Dressing up

With Billy south of the equator, Other Housemate and I are bereft of some of the stranger conversations that usually occur here in out little corner of West London. Filling these gaps has, inevitably involved some extra drinking and I naturally assumed this was the cause when I was asked earlier, "Do you think Captain Janeway is a bit smug?"

I am an unashamed geek, having forgotten more about Doctor Who that most will ever know, owning every Buffy episode, countless Batman comics etc. etc. Turns out that Other Housemate has been recieving some coaching so that she can act like she knows what the hell I'm talking about when I talk about such things.

I'm not really a Trekkie, I protested. She looked understandably sceptical. Really, I said, I've never dressed up as a Klingon or anything.

She condsidered this for a moment before asking whether it would be in my top ten things to dress up as. And, I'm shocked to say, I really didn't know. So I've given it some thought and now present a list (ideal-world, budget-no-issue kind) of my top dressing up choices for your perusal:

- Dalek. Not dressing up so much as crouching down, it still has to make the list for sheer iconic value.

- Britney Spears. While I'm not much of a singer I have pulled off a passable Britney impression before. Works better when I'm clean-shaven.

- The Borg. Without having the real thing, Star Trek costumes always look crappy, but if I had the real stuff, the Borg are very cool, and I don't really have the build to be a Klingon.

- Frank N Furter. Any opportunity to put on fishnets with suspenders.

- Nightwing. Once again, I don't have the build to be Batman, but with a good enough costume I'm pretty sure I could pull off Nightwing.

- Legolas. I should have been in that movie. But that's a longer rant than I can be bothered with just now.

- Vampire. My most common choice on Hallowe'en.

Ok, I can't think of more now, but I'm sure, given time, I could choose something from Star Wars. I've decided (arbitrarily) to limit this to one choice per show/film.


"UNIT is supposed to be a security organisation, Doctor."
"You think I might attract attention?"
"It's just possible."

Flash. Flash.

I don't drive in London if I can avoid it. So I don't really notice things like speed cameras. I'm sure I must have seen the one on the Uxbridge road before, but I never really paid any attention until tonight when it went off.

Thing is, it was taking a picture of a police car which was speeding away. I quite enjoy the irony that no-one ever speeds enough to set off that camera except the ones who get away with it anyway.

Further to Billy's recent mushroom related post, I was talking to some friends last night about magic mushrooms. One of my friends was remarking about the different kinds she'd tried; Mexican, or somewhere near El Salvador and places like that. Back home everyone just headed into the woods with a little mushroom reference book and got them free. But also local. Seems to me, in these times, it's much better to drop low-carbon shrooms rather than go for the exotica.

-You can't learn 'im to talk nice, can ya?