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[chelseagirl]

Someone on my f-list was just asking about Barnes & Noble University. Reading which, it occurred to me that perhaps someone here might be interested: I'm leading a class there next month on Virginia Woolf's Night and Day. It's a more traditional narrative than her later work (not at all stream of consciousness) but definitely worth reading, so come check it out!

And someone else mentioned that the CBC is going to be showing Dr. Who: The Christmas Invasion on December 26. We're going to be at my parents' from the 25th to the 27th, and they live near the Canadian border, and their cable company does carry the CBC. I don't know why I'm so excited about that, since I'm sure we'll be downloading it anyway, but . . . Doctor Ten! Actual broadcast! Yipee! (And no, it never occurred to me to ask them to tape the show for us. My parents are somehow incapable of following simple instructions that involve videotaping; it just never goes right, even when they remember to do it.)

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[silme.livejournal.com]

One of these days, we'll own a DVD recorder. Then we can just ship the eps to you. :)

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

That would be nice; we were trying to convince the in-laws they couldn't live without one, but I don't think they've ever mastered programming their VCR so it wouldn't help much!

[silme.livejournal.com]

We're just waiting for the prices to go down...

Hey, your in-laws are young. They should be able to program a VCR!

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

Who's your parents' cable provider? Is it Adelphia? Should I be scouring the channels?

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

No idea what their cable company is, but I believe CFTO from Toronto is a CBC station; at least, they show CBC news. (I phoned up my mother and made her look. ;-) )

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

Well, poo. Nothing. Though Adelphia does have BBC America, if we wanted to spring for digital cable -- which we don't.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

BBC America doesn't carry Dr. Who, which is one of the big mysteries of the ages. (I understand why they might have offered it to SciFi first, but when Sci Fi turned it down . . . )

We have digital cable because I never had cable at all until after the broadcast towers went down on 9/11 and I couldn't see having them hook up the regular kind when I figured we'd all be switching over in a year or two anyway. I'd actually probably cancel it again (I don't watch much tv and would rather rent DVDs!), but my husband is spoiled, used to having Sky in England. ;-)

[msb66.livejournal.com]

I thought about you two when I saw that the Xmas Radio Times had a Dr Who "special" in it. I haven't read the enclosed - just scanned for you (I am not a fan myself). I think it is interesting that Russell T Davies wrote the UK (and original) Queer as Folk and in the UK version Vince was a Dr Who fan (with various of his boyfriends noticing his extensive video collection). This was largely because RTD was himself a fan and it was any excuse to put references relating to Dr Who into another script. I'm happy that he finally got to take part in creating new episodes of his fandom.

I also wondered how this was translated to the US version - whether the Vince character was a fan of some iconic US tv show.

Anyway, hopefully these will be of a size that you will be able to read - if not I can email the original scans (photobucket resizes etc blah...) I have liked David Tennant in other things he has done (notably a series called "Blackpool" and he was also Casanova, although I didn't see that). Hope you enjoy

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Fabulous! Thank you!