On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Listening to Ontario Today and some of the callers talking about the Obama Administration seem to be hitting a series of talking points about how we must learn to Be Glad He Can't Be Re-Elected. (Sarcastic italics mine.)

The Tea Party sadly still has a Canadian arm, I'm afraid. Never doubt this.

Back to the job search and other researches...

MCU Idea: Various characters of your choice have reasons and ideas for writing up a mixtape recommendations list for Peter Quill. I don't need to know why they'd do such a thing, I just want to see the music playlists those characters will come up with.

For winning this year's Canada Reads debate/competition with his novel The Orenda!

Some linkages of interest, which I thank james_nicoll for pointing out and prompting others to point out in the course of the conversation he triggered:


Steven Attewell: Steve Rogers Isn’t Just Any Hero


The Infamous Brad: It Would Be Remarkable if Steve Rogers and Tony Stark Did Get Along

Mightygodking.com: Things I’d Like To Write Someday, #247654932

Considering that we're halfway between Avengers and Winter Soldier, it seems like a good time to put linkages to these three opinions on the same page and let everyone who cares to do so cut loose with their own POVs. Which of these works for you, which doesn't and either way, why?

Specifically, the reading list recommended to him by his supervising officer per last week's episode. He told Skye that he was reading "one of about a hundred" such books as part of his ongoing training process.

Which makes sense. Intelligence/law-enforcement officers should be expected to undertake a certain amount of this stuff.

I wonder what titles are on that list given to Agent Ward.

Any suggestions? Some will likely be specific to the Marvel Cinema'Verse, but others might have analogues in the real world's bookstores.

For a man so well-informed about so much else in the worlds today, Terry Deary seems to have lost a few clues about the value of public libraries, particularly in these days of Austerianism-enforced Precariat life.

Thanks to james_nicoll for this particular heads-up about this particular author...whom, I note, seems an anomaly amongst authors.

Update:

Two well-said counter-arguments I know of: scalzi's "Personal History of Libraries" essay, and seanan_mcguire's own defence of these halls of personal learning.

The latter is not a new posting, but it points to issues that still need the proper level attention to be given them, and it started a new friendship for me.

Seems that it's taking yet another additional form of late, courtesy of the protesters therein with the help of Kickstarter.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/occupying-and-now-publishing-too/

Thoughts, anyone?

...and it was by turns entertaining and predictable. It was the Ottawa-Orléans debate sponsored by the local chamber of commerce at the Shenkman Arts Centre, of course, and I'm wondering if I couldn't have better spent my time doing something else in retrospect.

The format, the lack of all the candidates running for the office - paradoxically, it was the NDP candidate who didn't show up for this one, while two other events planned for earlier on got cancelled by Harper's man in Orléans refusing to attend - on the stage...the containment and vetting of questions from the voter audience...not entirely satisfying.

I have to admit: I left early. Not the best show of respect I could have given, true, and yet I don't feel we as voters were respected in the first instance.

No, two wrongs don't make a right.

I may come back to this subject later. Possibly with photos added.

A debate of sorts in this list, and one worth undertaking:

http://dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com/post/2638632917/30moments

Thanks to Johanna Draper-Carlson for the pointer to that list! I'll be interested to see how the voting and debate plays out...

Someone asked a question about economic bubbles and where they might be popping up next...

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/08/what-is-the-next-bubble.html

Frankly, being - like many of the rest of you here - in a somewhat vulnerable state these days, I thought keeping an eye on that discussion was a prudent thing to do. Also, working - or trying to work - in both speculative fiction as either writer, artist or both, and in writing on urban infrastructure issues, there's a story idea mine percolating away there.

So...rather than clutter up antipope's space any faster than he can handle, setting up a branch discussion here on the same subject seems a good thing, too.

Where should we be watching like hawks? Or vultures, perhaps?