Posted: July 5th, 2008 | Filed under: Television | Tags: bastard, big gun, companions, exposition, gawd, germany, heartbeat, mickey, ooh, red dalek, tardis, two doctors | No Comments »
Any minute now.
I hope the spoilers I read were all wrong. Not because I don’t like them. Just because that would be boring.
Here we go! Previouslies. All the doctor’s companions in danger. Regenerating commences…
*Bops head to Who tune.*
LOL. Everybody’s stunned. Nothing seems to have happened.
Ooh, Matrixy effects for the Torchwood gang.
TALK TO THE HAND!
Mickey kisses his big gun. Ooh er, misses.
ROTLFMAO… Nazi!Daleks. Extermineren, extermineren!
How many times is Donna going to say she’s a temp? What’s with the heartbeat? Oooh, the Tardis wants her.
Bastard Red!Dalek’s killed Jack!
OK. So the spoilers were kind of right. Two doctors, one half human.Gawd, that’s a whole lot of exposition. Shut up.
Back to Germany. What on earth is going on? Who is that German woman?
Hrmph. This isn’t half as good as last week. Talk talk talk. Shut up Davros
‘Is that a warp star?’ Captain Cheesecake’s over acting as usual.
The doctor and his children all gathered as witnesses.
Hmm. I’m feeling rather bored by this all.
Temp saves the world. Can never know about it. Rose up to her neck in fanfic. Doc alone again, naturally. Wilf ends being the best thing about the episode.
Strike that. The best bit was the Doctor being taken to task over his ‘weapons’ by Davros.
I have to say… Donna’s fate was Buffy-esque sized heartbreak.
Posted: November 27th, 2004 | Filed under: Web | Tags: accreditation, bandwidth, brit, christmas, christmas gift, editors, fad, gawker media, irc friends, joke, love, magazine style, mickey, pocket money, subject matter, type humour, u2, web pundits, webbies, whedonesque | 5 Comments »
I was just going over to Plasticbag’s to steal their comment disclaimer for u2log.com when lo and behold, Tom writes:
“U2log.com – one of the first and best single-subject magazine-style weblogs. I’m not a great fan of U2, but it’s still an impressive site – and more importantly was created way before Gawker media and the current fad for commercial webloggery. I wonder if it makes any money…”
Finally, someone recognises U2log.com. I always feel it’s been ignored by web pundits — probably because they find its subject matter distasteful. I think I entered the site into the Webbies twice without being short listed while the much younger and more derivative Whedonesque got in without problems.
Do we make any money? No, we don’t. We don’t make any ‘big’ money. We make pocket money. Enough for me to buy my many editors a Christmas gift. Enough to pay for bandwidth over-usuage. We’re probably in the Top 5 U2 fansites, but nowhere near the largest. We get 5000 to 7000 (front)page hits per day and just had our busiest day last week at 23000 page hits.
We started this site as a joke, just some old IRC friends mucking about. Our style reflected this. We were irreverent, with a Brit/Aussie type humour – unlike any other U2 sites. Always taking the mickey out of the band. These days we’re rather professional, with press accreditation and access to big events, old skool reporting and what have you, but we’re still doing it because we’re obsessive about documenting the band and still in love with the music.
