That · Wellington · Crowd

Well, I used a lot of the suggestions that came my way from that post the other day! I was pretty pleased with the turnout of readers for that question, I must admit. I guess it's because you hear a lot that people don't give a darn about history in this country, if depressing yearly polls from the Dominion Institute mean anything, but it's clearly not the case among my livejournal followers. You guys are great!

I had to do a general sweep that involved a good range of places, professions, backgrounds and time periods, so you know, not everyone's favorite author is going to be in there but I sure did like the range in suggestions. Looking at it now I wish I had someone from the NWT (not one! for shame) and New Brunswick. Stompin Tom is from New Brunswick but he's also sort of from everywhere.  I could have put the Irvings in there, I think they control history in NB as well as anything else.

I was all crazed out with strep throat while I did this, but listening to Radiolab shows and a burning passion for Canada I guess(?) kept me going.  You can find the image in today's National Post, along with an article about the Historica/Dominion merger! Interesting stuff.


( picture is under the cut because it's huge )


Here is the legend, the rows are sort of wonky but you'll figure it out:

Row One (bottom):
James Wolfe, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, David Suzuki, Louis-Joseph Papineau, John A. Macdonald, Terry Fox
Row Two
Emily Carr, Joseph Howe, Joey Smallwood, Robert Bartlett, Louis Riel, Joy Kogawa
Row Three
Marshall McLuhan, Samuel de Champlain, Marilyn Bell, Wayne Gretzky, Emily Murphy
Row Four
Rene Levesque, Sam Steele, Farley Mowat, L.M. Montgomery, Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Trail, John McCrae
Row Five
Pitikwahanapiwiyin (Poundmaker), Oscar Peterson, Rush, Pierre Berton
Row Six
Les Filles du Roi, Mary Pickford, Skookum Jim Mason
Row Seven
Charles Best, Frederick Banting, Pauline Johnson, Mordecai Richler, Tecumseh, Stompin’ Tom Connors
Row Eight
William Hall, Tommy Douglas, Marc Garneau, Roberta Bondar, Rosemary Brown, John Diefenbaker
Row Nine
Shanawdithit, Louis de Buade de Frontenac, David Thompson, William Shatner

It's the exchange at the end that really makes it.

simplydivine and I have started a new movie commentary community, called cremedela_creme, in which we post our commentary from our Movie Night Thursdays. Our first movie was A Room with a View.

Check out part one here!

Cross-posted everywhere I could think of.

• 22:54 Now in the lake and resort town of Chalen, WA needing a haircut, a shave, and feeling utterly "road hard and put away wet"... #

Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter

http://www.theonion.com/content/from_print/sexualized_octogenarian?utm_source=onion_rss_daily

News In Photos

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/shaq_cavaliers_start_to?utm_source=onion_rss_daily

CLEVELAND—After strapping on inline skates for the first time ever Monday, Cavaliers center Shaquille O'Neal and his new teammates bonded while Rollerblading through the streets of Cleveland.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/college_freshman_makes_triumphant?utm_source=onion_rss_daily

COCONUT CREEK, FL—"I'm back, Bayshore High," 18-year-old Henry Doyle announced as he pulled his mother's Toyota Camry slowly into the parking lot normally reserved for faculty, emerging with a knowing grin. "Bet you never thought you'd see the likes of me again!"

• e. opined that she found the officiant at the funeral mass a bit too "folksy", and I admit I had something of the same reaction when he led off by referring to his concelebrants as the "cast of characters" and mentioning head on the informal Irish tradition of evaluating a service based on the number of priests decorating the altar. (For those keeping score, Butch merited six, though only half of them Jesuits.) But he redeemed himself with a homily that struck just the right note by not skirting around the WTFery of the it all. Plus his old-school St Louis accent was like phonic gold, filled with invocations for our lard in heaven to pray far us.
• In a weird bit of synchronicity, it was only Monday when I tried to reassure aadroma about his "inappropriate lust" by telling him about lusting after an uncle-in-law at my grandfather's funeral. It's was only after typing it that I paused to consider that I hadn't run into him again in the twelve years since. Well, guess who should be dining at the next Stehtisch[*] during Wednesday's luncheon? I can't say why--has he let himself go? have my tastes simply changed? is he just not the same without the faint air of tragedy that came from being newly divorced?--but the spark simply wasn't there any more. Not that this prevented me from chatting him up, of course, but I quickly abandoned that to take up the thankless adult task of hunting down my blood relatives one-by-one in order to extended condolences.
• After all, it surely can't be the case that maturity has made me any less of a horndog. For proof of that, one need look no further than the incredibly hot bear cemetery worker at the graveside ceremony. It was almost enough to make you believe in the Devil. His informal attire should've annoyed me as much as it did my SIL, but I couldn't stop thinking that with long pants on I would never have gotten a glimpse of those incredibly well-turned and hairy calves. Did I say "glimpse"? In reality, it was a good long stare as he stood a few feet from me patiently waiting several minutes as my six uncles struggled, huffing and puffing, to convey Butch's casket to the lowering contraption.

[*] Irgendwelche Ahnungen, wie das auf englisch heisst?

http://feeds.nationalgeographic.com/click.phdo?i=ab4b916ade65167df0f6b314d15e0bd0

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/rss/article_id.pl?id=5277297

Asteroids slamming into Earth, a planet sneaking up on us, an angry sun singing the planet—find out why these and other end-of-the-world events won't be happening in 2012.

http://feeds.nationalgeographic.com/click.phdo?i=6f236021e754f5351dbfc598a20679de

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/rss/article_id.pl?id=28660527

Supposed Maya predictions of the end of the world in 2012 have some people seriously scared. See what experts say about the unknown planet predicted to pummel Earth, the cataclysmic "galactic alignment," and more.

The Interfictions Auction is up & running, with 6 fabulous pieces, and a new one every day!

I have bid on several. But there is one piece I seriously want, and do not intend to lose.

Can you guess which one?

[I need to work on my advisories. With my last one I seem to have frightened people away from making any kind of comment whatsoever.]

The gallows witticism circulating at Butch's wake was that he had finally managed to be the first of the siblings to do something. And it was very much on my mind how the funerals are only starting for his generation. This is also the generation of my parents, my boyfriend, and my ex, and for years now I've been morbidly wondering which would be the first to go. My father didn't expect to see his 50th, much less his 60th, and Nuphy we almost lost several years ago when a simple hernia operation took a very heinous turn.

The trip I just took I've been ready to take at the drop of a hat for about two years now on account of my grandmother. She hasn't left her house in that long, probably hasn't known who I am for that long. Her children have ceased to view her impending death as a tragedy rather than a mercy; after the funeral, several of them--my mother included--visited the crypt where her husband lay and gazed wistfully up at the resting place prepared for her as they audibly speculated on how long it would be before she would be interred there.

Mom, still stuck in clinical-practical mode, wanted to begin a discussion of estate planning when we came down. I'm all for that, though not at the expense of more immediate concerns like reclaiming her wreck of a kitchen or finding her a new job. I raised the subject a couple years back and found her more receptive than I'd expected; I think her mother's condition has softened her up. In fact, the main impetus between this current drive to discard and organise is not wanting to leave behind an insurmountable mess for her to have to contend with.

If anything, it's my überpractical who seems to have done the least planning on this score. (Well, besides my older brother, who has no real sense of future to speak of.) She confessed to bunj and e.--who talked about the disposal of their remains back when they were courting--that she'd never discussed the matter with her husband. For my part, I can't even remember how long ago it was that I learned how monshu envisioned the fate of his ashes, he's mentioned it so often and so casually.

http://www.theonion.com/content/radio_news/scientists_dissect_coworker_0?utm_source=onion_rss_daily

Onion Radio News - with Doyle Redland

http://feeds.nationalgeographic.com/click.phdo?i=ca00084d2829f7a5e4780f4f32ee055f

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/rss/article_id.pl?id=85976724

A star explosion that blazed as bright as ten billion suns but faded away within 20 days might be the first proof of a theoretical new class of supernova, astronomers suggest.

(See more silent film / video game mashups at GamePlayGag.)

[Cross-posted from Old is the New New. Comments welcome.]

Just a quick reminder what we got going on this weekend...

First of all:  Three Sales Over The Next Three Days!

• Frequent Buyer Rewards: $100 gets you $20 From Friday (Nov. 6th) to Sunday (Nov. 8th) every $100 you buy at Pandemonium will get you $20 back in store credit.
  
• All Used Books and Games 30% Off Plus, these sales will also count towards the $100 you need to get the $20 credit!
• Clearance Specials: Many Books, Role Playing Games & Board games will also be discounted 30%, and again any sales will count towards the Frequent Buy Rewards. All Clearance items will have a "30% Off" sticker.

Next, Our Special Events:

Elizabeth Bear will be at Pandemonium Books & Games! Join us for a reading and signing of her new book, By the Mountain Bound (now available at Pandemonium Books & Games). She will be at Pandemonium Books & Games Friday, November 6th from 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Friday Night Magic: Special Edition: Pandemonium will be upping the prize stakes with some really neat Magic: the Gathering prizes for this Friday Night Magic. These special prizes will be given away at random to participants in this week's Friday Night Magic only to players who participate in this week's Friday Night Magic. Additionally, we'll host this Friday Night Magic at the Classic price of $15.00 to further celebrate our Anniversary Sale.

Dungeons & Dragons: Weekend in the Realms: We'll be running Open Role Playing games as part of the Wizards Play network. Registration is up on warhorn.net, here: http://warhorn.net/PandemoniumWITR2009/

Board Game Tournaments & Open Play on Saturday Evening, We'll be holding demos and tournaments with prizes featuring some of our most popular games! Featuring Arkham Horror, Dominion, Ticket to Ride, Settlers of Catan, and many others. Interested in helping to organize, run, or provide games for this event? Please e-mail us at smoagendash(AT)gmail(DOT)com

Monsterpocalypse Tournament: Happening this Sunday at 1:00 at Pandemonium Books & Games.

See you there!

Tomorrow, Saturday November 7:
"HEROES"

Here's the November 7 flier. Click away.

DJ CHRIS EWEN mixes the music -
NEW WAVE, RETRO, ELECTRO, PUNK
and some Old School Goth + Industrial
and
TERRI mixes the cocktails in the Lounge.

Only $7. And it's 18 plus.
Open from 9pm until 2am.

T.T. THE BEAR'S PLACE
10 Brookline Street, Cambridge MA
(in Central Square).

The Facebook invite is here.
The MySpace invite is here.