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6.1.22
Aesthetic Thursday: People Who Found Their "Twin" in Old Paintings
21.11.21
Stones of Erasmus Television Review — Doctor Who: Flux, "Village of the Angels"
How do you sum up the British Sci-Fi television series Doctor Who in a few sentences?
The Doctor is a Time-Traveling Alien
The Doctor is an alien time-traveler who travels in a broken time machine that has been begrudgingly stuck in the shape of a British police box. The Doctor almost always has an earthling companion, and he (or she) has a penchant for the human beings of planet earth. The show is at its heart a story about saving the heart of humanity — seen through the perspective of someone who is not us — but who is madly in love with us, silly, stupid, harmful humans. In tonight's episode, part four of a Dr. Who mini-series entitled The Flux, the Doctor meets a devastating bind; by saving the life of a human, she falls into a trap. And viewers were left on the edge of their seats with quite a crazy twist.
Jodi Whitaker's Doctor Finds out More About Her Past — At a Cost
The Doctor is about to find out more about her past — more about the past that even pre-dates the narrative history of the show itself, the past the Doctor lived before they were our Doctor! The show has toyed with this idea for a dozen episodes so far, with the big reveal in Season Thirteen that the Doctor is not indigenous to the race of the Time Lord — the race they thought they were — but a "Timeless Child," whose regeneration properties the Time Lords retrofitted to their own purposes.
And much of the Doctor's deep past on Gallifrey was wiped out from their mind — and what we know of the Doctor, as television viewers might be just a glimpse of a cosmic history of a character who already seems larger than life — so I have to say I am excited for the next two episodes of the show.
Can the Doctor Escape the Weeping Angels and the Division?
Will The Doctor be able to get out of this pickle? How will her friends get out of their pickle? Last season ended with the Doctor imprisoned by the Judoon and Jack Harkness came to the rescue — but I am not so sure the Doctor is going to escape Weeping Angels so easily. And then there is the Division. Who are they? And how much will they reveal about the Doctor's past?
Are you a fan?
Let me know your thoughts on tonight's episode in the comments.
17.11.21
Pizza Face: Wednesdays in the School Dining Hall
6.11.21
Fall Teaching Diary: After a Quarter of the Year Teaching (On the Hinge of the Covid-19 Pandemic)
1.10.21
Clip Art: Helios, God of the Sun
16.9.21
Why I Love TikTok Content Creators (And So Should You) — And a List of Zany TikToks I Found
It’s possible that this edit is rather basic. But it's relatively early TikTok. I like the use of color and fashion and the sheer fact that the guy is having a lot of fun. And that's quite a mess for one less-than-thirty-second video.
7. The Five Minute Bathroom Break
8. Right?!
9. The Smiling Boy
10. The Histrionic School Lunch Lady Performance
11. It's Got To Be the Sweater
8.8.21
Travel Postcard: That Time I Visited a Public Library in Saltillo, Mexico
In this post, I write about finding a photograph of me standing in front of a public library in Saltillo, Mexico.
Greig poses in front of a public library in the city of Saltillo in Coahuila, Mexico (c. 1998). |
La Biblioteca Publica del Estado, Coahuila, Saltillo — Image Credit: Photo archived by Gerardo Zárate |