RD II–”Queeg”, or Mutiny on the Red Dwarf

Yes, I know it’s been a while, and that my readers — perhaps even both of them — may even have begun to lose hope that I would ever update again.

Hah. Fat chance of that. I like the sound of my own writer’s voice entirely too much to give upon this weblog that easily.

“But if you like it so much,” I imagine my tiny readership saying to themselves, “why did you put off writing another article for so long?” This I answer in several ways:

(a) Look, I’m lazy. I’ve never made any secret of being horribly lazy. Mine is the Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes approach to deadlines: I work best only under pressure. Besides which, my computer is old and slow, so working in the WordPress article-writing window makes things even slower, and I can’t even save time by typing it up on my own time and copy-pasting my finished text.

(2) My library got the first of a set of Cowboy Bebop DVDs. I mean, c’mon, it was Cowboy fuckin’ Bebop, one of the better animes of the last decade or so. Do you seriously expect me to use precious Cowboy Bebop-watching time for typing up articles and interacting with people? Why the hell would I do that?

(hat!) I’ve also discovered that one of the PBS stations I can pick up is airing episodes of the latest run of Doctor Who (not classic Who, but previous series of the new Who). You may imagine now that I have just squealed like a schoolgirl, because that’s what I did when I first found this out.

Now, on to the reviewy goodness.