THE ZOMBIES HAVE THE PHONE BOX

Since the Earth Prime-Time of the Living Dead has its own counterparts to Davina McCall and the housemates of 'Big Brother', it's reasonable to assume that counterparts from other TV shows can probably be found there as well.

An artist for SFX conceived this pozz'ble fate for two alumni of 'Doctor Who' - former Companions Rose Tyler and Sarah Jane Smith: BCnU!

AS SEEN ON TV: GEORGE STEPHENSON

GEORGE STEPHENSON

AS SEEN IN:
'Doctor Who'

AS PLAYED BY:
Gawn Grainger

From epguides.com:

"Mark Of The Rani"
During the industrial revolution, the workers at Lord Ravensworth's mines are staging increasingly violent Luddite attacks. The Doctor discovers an old enemy from his academy days, the Rani, is tampering with the workers' minds so that they are unable to rest or sleep. When she joins forces with the Master, using her chemical skills to try and destroy the Doctor, the danger he faces has effectively been doubled...

from Wikipedia:

In 1818, aware of the explosions often caused in mines by naked flames, Stephenson began to experiment with a safety lamp that would burn without causing an explosion. At the same time, Sir Humphry Davy, the eminent scientist, was looking at the problem himself.

Despite his lack of any scientific knowledge, Stephenson, by trial and error, devised a lamp in which the air entered via tiny holes. Stephenson demonstrated the lamp himself to two witnesses by taking it down Killingworth colliery and holding it directly in front of a fissure from which fire damp was issuing. This was a month before Davy presented his design to the Royal Society. The two designs differed in that, the Davy’s lamp was surrounded by a screen of gauze, whereas Stephenson’s lamp was contained in a glass cylinder. For his invention Davy was awarded £2,000, whilst Stephenson was accused of stealing the idea from Davy.

A local committee of enquiry exonerated Stephenson, proved that he had been working separately and awarded him £1,000 but Davy and his supporters refused to accept this. They could not see how an uneducated man such as Stephenson could come up with the solution that he had.

In 1833 a House of Commons committee found that Stephenson had equal claim to having invented the safety lamp. Davy went to his grave believing that Stephenson had stolen his idea. The Stephenson lamp was used exclusively in the North East, whereas the Davy lamp was used everywhere else. The experience with Davy gave Stephenson a life-long distrust of London-based, theoretical, scientific experts.

BCnU!

BEST EPISODE OF TV IN 2010?

Just a quick little note, so there'll be more than just 24 posts in today's celebration.....

Alan Sepinwall moved his "What's Alan Watching?" TV blog to Hitfix earlier this year. (The link is to the left, dear friends.) And as is the wont of TV columnists and critics at this time of year, he's been looking back over the year for the best shows to put into a Top Ten list.

But he's also done a column on the best episodes and then opened up the floor to his readership to add in their two quatloos.

Here's what I offered:

Toby O'B
I'm going with the two-part season finale for 'Doctor Who' - "The Pandorica Opens" and "The Big Bang". Silly, exciting, funny, moving, romantic, a roller coaster of a fairy tale......

I may throw in more of these little posts before I'm done......

BCnU!

HAPPY WHO'S ON FIRST DAY!

Here it is! The second annual "Who's On First" celebration at Inner Toob, in which we spend the next 24 hours celebrating the amazing 'Doctor Who' on the first day of the year.

And to start things off, here's the picture from 'Robot Chicken' which inspired the theme: BCnU!

THE HAT SQUAD: REMEMBERING UNCLE SKIPPY

One of the major events in my life this past year was a sad one - the death of my Uncle Skippy, who was also my godfather. I consider him and my godmother, Auntie Ellie, to be major influences in my life - she with her "Auntie Mame" joie de vivre, and he with his puckish sense of humor, darting in and out with quick little quips.

Norman Smith, Senior, was one of the first ten licensed TV repairmen in the state of Connecticut, and he was quite proud of that fact. As far as I know, my cousins still have his original license certificate. For a time he was the president of TELSA, a local organization for electronics dealers. When he finally retired and sold his company in West Hartford - Tip Top TV, which also sold televisions - Uncle Skip showed excellent timing, as we became more of a disposable society and the need for TV repairmen was dramatically reduced.

I accompanied him a few times on his appointments and it was cool to sit on those rooftops with my cousin Norman while Uncle Skippy worked on the antennae. And on one call, I got to meet an actual local TV celebrity - Ralph Kanna, the host of a Connecticut kids' show, "Draw With Me", on the local NBC affiliate.

So in these last few minutes of 2010, I just wanted to take a personal moment to remember Norman "Skip" Smith. Like the Eleventh Incarnation of the Doctor, who'll be the focus of a deluge of posts beginning at midnight, Uncle Skippy made bowties cool.

BCnU......

SKED ALERT: "PRIMEVAL" IS BACK FROM EXTINCTION!

While you're celebrating/recovering on New Year's Day, pry yourself away from the "Who's On First" celebration here at Inner Toob long enough to watch the return of 'Primeval' on BBC-America.......

And you can see five prequels to the new season at the BBC-America page for the show.

BCnU!

Make the Switch

I had made an earlier version of this on my other blog, but the whole discussion about marketing got me fired up again on this topic.

This is just an initial concept, but what do you think about the ideas being presented? Click for full view.

I shamelessly stole the art since this is just a concept piece and that is standard stock art. Hate me if you want to. ;)

Randomness in the Warmth of a New Year

Today's temps were in the low to mid 60's today, and although that doesn't feel quite right for a New Year's Eve, it did make for a productive day. With the garage door open and Gideon dozing on the front porch, it was easy to start the chore of taking down Christmas decorations.

Next year Harleigh will be living off-campus, getting an apartment with sweet Anna, a new friend this year and one who lives close by us, in Roswell. We've started brainstorming about the apartment. We will have a lunch with Anna and her mom within the next couple of weeks and will talk about the living area of the apartment — couch, tables, lamps, etc. But in the meantime, we've started thinking about Harleigh's bedroom and bathroom. And when I say "thinking," I mean "thinking thriftily." We'll begin now, amassing furniture and decor; much easier on the budget that way. And so we went to several thrift stores a few days ago and found this dresser for $60. She fell in love with it and it's now in our garage. I love how the drawer pulls are not all the same. She wants to keep it black and white, and it's a piece that will stay with her forever and will probably enjoy many coats of paint in its lifetime.

After picking up the dresser today, I had to (had to, mind you) stop in Goodwill. It was, after all, right next door. Found these Strawberry Shortcake pillowcases (Harleigh will love them).

This Shabby Chic queen-sized duvet cover.

Two homemade Christmas tablecloths. Can never have too many of these.

And this Holly Hobbie fitted sheet (another for Harleigh's bed). And all of these for under $15.

I should have known I'd have good linen luck today. It started this morning when I met Sarah for coffee. A friend I've always felt a special connection with. And although we don't see each other or even talk all that frequently, we pick things up as if we've never been apart. I cherish every word we exchange. Here is the sweetest of kitchen towels she gave me.

Happy New Year to everyone who visits me. May 2011 be a special one, in ways we don't even know yet!

With love,

Dawn E. Girl

2011 is here..

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..amplified by 3 dB..

 

..and by 6 dB..

 

..as Eddie Murphy waould say, "Merry New Year!" Now go have a wee jolt of Irish Whiskey.

-30-

Errant Review: In French!

I only found this glowing review of Errant via Google stats on the blog showing me I was getting a lot of hits from this site. Assuming Google-Translate is right, this is a really awesome review! Thanks to Olivier Rousselin!

As a huge French history lover, I just get all warm and fuzzy seeing praise in Francais.

Vive la France!

Censored in 2010: Defense of Mother Earth, the racist right, US torture and collapse of the media

Censored in 2010: Defense of Mother Earth, the racist right, US torture and collapse of the media
By Brenda Norrell/Censored News/http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com (Photo: Dine Water Rights/march 2010)
What was censored in 2010 on the issues of Indigenous Peoples and human rights? Due to the collapse of the media and the proliferation of the racist right, there's too much to print, but here are ten of the most censored issues.


1. The United States -- the last country in the world to support the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples -- fooled many people when President Obama announced the US would support the Declaration. However, the US did not "endorse," "adopt," or "sign on" to the Declaration. The US only announced "support," and attached a lengthy list of limitations from the US State Dept.


2. None of the elected Native American leaders from the United States joined Bolivian President Evo Morales in his push for new global standards to protect Mother Earth at the climate summits in Cochabamba or Cancun. Carbon trading scams continued, allowing the worst global polluters to continue to pollute. Even though coal-fired power plants are a leading cause of global warming and destruction in the Arctic habitat of wildlife, the Navajo Nation continued to push for another coal fired power plant, Desert Rock. Other Indian Nations continued the push for oil and gas drilling and other polluting industries. The Navajo Nation gave away Dineh water rights in Arizona and uranium mining companies continued to target Navajo, Lakota and other Indian lands.


3. The proliferation of the racist right fueled anti-migrant hysteria in Arizona and elsewhere. Along the US Mexico border, profiteering from migrant prisons and border security contracts continued. The shooting deaths of American Indians by city and county police in Washington State, South Dakota, and elsewhere, along with the arrest in Virginia of a Mohawk film crew, exposed the malignant racism in US law enforcement. The white superiority mindset of the Ku Klux Klan continues in the US, both within white cloaks and police uniforms. It also continues in state legislatures, including Arizona, and in Indian bordertowns.


4. President Obama spent only about 30 minutes with the 12 Native American leaders invited to the White House, and only about 30 minutes with the 565 Native leaders invited to the Interior Building, during the White House Tribal Nations Conference in Dec. It was originally proclaimed as a welcome to the White House for all Indian leaders, last year. Again this year, the 565 Native leaders did not get that handshake and welcome to the White House.


5. The US State Dept. wasted a great deal of time and money of grassroots Native people by holding "Listening Conferences," on human rights issues in numerous locations in 2010. In the final US Periodic Review to the United Nations, almost all were ignored. Even the online State Dept. summaries were pathetic, lacking key names and issues.


6. The United States, George Bush and Dick Cheney, were not held responsible for US torture, in violation of the Geneva Conventions, in 201o. US drones continued to be used for rogue assassinations and the killing of civilians. The US continued the School of Americas, Guantanamo, secret black sites of torture and the training of military soldiers from other countries in torture.


7. The pathetic collapse of the news industry left the industry on life support. Many journalists became, or continued to be, armchair journalists. Some continued cheerleading for the US war in Afghanistan, urging young people toward death, for a bogus war, without examining the truth behind this war. Still others focused on divisive politics, or simply collapsed into the Internet, plagiarizing, rewriting press releases, and making a few phone calls.


8. While the US media pointed its clean white fingers at Mexico's drug war, few reporters pointed out that there would be no drug war in Mexico if it were not for the demand by US citizens for illegal drugs. Few reporters pointed out that the Zetas, the most notorious murderers in the cartels in Mexico, were originally trained as human killing machines of the US special forces.


9. US Border Patrol agents, immigration agents and the US military continue to smuggle drugs and weapons, and murder and rape, with impunity, along the US/Mexico border. The US Army Special Ops continues to post online its operating manual, showing that it provides weapons and support to guerrillas to destabilize governments, and continue war. Ultimately this means the US is responsible for killing its own citizens, along with other innocent women, children and elderly.
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10: While global enforcement agencies focused on Wikileaks, rather than the perpetrators of the crimes, these agencies ignored the murdered and missing women and children in Canada, and the widespread global trafficking of women and children. Meanwhile, Wikileaks shed light on the white privilege mindset within the cables, as the US and its partner multi-national corporations continued to assassinate and make homeless Indigenous Peoples living on lands targeted for mining, dams and deforestation around the world.
Here are the most popular links on Indigenous Peoples and human rights from Censored News 2010:

This week: Wikileaks on Indigenous Peoples: US white privilege
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/12/wikileaks-on-indigenous-peoples-us.html
Past six months:
Wikileaks: Canada's unauthorized wiretaps of Mohawks (5,448 views)
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/08/wikileaks-canadas-unauthorized-wiretaps.html
Video: Virginia police attack Akwesasne film crew in 'Mississippi Burning' style attack
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/11/video-virginia-police-attack-akwesasne.html
Tewa Women United at US Social Forum (Fighting the nuclear industry on sacred lands in northern New Mexico)
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/06/video-tewa-women-united-at-us-social.html
Tohono O'odham Mike Wilson responds to threat of poisoned water at migrant water stations
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/08/mike-wilson-tohono-oodham-responds-to.html
The Border: O'odham Ofelia Rivas to National Guard: 'We do not want you on our land'
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/08/oodham-to-national-guard-we-do-not-want.html
Secret negotiations released on Navajo water rights settlement
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/09/secret-negotiations-released-on-navajo.html
AIM video highlights: San Francisco conference 2010, recordings by Earthcycles http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/11/aim-conference-video-highlights-2010.html
Peltier family accuses US of medical neglect
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2010/11/leonard-peltier-family-accuses-us-of.html
Top video by Earthcycles/Censored News 2010
Southern Border Indigenous Roundtable, hosted by the Indigenous Alliance without Borders
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/10935828

Top Fashion Model Carolyn Murphy biography And Photo Gallery

Carolyn Murphy Info:

COUNTRY	American model
DATE OF BIRTH	August 11, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fort Walton Beach, Florida, USA
EYES	blue
HAIR	Brown
CHEST	86 cm
WAIST	61 cm
HIPS	86 cm
HEIGHT	176 cm
WEIGHT	58 kg

Carolyn Murphy biography:

Murphy was born in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, and grew up all through Northwest Florida, spending most of her babyhood in a trailer park there. At the age of 15, she was spotted by Mary Lou Nash, owner and operator of Mary Lou's Models, a modeling agency. Nash saw Murphy's probable and soon she was modeling in local ads and magazine throughout Florida and Alabama. After she graduate from Choctawhatchee Senior High School, Murphy moved to Milan to further her modeling career.

 

Campaigns:

7 for all Mankind, Angela Cummings, Anne Klein, Bergdorf Goodman, Calvin Klein, Calvin Klein 'Contradiction' fragrance, Celine, Cento X Cento, Cesare Paciotti, Chloe 'Innocence' perfume, Coach, D&G, DKNY, Dolce & Gabbana, Escada, Estee Lauder 'Pleasures', 'Beyond Paradise', 'Intense Pleasure', 'Beautiful', 'Youth Dew Amber Nude' and 'Pleasure Exotic' fragrances, Et Vous, Fendi, GAP, Gucci, Harry Winston, Istante, Jantzen, Lagerfeld, Laurel, MaxMara, Missoni, Prada, Richard Tyler, Tiffany & Co., Trussardi, Valentino, Versace, Versus, Zara

Covers:

 

Vogue (France, US, Germany, UK, Italy, Australia, Greece, Japan, Mexico, Spain), Elle (France, UK, US, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Sweden), L'Officiel, Glamour, Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated Simsuit Edition, Marie Claire, Ragazza, GQ, Woman, Frank, i-D, Tatler, W, American Photo, Allure, Harper's Bazaar, Sel

Shows:

Byblos, Cerruti 1881, DKNY, John Galliano, Karl Lagerfeld, Sonia Rykiel, Trussardi, Yohji Yamamoto, Alessandro Dell 'Acqua, Alberta Ferretti,Bill Blass, Badgley Mischka, Carolina Herrera, Costume National, Chloe, Dolce & Gabbana, Daryl K, Eric Bergere, Ellen Tracy, Fendi, Gianni Versace, Genny, Gucci, Isaac Mizrahi, Iceberg, Jil Sander, Martine Sitbon, Missoni.

Carolyn Murphy photogallary:

Top Fashion Model Claudia Schiffer biography And Photo Gallery

Claudia Schiffer Info:

COUNTRY	German model
DATE OF BIRTH	August 25, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rheinberg, Germany
EYES	blue
HAIR	blonde
CHEST	95 cm
WAIST	62 cm
HIPS	92 cm
HEIGHT	180 cm
WEIGHT	58 kg

Claudia Schiffer biography:

After she was spotted as a potential model in a disco at the age of just seventeen, she completed her learning by her mother's wishes and then began to work as a model. She flew out to Paris for a trial photo shoot and soon after she appear in the cover of French ELLE after being well conventional in Paris. After several other magazine appearances she quickly achieved supermodel status when she was preferred by Karl Lagerfeld to become the new face of Chanel. Schiffer continuous to become a world-famous supermodel, becoming instantly recognizable with her blue eyes, blond hair and tall figure.

Campaigns:

Apriori, Byblos, Caro Cuore, Chanel, Chanel 'Cristalle' perfume, Chaumet perfume, Christ Jewellry, Citroen, Club Med, Coccapani, Cue Design, Ebel Watches, El Corte Ingles, Escada, Fanta, Ferragamo, GAP, Gianfranco Ferre, Gianni Versace Couture, Gottex, Guess?, Guess? Perfume, GV Jeans, Hennes & Mauritz, Iceberg, Il Marchese Coccapani, Istante, Jones New York, Joop!, Katharine Hamnett, Kerastase, Le Gi, L'Oreal, Mango, Marc Jacobs shoes, Melissa, Paule Ka, Peek & Cloppenburg, PennyBlack, Pepsi, Ralph Lauren, Revlon, River Island, Salvatore Ferragamo, Strenesse Gabriele Strehle, Swish Jeans, Umberto Ginocchietti, Valentino, Versace, Vichy, Victoria's Secret, XOXO

Covers:

 

Vogue, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Woman, Elle Top Model, GQ, Vanity Fair, i-D, Harpers Bazaar, Rolling Stone, Mademoiselle, Ocean Drive, Glamour, American Photo, W, Allure, Uomini, New Woman, Hola, Dolly, Architectural Digest, Detour, L'Espresso, Max

Shows:

 

Chanel, Gianni Versace, Chloe, Karl Lagerfeld, Valentino, Michael Kors, Ralph Lauren, RoccoBarocco, Thierry Mugler, Anna Sui, Badgley Mishka, Blamain, Joop!, Louis Vuitton, Yves Saint Laurent

Claudia Schiffer photogallary: