If all you young men were fish in the water, how many young girls would undress and dive after

[sovay]

Every single aspect of today except for the cats and the Double Awesome from Mei Mei has sucked exhaustingly. I am very tired of seeing doctors who don't take me seriously because I'm not emotional enough and then seeing doctors who don't take me seriously because I'm emotional at all. I thought the pattern had broken lately, but here we are again. I am not looking for a medical discussion or recommendations. I am just upset. Also it is pouring rain and while I remembered an umbrella on leaving the house, I forgot boots. My shoes are drying in the bathroom because it is the only room in this apartment with a radiator.

I can't believe I've remembered for years that Michael Goodliffe was Thomas Andrews in Roy Ward Baker's A Night to Remember (1958), but forgot or never noticed that David McCallum was Harold Bride. To be fair, I had also forgotten completely about Honor Blackman, but historically I feel very fondly toward Harold Bride. McCallum must have been close to his age at the time of filming. [edit: Indeed, that's a very young David McCallum.] Chances are good that no matter what, I would have bounced off James Cameron's Titanic (1997) in exactly the same way ocean liners don't bounce off icebergs, but childhood exposure to the British film can't have helped.

This is a very fine ghost poem that I didn't write: Rachel Hadas, "Mervyn Peake (1911–1968)."

I have been enjoying this compilation very much.

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[moon_custafer]

It was quite good, and segues rather subtly from black comedy in the first half to straight-up horror in the second (the whole thing is about two hours long.)

Frobisher was introduced in the comic strip that ran in the Dr. Who magazine, and periodically gets remembered -- he's a shapeshifter who works as a private eye, and after falling in with the Doctor, decides to be a penguin "for personal reasons."

[sovay]

It was quite good, and segues rather subtly from black comedy in the first half to straight-up horror in the second (the whole thing is about two hours long.)

That does sound good. I have not ventured into any of the Doctor Who radio serials—I'm barely conversant with the original show. (The Fourth Doctor was my formative one; I loved the Seventh on sight. John Hurt as the War Doctor was spectacular, but I would have given a lot for the real time travel to make a series of him when he was young. I have been eventually frustrated by everyone else. This last series with Capaldi is supposed to have finally gotten good, but I am shy of investing in it in case Moffat burns me again.)

he's a shapeshifter who works as a private eye, and after falling in with the Doctor, decides to be a penguin "for personal reasons."

Why not!