Sande's Faith in a necklace set by Joy Saturday we gathered together to celebrate Joy's birthday in Carrollton; Mar took Karen and us to "Tasty Greek," a small restaurant located on Belt Line Road. Mar had described it as a "hole in the wall" ... It was quite small, yes, but the food was great -- the owner/manager wears several hats. He was our waiter and cashier, although I don't know whether he also worked in the kitchen ... Karen and I enjoyed the Patichio, ground beef with pasta under a bechamel sauce, while Joy & Mar fig into huge gyro plates ... even our picky eater had to agree that "Tasty Greek" lived up to its name and deserved a "Best in" award for good food. Then, Mar took us to an evil place -- evil, I tell you, because her liquor store had adopted the practice of allowing customers to taste test the specials of the whom am I to turn down free liquor?
Spirits were willing, the flesh was weak, and we spent an enjoyable time wandering up and down the aisles. We spent a bit of time with the pre-mixed liquors -- and returned with Kahlua B-52s ... Joy found some chocolate wine when an owl on the bottle ... Karen got rum (no surprise there -- she and Captain Morgan are old acquaintances.) ... Mar got cherry lemonade with vodka ... the terrible temptation, which I confess we did little to avoid, came from the discovery that we could get 15% off the total purchase if we bought 15 bottles. They had tiny "airline" bottles of liquor -- perfect for stocking stuffers -- which made our final selections quite simple.
After we emptied the bottles, we could use them as props for the dolls ... our poor innocent resin children, introduced to the "demon rum." Well, MY girl Colette is generally innocent, but I'm not too sure about Mar's larger male dolls -- and Joy's Yancy drowned his sorrows over his love life down at the hotel bar last weekend.
Back at Mar's house, we watched live action Sci-Fi anime -- if you'll excuse the very mixed-up metaphor ... Doctor Who remains one of my all-time favorite series, although my "main men" remained Tom Baker and David Tennant. As they say, you never forget your first; in Houston I stayed up after midnight to watch the Doctor. The first shows were "Mask of Mandragora" with Sarah Jane ... then I missed the 4th show that finished the episode and returned to "Face of Evil." When I moved back to Dallas in 1980, no station showed the series ... I had to wait until I went to O-Kon to see my first complete adventure: Underworld. Donna Fraser and Joy told me it was not worthy -- they were right. Until the "reboot" in 2005, the BBC was famed for horribly bad special effects. Cheezy, some said, and rightly so. I did take one good line from "Underworld:" The quest is the quest ... and the line has stuck since we still collect objects, and the quest for costumes, dolls, and books continues unabated.
Tom Baker, AKA the 4th Doctor, is an amusing performer; he can declaim lines -- usually with a straight face -- that would shame lesser actors; however, even he would have to admit that David Tennant is the superior actor ... After all, Tom played the bear in Shakespeare's play while David was the great Dane himself.
We went back to the 9th Doctor, Christopher Eccleston, to watch the events that led to his regeneration into Tennant ... and the death and rebirth of Captain Jack Harkness (later of Torchwood). As you watch the eps, you can see the huge crush -- romance? -- that will keep the Doctor and Rose together across time and space. Personally, I think Rose might have stalker tendencies; when she strides into Donna Noble's universe to battle the Daleks, you can tell she's a girl on a mission ... and it's not just to exterminate a danger to humanity. Sarah Jane Smith dealt with Doctor-separation a bit more gracefully; still she was older, if only by a few years, when she traveled with the Doctor -- and got left behind when he was called back to Gallifrey. But she never got married ... and didn't officially have a family until after she made peace with her past life as the Doctor's companion ... I wonder how she and Jo Grant (Katy Manning) will react to the current Doctor. Matt Smith is young enough to be their grandson (or at least their son). The meeting won't have quite the same dynamics of having the current missus meeting the ex (to paraphrase Micky) since Doctor 11's companion Amy Ponds married her childhood sweetheart Rory ... Now there's a shift in the group dynamics in the TARDIS since the Doctor seldom has two companions -- and never a married couple until 2010.
Amy Ponds (at her wedding) -- "Something old, something new, something borrowed ... and something very blue!" (Deep thrumming of materialization)
Spirits were willing, the flesh was weak, and we spent an enjoyable time wandering up and down the aisles. We spent a bit of time with the pre-mixed liquors -- and returned with Kahlua B-52s ... Joy found some chocolate wine when an owl on the bottle ... Karen got rum (no surprise there -- she and Captain Morgan are old acquaintances.) ... Mar got cherry lemonade with vodka ... the terrible temptation, which I confess we did little to avoid, came from the discovery that we could get 15% off the total purchase if we bought 15 bottles. They had tiny "airline" bottles of liquor -- perfect for stocking stuffers -- which made our final selections quite simple.
After we emptied the bottles, we could use them as props for the dolls ... our poor innocent resin children, introduced to the "demon rum." Well, MY girl Colette is generally innocent, but I'm not too sure about Mar's larger male dolls -- and Joy's Yancy drowned his sorrows over his love life down at the hotel bar last weekend.
Back at Mar's house, we watched live action Sci-Fi anime -- if you'll excuse the very mixed-up metaphor ... Doctor Who remains one of my all-time favorite series, although my "main men" remained Tom Baker and David Tennant. As they say, you never forget your first; in Houston I stayed up after midnight to watch the Doctor. The first shows were "Mask of Mandragora" with Sarah Jane ... then I missed the 4th show that finished the episode and returned to "Face of Evil." When I moved back to Dallas in 1980, no station showed the series ... I had to wait until I went to O-Kon to see my first complete adventure: Underworld. Donna Fraser and Joy told me it was not worthy -- they were right. Until the "reboot" in 2005, the BBC was famed for horribly bad special effects. Cheezy, some said, and rightly so. I did take one good line from "Underworld:" The quest is the quest ... and the line has stuck since we still collect objects, and the quest for costumes, dolls, and books continues unabated.
Tom Baker, AKA the 4th Doctor, is an amusing performer; he can declaim lines -- usually with a straight face -- that would shame lesser actors; however, even he would have to admit that David Tennant is the superior actor ... After all, Tom played the bear in Shakespeare's play while David was the great Dane himself.
We went back to the 9th Doctor, Christopher Eccleston, to watch the events that led to his regeneration into Tennant ... and the death and rebirth of Captain Jack Harkness (later of Torchwood). As you watch the eps, you can see the huge crush -- romance? -- that will keep the Doctor and Rose together across time and space. Personally, I think Rose might have stalker tendencies; when she strides into Donna Noble's universe to battle the Daleks, you can tell she's a girl on a mission ... and it's not just to exterminate a danger to humanity. Sarah Jane Smith dealt with Doctor-separation a bit more gracefully; still she was older, if only by a few years, when she traveled with the Doctor -- and got left behind when he was called back to Gallifrey. But she never got married ... and didn't officially have a family until after she made peace with her past life as the Doctor's companion ... I wonder how she and Jo Grant (Katy Manning) will react to the current Doctor. Matt Smith is young enough to be their grandson (or at least their son). The meeting won't have quite the same dynamics of having the current missus meeting the ex (to paraphrase Micky) since Doctor 11's companion Amy Ponds married her childhood sweetheart Rory ... Now there's a shift in the group dynamics in the TARDIS since the Doctor seldom has two companions -- and never a married couple until 2010.
Amy Ponds (at her wedding) -- "Something old, something new, something borrowed ... and something very blue!" (Deep thrumming of materialization)
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