That pesky no fly list
June 21, 2009
Cull or be culled
June 19, 2009
Yes! The city is in safe hands!
This comes and goes.
June 17, 2009
Paul, there’s a difference between apples and oranges
June 16, 2009
In a story in the Free Press about London’s proposed anti-idling bylaw:
…proposals ran afoul last night of Coun. Paul Van Meerbergen.
“It incorporates a bigger, fatter big brother to tell Londoners what to do,” he said.
A gallon of paint emits more than a modern vehicle driving from here to Vancouver, Van Meerbergen said. “Is that what we’re going to do next? Ban paint?” he said.
More what Paul? Emissions from combustion?
google search =A+gallon+of+paint+emissions
Industrial paint shops are already limited by zoning. Nobody burns buckets of paint on the street, Mr Slippery Slope.
Bird on a wire
June 13, 2009
The Fig
June 9, 2009
The Fig, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_gesture
Cat and mouse
June 8, 2009
I don’t get it. The cat brings in a mouse out of the thunderstorm. Take the mouse away from the cat. Feed the mouse. Put the cat back out into the rain.
Ohmygawd. Now they’ve made a little box with blueberries and cheese. And tissue paper. Its pouring rain and they’re taking and putting the precious creature out in the garage
The cat is at the window in wide eyed panic.
Old South Artists Exhibition
June 1, 2009
Original Kids Rent
May 31, 2009
What an amazing bunch of kids. Powerful voices and wow! have some of them come a long way – from thinking they couldn’t sing – to lead. Great staging. Great blocking. Powerful singing and strong strong dancing. And the book ain’t bad either. Micheal Paylor. Congratulations. And it’s only halftime.
Update 4:34:38 PM I’m only a casual parent of some Original Kids, but I can’t speak enough of how amazing it is to watch kids from this program move and grow and have the strength and talent and confidence to put this on. I am not moved so much by the play itself, but I am moved by seeing these kids pull it off.
Archie and Veronica
May 28, 2009
Well, I was always a Betty guy myself. Even over Wilma.
But this is a standard comic book trope nowadays. Flash marries Iris. Flash dies. Spidey marries Gwen. Spidey reboots. Reboots again. Superman (yes he did) married Lois. Reboot. Superman dies.
So Archie is going there too. Archie marries Veronica. Archie dies. Reboot.
Bye, Phil…
May 27, 2009
There’s a curious turn in Philip McLeod’s last column for The Londoner:
There are no printers any longer in the newspaper business. Daily, it seems, there are fewer writers, too.
I mention all this not for any particular longing for the ‘good old days’, because I’m not sure they were, but simply to acknowledge I’ve seen a lot of change in my years of working for newspapers in the way the daily emerging facts about a community are gathered and disseminated.
I’m not sure it’s all for the best. And when you reach that point – as I’ve argued often enough about other people in similar circumstances in other occupations – it’s time to make room for those who do.
So this is my last column as editor of The Londoner. On Friday I’m ‘retiring’ – again – from journalism and leaving the newspaper I started seven years ago in the hands of those with a fresher sense of where this business is going.
The Londoner, as our legions of faithful readers will know, started with a determination to bring positive, hopeful stories to local attention. This has turned out to be more difficult than imagined, not because there is a dearth of such material but because you often have to look hard to find it in the landscape so soiled by negativity.
And I don’t blame the media, at least not exclusively, for that. Almost weekly I fend off callers who maintain The Londoner would be better if it was badder. Well maybe. But, personally, I worry about journalists and a society with such a strong fixation on the dark side.
I tend to parse this as indicating a scramble for the advertising buck and a dispute over editorial direction. Standard Quebecor results upcoming? Fewer local columns and more of syndicated columnists and cartoons? We’ll just have to wait, at this point.
Mulroney cat
May 24, 2009
Over the moon
May 13, 2009
Cpt. Jeremy Hansen who was born in London – ’cause that’s where the hospitals are – raised in Ingersoll, whereas another article cites Ailsa Crag, is one of Canada’s newest Astronauts.
It’s a bit of a critical time for NASA, with only nine scheduled shuttle flights left. Two ships are on the design boards, one for cargo, another to carry humans, both capable of going to the moon.
Update Thurs, May 14, 2009
The Freeps reports today:
In the backyard of the family farm near Ailsa Craig, Jeremy Hansen made dials out of cardboard and turned his treehouse into a spaceship.
Star Trek!!!!!
May 10, 2009
Finding this set of pages 10 Best Star Trek Moments at Time was thrilling. Maybe my tech naiveté is showing, but I can’t believe all these episodes are on YouTube, let alone the *!BEST!* Next Generation episode ever! Yesterday’s Enterprise.
Of course the followup episodes where she was a Romulan captive were just stupid. Maybe we could forget those ones ever happened.









What I’m doing on my summer vacation
July 3, 2009
What have I been up to? Well not posting here obviously. Since I am not doing the cartoon regularly to a deadline I’m just not paying a lot of attention to the local news. And city council has gotten quiet as all the problems are solved and it’s summer. Read the rest of this entry »
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