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Gerry Rafferty has passed away at the age of 63, due to liver disease. May he rest in peace. I didn’t think I had ever heard of him, until I listened to Baker Street. So I have heard of him, I just didn’t realize it.

And now I’m desperately trying to find out where I’ve heard that song before—I think it may have been used as part of an opening intro for a live action show in the 80’s or early to mid 90’s. The closest I can find is She-Wolf of London, after they turned it into Love and Curses. But that’s not quite right, after comparing the two. Does anyone know where else it might have been used?

Io9 lists “30 DVD sets that will make the new year bright.”

Watch Craig Ferguson’s musical tribute to the Doctor. It’s great. I’ve never watched Ferguson’s show, so I wasn’t aware Matt Smith was there until now.

The 13 Best MST3K Songs.

Meanwhile, I’m making a list of all the shows I need to try to find and watch online and see if I like. I’m going to try to do this before next year’s Yuletide. So far the list is: Wonderfalls, Farscape, Due South, The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, Point Pleasant, Big Wolf on Campus, Poltergeist: The Legacy. Possibly Misfits and The Vampire Diaries, although I'm not entirely sure. I don’t need to bother trying to track down Moonlight or The Sentinel, since Syfy has marathons periodically. (Can't stand the lead in the latter.) Any ideas for anything else to add to the list? I found downloads of Lost Girl yesterday. The first episode appears to be good, so I’ll watch the second in a little while.

I finally found Forever Knight in a format that isn’t divided into chunks. Each episode in its entirety has been put on Youtube. If anyone is interested, you can find them here. It’s just the first two seasons, since they don’t seem to have added season 3 yet. I’ll see if I can catch up that way by next year.

I went ahead and ordered the entire series of both She-Wolf of London and the 90’s revival of Dark Shadows from Amazon, since it had proven impossible to find a download of She-Wolf anywhere. Dark Shadows was usually $39.98. Today, it’s $9.99. I don’t know how long that will last. Once I have both, I won’t need to worry about finding copies of either when Yuletide rolls around next year.

Oh, and something I needed to ask my friends list. Does anyone know of any good horror movie guides? I have a couple really good ones, but they only go up to 1999. I haven’t found any since then.

blognewsarama has this strange moment from the Thanksgiving Day parade in 1989. Most of the Marvel characters of the era dance around a float, as someone sings I Need A Hero. I think I finally figured out why Emma Frost (Deborah Norville mistakes her for Wonder Woman—hard mistake to make, since they don’t look anything alike) is there at all. Pryde of the X-Men aired in September of that same year, so maybe they were trying to plug that? I’m really reaching here, but that’s all I can come up with.

Io9 linked to Vincent Price’s The Last Man On Earth—it’s hosted on Google Video, since it’s in the public domain.

Part 2 of Obscurus Lupa’s She-Wolf of London review can be found here, and part 3 is here.

The BBC is considering a fifth season of Merlin.

10 TV series that you can watch in one weekend instead of shopping

From Cracked: 5 Ways Television Went Crazy Since The Author Quit Watching In 2003.

ETA: As of 4 PM, I believe I have finished my Yuletide fanfic. 3869 words in total. I have a title. I've located the two continuity errors I accidentally made, and fixed them. I've done a quick spell check. I have it on external hard drive and on this computer, just in case anything happens. I'll look over it again tomorrow, do whatever I need to do, and then begin the process of sending it on to a beta reader.

What horror fans should be thankful for.

The people behind the Paducah Zombie Walk uploaded their footage to Youtube. If anyone is interested, you can watch it here. Watch until the very end to get a good look at Zombie Bruce Campbell, complete with Boomstick on his back, and chainsaw on his hand.

Obscurus Lupa has posted the first part of a three part video review of She-Wolf of London here. This just makes me want to track down the whole series in time for next year’s Yuletide even more. It looks delightfully cheesy these days. As Obscurus Lupa said, it also looks as though Ian could have been the prototype for Giles.

This morning, the temperature was around 70 degrees. A thunderstorm passed through, and it went down to 42 degrees. It dropped that much in less than 30 minutes. It should drop a bit more by tonight.

Meanwhile, I see that I managed to miss the anniversary of my LJ. As of November 10th, I have been on LJ for 7 years.

Yuletide related: I seem to have pretty much all of my fanfic plotted out, and know how almost all of it should go, moment by moment. I downloaded the source material and I'll watch that in the next few minutes, just to make sure I have everyone's voices right. I'll get to work on the actual fanfic tomorrow. I've written snippets as the ideas come, and I just need to work it all together.

ETA: Given the character I'm focusing on has a bit of a tendency to free associate, he's probably going to be all over the map. That helps!