On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Ottawa Comiccon is this weekend, and among the actors named as guests at that event are the following:

• Peter Capaldi
• Jenna Coleman
• Alex Kingston
• John Barrowman

We have enough "names" present in Ottawa-Gatineau as of this morning that we could have filmed an episode of Doctor Who entirely on location hereabouts. A script worth performing and a production team were unavailable, however.

Missed opportunity.

Much like the CBC letting the series escape to Space Channel...

Well, I had fun for the 90 minutes it was on. It helped me stay sane (enough).

Interesting to see such a flourish of the cape to Marvel and DC's publications...and the early days of Byrne's Superman in particular, right there on the air for all to see. Was that a specific choice of Moffat's?

Spoilers highly probable here, so...( Some stuff about mapping post-climate derangement in a Doctor Who story... )

Anyway, there's my nerdiness for the afternoon. Back to job searching. Unless you think this qualifies me for a job with your TV or movie project? (Doubtful, but miracles happen in other areas of life.)

There's this band, the New Pornographers. You might have heard of them. They put out an album in 2007, Challengers. The title song, as you'll figure out from the lyrics, is a nod to the DC characters of the same ilk. No idea which incarnation(s) of the team are favoured by which musicians in the band, mind you.

I'm starting to tie two other songs on that album in my mind to specific series or characters: "Deus Ex Machina" to Doctor Who, "Adventures in Solitude" to Captain America. Something in the lyrics of each song fits each series.

I doubt that mental association was intended by the band at the time, but it works for me.

And you?

Yeah. I saw the news from BBC. Gonna miss Mr. Smith.

So.

Idris Elba vs. Helen Mirren.

Anyone?

In my time zone, I've just under 3.5 hours left before I see "The Angels Take Manhattan".

Anyone on my friendlist who posts spoilers with no shielding behind an LJ-cut is off the friendlist for at least the next six months.

I found out about this one WAY too late.

http://www.teefury.com/archive/1520/Whonuts/

So.

Visited the CBC open house today.
Picked up the latest Star Trek: Vanguard instalment.
Attended the new ByMUG.ca meeting this afternoon.
Watched "The Wedding of River Song" tonight.

All in all, a good day.

Mind you, I wish that dial-up speed would return to what it was in my younger days on the Net...

Some quick notes...

Went to Charles de Lint's book sale today. A bit of a joke: my first visit to one of his sales ended up being to the last such book sale he's doing. It's been something I've been wanting to visit for years, but for one reason-excuse or another, I kept managing to miss the event. The timing of that is a little annoying. Likewise the fact that a number of friends of mine also went to the sale today, and I didn't get to say "hi" to a single one of them. The timing is absolutely rotten on that score. Couldn't be helped, seeing as I needed to help someone with rehanging curtains this morning. (Not kidding.)

*shrugs and moves onward*

Found, bought and took home copies of Quantum and Woody: The Director's Cut and Virtual Light. The first of those is a collection of the first four issues of a buddy-movie/superhero comic written by Christopher Priest and illustrated by Mark "Doc" Bright. Sobering and funny, by turns, and sometimes all at once. Life is messy, it is often absurd, and this book took that fact and ran like crazy with it. I miss those characters.

William Gibson, most of you reading this weblog regularly already know. I need to get better acquainted with his writing, so that's why that book is now in my library for however long it stays.

One thing for sure: I will have to start holding my own annual yard sales sooner or later. There is no avoiding that for me. No chance at all.

Doctor Who tonight...while I'm still not sure who's behind the nominal threat forces appearing in tonight's instalment...we did get some serious answers about longstanding questions. And River really brought some home truths into clear view for the Doctor, didn't she?

Was this really episode # 777?

More in a bit on a certain comics reboot...