Not too far from where I live - maybe 20 miles or so - the big awesome deal that is the "hugely anticipated" Turner Centre opened last week in Margate, so this past Friday, Eleanor and me drove out there to check it out.

This picture is of the staircase that leads to the first floor and is totally cool. When I get a house with some stairs that aren't made of a broken windmill that fell over down the road, I might construct something similar.

As somebody who is appreciative of art in all its forms, I am totally qualified to say that the Turner Centre is disappointing in the extreme. That's a polite way of saying it was shit. Considering the amount of money they've pumped into it and the PR behind it, it's a disgusting and shocking waste of an opportunity. I spent longer and was genuinely more interested in the art exhibition at Rhiannon's school last Christmas - and there was more on display.

I'll go on record here and say that unless they pull something very special out of the hat in the next 12 months, this time next year it will be little more than a venue with a brilliant staircase for local bands to play in.

…and so to Doctor Who. As I said before, I didn't much like the first season with Matt, but I didn't much like the first season with DT either. Nobody was more fired up at the end of yesterday's Impossible Astronaut than me though. Killer TV in the extreme. Faith restored, I have turned into a small child when it comes to Saturday evenings for the next few weeks.

And I don't care.

For uber geeks - here's some bonus stuffage that's pretty cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdClwdQvKXo&feature;=player_embedded

and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFEk8Nx-1Tc&feature;=player_embedded

Couldn't actually find anything happening today to go under the headings of Master Blaster and Master Mind but it would have been wasteful to let a good blog title go to waste. Suck it up - sometimes things can be disappointing.

Currently drinking: Cloudy lemonade. Cloudy lemonade is cool.