Outside In: Makes It So Announced

ATB Publishing has announced its latest collection of essays etc. It's called Outside In: Makes It So and concerns all 176 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and its four subsequent cinematic voyages.

I have written not one, not two, but one-and-a-half pieces for this book. More details to follow as and when and if they do.

Twitter Twatter #41

March 2017 on Twitter:

@BeanoOfficial It's been great to see so many menaces on the streets this #WorldBookDay pic.twitter.com/oMpVrKNeqL

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 2 March 2017

There are no meals that wouldn't be improved by the inclusion of poppadoms.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 3 March 2017

Imagine if u honestly uncovered a Watergate-level scandal abt yr own presidency, but then 30 min later got bored & started tweeting about TV pic.twitter.com/YBhcbLJfcS

— David Grossman (@davidgross_man) 4 March 2017

Olag One, Receptionist of Freedom City #Blakes7 https://t.co/nDHHqqYtUO

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 5 March 2017

America, seriously, just fucking stop it. pic.twitter.com/hXYj9e9dRl

— Simon "Si" Spurrier (@sispurrier) 4 March 2017

GIF of Ian and Babs's London larks from the end of The Chase, so you can really appreciate the utter joy of *every single photo* 😍#DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/xlMfJkpwRf

— Clayton Hickman (@claytonhickman) 5 March 2017

Arguably the best TV show ever made, #BuffyTheVampireSlayer, is twenty year old today and now I feel ancient. #buffyslays20

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 10 March 2017

Just received this email from Amazon, a #DoctorWho book written just for me @cavanscott? I'm really touched. pic.twitter.com/44bJInJmEG

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 12 March 2017

Twat cycle pic.twitter.com/ibhFO9Ncpk

— joe heenan (@joeheenan) 11 March 2017

Started watching #UnderTheDome, 4 eps in & I'm really impressed. Small town paranoia meets big SF idea with style, @deanjnorris is fantastic

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 12 March 2017

Young Trump looks like a possessed factory owner from a 7 part Jon Pertwee story. pic.twitter.com/Szovt2rCwQ

— Dom Carter (@DomCarterAgain) 13 March 2017

I used to love the little #DS9spineartwork on VHS, but I never saw the whole picture until now thanks to @StarTrekVHS, here's Season 1... pic.twitter.com/HOZwzgx91M

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 19 March 2017

I know you were all wondering what to get me for my birthday, well ladies and gentlemen the search is over...: https://t.co/8zqAV3G22F

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 20 March 2017

Love the flashbacks, but hoping that one day @NBCThisisUs does a flashforward to the year 2187...

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 20 March 2017

More #DS9SpineArt, courtesy of @StarTrekVHS, here's #DS9 season 2... pic.twitter.com/wc8Tfgnf2k

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 20 March 2017

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— Bootleg Stuff (@Bootleg_Stuff) 21 March 2017

#StarTrek #DS9 Season 3's #DS9SpineArt, thanks to scans from from @StarTrekVHS... Does it bear any relation to the story? pic.twitter.com/jEmqA2gUf5

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 21 March 2017

#Lister is clearly trolling #Rimmer in #Sainsburys. #RedDwarf #gazpachosoup pic.twitter.com/z2qMFLlF6v

— Martin Harvey (@Martin_Harvey) 21 March 2017

"And what balloon animal do you want, little girl?" pic.twitter.com/a0ODRheSUI

— Aviva Hope Rutkin (@realavivahr) 21 March 2017

Christina Aguilera loves The Five Doctors #doctorwho pic.twitter.com/vPIyTWAyb8

— Gavin (@GavinWorby) 22 March 2017

Triggering Article 50 pic.twitter.com/fy8TLqqcUR

— Jacob Richardson (@jjarichardson) 21 March 2017

#DS9SpineArt reaches Season 4, depicting Paradise Lost's battle: USS Defiant versus USS Lakota, odd to see 2 Defiants together @StarTrekVHS pic.twitter.com/8COtE6qJNC

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 22 March 2017

Job News:
There'll be a painter/decorator vacancy opening up in North Korea tomorrow pic.twitter.com/oOXFJjNhzs

— Lee Jenkins (@Lee_T_Jenkins) 21 March 2017

Sky News captions are spot on today. pic.twitter.com/2owiV2Mx4c

— Dai Lama (@WelshDalaiLama) 22 March 2017

Just talked to a woman enraged that the newsflash about the Westminster incident had interrupted her viewing of #EscapeToTheCountry...

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 22 March 2017

Buster Keaton in Hard Luck (1921) pic.twitter.com/HD6mpRBk1Z

— Silent Movie GIFs (@silentmoviegifs) 22 March 2017

"Please do not expand this list by killing people." pic.twitter.com/0Ul4rHbSt9

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 23 March 2017

Season 5's #DS9SpineArt, oddly shows Klingons and Jem-Hadar flying off in different directions. The cowards. @StarTrekVHS @TrekCore pic.twitter.com/qvadd5v20d

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 23 March 2017

Quote of the year. pic.twitter.com/ucNFmkYLdX

— Darwin Award 🔞 (@AwardsDarwin) 23 March 2017

#RedNoseDay pic.twitter.com/7hsY6lwT8M

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 24 March 2017

#DS9SpineArt: Season 6 - no battles, no enemies, just Federation fleet and its allies hanging in space. Twice. @StarTrekVHS @TrekCore pic.twitter.com/yANELy9lrG

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 24 March 2017

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— Martin Ruddock (@sugarraybuzzard) 23 March 2017

Moebius made a comic where every frame of this was a panel. Now with the wonder of gif technology we can see how it'd play out. pic.twitter.com/TRyvnQLrbD

— Helm_ll (@Helm_ll) 22 March 2017

Last #DS9SpineArt: Season 7 - another game of 2 halves: Orb of the Emissary and a weird race to the womehole @StarTrekVHS @TrekCore pic.twitter.com/DAKnxTWSWF

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 25 March 2017

Rewatching @bbcclass and really enjoying Vivian Oparah's performance, @Patrick_Ness can have much more Tanya in Season 2?

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 26 March 2017

@Patrick_Ness Also, @bbcclass has great cliffhanger ending(s). Is Cyril Nri reprising his #SarahJaneAdventures character?

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 26 March 2017

Now he's gone too far https://t.co/PXH8LOd76O

— roadto326 (@roadto326) 25 March 2017

Reading @VworpVworpZine, but my copy is faulty: my Kroton design seems not to have won in favour of superior artwork. Be sure to check yours pic.twitter.com/Fef945pvjx

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 26 March 2017

I see #britishsummertime is trending. It's a great novel and about time it got the recognition it deserved. Thanks @Paul_Cornell pic.twitter.com/PrUWqKWPUV

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 26 March 2017

@GRALambo @StarTrekVHS @TrekCore It was, but one thing it was never about was a womehole. What is a womehole? What is a wome?

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 26 March 2017

A retired French cabinet maker has recently finished building a beautiful, working Citroen 2CV out of wood. pic.twitter.com/lyfjv3gRMf

— The QI Elves (@qikipedia) 26 March 2017

@gossjam "Yaroo!" pic.twitter.com/jOK9t3AB3H

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 26 March 2017

@bromley001 He looks like he has moss growing on his face.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 27 March 2017

The price for @thimbleweedpark will be $19.99. pic.twitter.com/rsIoOMDOUX

— Ron Gilbert (@grumpygamer) 27 March 2017

All seven seasons of #DS9SpineArt are wider than MS Paint will allow, so here they all are in one tweet @StarTrekVHS, @DS9Doc @TrekCore pic.twitter.com/2CZw6fgbfS

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 March 2017

@ianiansymes Great chunks of our rights, detaching themselves like melting icebergs.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 March 2017

Just read something about #Strasbourg (the one on the left) and my confused brain translated it as #Starbug (the one on the right)... pic.twitter.com/g2uoA0lQBG

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 30 March 2017

Nothing says Brexit quite like the Union Jack upside down tied to some bins. #BrexitDay #BrexitBins pic.twitter.com/afG0RUDUGD

— Anna Mazzola (@Anna_Mazz) 29 March 2017

@ellabellasmith "Brexit means Brexit"

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 31 March 2017

Please Release Me: Update

On previous Please Release Me posts, I have whinged about the unacceptable unavailability of various pieces of entertainment. Here's an updated list of all the things that were subsequently released.

On DVD, Terry Pratchett's Truckers is stop-motion animation children's TV classic that was made available and if it hadn't I would never have discovered in watching it that my wife found it extremely off-putting...

William Hartnell's final Doctor Who story, The Tenth Planet, also featured the debut of the Cybermen was thankfully despite missing its last episode. The episode ended with the first ever regeneration and it was replaced with animation.

Another Doctor Who story released was The Underwater Menace, but sadly this time without animation in place of its missing episodes.

Nicholas Meyer's time travel spectacular Time After Time, has also made it to Region 2 DVD. This was a surprising cinematic experience. I enjoyed the film, but it couldn't have been more different to what I was expecting.

The Internet Is Coming, the finale of The IT Crowd was bizarrely only released in Region 4 not long after broadcast and then nothing for years. Finally the drought is over.

The Judge Dredd newspaper strips are thankfully being published in beautiful volumes entitled The Daily Dredds, two volumes are available so far.

I'm not going to claim that the items on this list are solely available because of my efforts, because it might not be true, but I will claim that the world is a better place with these things more readily available. You're welcome.