Got put on hold. The hold music is Opus No. 1 by Tim Carleton.

Introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts/gigs you saw. Weezer Flaming Lips Dinosaur Jr. Circle Jerks Kim Gordon

Sure, why not... I decided to go with Coherence as off-the-board pick instead of trying to decide between Knives Out, Oldboy, Cold War, Adaptation & Talk To Her.

I hate to put this out into the world but this reminds me of San Pedro Sula.

It feels right to go with this one on the first day of Pride as well… youtu.be/NHjvDXIkZ_w?...

Uh-oh there might be beef at the Cathedral Village Arts Festival.

This makes me feel ancient but hopefully The Diodes made a decent chunk of change… youtu.be/tD_NnpDm4dc?...

My latest for The Logic, an interview with Balatro developer LocalThunk. thelogic.co/news/balatro...

Cory Doctorow suggested that Canada tear up the IP laws they were forced to pass to keep access to US markets and sell jailbreaking kits for US software -- third party ink! tractor repair! independent car maintenance! Don't expect it, but would be cool. pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/b...

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

My American friend asked me why Trudeau was resigning. I told her it was because Canada lost in the quarter-finals at the world juniors.

Introduce yourself with four footballers

I think I’m too old to understand what “brat summer” is but I’m watching the Maries in honour.

I just discovered there there is a company called Soylent who claims that they offer “The World's Most Perfect Food.” Naturally it comes in green. Why not lean into that dystopian marketing?

I cover the front desk once a week and the most random people always time their visits accordingly. Today a guy came in trying to sell us augmented reality... "Buddy, I can barely make it through regular reality."

introduce yourself with some jobs you've done, apart from what you do now: Soccer referee hot dog cart vendor pedestrian counter sportswriter newspaper page designer labourer at a rental company cell phone sales

I won't steal Parasite or Eternal Sunshine, but they are great choices. So is Network...

I'm not sure that I realized I'd been to 20 states. Even if only briefly in a couple of cases. Still have three provinces to knock off up here one of these days.

Me: I love public art and wish we had more of it. Also me: No. Not like that.

Work partnered with a local place (Leo’s), providing 600 photos for their new location. We were invited to the soft launch and beyond what we gave, the vibes were immaculate behind my seat: Big Black next to Bjork; Bauhaus; a Luba CD cover; Dolly, Pelé, young Go-Go’s, and Joni Mitchell all together…