tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post3873814583525113595..comments2023-04-10T14:29:56.153+01:00Comments on Raw Light: poetry & opinion since 2005: Horizon: the editor's blogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post-22595446622693259962008-04-23T20:53:00.000+01:002008-04-23T20:53:00.000+01:00Admit it. This 'tagged' business means more bloggi...Admit it. This 'tagged' business means more blogging work for me, doesn't it? <BR/><BR/>Can you get a brain tumour from being online all day? <BR/><BR/>So far this month, I seem to have been online almost every waking moment. When I've not been washing, cooking, cleaning, caring, chiding, driving, reading, writing, bathrooming - that's my attempt at being polite - or sleeping, that is. <BR/><BR/>You'll notice there was no sex in that list. Well, the perpetual blogger has to cut corners somewhere ...JANE HOLLANDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06106938110286631948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post-42418006858319796052008-04-23T20:35:00.000+01:002008-04-23T20:35:00.000+01:00Clone me, as they say. I wish. You're tagged, chec...Clone me, as they say. I wish. You're tagged, check it out...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post-84496140457527302962008-04-23T18:24:00.000+01:002008-04-23T18:24:00.000+01:00I wouldn't exactly describe myself as an anti-Oodi...I wouldn't exactly describe myself as an anti-Oodist. I'm sure they're okay in ones and twos. But the problem with these huge set-pieces on DW is they tend to go over-board on the extras or CGI aliens. <BR/><BR/>In less techie days, three or four aliens in green foil milling about during shooting, then running round the back of the cameras and milling about again from the other side was the accepted method of establishing a 'crowd of aliens' scene. <BR/><BR/>Now, we have to enjoy a cast of hundreds, just because we <I>can</I>, without considering whether the best use of screen time is a tired five minute sequence - which seems to last forever - of people and/or aliens dramatically falling about everywhere and dying, whilst DW and his assistant attempt to find the appropriate button to save them all. <BR/><BR/>At least Daleks came in different colours. Like giant pepperpot-shaped i-Pods.JANE HOLLANDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06106938110286631948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post-90470086892036646322008-04-23T17:28:00.000+01:002008-04-23T17:28:00.000+01:00I didn't have you down as an ... okay, I can't cal...I didn't have you down as an ... okay, I can't call you an alienist as this was an early name for a psychotherapist and 'Oodist' sounds like a follower of the Ood religion ... so what the devil are you madam? Keep your clones.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post-64669598122512641192008-04-23T16:17:00.000+01:002008-04-23T16:17:00.000+01:00I could tell you, but then I'd have to clone you. ...I could tell you, but then I'd have to clone you. I mean, kill you.<BR/><BR/>I never liked the Ood. Bunch of thwarted Enya fans, if their singing's anything to go by. And why do they appear to have haemorrhoids dangling from their mouths?<BR/><BR/>Just too gross for words. Bring back the Daleks, for god's sake.Jane Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15590668593487445482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post-40839910342113510162008-04-23T14:59:00.000+01:002008-04-23T14:59:00.000+01:00Please could I have your cloning instructions? Aft...Please could I have your cloning instructions? After seeing last week's episode of Dr Who, I thought it may be possible to graft extra brains onto the single body (though carrying them round in the hand seems a little wasteful when an excellent hat could be easily designed for the purpose) but I'm willing to go with cloning as a way forward.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post-30303575579619490232008-04-23T10:38:00.000+01:002008-04-23T10:38:00.000+01:00Good question. And the simple answer is, I have cl...Good question. And the simple answer is, I have cloned myself to maximise work time available. <BR/><BR/>Jane Poet writes in the corner, Jane Blogger hits the computer, and Jane Scrubber does the housework and childcare. <BR/><BR/>There are a few other Janes too, but we won't go into that. ;)Jane Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15590668593487445482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post-40802476756228566952008-04-23T09:10:00.000+01:002008-04-23T09:10:00.000+01:00Blimey, Jane, with multiple blogs, editing, a fami...Blimey, Jane, with multiple blogs, editing, a family and Poets on Fire, how on earth do you still find the time and energy to write?!Andrew Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10006232197499662437noreply@blogger.com