I have resumed the job search...

...as of this afternoon.

My digestive system had...issues this morning. But the lemon tea is staying where I want it. For at least an hour so far, anyway. So I'm checking the job boards again in case of being able to land and start something. Facebook will wait a few more hours, and really it should wait longer than that because it is such a singularity. Even at the best of times, and these are not currently the best of times.

The weekend hasn't been either the best or the worse I've ever had, but that's alright.

More later on other topics.

24 Hours, One Drawn Line...WTH?

Not going to try this, thank you very much!

https://news.avclub.com/artist-destroys-hand-mind-by-drawing-for-24-hours-stra-1837171959

WRITERSFEST/PHOTOS: Kate Heartfield

This was taken during the spring 2019 edition of the Ottawa International Writers Festival. Kate's in the middle.

MCU: For When Avengers 5 Promotion Must Begin...

I remember the first teaser of the first MCU Avengers movie, using much of the first part of this text that served as the preamble of many issues of The Avengers through the 1970's and 1980's, as spoken with import and intent by Samuel L. Jackson:

And there came a day, a day unlike any other, when Earth’s mightiest heroes and heroines found themselves united against a common threat. On that day, the Avengers were born — to fight the foes no single super hero could withstand! Through the years, their roster has prospered, changing many times, their glory has never been denied! Heed the call, then — for now, the Avengers assemble!

It occurs to me that when - not "if"! - it finally comes time to tease out the next instalment of the team's MCU adventures, Mr. Jackson might be persuaded to intone a more complete edition of this preamble. At least, such is my hope.

A note about Worldcon 2019

I hope that everyone on my friendlist who going has a safe and fun trip!

SPACE 1999: Audio-Only Revival?

Now here's a blast from my childhood. In this case, the detonation of the atomic reactor and weapons-grade fissiles that were dumped in a couple of what were supposed to be graves on the Moon in an alternative future that could've been....provided certain smart choices and mistakes and maybe even a few crimes alike had been made instead of what did happen in the real worlds. And if physics, biology and chemistry were slightly other than we knew - and still know - them to be, too.

Some of you reading this will remember the TV series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's team for ITC back in the mid-1970's. Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Catherine Schell and a bunch of other actors in front of the cameras. The first season was more a gauntlet of horrors for the surviving crew of Moonbase Alpha to either endure or die of. The second, closer to classic action-adventure tropes of past series.

Others of you watched it years or decades after the original broadcast fact via syndicated re-runs or the side roads of the Internet. There was going to be either a remake from scratch set further into the possible futures for TV, or a sprucing-up of the VFX and whatnot by a fan-run crew under the brand Space: 2099. But both of those came to grief in different ways.

So now we're going to have this audio-only revival and recasting from the same people who do the audio adventure stories licensed from the Doctor Who and Blake's 7 studios.

I am somewhat surprised, of course. Not sure how high my interest level is at this point. But we'll see.