Christmas Eve

[handful_ofdust]

Somebody was talking about Night Heat on Someone Else's Friendslist today--one of three or four I regularly surf, so you'll never know where I am, heh heh--and made me think, once again, about the subject of Stealth Canadianism on LJ, let alone the Internet itself. That thing where you suddenly realize that someone you'd default assumed was American gets the same ridiculously local cultural references you do, so...oh right, they're from Vancouver, or St. John's, or Red Deer. Or Montreal. Or Ottawa. Or maybe they live in the same city as you, and you just didn't figure that out, somehow. Because we could all be typing dogs, for all we know.

Then again, Canadian shows are widely distributed, globally--far more widely than we realize. My Mom gets intermittent cheques from ACTRA's Performer's Rights division every once in a while, usually for the grand sum of $3.25 or so, probably because that episode of The Littlest Hobo she was on once just screened in Bahrain. People in Australia have seen Night Heat. People in Denmark have seen Due South. The people who tend to forget all about these shows are, in order, A) Americans, who often never saw them at all and B) Canadians, who are trained from an early age to avoid acting like they give a shit about CanCon product, because don't you understand that if it comes from your own country it simply isn't cool? (Unless you're from Quebec, that is. And maybe not even then. Maybe if you're from Nunavut.)

Meanwhile, it's the Day Before the Night Before, and Cal is watching Toopy & Binoo, a CanCon product I personally wish had never been approved, let alone distributed. Yesterday's visit to the doctor--my last in 2009--confirmed that though I appear to have two holes in my left-hand anchor-scar, the flesh beneath is pink and healing, uninfected; I just have to resign myself to it being an "unstable area", keep changing the band-aids, and call him in February. Etc.

Minutiae. Happy Merry, all.

Comments

[sixteenbynine.livejournal.com]

"Twitch City" is still my reigning favorite, if only because they named a whole episode "Shinto Death Cults." :D

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

And again--I think I saw half of an ep., once. My money is definitely not where my mouth is, on this one.;)

[sixteenbynine.livejournal.com]

The truly incredible thing about the show: I found out about it back when it was only available via bootlegs or word-of-mouth. TWO MONTHS LATER, a U.S. DVD edition (well, Region 1 North America, anyway) was scheduled for release.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Oh, Don McKellar, I should see that.