Bilirubin

Its an orbital dermoid cyst. But that doesn't sound half as exciting as the reality does it? About a year ago my wife noticed I had a slight ptosis (think droopy eyelid) on the left but I just passed it off to being old, tired, and perhaps enjoying one or two more drinks than would be advisable by a doctor ;) My sister had one removed from her nose when she was a little kid but this one went unnoticed until the droopy eye thing, and a small bulge appeared on my eyebrow.

Pooka: I'm fine, just biding my time for the surgical consult.Its not until the end of March which says they aren't super concerned about it.

Happy belated!

And welcome to your best decade!

I get to have an evil twin removed from my left eye socket! Its apparently been slowly eating its way towards my brain all my life!

Just catching up; damn Balty, nice pictures!

Also hi Selkie! Now for Carmody to make a drive by. And that lazy brother of yours Lou!

MEAT PIE! Tourtiere specifically. My mom makes me one every year.

 

Jesus Christ it's so good.

I may have a tortiere tomorrow if its still on

Enjoy your time Rogan!

Good dog. Best friend.

We had a really quiet one, started off nursing hangovers from the orphan's party the night before at the pub (and I got a turducken dinner, with cranberry sauce), then I made a massive vegetarian casserole and we settled in with a bottle of wine and watched the final week of The Colbert Report while the Christmas Special recorded on the PVR (she's not much of a Doctor Who fan, thinks its just a lot of screaming, which it is, but not entirely...). We opened our gifts the night before--small since we choose to put the money towards travel rather than stuff.

All in all, a nice night

Merry Christmas everyone!

I believe that 'kiss' was actually cut in some regions, quite possibly even in the US so it turns out I was giving the audience too much credit.

 

Was shown in Canada at least

Don't post a lot in this thread so just in case, there are spoilers for the latest episode below...

 

Did they really need to "sneak" in a gay kiss ?

 

I mean, aren't we at the point now where the sane majority of viewers no longer particularly care about that stuff so just have them out-and-out snog if that's what you want! It almost feels like they're trying to show off whenever they address the characters sexuality - "Ooooooo, look at us, we've got gays!". Yes, well done, it's not the 70s - you're not really breaking any taboos there. The painstaking "I don't like her, I love her" bit was just as bad - maybe it's just something they needed to get out of their system with those two characters. Hopefully they have then cause the Victorian trio are ace when they're not being used to clumsily push sexual politics.

 

Having said that, I loved the pose scene.

 

Thought the phone call was a mistake, I did read a couple of posts online from parents who said it helped their children warm some to the new Doctor so fair enough, it looked like a lack of confidence in the new guy to me. Didn't really buy it as a means of keeping Clara with him either but it didn't ruin the episode or anything.

 

Capaldi looked like he was deliberately channeling some of Baker from the end of The Day Of The Doctor at times, which was great, and overall I was happy with what he was given to work with. Leaving Clara behind, pushing (maybe) the robot out the door and his conversation with the tramp were all excellent - as was his subsequent rescue of his companion.

This completely.

Just watched it (trying to clear the PVR up some, I am a bad fan), and I love Capaldi's new Doctor. Very old school delivery. But I hope we won't have a lot more of "hahaha I'm a grouchy Scot what ain't got no money" jokes

I think the most import parts of any pilot are the beginning and end - you need to give the viewer something right out the gate and then serve up a hook to bring them back. I thought Constantine did quite well on both of those fronts, the scene in the asylum was a good mix of comedy/horror and the 'reveal' in the bar and subsequent speech pushed all of my buttons.

This.

Just saw it and, other than him not sounding right to my headcannon, it was John alright. Halfway through the pilot I was thinking it had superseded the movie. It had the exact right mix of humor, cruelty, and humanity IMO.

And who the f would that be?

 

A dude who's thirst for human penis can only be rivaled by that of one Mr. John Constantine.

 

wow is my hangover showing?

Do you know the best cure for a hangover? Dog vomit.

Wait no that's the worst nm

And who the f would that be?

Newbie

close thread after posting on Tumblr plz

If they were being consistent, she'd be called "Zee".

 

True yet the New 52 cheerleaders still hold out hope that Zed means Zatanna. Misguided I know

She actually looks more like Zatanna than Zed to me, but whatever, seems like an improvement over the helpless companion type.

(Hopefully that one puts on the Helm of Fate and flies off into the night)

He must be gay, he shagged a lesbian.

What did he win for that anyway?

Its been a fantastic world cup all around,FIFA corruption aside.

I have NFI why my copy pasta from another forum is bolded like that

Could one of our Brits please weigh in and tell me where his accent places him? Doesn't sound Scouse, but I only know one (plus the Beatles of course) so my sample size is limited. Doesn't really sound anywhere, like the vaguely BBC English of Tennant from Doctor Who.

Will now go read the rest of the thread and see who previously answered this

e. Mark, Ade, Jason, and Pooka, thanks!

It's not the way he'd sound based on the comic - less Liverpudlian, more Welsh - but that isn't a problem for me. Assuming he gets the rest right, which is hard to judge from a couple of isolated snippets, I think it'll work.

Been thinking about this some more. One of the annoying conceits from the film they seem to have kept is the whole "being able to see what is REALLY around you" thing. What worked for me best about the comic was the "any [over-used word] can do it" part of magic. John's just this con guy who does it, nothing special about him beyond that. And the best story lines weren't IMO him facing off against big supernatural bad guys (lets face it, Ennis' First of the Fallen was a joke), but how people, normal people, could be horrible cruel bastards, and the magic was just a means (or not even, see The Family Guy). Newcastle was partly about a botched exorcism, sure, but it was really about child sexual abuse and the depravity of some adults. And even Nergal eventually became a joke.

I'm with you there, Greg. It's like, we're almost there, but something is missing.

Him lighting a Silk Cut for instance. He also doesn't have enough edge.

Still, just saw this and am cautiously excited.

Hey Carmody!

who doesn't like a little chocolay-toh?

congrats!

welp this is me shutting up now about my minor problems and frustrations.

I think this has given me much better insight into what my wife has been going through with her mitochondrial disease, since the cognitive issues are quite similar. She was forced to end her studies and retire from law so my complaints are minor since I will get better.

Still, bored (lol typed "but" there) to absolute fuck right now.

thanks

That is very cool and great karma Mark!

I have actually recently invested in some recording gear myself. I have been doing video submission based lessons for my mandolin and have had it with the poor sound quality of my laptop's built in mic. So, talk to a couple of friends who are sound engineers plus a few others on the mandolin cafe web site and I have put together the beginnings of an acoustic home recording studio. Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 interface, and an AKG Perception 170 small diaphragm condenser microphone. Actually have things working now with a downloaded trial version of a DAW, should have something worth hearing as soon as I am able to start playing again. But boy is audio gear a rabbit hole. I can only imagine it is miles worse with electric instruments with all of the amps, preamps, pedal effects, what have you.