Hi Guys...
Just a quicky...
Da Vinci Live, by Eddie McGuigan
The Many Deaths of Jo Grant, by Reilly2040
Big Finish Stuff, by Reilly 2040, friendsofderek, Nic Ford and Eddie McGuigan
Christmas In July - a reminder of the toys this festive season, by Nic Ford
BBC Audio Stuff, by Eddie McGuigan
James Moran's Severance on telly! It's brilliant!
An Appeal from friendsofderek
Happy times and places
Eddie McGuigan
TWITTER
Friday, 28 October 2011
Monday, 24 October 2011
The Next Few Months...
Hi Guys
With the end of Series 6 of Doctor Who now upon us, and SJA and Torchwood also finished - and in Torchwood's case for a goodly while - and new Who, with the exception of The Christmas Special - a wee while off (we're hearing September/October next year), I think now has come the perfect time for me to take a well earned break. My other series - Spooks - is gone too now, and Hustle, which will also be the final series of that, not transmitting til next year, I think I'll back out of the blogging business for a while and concentrate on family, friends, and those all important exams.
I do have one goody coming up, which will appear quite soon, but it's a surprise, so sshh, spoilers!, but apart from that, your best bet at getting news and reviews - especially all the Big Finish latest - which we're now actually going to be getting before release, it was confirmed to me on Friday - and all the other stuff we get from every media outlet going - is to go along to Outpost Skaro where people far cleverer and much better writers than me will be furnishing you with Things Yet To Come as well as their lively forum. As I said before, I'm just a small cog in that very big - and growing - wheel, so I'm pretty sure I won't be missed.
Before I do go for my Christmas Break - and I will be back as they say "sometime in the New Year" - I'd just like to thank the 11,000 odd readers of this blog, and for the myriad of messages and notes of kindness and goodwill I get daily, and for the support I get from you guys, especially in the wake of some nastiness elsewhere. It's heartening to know that insanity doesn't particularly spread, and to all the companies I've spoken to, all the readers of this blog who've emailed me - and again, it would be churlish to publish all those, but you know I get them - to everyone who has given me words of encouragement and support, thank you. It means a lot. Words fail me sometimes at the level of nastiness on the Web, but for every rambling nutter there are, it seems thousands of decent people who aren't stupid or gullible and are as appalled as you'd expect a decent person to be. I will pop on from time to time and update you with links to Outpost Skaro when they have news for you. So once again, friends, thank you. I'll leave you - and Skaro - in the capable hands of Derek and the lads over there and wish you, a slightly early, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Happy Times and Places
Eddie McGuigan
TWITTER
With the end of Series 6 of Doctor Who now upon us, and SJA and Torchwood also finished - and in Torchwood's case for a goodly while - and new Who, with the exception of The Christmas Special - a wee while off (we're hearing September/October next year), I think now has come the perfect time for me to take a well earned break. My other series - Spooks - is gone too now, and Hustle, which will also be the final series of that, not transmitting til next year, I think I'll back out of the blogging business for a while and concentrate on family, friends, and those all important exams.
I do have one goody coming up, which will appear quite soon, but it's a surprise, so sshh, spoilers!, but apart from that, your best bet at getting news and reviews - especially all the Big Finish latest - which we're now actually going to be getting before release, it was confirmed to me on Friday - and all the other stuff we get from every media outlet going - is to go along to Outpost Skaro where people far cleverer and much better writers than me will be furnishing you with Things Yet To Come as well as their lively forum. As I said before, I'm just a small cog in that very big - and growing - wheel, so I'm pretty sure I won't be missed.
Before I do go for my Christmas Break - and I will be back as they say "sometime in the New Year" - I'd just like to thank the 11,000 odd readers of this blog, and for the myriad of messages and notes of kindness and goodwill I get daily, and for the support I get from you guys, especially in the wake of some nastiness elsewhere. It's heartening to know that insanity doesn't particularly spread, and to all the companies I've spoken to, all the readers of this blog who've emailed me - and again, it would be churlish to publish all those, but you know I get them - to everyone who has given me words of encouragement and support, thank you. It means a lot. Words fail me sometimes at the level of nastiness on the Web, but for every rambling nutter there are, it seems thousands of decent people who aren't stupid or gullible and are as appalled as you'd expect a decent person to be. I will pop on from time to time and update you with links to Outpost Skaro when they have news for you. So once again, friends, thank you. I'll leave you - and Skaro - in the capable hands of Derek and the lads over there and wish you, a slightly early, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Happy Times and Places
Eddie McGuigan
Saturday, 22 October 2011
An Idiot Abroad
Whoops, almost forgot... we've had a look at the series An Idiot Abroad on Outpost Skaro, and we thought you might like to know what we thought of it.
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Eddie McGuigan
TWITTER
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Eddie McGuigan
New Outpost Skaro News
Hi Friends
Just in case you missed it over on Outpost Skaro here are some interesting pieces of news we've managed to glean from around and about - feel free to have a look.
The Cartoon Museum, by Eddie McGuigan
AudioGo Halloween Releases, by Eddie McGuigan
Little Crackers on Sky, by Eddie McGuigan
Latest News, by Eddie McGuigan, Shinyford, Friendsofderek and Reilly20140
Eddie McGuigan recommends - The Treatment, on Sky
Talking Who News, by Eddie McGuigan
Doctor Who Puzzles, by Eddie McGuigan
Character Build Rares - Second Wave - by Eddie McGuigan - these are great. A set of the first wave sold on eBay recently for £600! Blimey!
This Is Jinsy Review, by Friendsofderek
The Silver Turk Review, by Nic Ford
Sarah Jane Adventures Finale, Reviewed by Eddie McGuigan
Most Haunted Information for Halloween, by Eddie McGuigan - review to follow this week.
Just some of the goodies over on Outpost Skaro. I hope you get yourselves along, folks. Everyone is welcome.
See ya soon
Happy Times and Places
Ed
TWITTER
Just in case you missed it over on Outpost Skaro here are some interesting pieces of news we've managed to glean from around and about - feel free to have a look.
The Cartoon Museum, by Eddie McGuigan
AudioGo Halloween Releases, by Eddie McGuigan
Little Crackers on Sky, by Eddie McGuigan
Latest News, by Eddie McGuigan, Shinyford, Friendsofderek and Reilly20140
Eddie McGuigan recommends - The Treatment, on Sky
Talking Who News, by Eddie McGuigan
Doctor Who Puzzles, by Eddie McGuigan
Character Build Rares - Second Wave - by Eddie McGuigan - these are great. A set of the first wave sold on eBay recently for £600! Blimey!
This Is Jinsy Review, by Friendsofderek
The Silver Turk Review, by Nic Ford
Sarah Jane Adventures Finale, Reviewed by Eddie McGuigan
Most Haunted Information for Halloween, by Eddie McGuigan - review to follow this week.
Just some of the goodies over on Outpost Skaro. I hope you get yourselves along, folks. Everyone is welcome.
See ya soon
Happy Times and Places
Ed
Friday, 21 October 2011
Sky Box Office Movies
There's some great stuff coming up on Sky in the next month or so - here's a link to everything that's going on on Sky Movies!
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Thursday, 20 October 2011
Experience Halloween Fear!
Doctor Who’s adversaries The Peg Dolls, notoriously branded the scariest monsters ever to appear in the series, were spotted on a rare trip outside their house at Brook Green Children’s Playground in London last night. The Peg Dolls were en route to their new home at London’s Doctor Who Experience where they will be displayed in the exhibition area. The Doctor Who experience has a host of scary surprises in store throughout the Half Term week and Halloween weekend. For more information visit www.doctorwhoecperience.com
DOCTOR WHO EXPERIENCE GEARS UP FOR
A MONSTER HALLOWEEN
· Come face-to-face with Cybermen and Scarecrows as live Monsters enter the Doctor Who Experience for the first time
· Learn to ‘Walk Like A Monster’ with Doctor Who Choreographer Ailsa Berk
· Get made up like a Monster with special Doctor Who Experience face painters
· On Friday 28th October children dressed as Doctor Who characters go free
The Doctor Who Experience is preparing for October half term with a whole host of Monster themed activities to thrill visitors. On Friday 28th October children aged 5 – 16 dressed head-to-toe as Doctor Who characters and monsters will be given free entry to the Experience when accompanied by a full-paying adult. To get ready for Halloween, Doctor Who choreographer Ailsa Berk will be at the Doctor Who Experience in person on Friday 28th October giving visitors a chance to perfect their monster impersonation skills with special lessons on how to walk like real Doctor Who monsters.
The Halloween treats continue on Saturday 29th with face painters onsite to give visitors Doctor Who makeovers allowing fans to be turned into some of the shows scariest monsters! On Sunday 30th October live monsters will enter the Doctor Who Experience for the first time. Visitors will have a rare opportunity to come face- to -face with the Doctor’s terrifying adversaries the Cybermen and the Scarecrows.
The Doctor Who Experience allows visitors to join the Doctor on a journey through time and space, encountering some of the best-loved and scariest monsters from the hit international television series. Special scenes filmed with current Doctor Matt Smith combine with amazing special effects and the chance to enter a recreation of the modern TARDIS interior topped off by a breathtaking 3-D finale.
The exhibition element of the Doctor Who Experience charts the success of the show from the first series in 1963 to the most recent episodes starring Matt Smith and Karen Gillan. Displays include items never seen before including original costumes, the Tom Baker TARDIS police box and two authentic TARDIS sets from the eras of David Tennant and Peter Davison. The public are also able to get up close and personal with iconic sets from recent series, including the Pandorica Box and Chair and confront numerous monsters including several generations of the Daleks and Cybermen as well as Silurians, an Ice Warrior and The Silence.
Cyber Bullying and Stalking
Hi Guys
I'm being bullied, it seems, online. Stalked too. See, I have my own personal stalker, a fellow called Mr Dark, and what he does is he writes as nasty, and inaccurate, and as foul things about me as he can. Why? Well, the actual reason is jealousy. He was booted off our forum, Outpost Skaro a couple of years ago for doing this very thing to other people, so decided it was my fault - I didn't even boot him off, someone else did - and has spent the last couple of years creating ever-increasing nastiness about me in his horrible little blog. Ironically, no one follows it - not the 59 people he claims do - those are all dummy accounts to bump him up the google rankings - but he's getting increasingly desperate for some reason to try and hurt me.
His problem is obsessiveness. He calls my psychopathic. Sociopathic. It's ironic really, as he portrays all these traits himself. He says I hide behind a facade of lies and masks, which, is, amazing, exactly what he is doing, and, in his argument, he claims I am things I am not, or, sometimes, not things I am. He's used google to try and find me - and he has indeed found "bits" of me - and created a character who doesn't exist. And for some reason this no-faced, no-brained, backstabbing and insidious self named "sinister fellow" thinks he is the bastion of morality.
Let's look at his lies. He says I've never been to University. Really? I'm there now, old chum. Right now. He says I pretend to be a teacher. He then goes on to say it's to get close to vulnerable groups. Don't worry, that one has been reported to the police, but again, he misses the fundamental problem with that. He doesn't know which kind of teacher. Do I teach? Yes I do? Children? Nope. He says I run a website called Outpost Skaro. Do I? Nope. I'm not owner of or do I run Outpost Skaro. I set it up about four years ago now, but I don't own it, nor do I run it. People far cleverer than me do that. I just write the odd review. In fact, even that is paired back a bit due to my own personal work load recently. What else? Oh, he says I work with "big companies" because I went to them and said "hey, I know famous people and I have worked with them all." Another lie. Never once said that. Not once. That's why "big companies" still work with Outpost Skaro - despite the fact that Dark occasionally sends really weird and creepy emails to them. They let me know about those things, and we all shiver a bit that there are people like that out there, then we carry on.
So, his basic arguments against me hold absolutely no water. Apart from the fact that there are, what, eight people in the Skaro backstore who all know my name, address, telephone number, are on my facebook account etc I'm not hiding from anyone. I'm not keeping myself shadowy and in the dark. I'm not a sinister fellow.
So that's me. Let's look at him. Who is he? Well, we don't really know that much to be honest, so as a bastion for morality it would probably help a little to know about his own past, eh? I challenge him, here and now, to reveal himself. Show us a picture. Give us a name. Maybe then you'll be taken seriously, eh? Don't hide behind that silly picture with the mirror eyes and the collar up and pretend to be a knife thrower, just say who you are. Go on. I did. I dare you.
But what DO we know? Well, we know he's got a history of cyber-bullying, and that I'm just his latest victim. Luminaries in fandom like Steven Hill, Arnold Blumberg and Shaun Lyons have all been targeted by him in the past. Don't take my word for it, just check out his earlier blogs. They are full of them. Or, better still, check out everyone who "follows" him. Each of those is a dummy blog with a link to his own and a wee swipe at someone. That's how he gets up the google rankings. Anyway, have a look at those, and you'll see he's been doing this for years. Again, this is why we threw him out of Skaro. He made a clown of Angry Who Fan - sending comments from multiple accounts out getting increasingly and increasingly vile - about me, and everyone else (and these were in the days when he was being a FRIEND!) - and his reasoning for sending these comments? "I wanted everyone to see how far AWF would go." Really? Well, enough was enough for us, so we threw him out. Actually, that's not actually true. The head of Skaro at the time demoted him, then he decided to have an ego-boosting section in Skaro called Ask Mr Dark and when things didn't suit him he used that to have a pop at Lee Mansfield and I - then the head of Skaro (not me, again) banned him.
He disappeared for a few months then reappeared as The Comedian on Gallifrey Base. Again, arguing, and googling, and basically being a bit passive aggressive. He plucked up the courage one drunken night (he likes the booze, does our Dark) to change his name back to Dark, and that lasted ten minutes, because he googled some dodgy historical facts about the Byzantiums and was called on it by an actual historian. His response was deleted... and so was he.
Since then he's decided that I'm the man that caused all his woes. I'm the reason he can't play nicely with others. He began following my own Twitter account as Gerry Christmas, then started first a racist blog - degrading the Scots language - and then a similar Twitter account pretending to be me. That lasted a fortnight before Twitter, well aware of the real me and equally aware of his email and IP address, deleted his account. Don't believe me though - check out his own blog, at the side of his main one, where he slags off the Scots and pretends to be me. Honestly, as if one of me isn't enough.
Now though, well, he's taken the biscuit. But, well, it's his own downfall. He can claim I don't know "famous people" all he likes, I don't give a shit, because, frankly, I never once got an interview or a preview or an advert because I said I did. But his comments about vulnerable groups and the like is slander, pure and simple, and is at this moment in the hands of the police. The police who, incidentally, are speaking to Twitter about emails and IP addresses. Just this week, a man in Scotland was jailed for doing a similar thing to a football manager. In many ways, it wasn't as bad. Apparently judges are cracking down on cyber bullying and comments on the internet.
Don't take my word for Mr Dark's obsessive compulsive cruelty. Go and look for yourself. Check out the blogs he follows. They're all me. Check out the people who follow him. They're all him, linking back to himself. Check out his earlier blogs, they're all about bullying other people, with big quotes they've allegedly made and him moralising from behind his silhouette. His "followers" too are all links back to bullying other people. Just to push him up those google rankings.
It isn't very nice to be stalked and bullied, I have to say. It's horrible in fact. It's worse for my children, of course, and perhaps that is the worse part of it. Mr Dark is targeting a man he doesn't know, but the fall out from it goes further than he cares to think. His assumptions and revelations are provably wrong - not on here, of course, but to the authorities - which is why Twitter deleted him - and that is ultimately what takes any legitimacy away from his ramblings. A sinister fellow? Most definitely. A bastion for morality against a man he doesn't know - and plenty do - well, come out from the shadows, maybe, and discuss it. But he's wrong.
Happy times and Places
Ed
I'm being bullied, it seems, online. Stalked too. See, I have my own personal stalker, a fellow called Mr Dark, and what he does is he writes as nasty, and inaccurate, and as foul things about me as he can. Why? Well, the actual reason is jealousy. He was booted off our forum, Outpost Skaro a couple of years ago for doing this very thing to other people, so decided it was my fault - I didn't even boot him off, someone else did - and has spent the last couple of years creating ever-increasing nastiness about me in his horrible little blog. Ironically, no one follows it - not the 59 people he claims do - those are all dummy accounts to bump him up the google rankings - but he's getting increasingly desperate for some reason to try and hurt me.
His problem is obsessiveness. He calls my psychopathic. Sociopathic. It's ironic really, as he portrays all these traits himself. He says I hide behind a facade of lies and masks, which, is, amazing, exactly what he is doing, and, in his argument, he claims I am things I am not, or, sometimes, not things I am. He's used google to try and find me - and he has indeed found "bits" of me - and created a character who doesn't exist. And for some reason this no-faced, no-brained, backstabbing and insidious self named "sinister fellow" thinks he is the bastion of morality.
Let's look at his lies. He says I've never been to University. Really? I'm there now, old chum. Right now. He says I pretend to be a teacher. He then goes on to say it's to get close to vulnerable groups. Don't worry, that one has been reported to the police, but again, he misses the fundamental problem with that. He doesn't know which kind of teacher. Do I teach? Yes I do? Children? Nope. He says I run a website called Outpost Skaro. Do I? Nope. I'm not owner of or do I run Outpost Skaro. I set it up about four years ago now, but I don't own it, nor do I run it. People far cleverer than me do that. I just write the odd review. In fact, even that is paired back a bit due to my own personal work load recently. What else? Oh, he says I work with "big companies" because I went to them and said "hey, I know famous people and I have worked with them all." Another lie. Never once said that. Not once. That's why "big companies" still work with Outpost Skaro - despite the fact that Dark occasionally sends really weird and creepy emails to them. They let me know about those things, and we all shiver a bit that there are people like that out there, then we carry on.
So, his basic arguments against me hold absolutely no water. Apart from the fact that there are, what, eight people in the Skaro backstore who all know my name, address, telephone number, are on my facebook account etc I'm not hiding from anyone. I'm not keeping myself shadowy and in the dark. I'm not a sinister fellow.
So that's me. Let's look at him. Who is he? Well, we don't really know that much to be honest, so as a bastion for morality it would probably help a little to know about his own past, eh? I challenge him, here and now, to reveal himself. Show us a picture. Give us a name. Maybe then you'll be taken seriously, eh? Don't hide behind that silly picture with the mirror eyes and the collar up and pretend to be a knife thrower, just say who you are. Go on. I did. I dare you.
But what DO we know? Well, we know he's got a history of cyber-bullying, and that I'm just his latest victim. Luminaries in fandom like Steven Hill, Arnold Blumberg and Shaun Lyons have all been targeted by him in the past. Don't take my word for it, just check out his earlier blogs. They are full of them. Or, better still, check out everyone who "follows" him. Each of those is a dummy blog with a link to his own and a wee swipe at someone. That's how he gets up the google rankings. Anyway, have a look at those, and you'll see he's been doing this for years. Again, this is why we threw him out of Skaro. He made a clown of Angry Who Fan - sending comments from multiple accounts out getting increasingly and increasingly vile - about me, and everyone else (and these were in the days when he was being a FRIEND!) - and his reasoning for sending these comments? "I wanted everyone to see how far AWF would go." Really? Well, enough was enough for us, so we threw him out. Actually, that's not actually true. The head of Skaro at the time demoted him, then he decided to have an ego-boosting section in Skaro called Ask Mr Dark and when things didn't suit him he used that to have a pop at Lee Mansfield and I - then the head of Skaro (not me, again) banned him.
He disappeared for a few months then reappeared as The Comedian on Gallifrey Base. Again, arguing, and googling, and basically being a bit passive aggressive. He plucked up the courage one drunken night (he likes the booze, does our Dark) to change his name back to Dark, and that lasted ten minutes, because he googled some dodgy historical facts about the Byzantiums and was called on it by an actual historian. His response was deleted... and so was he.
Since then he's decided that I'm the man that caused all his woes. I'm the reason he can't play nicely with others. He began following my own Twitter account as Gerry Christmas, then started first a racist blog - degrading the Scots language - and then a similar Twitter account pretending to be me. That lasted a fortnight before Twitter, well aware of the real me and equally aware of his email and IP address, deleted his account. Don't believe me though - check out his own blog, at the side of his main one, where he slags off the Scots and pretends to be me. Honestly, as if one of me isn't enough.
Now though, well, he's taken the biscuit. But, well, it's his own downfall. He can claim I don't know "famous people" all he likes, I don't give a shit, because, frankly, I never once got an interview or a preview or an advert because I said I did. But his comments about vulnerable groups and the like is slander, pure and simple, and is at this moment in the hands of the police. The police who, incidentally, are speaking to Twitter about emails and IP addresses. Just this week, a man in Scotland was jailed for doing a similar thing to a football manager. In many ways, it wasn't as bad. Apparently judges are cracking down on cyber bullying and comments on the internet.
Don't take my word for Mr Dark's obsessive compulsive cruelty. Go and look for yourself. Check out the blogs he follows. They're all me. Check out the people who follow him. They're all him, linking back to himself. Check out his earlier blogs, they're all about bullying other people, with big quotes they've allegedly made and him moralising from behind his silhouette. His "followers" too are all links back to bullying other people. Just to push him up those google rankings.
It isn't very nice to be stalked and bullied, I have to say. It's horrible in fact. It's worse for my children, of course, and perhaps that is the worse part of it. Mr Dark is targeting a man he doesn't know, but the fall out from it goes further than he cares to think. His assumptions and revelations are provably wrong - not on here, of course, but to the authorities - which is why Twitter deleted him - and that is ultimately what takes any legitimacy away from his ramblings. A sinister fellow? Most definitely. A bastion for morality against a man he doesn't know - and plenty do - well, come out from the shadows, maybe, and discuss it. But he's wrong.
Happy times and Places
Ed
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