I rewatched Atomic Blonde on Friday night. It made a bit more sense on the second viewing, which was good. It's not only a whodunnit, but a how- and why- as well as being a period spy/action drama. Not sure that we need a sequel to it, but that's an argument we can have in the comments.
Semi-Random Notes for Further Thought
Nov. 3rd, 2016 10:27 pmFrom the Guardian: Mark Ruffalo - yes, the actor - on his visit to Standing Rock, ND. Interesting sidebar he mentions in passing: there's a Navajo-based company making solar panels.
Same newspaper: Apparently, there's a fight going on within the FBI over the 2016 USA presidential election at the moment.
On surveillance in Canada: Montréal police vs. journalists on the one hand (with commentary on the matter coming from, among others, Edward Snowden via videolink to McGill University), and CSIS accumulating metadata on a second hand. We'll assume there's additional arms waiting to be revealed, although I don't expect a reveal of HYDRA-style plotters behind any of our scenes. If anyone in Ottawa raises anything akin to the Skull and Tentacles on a flagpole anywhere near Parliament Hill, that will be a real shock. (Also, Disney will unleash something more fearsome than any army upon the perpetrators: intellectual property lawyers. And that will be the end of that scheme.)
Speaking of actors again: Emma Watson and a bunch of accomplices are trying to get conversations about literature going via the London Underground. I think we have enough notable authors scattered across Ottawa-Gatineau and beyond in both official languages and a couple of indigenous languages as well to get something similar going as well once the expansion of the O-Train network is truly underway. Mark Bourrie, the Ladies' Killing Circle, Jay Odjick, Marie Bilodeau, S.M. Carriere, Alex Binkley and I expect there are others I'm forgetting (but not ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ed_rex!)...and as for actors? We're growing that community, too.
On street names: Remember Ottawa's Central Park district near the Experimental Farm, with streets named in a New York theme? As a comics fan, I was tickled to see one of those side streets named for Gotham, but the people who live on Trump Avenue are getting annoyed at the heightened notoriety. The people running Ashcroft Development and Ottawa City Hall at the time the development was first approved might have some belated second thoughts about the naming, no? "Hillary" as an alternative, however, is already taken by a street in the Guildwood Estates area.
Update 5 Nov. 2022: Well, that remark about the Skull-and-Tentacles flag of HYDRA aged really well in the past half-decade and change since then, didn't it?
This is what I was vaguely hinting at earlier in the week:
http://spacing.ca/ottawa/2016/07/09/street-names-proposing-intrepid-commemoration/
http://spacing.ca/ottawa/2016/07/09/street-names-proposing-intrepid-commemoration/
Not in MY name, please!
Feb. 7th, 2012 09:40 pmYou looked at the music I had on when I wrote this first, right?
Yeah. I listen to Bruce Cockburn at least a couple of times a week. Between that and being a CBC audience member by repeated public admission, I'm probably already considered a "person of interest" in some quarters.
So...I have to wonder what TV series certain federal cabinet ministers have been watching over the last decade during their in camera sessions. It surely wasn't Intelligence or The Border.
Especially when I read news like this item today.
I'm with Amnesty International's people as quoted on this one, people.
Yeah. I listen to Bruce Cockburn at least a couple of times a week. Between that and being a CBC audience member by repeated public admission, I'm probably already considered a "person of interest" in some quarters.
So...I have to wonder what TV series certain federal cabinet ministers have been watching over the last decade during their in camera sessions. It surely wasn't Intelligence or The Border.
Especially when I read news like this item today.
I'm with Amnesty International's people as quoted on this one, people.
Exhaustion and Pushing Books I Like
Apr. 6th, 2006 09:43 pmToo tired now for much of anything, except to point out a link to an interview re: a comic book series I'm planning on regularly picking up. My retailer's been Notified, and if I don't see it in my inbox, they will hear from me about it.
The book is Checkmate from DC Comics. The writer is Greg Rucka, whose stuff I've been pleased with before, and noted the fact here on this blog. The interview is here, at Newsarama.
If you're like me in that you sometimes want hardcore dirty politics mixed with your superheroics, then I strongly suspect that this will be a Good Book to Pick Up.
And on that note, I'm calling it a night. Back to you, friends and neighbourszzzzzz.....
The book is Checkmate from DC Comics. The writer is Greg Rucka, whose stuff I've been pleased with before, and noted the fact here on this blog. The interview is here, at Newsarama.
If you're like me in that you sometimes want hardcore dirty politics mixed with your superheroics, then I strongly suspect that this will be a Good Book to Pick Up.
And on that note, I'm calling it a night. Back to you, friends and neighbourszzzzzz.....
