths' that myriad feet use to cut corners, find the quickest point from alpha to omega, and that after years, find themselves the best path to use. I found...
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Well, I was right, all those weeks ago, about 'Missy' being a female regeneration of The Master. Vindication. Lots to like about this episode - the darkness of it, harking back to the dread-filled early Tom Baker stories; the sly nods to the past: "Doctor? Doctor Who?", and the lovely psychic paper gag: "A government inspection? ...And what's all this swearing?" A gag children would...
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Thought I'd have a bit of fun, so the picture is NOT me. It's the great Lon Chaney, in a still from the lost [and it is lost, most definitely] 1925 movie 'London After Midnight'. Chaney was well known for his chameleon like ways of inhabiting his film characters, often putting himself into excruciating pain to do so. So much so, that a popular saying...
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Three episodes in, and Capaldi has nailed it. I'm liking his rudeness, and leftfieldness. A cross between Doctors 1, 4, and 6, with a touch of 7. Great start!

The latest episode of the new series of 'Doctor Who' was great, as you would expect from the pen of Mark Gatiss. If you are not familiar with his name, he is also an actor, who plays Sherlock Holmes' brother Mycroft in 'Sherlock'. Or you might remember him as one of the 'League Of Gentlemen', usually under tons of prosthetics, or, most famously, as the...
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You may have seen, or not, the comment I placed under the little cyberman's picture. I have to 'fess up: It's not mine. It was said by the late, very great comedian Peter Cook, on one of his, and the equally sadly missed Dudley Moore's hilarious but quite obscene 'Derek and Clive' albums. He is referring to the superannuated, possibly Jurassic British TV personality Bruce...
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I have just watched the new episode of Doctor Who again. At the end, a very odd female character is introduced. She wears Victorian clothes, and, indeed, resembles Mary Poppins. She is in a beautiful, formal garden. She introduces herself as 'Missy'. Now this set me thinking, and what I thought might require a bit of a leap of faith to accept. I think that...
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I have just cooked myself a snack. I fear that it may incur the wrath of the day staff here, but as I will not be at work for a few days, that's a risk I'm willing to take. So, what did I cook? Something really old fashioned: Kippers. If you don't know what they are, they are Herrings that have been smoked, and they...
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