Dreamer Easy

John Barrowman. I Am What I Am.
Alison Bechdel. Post- Dykes to Watch Out For.
- Dykes and Sundry Carbon-Based Life Forms to Watch Out For.
- Invasion of the Dykes to Watch Out For.

( Books bought and borrowed )

Blimey. I've been working for a couple of hours and I still haven't managed 500 words of the new iteration of Wild Honey.

Of course, it might have helped if I'd hadn't spent so much of that time trying to work out how to describe Adjoa Andoh's hair and looking for that recent John Barrowman interview where he mentions suggesting a change of clothes to a female friend. (ETA: Found it!)

ETA ETA: When stuck for what to write next, blow everything up. 1000 words. I'm shattered.

• One in 10 young women polled by Grazia magazine have taken illicit drugs to lose weight.

• A study by the AMP and the University of Canberra cheers the closing of the wage gap for Australian women in their 20s and 30s, but lists the many reasons for the huge differences in lifetime earnings, from child-rearing to the glass ceiling. Of interest to Miranda Devine may be their findings that:

"Women with children employed full-time spend on average 78 hours a week in paid and unpaid work, while full-time working men with children spend only 74 hours a week working. These women are spending on average 15 hours a week cooking and cleaning while the men are spending only six hours a week. A part-time working mother spends 23 hours a week with the kids and 20 hours on the housework while a part-time working father spends 14 hours with the kids and nine hours on housework."

• The John Barrowman episode of The Making of Me was broadcast on BBC America with some very suspicious edits.

Only after all that fiddling about in Photoshop did I discover the atheist bus ad generator.

A seven year old interviews Richard Hammond.

KUDOS IS MINE

Go look at luluxa's Doctor-Master art. Now.

Behold ceefax_the_sane's Shark Attack 3 picspam!

And thanks to cowboyhd, behold Matt Smith in Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Do you know, I actually went and looked him up on the IMDB when I saw that episode, because I thought he looked vaguely familiar.

Create Your Own Original Star Trek Story flowchart of genius

frzn_mmnt delightfully describes the world according to Aerin (age 0).

Caught in the act. Norte pudew!

The Burroughs 220.

So I thought I'd cheer myself up by watching The Making of Me avec la Barrowman. There's lots of lols, but I defy you to watch the bit with Pete, who was subjected to the whole Clockwork Orange bit in an effort to torture teh ghey out of him, and not want to have a little cry. JB is appalled to learn that homosexuality was only decriminalised in Scotland in 1980. He wonders if, had he grown up there instead of Illinois (the first US state to drop its sodomy laws, in 1961), he might have been one of the many gay kids who take their own lives.

To balance that a bit, here are some cute dogs.

ETA: That reminds me - murasaki_1966 pointed me to a New Scientist news item: Bisexuality passed on by 'hyper-heterosexuals'. "How can there be 'gay genes' given that gay sex doesn't lead to procreation? The answer is remarkably simple: the same gene that causes men to like men also causes women to like men, and as a result to have more children." Interesting... now do the same experiment with lesbians!

Fic: "Overtures" (Eight/Karl, R)

The best Ianto bits from the BBC America Captain's Blog

YOIT review

Things Ianto Jones Learnt on his First Date With Captain Jack Harkness

A really excellent theory about Torchwood

Q reviews "Room"

Online Fans Represent TV's Vocal Minority

Heh. Check out Behind the Sofa's header. (Doctor Who S4 finale spoilers)

Decalog 4 review

Captain Jack's cufflinks

John Barrowman gets girl germs

ETA MOAR

Script of the cut scene from "Journey's End"

io9 Interview with Steven Moffat

Ben Aaronovitch's blog

You have to see this: Queenie in trouble. (ETA: better safe than sorry: WARNING TRIGGERING.)

James May on where to keep the car keys and his cat. Kitty kitty kitty. ;-)

The Vatican's astronomer ponders the problem of extraterrestrials and original sin, José Gabriel Funes, who describes the Bible as a "love letter" from God to His people, rather than a source of scientific fact. "Contemplare il cielo è per lui l'atto più autenticamente umano che si possa fare. Perché - spiega a L'Osservatore Romano - 'dilata il nostro cuore e ci aiuta a uscire dai tanti inferni che l’umanità si è creata sulla terra: le violenze, le guerre, le poverté, le oppressioni”." Very roughly: "To study the heavens is one of the most authentically human activities, expanding our hearts, helping us escape from the hells we've made on earth: violence, war, poverty, and oppression."

Meanwhile, the C of E hopes to use the religious themes and imagery of Doctor Who to attract young followers.

David Tennant praises his dad's knowhow, although admitting that Sandy McDonald could not "work out the quantity of dark matter in the universe on the back of a napkin". (I am convinced that Mr McDonald is in fact Torchwood Two and this is therefore a deliberate red herring.) I myself still seek advice on all matters practical from my mum and dad's accumulated wisdom.

Is this Wikipedia in Quechua?

lolworthy DS9 icons.

Moar Barrowman, this time unable to resist anyone's Knickerbocker Glory. Best bit's at the end where he tries to eat the one with the entire sponge roll on top.

Cats on a treadmill

Rickrolling the prof (and getting away with it)

Barrowman @ the Hammersmith Apollo. "3500+ people, giggling".

The Tenth Doctor does Rose's hair

Daliesque TARDIS

Polyamory in the Washington Post

Now You're Talking! - 1927 silent short about proper care of your telephone. (Beware: brief appearance by racial caricature.)

jvowles linked to this handy guide on How To Disagree

John and his Botox will be back for Season 3 of Torchwood! Yey! (I had no real doubts myself, but I know rumours have been circulating, so now we can all breathe a sigh of relief. :-)

(If you can't read the OG posting, it says: "John was in fine form at his concert and said -- though not to be quote him lol -- that he wasnt returning to west end for a while cos he would be busy filming s3 of tw and possibly s4.")

JOHN USES BOTOX

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