On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

There's this project I have to track the street names of Ottawa and Gatineau. For a couple of years, I was using Spacing Ottawa as my venue for publishing such information as I could share. Since that's been archived, I suppose I'll have to use Flickr - my username there is "dwight_ew" - and this blog for that project for now.

Anyway, I came across this item about Las Vegas this morning:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/nevada-streets-named-for-pokemon-1.6854948

I expect that devilc will have comments once she reads that.

It seemed appropriate, when I saw something similar focused upon DT-45 on Twitter last night, to address Mr. Poilievre in like fashion. Call it photo-manipulation as op-ed cartoon, if you like.

Okay, so I've got a Zoom meeting with Ottawa SF Society - OSFS - people in a little over half an hour as I type this. If you want in on these things, we have a mailing list you can sign up for and chat with other OSFS members about. Contact and sign-up details over here. We're trying to stay compliant with the various forms of privacy law here, and we figure it's better to advertise and be ignored than to sign people up by ambush.

Playing e-mail tag with the company set up to sell me a new CPAP machine instead of the one I've been borrowing for the last eight months. Among other issues related thereto.

Lower Decks is okay, for Trek shows, cartoons, and sitcoms. I'm not sure it's been a wise idea to roll all three - Trek, animation and sitcom - into one TV series, but it does seem to be finding its own dedicated audience. I'm uncomfortable with the idea of trying to chase them off and shut the show down out of some misguided loyalty to "pure" Trek, whatever that is.

Picked up some comics over the weekend. Mostly catching up on stuff I've been missing.

More as it comes to mind.

And this death is confirmed now.

The first cartoon voice of Spider-Man has left the Bugle Building for the last time.

And as we know from the obituary, he'd done so much else as well across the decades. I saw some of that work too.

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theglobeandmail/obituary.aspx?pid=198832054

So this is a thing that's getting noticed too, perhaps under "at long last!"?

Assistance aversion, explained via cartoon posted by someone else to Twitter.

https://twitter.com/Schnumn/status/1382672019154685952

From Apt613.ca:

https://apt613.ca/ottawa-artist-andrea-ross-doodles-to-document-the-joy-in-her-days/

Her own site:

http://gruntled.ca/

Eleven years ago, this exhibit. The National Film Board of Canada is at this writing 81 years old.

The cartoon this display commemorates still entertains, whether at YouTube or nfb.ca...



I wonder if the version of Lex Luthor we saw in Batman v Superman and Justice League as portrayed by Jesse Eisenberg ever saw this cartoon. It might - visions of Darkseid, aside - explain why that version of Lex was convinced that devils come from "Hell above" if he had.

Another of the core members of the team that made A Charlie Brown Christmas happen is now lost to us. Lee Mendelson died on Christmas Day.

More from CNN here:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/27/entertainment/lee-mendelson-peanuts-charlie-brown-dead-trnd/index.html

Leaving these links about the comic strip Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for you to look over.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/pennsylvania-newspaper-drops-cartoonist-over-vulgar-trump-message-n970171

https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2019/02/10

I'm not sure that I can see what the fuss is about.

Wondering if it printed in last Saturday's Toronto Star hardcopy edition intact. (The Star prints Sunday strips on Saturdays as a rule.)

Follow-up: I just checked. Confirmed. It got through Toronto Star editorial scrutiny.

You know that line about Ottawa-Gatineau: it's a company town and that company is the federal government. There's a certain amount of truth to it, but as you know from reading my LJ - and my contributions to Spacing Ottawa - that's not all there is to the region.

Back in 1990-1992, I went to Algonquin College for the second of two diplomas earned there. That second diploma was in animation for television. Being sidetracked into other lines of work to pay off the student loan, I never got around to working at any of the studios at home or abroad...but those studios "at home"? There's still a few based right here.

One of them is PIP Animation, and an upcoming achievement of theirs got profiled by CBC News recently - by their own admission, for promoting CBC's entertainment programming side of things - that you might be interested in.

Hint: it involves Donald Sutherland.

No, I didn't work on this. But it's good to see the local entertainment industry grow a bit more capacity...