On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

First person of any non-White colour, actually...and he's an MP I met once in passing at a pro-CBC protest/advocacy walk from Gatineau across the Alexandra Bridge into Ottawa and up to Parliament Hill a few years ago: Greg Fergus. Details of today's vote here:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mps-vote-new-speaker-1.6984673

I'd have thought that this would have happened years earlier, with some other Member of Parliament gaining that honour and title. That's not how history evolved, though, so here we are.

I actually managed to get 45 minutes of actual scan, and digitally ink over the scan of my pencils time today. I can't remember the last time I got that much time in at the drawing table of any kind since animation school.

I rewarded myself with waffles for supper.

While sitting at the dinner table with the rest of the local extended family - as in "from Ottawa-Gatineau to Prescott-Russell" - what movies each of us had seen this past year came up as a topic. So, as you would in such a conversation, I tried to remember each film I'd watched in actual cinema houses.

• Avengers: Age of Ultron


• Ant-Man


• Hyena Road


• The Martian


• Spotlight


• Spectre


• Star Wars: the Force Awakens

I do believe that's in actual order of viewing. But please don't hold me to it. I'm pleased that I actually managed to get two viewings of Hyena Road before the theatre chains pulled it for Excessive Canadian Content. It's not an easy movie to watch, given the backdrop of Canadian participation in the wars of Afghanistan. But, again...it shouldn't be easy to watch. If anything, I'm disturbed by my equanimity looking back.

With the exception of that and Spotlight, most of the movies I watched at the theatres were more escapist fare. If there's one more I'd like to fit in within the next week or two, it'll probably be Concussion. Anyone who gives two hoots in Hell about professional sports in North America - or possibly anywhere on the planet - and whether or not they have much of a future really ought to get a look at that particular docudrama.

This seems worth some cross-border attention in its own right. And leaves me wonder how our own air force here in Canada is doing at achieving the same goal.

Originally posted by tammypierce at Congratulations, Jeannie Leavitt!

A high-five to mercuryeric, since I just saw his good news posted on Facebook: he's now officially co-writer on Action Comics!

Another one to ruckawriter for still being there and still working on that series!