On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Well, our team got as far as they could. This time.

Perfect South Park ending to this series, I suspect, would be for the Jays and Dodgers to jointly storm the White House and turn the Vulgarian and his various accomplices over to the Hague.

Your opinions will, I expect, differ from mine.

Commiserating with my fellow Jays fans this morning in any case...and now we get on with the CFL playoffs and the NBA, WNBA, NHL and PWHL regular seasons, right?

Yes, the Brazilian soccer player and the Canadian folk musician. Today.

*sad sigh*

And Bruce Arthur raises this terrifying prospect about the future of pro sports in Toronto, Canada...and maybe about the future of Canadian politics whether Mr. Arthur realizes it or not yet.

https://www.thestar.com/sports/raptors/opinion/2021/10/25/a-more-powerful-ed-rogers-isnt-what-toronto-needs-hes-already-the-least-popular-sports-owner-in-town.html

I only saw Mrs. Furlan in person once, at San Diego, just as Babylon 5 was getting going. And that, from across a standing-room only hall. Her work on-screen was nonetheless stellar, in the best sense, in the role of Delenn.

I never got to see Mr. Aaron, but I read the Peanuts strip with Snoopy standing in for Mr. Aaron, taking his own share of hate mail as a fictional beagle on his own quest to break Babe Ruth's record, and later learned the fuller story. Mr. Schulz was clearly a fan of Mr. Aaron, from what I saw in print.

Two people worthy of respect. Now both gone.

And another piece of childhood TV goes away for me.

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/howie-meeker-death-hockey-night-in-canada-nhl-1.5794606

Age 97, though, hm?

Okay.

The NHL has followed the NBA's course, in postponing their schedule.

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/nhl-covid-19-suspended-season-1.5495002

The Juno Award Ceremonies are off.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/juno-awards-cancelled-1.5494929

The Trudeaus are self-isolating for the next couple of weeks. So our next First Ministers' Conference is off.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/covid19-premiers-coronavirus-1.5495001

Meanwhile, I'm watching videos about flow-charting software, just in case the job search doesn't get messed up. Or maybe to do what I can to get a work-from-home job. Not sure yet, but I've got to keep doing useful things.

Yeah, so the Roughriders are playing against the Redblacks in Ottawa tonight. Switching the TV on for background noise at the recommendation of one of my cousins out west, of course.

More on other topics later...

Not going to watch the NFL thing tonight. Not interested.

First: I went to the ceremonies at the War Memorial today. Pix on my Flickr account: dwight_ew if you want to look it up.

You don't go to enjoy it, you don't go to be comfortable. The weather was blasphemously bright for the occasion, and if it weren't for my concern for the continuing health of our elder citizens (veterans and other alike)...

Anyway.

Second: I watched the Western Semi-Final CFL game today on TV. Seems near-blasphemous to have sports events on Remembrance at all, but there it was. Winnipeg vs. Saskatchewan. It did not go well for Saskatchewan. And some of the hits various players on both sides took make me feel even more hypocritical about wanting this sport and league to continue versus the concern for the players' health.

Third: I watched Doctor Who tonight. "Demons of the Punjab" addresses several issues dear to a lot of Whovian hearts, and a whole more non-Whovians' hearts as well. I'll leave it at that for the moment, except to note the setting: 1947, the Partition that sundered India/Bharat and Pakistan. The consequences of Empire for the lives of people on the street and/or the farm.

Let that baseball team rebrand themselves as the Capes.

Why?

Because that city is where Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster first created the Superman franchise in its earliest form.

"The Cleveland Capes".

How does it sound?