It’s the #1 thing that will be remembered from the 2010 World cup…and so, I bring you two amusing Vuvuzela vids.

First, via Watertiger:

Next, the true story of the Vuvuzela.

Over the past year, while reading about how far George R.R Martin is along in the next book in the series, I have been reading with much interest in how the first book in his A Song of Fire and Ice series, A Game of Thrones was in being made into a HBO Series coming out next year.

And it looks like the teaser came out over the weekend while I was up in Leadville.

It gives me all sorts of goose bumps.

Even better, Jane Epperson is doing some of the episodes.

Via GRRM

I am very intrigued that someone actually went and made a Documentary about Jack Rebney, and it will be very interesting to see what they decide to do with it.

If you do not know who Jack Rebney is, watch the following:

(WARNING: NSFW, Language)

While I do not know any that would be this way about Star Trek.

I am sure that if a Whedon/Firefly show showed up…

Or Dr. Who…

Or UFO…

Or Star Blazers…

Or Miyazaki…

Or any number of other Geek centric activities there would be any number of us that would be in OMG! mode.

The Water of Mars: Yes! Now this, this was a great episode, and a tasty little palete cleanser after Planet of the Dead.

It had all the right elements, creepy spooky “monster”, impossible odds, the perfect ending and a lovely patina of hubris all over the Doctors face.

Perfect.

I had been wondering when they were going to do an Episode where the Doctor decided to muck about with the one of the “Fixed in time” moments, and here it was. I just loved watching the Doctor agonizing about what to do, the walk away from the doomed base (personally I was hoping he would just leave, but this is the Tenth Doctor and that is not what he does), and then foolishly go back to rescue them and then to have Adelaide Brooke off herself not more then 30’ feet from him was priceless.

PerfectPerfectPerfect.

Rating: A

The End of time:

So much suck in this episode I really do not know where to begin.

Hrmmm…

First off, I was cheering when I had thought that the Colin Baker of the Master’s had been finally done away with and we could finally get a proper Master, a good one like Rodger Delgado, or the amazing Anthony Ainley, or even Derek Jacobi’s (sadly too short) stint was a thing of beauty compared to whatever the heck Davies has been telling the bloody awful John Simm to do….but, not only is John Simm the Colin Baker of the Master’s, he is the Colin Baker with Bonnie Langford as the Companion of Master’s.

So, two hours and fifteen minutes of tooth drillingly painful plot with The Master, interspersed with delightful bits with Donna and Sylvia Noble and Wilford Mott (who really was the bright shining spot in this whole mess, when he was emotional, so was I, good stuff Maynard).

Next up we have a truly bizarre re-appearance of Rassilon, who was last seen locked in the Death Zone on the other side of the Time Scoop, having been deposed by the Time Lords in a Rebellion and in a very disembodied, though immortal state. So, now that Davies has decided to muck up Canon and bring back Rassilon for no apparent reason, and give him a body again, was it like how the Master got his 14th body? No clue, Davies is not that smart to pursue something might actually be an interesting plot point in the middle of the complete FUBAR of a plot he has going on. Was this one of the reasons the Doctor turned against his fellow Time Lords? Again, all of this is simply ignored so we can have a 15 minute long death scene. Who is the Woman? Is it Susan, his Grand-daughter? His Daughter? His Mother? Again, no clue because that would actually make sense, and we simply cannot have anything that makes sense in this Episode.

Rating: D-

Here I had thought it couldn’t get any worse than Planet of the Dead, and Davies managed to plumb new depths here. Do yourself a favour and fast forward through anything that is not Donna or Sylvia Noble or Wilfred Mott.

First off, allow me to say that I am confused, what are the Specials, are they a really short Series 5, or just some odd little bits to fill the gap between Series 4 and 5.

No clue.

Anyways.

The Next Doctor – Not bad. There were some good things here, the best being Dervla Kirwan chewing up the scenery as the Villain, that was a wonderful bit of casting, too bad that the Steam Punk Cyberman Mecha was just waaaay to overboard, bordering on silly. The plot with the “Next Doctor” was well done and thought out, and I enjoyed those parts quite a bit.

Rating: B

Planet of the Dead – Oh. Dear. God. This, right here, this is the kind of Episode that makes me cringe since I know that Davies thought that this was a great idea. Really, Davies comes up with these horrendous thought out and scripted plots and it is nothing but pure pain to watch.

The A Plot with Lady Christina de Souza was nothing but suck, the only bright spot was the B plot with the UNIT folks were doing something, otherwise it was nothing more than just so much cotton candy with a stupid ending., but for the B plot to work, you had to sit though the A plot.
Rating: D

You know, meta meme’s that go from one media type to another are just fun to watch. Even better when the meme in question starts with Jon Stewart and gets a great big mention in Doonesbury.

That’s right folks, Fox, the Lupus News is now a Meme!

Now if we can only get Roland Hendley to sing the Go F Yourself song…

The winner last night was Jimmy Kimmel with his mockumentory of the whole thing in the style of a Ken Burns documentory.

Conan O’Brien upped the ante for most expensive bit to $4.8mil… 2009 Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird, wearing a mink Snuggie and watching restricted NFL Super Bowl footage.

About the late night wars over the past couple of weeks has been all of the shows pilling on Leno.

Gawker has been doing a workmanship like job of posting all the best bits…with Jimmy Kimmel instulting Jay to his face on his own show being only second to Conan’s 1.5 million+ comedy bit last night.

Yep, 1.5+ million.

That is what you get when you have a Bugatti Veyron Mouse with the orginal master copy of the Rolling Stones Satisfaction playing in the background.

Though Jalopnik is now reporting that the Bugatti was a loaner, the Stones song is so expensive that NBC has pulled the clip off of HULU.

Good times….good times…

November 23, 1963 was the first episode of Doctor Who and still going strong 31 seasons later.

So thanks to Verity Lambert for the Whovian goodness.