Playing a couple songs at this fun little community event this afternoon. Looking forward to Al Simmons show for sure!

Kind words like these from a writer you admire can keep you going on the days that drag, you guys. 👽 🙏 🍻

Bought tickets to see Ratboys in Vancouver this spring. Stoked!

A lot of people are becoming big time losers www.thecut.com/article/woul...

Gonna be playing a couple Fred Eaglesmith numbers & a Todd Snider tune at this community hub fundraiser next weekend. Al Simmons is gonna be there so you know it’ll be fun! www.eventbrite.ca/e/play-it-fo...

Todd Snider was a gift to humankind and I'm going to miss him

Goddamnit 😢 youtu.be/B90sCOd5IzI?...

East Nashville Skyline, bud

Left my credit card at the canna cabana.

Goddamnit 😢 youtu.be/B90sCOd5IzI?...

RIP Todd Snider. One of the greats, an unheralded songwriters' songwriter and a genuine character. Loved and proselytized for almost as long as I've been a music critic. A guy not only influenced by Prine/Kristofferson/Jerry Jeff but he seemed to come out of the same world.

my lil book is now available for purchase thank you to anyone who reads it buy it here: a.co/d/9no2Phd or here: asterismbooks.com/product/bett...

Rush Time Stand Still

Need to self-enforce my mother’s rule of “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all” before engaging with the groupchat.

Watching Ready Player One with the family!

Kind words like these from a writer you admire can keep you going on the days that drag, you guys. 👽 🙏 🍻

Happy Definitive Decoration Day to all who observe.

Sheldon Birnie's story in Short Story, Long is also great: ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/not-dark-y...

I bought this collection a while back and started it the other day: it's *so* much fun, often hilarious and genuinely spooky at the very same time, and with such an eye for its locale, the Canadian prairies, and those who live there. 'X-files on VHS' could have been written just for me. Loving it.

Look, friend, I’m not here to tell you what to do but wrapping this collection up and sliding under the tree for a person or two on your list this year isn’t a half bad idea bookshop.org/p/books/wher...

Caught a glimpse of the aurora out in the parking lot after hockey last night. Even amidst all the light pollution, still pretty magical.

Slow Horses and a pint during son’s drum lesson, real enjoyable

another email claiming it can sell my books to millions, another text declaring I owe the government money, another phone call pretending to be my bank in distress, another passing Cybertruck weeping some kind of fluid into churned snow - maybe it knows its maker. scams rule everything around me.

Watching Sister Act with the family. Great excuse to bring up the time I played the Pope as a cameo on Rainbow Stage.

This is what the grocery barons think of us

Love a Manitoba reference on Task

Watching Bram Stoker’s Dracula (by myself).

Watching Cool Runnings with the gang

Hell yeah

The fledgling Canada Water Agency, based in Winnipeg, is about to get its funding reduced just two years after the federal Liberal government unveiled it.

Cool people doing cool things

You know what's urgently needed? Basic software. Reliable database systems, accessible interfaces, privacy oriented design. It's super mundane stuff like asking, "how can software make your life better", not telling people "this is how software is going to solve all your problems." Because it won't.

Enjoyed getting a look inside Lifes Short Gallery at the Beaches, Cemeteries & Playgrounds show featuring work of Ten Yetman & Hamideh Behgar. Cool people doing cool things!

No more $$ for trees, but a big bet on AI? Seems like that’ll totally pay out long term

Sir, the economy is not great Neolib: “I’ve got this. Lay off 40,000 people who provide services to Canadians who need it most” How… will that help? Neolib: “It will save us money to buy bombs, and invest in technology that will cause mass layoffs” Ah yes, of course. That’ll fix it.

Looking forward to spending some time this winter teaching a course on creative writing for kids with my pal Jacob. Between this and Jackrabbits hockey, gonna be spending a lotta time at the local community centre. riverviewcc.ca/young-writer...

Still getting gouged at the grocery store, eh, but at least the rich won’t have to pay luxury tax on their next yacht purchase.

Getting into this weird world, on the recommendation of a pal

Death to AI.

Shampoo in the eye

Hometown is back in the headlines www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“It will be a comfort to know that somewhere 255 feet of conveyor is ready to take you on a five minute trip to another dimension.” Really felt this piece by @mmkaufman.bsky.social and maybe you will too?

Happy Snocaps day to all who observe. Also, Happy Halloween 🎃 👻

Happy Snocaps day to all who observe. Also, Happy Halloween 🎃 👻

My son has been making “word” pins with his button press and selling them at readings I drag him to lately. He’s got a nice little punk rock hustle going!

Picked up a couple items at the reading last night. Thanks to all who came out for the fun!

Reading a shorty from this and will have a couple copies for sale/trade/barter at the reading tonight. See you at Sookram’s for a Wednesday of wild & wonderful words, Winnipeg? 7 pm free why not?

Reading a shorty from this and will have a couple copies for sale/trade/barter at the reading tonight. See you at Sookram’s for a Wednesday of wild & wonderful words, Winnipeg? 7 pm free why not?

[Lyn Venable, author of "Time Enough at Last" (If Magazine 1953) and “The Missing Room” (Weird Tales 1953), died on March 31, 2025, at the age of 97. Lyn was surely the last living person to have contributed to both the original Twilight Zone and the original Weird Tales. Last leaf on the bough.]

Why, looky here: a reading of uncanny fictions from local authors at a nearby brewery on a Wednesday evening! See you there, Winnipeg?