The Blood is The Life 12-01-2013

• Five Myths About Health Care outside the US
  Interesting link illustrates both what Americans believe about their healthcare system and things we can learn in other countries too.
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• If you want to get in shape, ditch the lady weights and hit the iron - Telegraph
  The one thing that bothers me about this is "I promise it won't make you butch and bulky" - erm. I love doing weights. But they DO make me look like Sylvester Stallone. It's just that I quite like that.
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• Manchester honours the woman behind the pioneering music of Doctor Who | UK news | guardian.co.uk
  If you're stuck for something to do today and are anywhere near Manchester you could do worse than go for this.
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• I wish Suzanne Moore would stop digging
  "Moore fucked up. It was a minor fuck-up at first, but with her reaction, it escalated into something far uglier and far harder to heal."
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Doctor Who Fandom Challenge Days 11 and 12: Funniest Episode and Scariest Episode

(a list of the questions and links to all the answers can be found on this entry)

Funniest Episode

• Unintentionally funny: The Krotons - combines the traditional "OMG those monsters are rubbish" funny with some really hilarious cod science.


• Intentionally funny: City of Death - chock full of witty lines and amusing historical revisionism.


• Honourable mention: The Kingmaker - more historical revisionism, with a hilariously deadpan Richard III. I have chosen to consider this audio play to be actual historical fact in my headcanon.

Scariest Episode

Track one of the Big Finish audio play Davros. The rest of the play could quite conceivably go into funniest, as it's basically an odd couple farce of Six and Davros being forced to work together, but that opening track is stunningly well-written, and a pitch-perfect performance from Molloy.