jordan
@jdepstein
going to try and keep this one unlocked. will be lots of sports/music/toronto/kamloops stuff on here. he/him/il/הוא
Friday 5x5: Finished the Treble list of best albums of 2026 so far (www.treblezine.com/the-48-best-...)
Friday 5x5: 100% of albums here are either 2026 releases or albums from an artist* (or their other projects) I either saw in concert this week or will see this weekend
Friday 5x5: now that it's July I'm reading mid-year lists to catch up on the best albums of 2026 I missed
And Eusébio, the best Portuguese player of all time, used to play pro soccer in Toronto for an ethnically Croatian team back in the NASL days
Friday 5x5: finished the Polaris Longlist, on to the Treble list (www.treblezine.com/150-indie-ro...)
The US is -44 compared to China's -17 in terms of positive views by Canadians but the chief economist for the state department under Joe Biden has some views on how we're wrong about who our trade war is with, the self-interested but functional economy or the one explicitly trying to destroy ours
You guys had that. We tanked our relations with China to arrest Meng Wanzhou for America (resulting in the lengthy detention of two Michaels who were definitely not spies) None of the US politicians/economists here care to grasp that Canadians trust China more than America because of US actions
Friday 5x5: finished off the uproxx list of 100 albums of the quarter century, will start a new list on Monday
Friday 5x5: a mix of 2026 albums, the 1001 albums generator, and this list I've been making my way through at work uproxx.com/indie/best-i...
Considering I spent 4.5ish months either in bed or at work and nowhere else there are very few pictures of me at my worst (and I don't really post pictures online) but this was me then: