...and start a new one with what I hope will be a helpful idea:

http://spacingottawa.ca/2009/12/31/orleans-town-centre-cinema-a-possible-future/

I saw the Grey Cup Game with about a hundred other Saskatchewan fans in exile per the Facebook invite of the alumni association of my Dad's alma mater at the Prescott last night. I think Stuart Immonen speaks for me very effectively indeed over the "Charlie Brown moment" of the last five seconds of the game.

The Ottawa Small Press Book Fair was lively and busy. I hope to post photos to Flickr later in the week.

Good to see duncanmac at the OSFS AGM before I went to the Grey Cup party mentioned above!

Back to you!

But I've seen it in several different places around Ottawa over the years, the first of which I'm reasonably sure predated the Moore-Eick remake of that venerable space opera, in which this font seemed ubiquitous throughout the rag-tag Colonial Fleet. So, my guess is that someone's licensing it out commercially.

So who is it, and under what name?

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/

Planning to be at the Parade from City Hall to McNabb Park today! Should be fun!

To think there was such a fuss three years ago to prevent Ottawa from adding these babies - or others like them - to our transit arsenal.

Ridiculous!

Got in the door of the house at about half-past midnight. It was 25-27 ºC outside according to the taxi's thermometer, so we're now officially in a belated heat-wave mode.

I'll try to make time to post some comments and pix here and at Flickr later today or tomorrow. Not sure when I'll be able to manage it exactly.

For your amusement:

Flotilla Day in Ottawa

Now to design a "classic Hockey Night"-inspired logo for it...

Some weird things get done to newspaper boxes...



Look closer...

Every so often on a Tuesday night in the summer months between semesters at Algonquin College, instructor Rich Lauzon holds forth in B Building's Rotunda/Portable Feast room, inviting animation, game design and other arts students past and present to get together and sketch whatever suits'em.

I happened to be there for the session the night before Canada Day 2009.

If you're an artist yourself, and the Algonquin Campus off of Baseline Transitway Station's within easy reach for you on the right night of the month in the summer, you might want to have a look.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12032267235

I'll be running a table today from noon to 5 at the Ottawa Small Press Book Fair's 2009 edition. It will, as usual, be held at the Jack Purcell Community Centre just off of Elgin Street in Centretown.

Further details here or here.

One bit of relatively trivial good news amidst all the Bad Craziness across the planet is this: my general neighbourhood in the east end of Ottawa - east of the Greenbelt - is going to get a Wallack's store at long last.

Years overdue, this is, and grounds for some small celebration for artists of many stripes in east Ottawa.

Oh, and you'll find it at Innes and Tenth Line. Starting August 15th.

The last time I checked this location out, there was a comedically-minded anti-zombie emergency kit here. Someone's got an interest in crisis-inspired humour in Centretown.

Uploaded by dwight_ew on 24 May 09, 8.31AM EDT.

As of this month, I've been visiting this store for a couple of years, mostly for snack items of one sort or another. Stuff I couldn't get closer to home for several different reasons, like aspartame-free chewing gum.

(Yes, there IS such a thing available if you go looking for it, and two different brands to boot! Now if only it were manufactured by a local firm from local raw materials.)

I'm not quite sure as to why they've decided to close up shop, but I've given them my e-mail info if the management decides they want to try at least one more time elsewhere in the downtown neighbourhoods. They've been good people, and such people deserve honest custom.

I'll be at the Ottawa SF Society meeting as one of the speakers instead of part of the audience.

Theme is "science fiction and the arts". I'll revise this post with the rest of the speaker list ASAP.

Same time and place as per usual: 2 PM, Dalhousie Community Centre on Somerset and Empress.


Further details here at Facebook for anyone who's got or getting an account!

I happened across this particular scene on the way to the day-job this morning. The bus was routed over the on/off-ramps, effectively taking it around the accident scene. The entire story - at least as much as I know now thanks to CBC Radio One - didn't get told until about halfway into the day.

To say that it was disturbing...well, that's a fair adjective for it. I didn't get close enough for more than that, and I suppose there's cause for gratitude there.

By the time I got back home again, the scene was all cleaned up, save perhaps for some impact and scorch marks on the pillar.

For some reason, I found that more disturbing.

Why can't we have a bookstore like this one in Ottawa?

Just wondering.

Went down to the Market again. I often end up going to the same places there, usually no more than half a dozen in a given trip, and the Patty Boland is usually a stopover for at least an hour. Weird thing is, I don't go for the beers and such.

My vice is Coca-Cola. And I've been wanting to wean myself off of that. For the last few years, I'd been moderately successful with it, thanks to Bottle-Green and Knudsen Spritzers, both of which make heavy usage of actual fruit juice and other plant life.

Elderflower, for example. I can't recall hearing or reading much of it, and yet through Bottle-Green, it makes for good soda pop.

And you have to love a company that puts actual ginger in their ginger ale...

What's wrong with redeveloping Lansdowne Park to be used by both the Canadian Football League and Major League Soccer? Apparently, there's some sort of quibble at or near to City Hall on the subject.