I think this was my fifth letter in almost as many weeks since learning of the service reduction news re: Canada Post.

Tonight's hardcopy-mail is off to the Vinyl Cafe. Seems like a good time to sign my name to a thank-you note to Stuart McLean for his work these past decades. I've called him "the most ruthless storyteller in Canada" and yes, that's still intended as a compliment. Based on his interview with Broadcasting Canada host Kevin Caners, I suspect he would deny himself the title. No matter. The "Dave and Morley" stories are that good.

More on other stuff as the evening wears on, I hope...

There ought to be a second Bon Cop, Bad Cop movie. Colm Feore's still tied up working on The Borgias, though, right? And what about Patrick Huard?

More on other stuff later today.

Many thanks to ms_danson for this.

It took me a week to get around to watching.

Worth the wait.

Malaria from Edson Oda on Vimeo.

Space opera fans and astronomy buffs of the world, take note! New stuff from nyrath!

I've got version 2.0 and am very happy with it. Links to the ordering page are on the Flickr page at the other end of the photo-sharing link here!

How cool is it that we live in an age that we can see stuff like this?

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=35204

*contented smile*

The next edition is set for this upcoming Wednesday at the Shanghai Restaurant on Somerset at 7 PM.

Confirmed at this URL:

http://comixjam.tripod.com/

I want these maps.

If you run a bookstore, you should want to stock them. Fast.

Thanks to james_nicoll for the link!

With apologies to a certain musician whose name is unavailable for immediate recall for the title. The rephrase seemed to fit, given recent comments from vonandmoggy, particularly "Moggy", as well as my own observations from recent visits to Centretown here in Ottawa.

One of the perils of summer in Centretown is that everyone and their third cousin twice removed decides -- with just cause, I hasten to add -- to get in on the construction/demolition/renovation/reconstruction/retrofitting craze that begins the moment the thermometer climbs consistently above 15°C.

Thus far, I've seen:

• a row of restaurants, furriers and whatnot demolished to make room for the regional HQ of what used to be just the Alberta phone company.
• assorted streets, a block at a time, getting ripped up to allow for retrofitting of sewage, hydro, water, IT and other modern infrastructure.
• the World Exchange Plaza getting its ground floors' exteriors a Very Thorough Cleaning.

And the list goes on.

Loads of fun to watch, and I should take a camera to it someday soon, before the heavy iron involved gets spirited away to some other batch of similar sites elsewhere in town.