Monster of the Day

Why no, there was no readjustment after returning to work after two weeks. I feel as fresh as a daisy. Of course, the snow-laden streets that saw my little car slewing all over the place were a plus. On the other hand, the snow waited until B-Fest was over, so I shouldn't complain. How…

Sarah is menaced by Dolly Parton's mummy.* [*Unfunny, thuddingly obvious and references 30 years out of date. Welcome to Jabootu!] 'Jokes' aside, this  is my single favorite Doctor Who adventure ever. The newer stuff is magnitudes higher on the sophistication scale, but this right here is Doctor Who to me.

"WARNING! STAY AWAY FROM THE BROWN ACID! REPEAT, DO NOT TAKE THE BROWN ACID!"

Hmm, shouldn't have bought that cheap Krell knock-off kit on eBay.

No surprise after yesterday, I guess. Although I had seen, way back in the day, the Doctor Who movies when I was a tyke, my sorta of first exposure to the Doctor was catching--sadly, right before they ended showing it--the John Pertwee run on our local PBS channel. Several years later they started showing…

"Snausages!"

As I noted yesterday, I've run out of Jack the Giant Killer pictures. So let's go from a Jim Danforth kidde pic to one that went in a rather different direction. This and The Stewardesses (in 3-D!) remain the only 'adult' movies I've seen in a  theater, and both of those would probably be…

And so ends, sadly, our look at Jack the Giant Killer. What a high note, though! The Sea Dragon is fabulous. So goofy and so cool at the same time.

Again, I'm not much for dragons, but you can't not like that. In close-up, he looks like a relative of Reptilicus.