Something that occurred to me in the middle of this discussion over at talkpolitics.

To start December off properly, I answer an ultimatum of sorts from ms_danson thusly:

1. No comment.
2. None.
3. No, thankfully.
4. None. There are a few I should've considered seriously, though.
5. Never met him. And if I want to live beyond the end of this year, that's the answer I'm sticking to.
6. (A)Lead-based, (b)squirrel, (c)none of the above and therefore (d)Not Bob. No one but Bob can be Bob.
7. A toss-up between "Canadian Railroad Trilogy", "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate" and "Enterprising Young Men".
8. What minions?
9. I do not recognize this event on my calendar.
10. What doomsday device?

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Since lonemagpie spoke up...I've meet a few actors, although I doubt any of them would remember me at all. Most of the SF authors, comics creators I've met - some of whom are likely reading this in passing - that might qualify are a bit more accessible and tend to encourage either arm's-length contact or maintain an open channel so as to lessen the "Omigod" Factor of any direct contact. The latter of which seems to work pretty well.

Not sure how to react to the revelation daytonward provided with this posting, in which he comments in passing on Jaws' upcoming 35th anniversary.

Let alone the surprise I got when I plugged "LOLShark" into Google for an image search.

Brrr.

black13 has a good idea over at Panel and Pixel. Therefore, I am running with it here as a memory refresher/updater:

Homepage: http://web.ncf.ca/ad696/
Livejournal: http://dewline.livejournal.com/
Blogger: http://dewlineottawa.blogspot.com/
DEWLiners/NING: http://dewliners.ning.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=587158588&ref=name
ComicSpace: http://comicspace.com/DEWLine/
Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/dwight_ew/

I also contribute to the house blog at publicbroadcasting.ca and I expect that comics and animation will occasionally enter into that.

1. Comment on this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters whose name starts with that letter and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.

mdg1 gave me the letter "G" in honour of ruckawriter, whose work we both enjoy reading.

So...

1. G.W. Bridge, Agent of SHIELD. Particularly since Matt Fraction set him upon the Punisher's trail over the last couple of years. I think we've learned more about G.W. as a person since the new Punisher War Journal title started than in all the years since Messrs. Liefeld and Nicieza introduced us to him.

2 and 3. Guardian of Alpha Flight. It should count as two people since Heather and James Hudson, that first couple of Marvel Universe Canadian superheroics, have used the alias over the years. And both still deserve better than they got in New Avengers: the Collective. Here's hoping they get it. Especially since it looks like Michael Pointer's determined to be his own man back in his hometown of North Pole, Alaska, since having been used as the unwilling murder weapon against the two of them in that story arc.

4. Garak, from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Yes, I know he's got a first name. He was introduced to us all as simply "Garak", and his first name has been so rarely used even by those closest to him, whether on TV or in the novels that have followed, much to my continuing delight. The man is unpredictable in ways that can be both reassuring and frightening all at once in the right situations.

5. Gotham City - a character in its own right in the Bat-franchise. I've already spoken at length on that.

...I got an update today from that LJ Mindmap. Seems like an interesting distraction from the weather and house chores...


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jbacardi got me thinking on this one...

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Is it me, or does it seem as if the closer you live to me, the more likely you are to comment?

Inspired by seanhtaylor, here's my invented word:

promoganda

Enjoy.