Weeblepopes wobble but they don't fall down!

Important message for my friends in the DC area.

Pardon the fact that I look like I just rolled out of bed...BECAUSE I DID!

Durrina the bard's awful custard song.

While sitting for her Bardic test, our noble bard failed to impress the bards in the dive where they had her perform. Her story, about vampires and love lost, while true, was seen as too overblown by the judges.

A halfling, in the audience, shouted that she should compose a song on the spot and show them her skill as a performer was not limited to Gothic romance.

She asked what she should sing about in the bar, where bawdy tunes and raucous tales rang out through the night, and asked the audience for a topic.

"Custards!" screamed the halfling, and our bard began to play a little jig, that by the end of the song had all straining to hear the inevitable bad pun that would send then, groaning, to the floor, and earn our bard her performer's stripes, if not for perfect composition, then for being entertaining to drunk demihumans in a common dive bar:

Here was the song which earned her the title journeyman, made up on the spot at the behest of a halfling who'd turn out to be "Doro the Whistler" one of the greatest bards of all time:

In the halfling village of Shire-On-Bustard
lived two great pastry chefs, who sold cakes soft like custard

So vicious was their fight, in their hole-like little shops,
that the bitching, and whining and baking never stopped.

The fairer sexed of the two to the other did cry,
" young man, unlike custard, your cake is quite dry,"

The male replied often, for everyone to hear,
"My cake is the moister, stick that in your ear!"

So the battle ranged on, for over a year,
until I, a poor bard, happened to be near,

"My cake is the moistest, like custard," one said.
The other, "mine is softer, come, bard, be better fed"

I sampled both cakes, and like custard both were,
but deep inside myself, a question did stir...

I noticed the male of the two wore a mask even when home,
I ripped off the mask and discovered he was a gnome!!

The other hemmed and hawed, and was far too bold!
A mask she wore too! She was a kobold!

When I revealed this, the village in anger did shout,
they took the false halflings, and tossed them right out.

I was saddened indeed, by the end of the night...

Nothing's more tragic than two halfling apparents in a custardy fight.

Private Sphere/Public Sphere

I'm not keeping up with the Kardashians. I am a real housewife of Buffalo, but I don't care about the "Real housewives" of various places. I'm not a bridezilla, I'm not into Big Brother, and the rest.

If I was dropped, survivor like, on the Island, you'd see me for 5 minutes, as I set up the camera, held a knife to the cameraman's throat and said "a steak dinner or the cameraman gets it." Likewise, I'd make a simple deal with all of the members: Refuse to vote *anyone* off, split the money between all of us and make a big chunk of change speaking on Dave and Jay about how we decided that working together was better than working apart...

But that's not the point... I believe, completely, in the idea of a public sphere and a private sphere. I'm not interested in who is sleeping with whom, or the pictures of some celebs newest baby, or extra five pounds, or the rest.

I believe these things are in the private sphere unless brought up by the celebrity. For example, Sarah Palin, bragging about her family values, has lost the right to have her family covered by the private sphere, having initiated the breaking of said sphere. Most musicians, athletes, or actors, however, have not violated the private sphere, and don't deserve to be placed in the goldfish bowl.

But, like prostitution, I honestly believe the problem is with the JOHNS, not the hookers. If you are genuinely interested in violating the private sphere, you're going to find someone to get your kicks from. You're going to get off on someone who allows it, or you're going to rape the private sphere of others via an intermediary like the paparazzi.

However, I think that these johns are sick individuals, and the fact that our society cultivates them makes our society sick. I don't understand your INTEREST in who is sleeping with whom and the like, as it's not your business unless the celeb makes it one, and I'm never going to understand your interest.

Where to get your Doctor Who, Part Five.

Once more, for those playing at home, here is Wikipedia's list of Doctor Who episodes, which is also linked below:

Season 15 (1977-1978)

Serial 92:Horror of Fang Rock , available on DVD and instant play from Netflix.
Serial 93: The Invisible Enemy, available on DVD from Netflix and 10 minutes at a time from Daily Motion.
Serial 94: Image of the Fendahl available on DVD from Netflix and also on Daily Motion.
Serial 95: The Sun Makers available on VHS and from Daily Motion.
Serial 96:Underworld available on VHS and from Daily Motion.
Serial 97: The Invasion of Time available on DVD from Netflix and on Daily Motion.

Season 16 (1978-1979)
Serial 98: The Ribos Operation , available on DVD and instant play from Netflix.
Serial 99: The Pirate Planet available on DVD and instant play from Netflix.
Serial 100: The Stones of Blood available on DVD and instant play from Netflix.
Serial 101: The Androids of Tara available on DVD and instant play from Netflix.
Serial 102: The Power of Kroll available on DVD and instant play from Netflix.
Serial 103: The Armageddon Factor available on DVD and instant play from Netflix.

Season 17 (1979-1980)
Serial 104: Destiny of the Daleks , available on DVD from Netflix and on Daily Motion.
Serial 105: City of Death available on DVD and instant play from Netflix.
Serial 106: The Creature from the Pit available on Daily Motion.
Serial 107: Nightmare of Eden available on Daily Motion.
Serial 108: The Horns of Nimon available on Daily Motion.
'Lost Serial': Shada
Depending on which form you want to watch, you can catch it here at Daily Motion, or in a
lovely cartoon dedicated to Douglas Adams here.

Season 18(1979-1980)
Serial 109: The Leisure Hive , available on DVD and instant play from Netflix.
Serial 110: Meglos, available on Daily Motion.
Serial 111: Full Circle available as part of the E-Space Trilogy DVDs at Netflix or on Daily Motion.
Serial 112:State of Decay available as part of the E-Space Trilogy DVDs at Netflix or on Daily Motion.
Serial 113: Warriors' Gate available as part of the E-Space Trilogy DVDs at Netflix or on Daily Motion.
Serial 114: The Keeper of Traken, available on DVD from Netflix or on Daily Motion.
Serial 115: Logopolis, available on DVD from Netflix or on Daily Motion.

Coming up in the next installment, in January, we get our celery on....

Where to get your Who, Part 6