He's Dead, Jim!

Above: treats on display in a store at Niagara-on-the-Lake. Ginny, Jeff and I went to see the Shaw Festival's "Arms and the Man" by Bernard Shaw at the Festival Theatre a couple of days ago. Thanks, Ginny!

Speaking of festivals, the Toronto International Film Festival has begun. I still clearly recall when we were in the thick of it all, watching the stars cross the red carpet across the street. We'll be going to see "The Hula Girls" with our friend Craig next week. As I've mentioned before in Blatherings, Craig's an avid fan of the TIFF, taking time off work to submerge himself in film culture and get way too little sleep, sometimes seeing 3 or 4 films a DAY.

This year, he's been asked to keep a Fest Fan Blog for the National Post's Canada.com and will also be posting reports on Reid's server at http://filmfest.tnir.org/.

Meanwhile, I've updated He's Dead, Jim! with my first episode report: The Man Trap. Here's a cartoon I drew for my post:



You probably won't get the joke unless you're familiar with the original series of Star Trek, sorry.

Less than two months until National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo)! Anyone out there participating? If you're not sure what Nanowrimo is, here's a brief description from the site: "National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30." The novel I've been talking about recently began as a Nanowrimo project. I don't think I'll be participating this year; I don't want to push my luck with my tendinitis...but Nanowrimo founder, Chris Baty, is going to be featuring my writing cartoons.

Have a great weekend, everyone!



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