Passing the Word, Passing the Hat

Karl Kesel's family is in an interesting place right now.

An adopted baby, weaned off of methadone addiction. This was an indirect consequence of his birth mother trying to get clear of an even worse addiction once she found out she was expecting a child. And now there are bills to pay.

I'm not sure that I'm in a position to help directly, but I've enjoyed Karl's work in print over the past couple of decades. So I'm passing the word along. Details are in the link to the CBR article. Do what you can, please, even if it's only further spreading the word yourselves...?

More on other topics later in the day...

Some CBC Ottawa health/safety news links for the weekend

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2012/08/04/ottawa-rabid-bat-warning.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2012/08/03/ottawa-heat-alert-weekend.html

We might want to be a bit more careful in our perambulations around Ottawa-Gatineau this weekend.

Some quick links

A retrospective of five of Alpha Flight's HQs over the decades.

The same blogger's opinion on which five DCU cities should be annexed by Canada, if you can believe it. Read this for the entertainment value. (And is DC still serious about retroactively making Booster Gold one of us post-Flashpoint, people? Really?)

(Also...if the DCU characters were to be all Canadianized? Smallville? In Saskatchewan. No arguments on this one, readers of mine.)

Is it possible for a mystery bookstore to self-resurrect in Ottawa? Linda Wiken saith "YES!" Effective this very weekend, in fact!

More later on...

Update 19 June 2014: The blog entries linked to here have - along with the blog itself - been rendered private by the owner. Didn't know until today that this had happened, nor am I aware of when and why. Apologies for this. 

Lester Pearson - the Statue

Lester Pearson - the Statue, a photo by dwight_ew on Flickr.

Tucked away close to the cat colony...but you really have to go a little off the beaten path to find it.