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COVID-19: Consequences For Pop Culture
Oct. 4th, 2023 05:41 pmI got alerted to this via the Hellbirdsite.
https://medium.com/@cdl.tuebingen/covid-19-is-killing-performers-a81d1cf209a2
From the same author of the above-linked article, "What COVID is doing to performers":
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-PVLP_aQpcp-I2eXvcMOsALLRBD-sFxqdWJOhmnBBPA/edit?pli=1
https://medium.com/@cdl.tuebingen/covid-19-is-killing-performers-a81d1cf209a2
From the same author of the above-linked article, "What COVID is doing to performers":
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-PVLP_aQpcp-I2eXvcMOsALLRBD-sFxqdWJOhmnBBPA/edit?pli=1
Animation Festivals and Star Maps
Sep. 14th, 2023 09:43 pmYes, there still is such an event. The Pandemic hasn't killed it. I hope everyone who goes, is careful and has fun. In that order, please?
https://apt613.ca/tips-on-what-to-see-at-oiaf-2023/
Meanwhile, I'm trying to figure out an alternative to epsilon Eridani for Axanar's host star. This leaves me with a history question: how much of the local galactic region was already charted out by the Vulcans before first contact with Earth?
I don't think they knew about Axanar - the planet or the species - going by "ENT: Fight or Flight". So, while the first contact between Earth and Axanar may well have happened at epsilon Eridani, I don't think that species' homeworld should be there as well.
https://apt613.ca/tips-on-what-to-see-at-oiaf-2023/
Meanwhile, I'm trying to figure out an alternative to epsilon Eridani for Axanar's host star. This leaves me with a history question: how much of the local galactic region was already charted out by the Vulcans before first contact with Earth?
I don't think they knew about Axanar - the planet or the species - going by "ENT: Fight or Flight". So, while the first contact between Earth and Axanar may well have happened at epsilon Eridani, I don't think that species' homeworld should be there as well.
Comics/Ottawa: A Very Pleasant Surprise!
Jul. 3rd, 2023 06:03 pmSome of you may recall that the Comic Book Shoppe's Centretown store had been forced to relocate from a previous address further south on Bank Street a year or two ago due to a fire elsewhere on the block.
What I did NOT know was that they had moved into the old Prospero Books space on Bank and Slater until doing an unrelated Google Maps postal code search tonight! Excellent matching of tenant to location there! I hope they get to stay in that space for many years to come!
What I did NOT know was that they had moved into the old Prospero Books space on Bank and Slater until doing an unrelated Google Maps postal code search tonight! Excellent matching of tenant to location there! I hope they get to stay in that space for many years to come!
CBC: Word Nerdery On The Radio from 2006!
Feb. 4th, 2023 09:29 pmI didn't know that And Sometimes Y was being brought back out of the CBC Archives as a podcast series!
https://web.archive.org/web/20120321085750/http://www.cbc.ca/andsometimesy/
https://web.archive.org/web/20120321085750/http://www.cbc.ca/andsometimesy/
CBC: 22 Artists Who Salvaged 2022
Jan. 15th, 2023 03:14 pmJust 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.
https://www.cbc.ca/artsprojects/22artists/
Want to make a note to come back to this later. I might need to revisit. Often.
Recovering Fandom Histories
Jan. 9th, 2023 01:21 pmWe have a request for info here from a Vera Tobin:
https://mastodon.social/@vtobin/109655586118908954
She's apparently looking to pull (back) together to whatever degree possible some of the archival stuff of pre-Usenet fandom.
https://mastodon.social/@vtobin/109655586118908954
She's apparently looking to pull (back) together to whatever degree possible some of the archival stuff of pre-Usenet fandom.
"Space is Part of the Land"
Dec. 5th, 2022 08:53 amNoting this for ongoing discussion...and Musk is clearly enmeshed in this particular mess, by our settler-nations' encouragement.
https://apt613.ca/space-is-part-of-the-land-indigenous-knowledges-and-colonization-by-light-and-satellite-pollution/
https://apt613.ca/space-is-part-of-the-land-indigenous-knowledges-and-colonization-by-light-and-satellite-pollution/
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The "hamlet" - I'm having trouble thinking of a community of a thousand people as a "hamlet", as it seems more a small town - is a trivia point in the back story of Due South's central character Benton Fraser, being one of the communities in which his parents and grandparents jointly raised him. It's also a very real place, the most northern community in Canada that you can reach by road these days.
"Tuk", as it's known to many of its local people, is also one of many places across the planet now imperilled by climate derangement.
"Tuk", as it's known to many of its local people, is also one of many places across the planet now imperilled by climate derangement.
One of the things going on here in Ottawa right now is this: an activist group, Horizon Ottawa, has put together a petition to argue with City Hall and whatever other powers are able to act in favour of preventing the self-proclaimed "United People of Canada" from gaining control of the St. Brigid's Centre for the Arts building in Lowertown.
St. Brigid's used to be a church, was formally deconsecrated, and for the last decade or so has been an arts centre with a pub in the basement. Now, these "United People" - several of whose leadership have clear links to the Convoy Siege organizers, documented for the public record - want to buy up the place and turn it into a local headquarters from which - we suspect - to lay siege to Lowertown, Centretown, Sandy Hill...and the Parliamentary Precinct.
News reports and opinion columns of note on the subject:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/united-people-canada-st-brigids-lowertown-ottawa-1.6523811
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-st-brigid-s-church-united-party-of-canada-1.6540134
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2058380355875
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/group-purchasing-st-brigids-church-property-plans-space-for-all-including-those-from-freedom-movement?fbclid=IwAR0bACadubCxh7Eps9H3ykIAc4RCEziYm1o3AlbXlTJ8fi1meU_bVhuig6s
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/we-saved-a-church-in-ottawa-and-turned-it-into-an-irish-centre-1.3145309
https://www.antihate.ca/united_people_of_canadas_connections_freedom_convoy_tupoc
https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/2022/07/31/where-has-the-so-called-freedom-convoy-gone-dont-look-at-us-but-lets-talk-about-it-says-a-new-ottawa-group.html
Details on the petition:
https://www.horizonottawa.ca/keep_st_bridids_a_community_space
By the by: I understand that similar purchases are being attempted across what we presently call Canada by the same group. I would call that a national-scale problem.
Update 6 Aug 2022 855 PM EST: I think the "United People" organization have a flexible definition of "death threats", going by this:
https://twitter.com/HeatherMoAndCo/status/1556070425855139842
St. Brigid's used to be a church, was formally deconsecrated, and for the last decade or so has been an arts centre with a pub in the basement. Now, these "United People" - several of whose leadership have clear links to the Convoy Siege organizers, documented for the public record - want to buy up the place and turn it into a local headquarters from which - we suspect - to lay siege to Lowertown, Centretown, Sandy Hill...and the Parliamentary Precinct.
News reports and opinion columns of note on the subject:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/united-people-canada-st-brigids-lowertown-ottawa-1.6523811
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-st-brigid-s-church-united-party-of-canada-1.6540134
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2058380355875
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/group-purchasing-st-brigids-church-property-plans-space-for-all-including-those-from-freedom-movement?fbclid=IwAR0bACadubCxh7Eps9H3ykIAc4RCEziYm1o3AlbXlTJ8fi1meU_bVhuig6s
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/we-saved-a-church-in-ottawa-and-turned-it-into-an-irish-centre-1.3145309
https://www.antihate.ca/united_people_of_canadas_connections_freedom_convoy_tupoc
https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/2022/07/31/where-has-the-so-called-freedom-convoy-gone-dont-look-at-us-but-lets-talk-about-it-says-a-new-ottawa-group.html
Details on the petition:
https://www.horizonottawa.ca/keep_st_bridids_a_community_space
By the by: I understand that similar purchases are being attempted across what we presently call Canada by the same group. I would call that a national-scale problem.
Update 6 Aug 2022 855 PM EST: I think the "United People" organization have a flexible definition of "death threats", going by this:
https://twitter.com/HeatherMoAndCo/status/1556070425855139842
Pen and Paper Workshop News
Jul. 26th, 2022 10:45 amLooks like we're going to restart our writing workshop sessions in person again at the Rideau Branch of the Ottawa Public Library on Tuesday nights come September. I'll try to remember to upload the advertising design-work I've just had approved closer to the start date.
Meantime, I've got offline chores to do over noon hour, so I'll "see" you this afternoon, okay?
Meantime, I've got offline chores to do over noon hour, so I'll "see" you this afternoon, okay?
Books: The Atlas of Imagined Places
Jul. 25th, 2022 10:19 pmI gave myself an indulgence on the weekend: The Atlas of Imagined Places.
Five thousand or so fictional places, and the author and cartographer putting this book together tried to figure out where they'd all be. Don't even try to figure out how to string together the backstories of how all these places from different fictional universes could co-exist. Just enjoy and debate the placements. I will.
Five thousand or so fictional places, and the author and cartographer putting this book together tried to figure out where they'd all be. Don't even try to figure out how to string together the backstories of how all these places from different fictional universes could co-exist. Just enjoy and debate the placements. I will.
Amplification: Not in My Colour
Feb. 26th, 2022 06:56 pmA reminder to myself of a number of things, from Erica Ifill:
https://notinmycolour.com/amid-the-tide-of-whitelash-we-remain-unmoored/
https://notinmycolour.com/amid-the-tide-of-whitelash-we-remain-unmoored/
I've lost the Roma Barber Shop on Elgin Street, a place I've gotten haircuts at since moving to Ottawa in 1985. I found that out yesterday when I went over from Perfect Books to reassure the Costanza brothers that I hadn't forgotten them. The shop windows were already papered over.
I'm about to lose the Nutrition Company at Gloucester Centre unless the Husseinis can find a buyer before end of March. Bateson House, the furniture shop at Place d'Orléans Mall, is having their closing sale.
One of my nieces and nephews survived COVID-19, with help from the vaccines. Other friendly acquaintances have died of COVID before any vaccine could be delivered to them. Still others have died of the side effects of the Pandemic combining with other medical issues that they were either already dealing with or unaware that they had to deal with.
I'm not about to give up democracy to the fascists.
I'm about to lose the Nutrition Company at Gloucester Centre unless the Husseinis can find a buyer before end of March. Bateson House, the furniture shop at Place d'Orléans Mall, is having their closing sale.
One of my nieces and nephews survived COVID-19, with help from the vaccines. Other friendly acquaintances have died of COVID before any vaccine could be delivered to them. Still others have died of the side effects of the Pandemic combining with other medical issues that they were either already dealing with or unaware that they had to deal with.
I'm not about to give up democracy to the fascists.
Some random notes:
- Beth Simons writes for Spacing Toronto about the discovery of incomplete headstones made for Jewish cemetery use.
- I watched Star Trek: Prodigy tonight. Not bad. Some cringey bits of dialogue, or maybe it was the character interactions that annoyed more than the dialogue. More believable than I'd like in places, maybe? I have to remember that most of the main characters are newly escaped-from-enslavement children here.
- I got somewhat lucky today: someone else cancelled, so my molar repair gets moved up the dentist's schedule to tomorrow morning.
- My Eye Institute exam got pushed back again, this time to next February. This is...I think, the third rescheduling for the eye exam.
- Beth Simons writes for Spacing Toronto about the discovery of incomplete headstones made for Jewish cemetery use.
- I watched Star Trek: Prodigy tonight. Not bad. Some cringey bits of dialogue, or maybe it was the character interactions that annoyed more than the dialogue. More believable than I'd like in places, maybe? I have to remember that most of the main characters are newly escaped-from-enslavement children here.
- I got somewhat lucky today: someone else cancelled, so my molar repair gets moved up the dentist's schedule to tomorrow morning.
- My Eye Institute exam got pushed back again, this time to next February. This is...I think, the third rescheduling for the eye exam.
OTTAWA: Bytowne, Re-Opened As Of Today!
Sep. 8th, 2021 02:22 pmDetails here:
https://apt613.ca/the-bytowne-cinema-welcomes-patrons-back-to-the-theatre/
My comments, here as there: congratulations, good luck and screen safely!
(Interesting sidebar: today on Spark on CBC Radio, the topic of discussion is the lens, and how that technology has affected humanity across the centuries...)
https://apt613.ca/the-bytowne-cinema-welcomes-patrons-back-to-the-theatre/
My comments, here as there: congratulations, good luck and screen safely!
(Interesting sidebar: today on Spark on CBC Radio, the topic of discussion is the lens, and how that technology has affected humanity across the centuries...)
OTTAWA: Bytowne, Revived
Aug. 28th, 2021 08:26 pmI'm a little late with this news.
The Bytowne Cinema is being revived. The CBC News link is from June, so I am really slow in getting the word out. Per the article: "Daniel Demois and Andy Willick have owned and operated Toronto's Fox Theatre since 2007, and in 2014 they purchased the Apollo Cinema in Kitchener, Ont. Now they're preparing to unreel another chapter at the ByTowne."
I was hoping for this, but wasn't sure to actually expect it to happen.
It has indeed happened, though, and Demois and Willick are working on getting the insides of the place spruced up a bit for the audiences they hope and expect to see at the door when the Bytowne reopens.
More as it develops...
The Bytowne Cinema is being revived. The CBC News link is from June, so I am really slow in getting the word out. Per the article: "Daniel Demois and Andy Willick have owned and operated Toronto's Fox Theatre since 2007, and in 2014 they purchased the Apollo Cinema in Kitchener, Ont. Now they're preparing to unreel another chapter at the ByTowne."
I was hoping for this, but wasn't sure to actually expect it to happen.
It has indeed happened, though, and Demois and Willick are working on getting the insides of the place spruced up a bit for the audiences they hope and expect to see at the door when the Bytowne reopens.
More as it develops...
