Whilst we're on the subject...

Anna and Bobbie are moving to San Francisco. Good luck, Guardianistas.

Anatomy of a panarama
Liverpool photographer Pete Carr has produced a typically atmospheric vista for the new Pizza Express at the Albert Dock. Here he tells its story. Many early morning starts.

La, lalala-lala. La, lalala-lala. La-la-la-lalala. La-la-lala-la-la-la.
Investigative preteens in a big red bus coming soon to shiny-disc.

Blonde Alanis.
The more I look at this photo, the more I feel as though reality as we know it is imploding.

Snopes: CNN/MSNBC News Alert -- Real Virus.
Why couldn't I have read this a week ago?

Crazy Like A Fox
Dippy title for a short interview with Rachel McAdams which explains something of the post-2005 drop in acting work. She simply didn't want to. Warning to fellow fan club member John -- the accompanying photos make her look like a feminised Gary Newman. Meanwhile, Juliette Binoche likes to dance.

I Sense a Disturbance in the Star Wars Canon
Of course in my short kvetch about Star Trek spin-off fiction I almost completely obscured the mess which is the Star Wars expanded universe and vitriolic debate thereof, which judging by this linked Wired article inspired by the new Clone Wars cartoon makes the discussion we Who fans have regarding UNIT dating look like a quick decision about where to buy a sandwich at lunchtime. As complex as a the plans for the Death Star, the Expanded Universe has levels of continuity from the films downwards that have suddenly been disrupted by the introduction of a new interim level to deal with this new cartoon and its successors. There's a whole weblog dedicated to this stuff and the detail involved is just scary. As I said in the comments there, in Who, everything is canon unless we don't want it to be -- there is enough temporal anomalies and timey-wimeyness to allow for three different reasons for Atlantis to fall or the Marie Celeste to sink or Sarah Jane Smith to clearly not be from 1980, even though sometimes she has to be.

Whilst we're on the subject, watch this:



Then this:



Which is rather like discovering the thing about Father Christmas. Either way, thanks to Damon and Iain for pointing it out. Possibly.