On the Subject of: New to Who?

i wasnt always as consumed for my love of the doctor as i am these days. i was once a "normie"... regular like you. in fact, i was once the sort of gal who declined to participate, when my dorian and zoe watched together each week. dorian assured me i would love it and often encouraged me to join them. long story short, my screen name is now "gallifreygirl37"

the first episode i watched fully and with attention was "blink"
and even though the doctor, the 10th doctor.... david tennant, was barely in the episode at all, i was instantly enthralled.

i am, in my heart, a partial purist, and so i knew i needed to move forward but had to start at the beginning, the new beginning, the christpher eccleston beginning at least. if i was going to love the doctor, i would at least have to mostly know what i was in love with.

i found him a true delight. fantastic, if you will. i am a HUGE fan of Shallow Grave, and so i was so excited to watch christopher as the doctor spin around the sights with rose. by the time "bad wolf" came around i was fully addicted and convinced that the doctor was in love with rose. "the empty child" and "the doctor dances" are among the most prescious things to me, created by pop culture, ever.

here's how you get me, a love story and a salute to mommies and babies. hooked. just hooked. and captain jack harkness.... yes please.

in fact. i SAW john barrowman at Phoenix Comic Con this past turn. i wish i had time to wait in line to talk to him, hug someone who hugged the docotor. but i was prevented, still... just to see him across from a sea of nerd humanity made me hop and giggle.

even though i knew that the going of christpher heralded the coming of david, i was so sad to see him go that i ugly cried... "have a fantastic life..." yes rose, do.

i fell head over heels for david's doctor. and when i got back to blink, it was a whole new experience. i love, love, love every. single. episode. of david tennent's doctor. i absolutely adore rose. i was cool with martha. "human nature" and "family of blood" are two favorites. as is my tradition, i ugly cried. and still do. every time.
in fact, i was once tempted to buy a replica of the doctors journal of impossible things. i saved $30 but i still wish id made a more frivolous choice.
i even loved donna. it wasnt the same magic as rose, but i was still totally enthralled and on board.

in the end, i think 10 is the doctor who is most like me. he is the ME doctor. a bit angry. a bit addicted. a bit mad. a grudge holder with a compulsion to do right. someone who loves deeply and truly and forever. someone who cant say goodbye and doesn't want to go.

when the master came.... oh man. when timothy dalton was revealed... nerd heaven! and when i had to say goodbye to david.... i was so pleased by the care and respect given to his doctors regeneration. it hurt. oh man, it hurt. but i was oddly satisfied. had i not been, it may have been much harder to accept matt smith's doctor.
but it wasnt.

matt smith fit so neatly into my heart its like i was saving a spot for him all along. whilst i was licking my wounds and preparing to punish 11 for the loss i felt for 10, amy pond won my heart top to bottom. and she never let me down and she never let me go.
i am whole-hog in love with 11. my matt smith doctor. i wait up for him on saturday nights. his whimsy captures me. he is the doctor i wish i COULD be. he is the doctor my heart craves. fun. awkward. confused, but bad ass.
in the 11th hour when he presents himself as the doctor i was like, "im in"
and his journey with amy and rory always always always made me happy as a nerdy clam.

heres how you win me.... show me a happy married couple who adventure through life together, or not at all. the girl who waited... the first centurion... melt me. just melt me.
river song? hello sweetie!
pandorica opens.... oh. my. god.

and when i had to say goodbye to amy and rory.... i couldn't.
i really couldn't.
i think i have watched 'angels take manhattan' a dozen times. and i still wont let go of the ponds. the williams. they are mine. together, or not at all.

ok, souflee girl. show me what youve got.

all of this season has been a complete treat for me. matt vs matt in the silver menace? ok. i need more of that.

and now theyre telling me i have to say goodbye to matt too? i honestly, honestly, don't think i can.

matt was already the doctor by the time i caught up to him. i have never had to experience a new doctor in real time. and i really, truly, do NOT want to let go of my 11. he is the dorian doctor, to me. hes the one i fall in love with and run away with in a mad mans box.

9 was a new world.
10 was my world.
11 was the world i want to live in...
what will 12 be?
who will 12 be?

will i love him enough? here is what i told zoe when we were about to welcome a new life into our family "we dont know what he will be like. but i know that i love you more than anything and that my whole heart is devoted to you. that will never ever change. the only possibility is that, when our rocket comes, that our hearts will get bigger- to make room."
and thats what happened then.
and i hope that is what will happen now.

i have two more episodes to love my dorian-doctor. and then... after that... i just hope the doctor is ginger.

On the Subject of: Most Triumphant Prizes

here are the recommended reading selections, tickets and sticker give-a-ways at this Thursday & Saturday's Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. I think you will agree they are most non-heinous...



and most excellent art works you can win...



...the great ones



my personal faves...



join us for a most excellent adventure this Thursday 7:30 or Saturday at 2:00

Click here to travel through the circuits of time to the ticket booth!

Be excellent to each other. And, party on!

k.

On the Subject of Wonderstone

i really enjoyed the Incredible Burt Wonderstone!

in particular, i am vulnerable to stories of friendship and relationships that elevate the people who participate in them. my favorite movie is butch cassidy and the sundance kid. my favorite companions are rory and amy pond... i like partners.

i was also very drawn in by the question of what magic is, what it should be- the sense of wonder- and revelation that the simple, the traditional, the classic and the pure art of anything can endure... and, this is true of all things, it is the passion that you put into a performance that inspires an audience. as a performer, you have to maintain your own sense of wonder and be excited by what you create.

and i love jim carrey. and steve buschemi. and alan arkin. oh, and i like steve carell too.

On the Subject of Your Raiders Recommended Reading & Prize Pool

stopped by Bookmans to find a "Recommended Reading" selection for next week's Raiders of the Lost Ark at First Time Film Club

and found this

not bad, eh? how about a sneek peek...

and i thought it might be fun to take a look at the whole prize package... just SOME of the stuff that we will be giving out to the First Timers and SuperFans who join us on Thursday the 31st.

$4 off your tickets, only $6 if you use promo code WHIP and make reservations online here.
Professor of Archeology, expert on the occult, and how does one say it... obtainer of rare antiquities.

On the Subject of: Spot the Indy

can you spot the indy in my living room?

need a hint?

free ticket for the cleverest Indy/Han mash up quote in the comments!

fly casual. avoid snakes.

On the Subject of: The Happiest Place on Earth

ill feel no guilt going on and on about how much i love disneyland because it is tied directly into my love of indiana jones.

i love disneyland. more than someone my age reasonably aught to. i always have. it has always been for me, literally, the happiest- realest- fake place on earth.

its magic. it really is a magic kingdom. it is the stories you love and the characters you cherish brought to life. real, fake life.

when i was a kid we took a trip to disneyland and, delightfully, my sister got sick from the rides. my brother was to little to stay up late, so mom took sis and bro back to the good neighbor hotel and i got to spend an enchanted evening at disneyland just me and my daddy. i remember with perfect clarity being insanely giddy at getting to pick, without argument or objection, exactly everything we would ride and do and see for the whole night. i remember buying the biggest lolipops i could ever possibly imagine, and getting to start in on mine while sis and bro's lollys stayed safely tucked away. and i remember the walk down main street on daddy's shoulders when i was too tired to walk and had experienced all the fun i could take.

i remember when the indiana jones ride first opened. i mean FIRST opened. i remember waiting in line roughly four hours with my family. youve probably seen all the cryptic writing on the walls and floors and ceilings when you walk through the line of that ride. well, the first year it was open everyone was issued a translation card. you can pretty much still read it because its basically just english letters with some extra embelishment thrown in... but that first four hours through we Stewarts translated everything perfectly and with enormous enthusiasm.
it was really one of the first rides to have an interactive waiting experience for you. and, so many variations of the ride experience. after the first bumpy jaunt through, it was easy to convince my family to que up for another four hours.

i remember bringing my little girl zoe to disneyland when she was three. she was a big time nightmare before christmas fan, and we were there for haunted holidays- for halloween to be exact. we had just arrived and we were walking towards the haunted mansion for our first choice of ride. zoe was fit into her stroller wearing a tiny and adorable sally costume, with her stuffed sally and jack taking the ride with her. we had just passed pirates of the carribbean when they came walking out of a side street- jack and sally- arm in arm. it was early and not crowded yet. they walked right past us and, although they were being herded by a character nazi (you know, those polo shirt wearing heartless monsters who tear you off of goofy when its his break time) still, jack and sally passed by zoe and stopped, and talked to her. i can tell you, her mind was blown. the look on her face was worth whatever dollar amount disney deems fit to charge.
and although she was very little and probably doesnt remember it with the clarity that i do--- I DO. however happy she was, i was ten million times more happy. the magic was, and is, real for her. and for me.

my sensible-minded husband assures me that it is no great failure on my part that our little guy, rocket, is 2 and still has not visited the magic kingdom. i disagree. "he wont even remember it," dorian says. but my little rocket LOVES mickey mouse and he LOVES jake and the neverland pirates and he LOVES darth vadar. i know that if we take him he will spend the hours as a shaking pile of overwhelmed joy. even if he doesnt remember, i will. i will and, really, its for me. so that i can remember the times i made my kids so mindlessly happy that they drool. the time when i can get my kids the biggest lollipop they could possibly imagine, and let it color the drool like a big sticky, happy, rainbow. thats for me. i want that.

still, as much as the disneyland magic was magnified for me when i saw it through the eyes of the creatures i most adore.... those little monsters arent big enough to ride indiana jones yet. and so i will not hesitate to send them packing off to the tarzan (formerly swiss family robinson) tree house so that I can ride indiana jones.... and feel that wind whipping through my hair as my spine is joyfully jostled into disalignment.

oh, one last disneyland memory- on that same trip when i got a daddy evening to myself, i ALSO got to pull the sword from the stone. yes, THE sword from THE stone in front of the carosel in fantasy land. i got a crown.

On the Subject of: Your Naked Torso

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