Hi, Everybody!
Your ol' Interim Editor
"Manly" Matt Dow is still giving away free @#$%!And
this week's auction is at $101 (US) to Jeff Seiler.
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Heir to the Throne Eddie Khanna sent in:
Hi Matt, I did another post for AMOC about my visit to Kitchener, for your consideration. Let me know if you need anything fixed or tweaked.
-Eddie
Thanks Eddie! (But I edit stuff all by myself. You forgot an "L"...) -"Manly"
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EDDIE KHANNA:
During my visit, Dave took me
on the “CEREBUS WALKING TOUR”; locations around Kitchener relevant to Dave Sim
and CEREBUS…
(it had started off as a “weird
day.” While ordering an iced coffee in the morning on my way to meet Dave, the
barista had repeated my order (completely serious) as “a coffee, no ice.” The
weather was also different; much more cloudy than it had been up to that point
during my stay, and there was something in the air. I mentioned it to Dave when
I met him)
…and the last stop was the
Buena Vista Villa, significant for being where Dave first lived after moving out
of his parents’ house, and where he created Cerebus ,
and also where he found his landlord dead the morning after a Christmas party (detailed
in CEREBUS ARCHIVE #9 and #14). This is the transcript of
the tour as we were coming to the end of the tour and wrapping up:
Dave: So this is the
Buena Vista Villa, and this is new. I've never seen that inset sign before. This
is where I was first living when I moved out. This is actually where I created
Cerebus.
Eddie: You talked
about it in one of the CEREBUS ARCHIVE issues.
Dave: Yep. Dave Dwyer
owned the whole works, who was a local photographer, a local gay photographer,
and the house went back further than this. It's all been redone and modernized.
This used to be Dave Dwyer’s office on the side. That is where I discovered him
dead after one of his parties. If you look at these four windows just about
where…here I’ll let you get a better angle on it…
Eddie: Oh there’s
somebody in there. I don't know if he's going to want us to…ahhh let's just do
it …whatever…
(at this point Dave
and I were standing outside of an office window, and you could see someone
working at their desk inside. I figured I would just go ahead and take
pictures, and stop if they came out to ask me to stop)
Dave: Just about
where that drainpipe is, is how far over the house used to go. It was actually, in terms of the original
Buena Vista Villa, it was the pantry at the back that I lived, in which was
actually large enough to be a one room apartment. And this used to be the Cameo
Modelling school
Eddie: Sorry, the
what?
Dave: The “Cameo
Modelling School”
Eddie: (laughs)
Dave: And this was a
carriage house and that was where Dave Dwyer lived, and you can see where the
two walls are fused, that used to go past there, and like I say, the pantry was
over on this side and this was just like a laneway going between the two of
them.
So that's pretty much
the walking tour.
Eddie: It's
interesting how [many of the locations on the tour] are on a line; like a lot
of it is just here…here…here.
Dave: Yeah it was
definitely a Chess game centering on the Queen, I think. It's Queen Street, and
I moved in on Queen Street and then over to Weber Street, and then back to
Queen Street. All of that took place after Now & Then Books started [on
Queen Street].
A few seconds later,
walking back through the parking lot of the Buena Vista Villa, a parked car
caught Dave’s eye .
Dave: Look at the
license plate. AV 3. It's the paint that's left. It's BAVM 319
Eddie: ..What does
that mean…
Dave: (without
missing a beat) Three is the number of the Empress, which would be the Queen.
Eddie: (…starts
laughing)
Dave: There is some
sort of weird texture today. The air isn't quite as heavy as it was, but it
feels very very difficult to think today. Might just be the caffeine.
Eddie: Which is fine.
We’re adaptable.
Dave: Yes, oh yeah.
We're completely philosophical about all this stuff.
Eddie: (laughing)
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Of course, I thought
afterwards, “AV 3” in a CEREBUS context would also mean 3 Aardvarks. Looking
into it a bit further, I found that FIAT can mean “a command or act of will that creates
something without or as if without further effort,” and is from the Latin meaning “Let it be Done”. Also found in the Latin
translation of “Let there be Light” from Genesis as “fiat lux”.
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"Manly" Matt again,
Thanks again, Eddie!
(Of course you guys are missing the OBVIOUS clue that BAVM 319 is a reference to Uncanny X-Men #319, where Nightcrawler teleports after being attacked by the Reavers, and instead of his regular "BAMF" sound effect, they lettered it as "BAVM". That Fiat is OBVIOUSLY owned by Kitchener's #1 Nightcrawler fan...)
Next Time: F You! That's TOTALLY TRUE about Nightcrawler! Why would I lie?!?
