Daydream Notes

But: https://archive.ph/Q8K1W quote: A new report paints Canada’s military police leadership as shutting down complaints, ignoring parliamentary-mandated civilian oversight and bungling investigations to the point where a criminal convicted of attempted murder almost went free. The report by the Military Police Complaints Commission, a civilian watchdog created by Parliament, outlines a deteriorating situation in which the office of the Canadian Forces Provost Marshal has been resisting independent oversight. “The situation escalated from resistance to outright refusal to respect the oversight regime mandated by Parliament,” commission chairperson Tammy Tremblay wrote in her annual report released Tuesday. At times the office of the Canadian Forces Provost Marshal, or CFPM, has shut down complaints into police actions before they could be heard, the MPCC report noted. The CFPM has also refused to provide information needed for the commission to carry out its oversight f...

Due to extremely unpleasant life events, lately I've been into...emotionally sterile movies? And somehow this has lead me to seeing a few 1970s disaster movies. (Also movies Bruce Willis was in during the 1990s, but anyway---) Good news is that I've discovered that there are good ones. The one that popularized the genre and codified a few things about it, Airport (1970) isn't bad , but it is pretty unspectacular. I think established a few things about the genre: 1) large cast of established actors, 2) buncha little interconnected stories following groups of same, 3) an attempt to open a window into the day to day of concerned groups, like the people who operate airports, or a cruise ship, 4) a disaster to drive drama. Airport was also fairly cheap, but made 12x that at the box office. I suspect this is the other thing: 5) they were super easy to adapt to TV, which by that point for Airport was pure profit. The framing disaster in Airport is not quite on, ...