On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Just stumbled across this:

https://www.cbc.ca/artsprojects/22artists/

Want to make a note to come back to this later. I might need to revisit. Often.

On the arrests at Coutts, AB:

https://www.antihate.ca/weapons_seizure_possible_ties_militia_network_prompts_some_to_leave_coutts_blockade

On the Ottawa arts community's response to the Ottawa Siege:

https://apt613.ca/ottawa-local-arts-organizations-united-statement-on-freedom-convoy/

Apparently, there's a bit of a kerfuffle: no award given for the Op-Ed cartooning category at the Pulitzers this year. And not for lack of award-worthy talent either.

https://twitter.com/JenSorensen/status/1403490514142334977
https://twitter.com/tomtomorrow/status/1403417033329500162

So I signed up for this today. It starts tomorrow morning.

https://typewknd.com/

James is someone I never talked with, or about, much. And that's to my shame.

He wasn't unique in this, but most of the rest of my class scattered to jobs hither and yon after graduation while James, like myself, stuck to Ottawa out of financial necessity.

He was a classmate of mine from Algonquin College's Animation program. And I'm not sure how much more to say that should be said. We kept in touch irregularly after graduation through local science fiction fandom, most often at Ottawa SF Society meetings. He had his dreams of activism through animation, and I'm not sure how close he got to any of them.

James, I'm sorry for the neglect I showed you in life. You deserved better from me.


https://ottawacitizen.remembering.ca/obituary/james-cleland-1079393479

I'm trying to remember the last time I voted in those awards at all. Coming up blank, and that negligence falls upon my karma - what there is of it - considering I was once a co-nominee for co-editing the Ottawa SF Society Statement what seems like a couple of decades ago. (It was a particularly chaotic couple of years, if memory serves at all.)

But it finally got done before deadline today this year.

And we'll find out who's won at Can-Con next month.

This is a thing I keep an eye on, usually via Yahoo!Groups or Facebook:

http://www.inkwellawards.com/

...rfmcdonald!

You and Jack "King" Kirby, sharing a birthday...

I watched this last night. Seemed like it has something helpful to say on the subject of that particular mix of envy and sadness you can sometimes feel when seeing work you consider better than your own...and I've been in that emotional state more than once across the decades.