yes i am a gamer. this is my game:

[tiktok voice] things i didn't know until my grandmother told me

Hate to say it but the critics are right. Cyclops in Nolan's Odysseus? Total nobody!

deer carwash

Checkout this killer postcard @geoliminal.bsky.social sent me from Howard Days in Crossplains, Texas

Anyone else watching the Trump speech? Stage flashed white with the lightning strike and this was all I could see before the screen washed out, what's happening?

it's happening and he's taking his most dedicated followers with him

Didn't this happen in an episode of The Simpsons?

No Great Mischief by Alistair Macleod. "Grandpa used to say that when he was a young man he would get an erection as soon as his feet hit Cape Breton." For me it's leaving but to each their own.

Likewise I've been reading for CanLit journal Ex-Puritan for about a year now, and I love encountering stories and authors I wouldn't have known about otherwise. ex-puritan.ca

Fusion Fragment. It's been so much to be a reader for Fusion Fragment, and then editing an issue of Saros, FF's spinoff zine. Open for submission this month btw! www.fusionfragment.com

All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews. A masterpiece from one of Canada's best writers. A woman, already overwhelmed with life, wants to convince her sister to keep living, drawing on Toews' own biography (her father and sister both committed suicide). Heartwrenching, but also brilliant and even funny

Wicked and Weird: Amazing Tales of Buck 65 by Rich Terfry. Buck 65's mix of "abstract hip hop... blues, country, folk and avant-garde" probably isn't for everyone, but I'm a fan. It's the longform storytelling in his autofiction memoir that's my fav project of his www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjxf...

Hobtown Mystery Stories. Imagine Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys forming a school detective club to investigate Lynchian mysteries, set in an alternate Nova Scotia. I'm due for a comic book weekend soon, and the next couple of volumes are top of the pile.

Lynn Coady's novel Mean Boy. Coady is great for capturing the Maritimes without giving in to all the easy stereotypes, and Mean Boy might be my favourite of hers. It's about a guy in a university creative writing class who swings between being enthralled and disillusioned by his professor.

nodding vigorously. learning.

Fascinating detail from Carlo Ginzburg's obit in the NYT

Looked this up and it's published by a right wing screed vanity press in tennessee/the uk. you'd think lord black would have a single friend somewhere in the publishing industry

I found this while googling around

[two weeks later] uh-oh

hahaha this is real playboy shit. no way this doesn't work out

imagine you have a crush on your boss's wife, decide to act on it but then realize it's the dumbest plan ever, flush the evidence, and still wind up in front of the inquisition #realoafsknow

I see they found your historical journal

I've entered what I call "manic research mode." just looking up a lot of stuff. It's value will become apparent later.

my god he's just feeding them to the imperialist meat grinder

appreciate the reference a bit better on the rewatch

feel like they just stole the cbc logo for tea obreht's latest. maybe it's about a morning radio host

RIP @geoliminal.bsky.social #gonetoosoon

sorry but i dont think youre a real country if you worship an italian merchant