On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

I am thinking that four of my friendlisters here might benefit from being introduced to each other.

I am also inclined to think that the above impulse is presumptive on my part.

Listening to this as I note Erin Reed's research:

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/15985730-man-up-the-masculinity-crisis-part-one

Said research is updated here:

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/may-anti-trans-legislative-risk-map

...somewhere here on Dreamwidth.

I can't remember who it is that said it, and I want to credit them for the inspiration.

It was radiantfracture, and thank you for that!

I think I know of a place like this in Ottawa, a "hole in the wall" second-hand bookstore. All Books. I don't know how it got started, mind you.

More and more, though, I am thinking that - like the gentleman in this profile - I am going to have to become a bookseller myself to find new homes for my own collection. I would prefer to sell to people who find some kind of appreciation in each book going out my family's door.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/22/barcelona-bookshop-gracia-albert-costa

Listening to this tonight:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/can-a-good-enough-life-fix-what-ails-us-1.6312282

Okay, Universe Publishing - a division of Rizzoli International - has licensed the rights to publish calendars inspired by the visual history of Star Trek. Currently, they publish calendars drawing upon TOS, TNG, DSC and PIC as well as a "Star Trek Cats" calendar, dressing assorted actual cats up in Trekkish garb, and the "Ships of the Line" calendar, which depict visuals of the various ships of the several series, as well as designs meant to co-exist in that universe with the "canonical" designs.

I'd like to suggest to the people running Rizzoli one more idea for that line of calendars: please take a cue from Star Trek: Star Charts by Geoffrey Mandel and company, and Star Trek: Stellar Cartography by Larry Nemecek and assorted artists (incl. the aforementioned Mandel), and launch a calendar series that can fill in some of the gaps left by those two volumes.

I am unsure as to whether or not to list what topics I'd want the artists commissioned to work on the proposed calendar to address, as I expect I'd be going into spoiler territory re: series being actively produced in Toronto, Los Angeles, Vancouver and elsewhere at the moment. If you're interested enough to name them yourselves in the comments below, however...?

Expecting to listen to this after tonight's Ottawa SF Society monthly Zoom-chat session:

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/technocracy-incorporated-elon-musk

So that's taken care of. The people at the pharmacy where it was done tell me to expect a reminder about second dose in four weeks.

And it was Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine I got today.

More on other topics later...

Meantime, I'm listening to this on Ideas...

Continuing the job search this afternoon.

Also: revisiting the history of the Declaration of the Independence of the Mind via Ideas. If you're interested in the text of that original declaration from 1919, here's a link.

(I wonder if Leslie Charteris might have read that Declaration. Some of the stuff in those Saint stories of his gets me thinking now about the possibility. Certainly, if he had, he'd have put it aside for the needs of World War 2 and the battle against fascism as it presented itself to our world back then.)

On a related note: Ideas, the CBC Radio series, is devoting some time over this past broadcast season of 2020-'21 to the theme of The Common Good. Other instalments of that series of broadcasts may be accessed here.

More on other topics as today goes by...

My brain is putting these things together:

• A reunion of the Inhumans cast in Toronto...because Serinda Swan(Medusa) and Anson Mount(Black Bolt) are already working on other stuff there and knocking the critics dead with joy. Get those actors a script they can all have fun with.
• She-Hulk shows up because the Inhumans have moved from Hawai'i to Toronto because politics. And she's a lawyer, drowning in a crash course on international law, refugee/immigration law, etc..
• Ms. Marvel if they hold onto her Inhuman connection from the comics, and my logic doesn't have an explanation why her family would let her go to/bring her from Jersey City to Toronto yet.
• Shang-Chi, because of his father's schemes having a Toronto angle.
• I want to try to leverage Alpha Flight as I first knew it from the comics further into MCU being without being X-Men-dependent.
• Get some of the Agents of SHIELD cast into the game. At least Daisy Johnson and alt-timeline Daniel Sousa.

None of this makes any sense to any of you, right? Outside of a fanfic context, anyway. I'm spitballing here out loud in public, precisely where I shouldn't. Also, getting Canadian actors - Swan, Vellani, Maslany, Liu - to be able to work on a Marvel project in Canada.