Covered Bridge in Winter Maud Lewis c. 1967

Excited for the cottage episode of Heated Rivalry bc in my experience going to the cottage with your gay love is all about getting too stoned at the beach and then crying to Adrienne Lenker but hey… what do I know

Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.

Two Maritime queens on Canada’s Drag Race… I used to pray for days like these

How to write a novel and choose what to do in life - thanks @mattearoach.bsky.social and CBC for the interview! www.cbc.ca/books/booken...

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.

They say baseball breaks your heart, and the Blue Jays are a Hall of Fame what if team, now. So what does it mean to watch your team lose the World Series in one of the greatest games ever played? It means you got to feel something; you just didn’t get to choose what. www.thestar.com/sports/blue-...

CBC presents This Hour has 22 Innings

Alejandro Kirk is a Scorpio and this is his season let’s GO

YOU READY SHOHEI??????????????

My @thestar.com column this week: after Toronto Council requested reports on potential new rules for activities like raves, jet ski riding and pickleball, I’ve got an important reminder: it is a very good thing that people are having fun in the city. Fun is good. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Every day is a beautiful day to live in Toronto but TODAY MOST OF ALL!!!!!

“One day we will be brought to the [International Criminal Court in the Hague], not because of Gaza, because of what happens in the West Bank and we will have no good defence. Because it happens in front of our eyes and no one seems to care.” - former Israeli PM Olmert: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Any time I have to drive anywhere to run an errand I start to understand within about ten minutes why so many regular drivers’ views on municipal politics seem to be entirely informed by shit like traffic and parking. I don’t think it’s right but I get it!!

Between the purge of late night comedians, Trump allies buying up TV networks, Hollywood studios and social media platforms, and news organizations getting slapped with multi-billion dollar lawsuits, there is a full-court press to dismantle the information systems propping up American democracy

Trying to come up with an equivalent to this speed camera story but for transit riders. Imagine if, in wake of hypothetical reports of people getting mad about fines and vandalizing Presto readers, the gov was just like, well, I guess we should stop fare enforcement. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Tried to do a good deed by letting my brother borrow my carry-on suitcase to go back to NS bc his is broken… now I have to go to NS as well so guess who’s stuck using the busted suitcase 🙄

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Last weekend I injured my calf in a manner befitting someone at least twice my age, and now my biggest concern is whether I can hobble to Oasis NEXT weekend without incurring permanent damage… it’s a hard knock life

The five brave Palestinian journalists whom Israel targeted and killed today (left-right): -Anas al-Sharif (correspondent) -Mohammed Qreiqeh (correspondent) -Ibrahim Zaher (camera operator) -Muhammad Al-Khalidi (photojournalist) -Mohammed Noufal (camera operator) -Moamen Aliwa (camera operator)

Good post by Fred DeLorey, pushing back against complaints (from non-Nova Scotians?) about Nova Scotia's fire prevention measures. freddelorey.substack.com/p/nova-scoti...

A journalist with Canada’s public broadcaster was not allowed on the Canadian plane air dropping aid into Gaza because of Israeli restrictions. When she made it onto a Jordanian plane, she was not allowed to film what she saw on the ground in Gaza because Israel forbids it from being shown.

Walter Benjamin, “The Storyteller” (1936)

How many books do you need for a weekend at the cottage - probably five or six, surely? How many pairs of socks? Two should be enough

Bought a new air conditioner from (redacted big box store) and immediately started getting instagram ads from the same store for the exact air conditioner I just bought… great work, all involved

Missing basically everything to do with Pride this year bc I have to move apartments but on the bright (?) side I am spending the day of the dyke march cruising around in a uhaul… very on theme

A real toxic trait of mine is I will compare any location I ever visit in terms of how much I like it compared to Cape Breton

Love to watch Jeopardy Masters and hear proper nouns I’ve never heard before in my life

cheer up Toronto, they've set the precedent that mid-size Great Lakes metros can also have Cardinals that become Popes, we'll get it next time

It’s all hands on deck for election coverage at the CBC tonight and they’ve even got me (a humble arts and culture host) doing coverage. Catch some of Canada’s sharpest political journalists and also me on the Front Burner livestream from 8pm ET: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYxM...

Francis' compassion, even with the many Problems With The Church we all know that are not reconciled, was such a bigger flex than any other world leader could claim. I hope that whatever Pope comes after him will follow that lead. I hope it will matter, if they do. www.arabnews.com/node/2597954...

Everyone is arguing about Tariffs but not me, I’m riding the subway and crying listening to “The Only Living Boy in New York” by Simon & Garfunkel

brb dialing my dad up on the ouija board to see what he thinks of Mark Carney’s takes on The Clash

Bookends is getting preempted on Radio One today in much of the country for election coverage but remember we are also available as a podcast!! If you want a breather from thinking about tariffs you can listen to me and @emmadonoghue.bsky.social talk about trains, anarchism, and more here:

Niko is one of the very best at music writing - there’s just something about seeing Kraftwerk with someone you love!!

Getting all my sinning out of the way tonight and then tomorrow it’s time for

here we go

Not sure what it’s doing to my psyche that every time I go into the office I’m assaulted by a giant screen in the atrium blaring headlines like “TRUMP AND ZELENSKYY: FIGHT”

Hunter Schafer announced in an 8+ min video that her new passport misgenders her, presumably because of Trump's announcement that the US govt only recognize gender as assigned at birth. she (rightly) connects it to fascist history, like Nazis burning the Institute of Sexology in 1933 @teenvogue.com

A BBC study just found that generative AI can't even generate news story synopses with any consistent accuracy, and here we are happily pretending it's a symmetrical replacement for education and experience

Got a real romantic Valentine’s Day evening lined up (at the Godard screening at TIFF with two of my dearest male friends)

Absolutely huge play by the Jeopardy producers putting together a tournament lineup stacked to the brim with my friends 🥰🥰🥰 can’t wait to watch

This interview with @kategies.bsky.social is on the radio TODAY!! (or on your podcast platform of choice, if you prefer to listen on your own schedule)

me to me, with increasing frequency

Another week of mostly hermiting in my house watching movies… some common Themes and Concepts emerging

was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch

Love reading a book that features a triangle of three female characters and the only analysis I can come up with is “wow! this is just like Robert Altman’s 3 Women!”

Unbelievably proud to have brought this (sadly very timely) conversation with THE Judith Butler to public radio. You can listen here, or on Spotify, or wherever fine podcasts are found ✨

it’s January, it’s cold as hell out in Toronto, what’s a guy to do