I'm tired, just for something different.

I just completed a seemingly-endless shift at work, then missed a connecting tram and had to take a taxi home. 

I encountered a woman in History, reading Coraline and being Disapproving.  "This is obscene," she told me.  "I've never read a graphic novel before.  Not really proper novels, are they?"

She was, I add, about my age.

Later I overheard an American student browsing magazines.  "This is so cute," she was saying to her friend, "they've got, like, Australian magazines and stuff."

Hey, I lolled.

GoogleNews is occasionally like crack

The Murdoch press has an interview with Billie P, which is nice, and the Courier Fail accompanies it with a 45-part picspam gallery of Doctor Who photos.  My favourite is the one where they describe Jack as an Alternate Time Lord.  (There's also a Special Examination of Semi-Nudity In The Pop Industry, if that's your thing.  I wouldn't get too excited, though, the definition of "semi-nude" has been expanded to include the category previously known as "fully dressed".)

There's also a column by a features editor, arguing that what we really need is an old man playing the Doctor again, as opposed to someone female gay fruity poncy young.  (Seriously, the link to this column from the picture gallery was "Fans say no to poncy Doctor Who".)

Meanwhile, The Sun reports that Billie's next role will be playing a single mum on a council estate, who discovers that her estranged father is a millionaire.  I'm pretty sure they just got that from the 'recent stories' page on the Teaspoon.

HANG ON, THEY DID WHAT?

SO APPARENTLY CAPTAIN JANEWAY WAS KILLED OFF WITHOUT FANFARE IN A STAR TREK NOVEL?  NOT EVEN A VOYAGER NOVEL BUT A TNG ONE?  BECAUSE PETER DAVID DIDN'T LIKE HER, AND POCKET BOOKS WANTED TO "SHOCK" PEOPLE?

YOU CAN'T GO AROUND DOING THAT TO MY FAVOURITE CAPTAIN!  IT'S JUST--

*WEEPS*

NOT THAT THE BOOKS ARE CANON OR ANYTHING, JUST, WHAT?