Sex is always better than Violence

Anthony Hopkins just gave us all another reason to love him with this statement on television standards. He wants to see more breasts on television; I'd say more, but I think you've all heard my views on this ad nauseum.

The Simon is still a pretty good read, if not particularly ground-breaking. The new culture column, Consumables, is worth a look; it covered a lot of ground in a short space. If you QCP guys haven't checked this out yet, you should. Assmuming you're still QCP guys, of course.

In personal development news, I'm looking at more study. Acting related, or maybe not. Sadly, the University of Melbourne doesn't seem to offer much in the way of courses in Librarianship, so if I want to do that it looks like I'll have to transfer credit to another institution.

Thanks to a certain someone I've been spending much of my online time (between job hunting and investigating various education options, of course) looking up the artists for a bunch of college acappella. I've found Mainely A Cappella to be most helpful in this regard.

Stuff and Doctor Who.

Looking up schoolfriends.com.au again, and it suddenly struck me how many ex-schoolmates have ended up in the Armed Forces. And how many try to get around the rules of the site and include their email address in their description. People do this on dating sites too, which actually strikes me as stupid; on schoolfriends.com.au you're pretty safe, I mean how many people you knew in school actually still care enough to send you offensive email? But on a dating service...I wouldn't put my email address on there where anyone could find it.

But on to the meat. Doctor Who: it's often good. I know it. Maybe you know it. But will people in general know it, now it's on the ABC four times a week? I don't know. I know we're in for some rocky times; William Hartnell, the first Doctor, is famous for forgetting his lines (you can see notes scribbled on the TARDIS console in some episodes), but in amongst the flummery some truly inspiring storytelling and some great performances can be seen. The introduction to the series, An Unearthly Child, is great; the Daleks show up next week for the first time, and they're pretty menacing in the early days. (In later days too, come to think of it.) Watch out for the historical stories, which alternated with the fantastic ones in the first season; The Aztecs is a personal favourite, and is only a month or so away. I would love to know what they'll do with deleted episodes, though; will they just skip incomplete stories altogether, or do some wacky telesnaps fill-in?

Ah...it's all so exciting! If only I had a VCR and/or watchable ABC reception... Still, the rest of you should get into it, so you know what I've been going on about all these years. It really is wonderful, even after forty years.