Tonight at the Weezer concert I was asked to take group photographs for three different people and another inquired as to whether I had sunscreen I could share. My “responsible adult” vibes were clearly resonating.

DISCLOSURE DAY ratings on Letterboxd

Stallone had more innate acting talent but struggled to leverage it and seemed to get lazy with his choices in his blockbuster era. Arnold — at least into the 2000s — was pushing to work with talented filmmakers and really exceeded what anyone might have thought would've been possible for him.

A "Tom Cruise retrospective" trailer for Digger? Oh, you know someone at WB thinks they're starting an Oscar campaign.

"Why are car drivers worthy of having their system costs covered by the province but ferry passengers are not?"

I love this kid vomiting up FIFA

You should always have a phrase to use with your significant other to make sure neither of you have been Face/off’d. Like if a wife says “mangoes are very sweet” and the husband doesn’t say “and the finest fruit is never bitter” then the wife knows her husband might be notorious criminal Castor Troy

#SpringerDinger x 300!!! #BlueJays50

I suppose this was inevitable, and that the clock towards it was ticking down ever since the 2013 Rogers agreement and its token gesture towards the CBC... but it's still kind of surreal to see it happen.

*raises hand

Bridge is closed. And the ferry is shut down too. HRM is a joke.

Let's. Go. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8eM...

Myles let me read this in advance, knowing my MANY opinions on the show. His piece is both insightful AND perhaps even a bit too kind towards some of the truly galaxy-brained questions and categories the show has come up with in its second season.

Natural habitat.

Runaway highlight of tonight’s CBC Nova Scotia News was the word “Jizbots” in this clip about a Scrabble tournament in Thailand.

I think there are at least two powerful themes that conservative writers handle really well - the grief that comes with change and the struggle to preserve the good against the tide of humans’ worse natures. Modern conservatism is all-in on humans’ worse natures and thinks grief is for losers

Blue Jays rally just as the Habs fall apart. Seasons change.

This list rules.

Vacation vinyl.

Habs have gone from losing the game to losing their cool. Unravelling.

Welp, after a really great Stanley Cup playoffs, we really are heading for the single least-exciting Cup final imaginable, aren’t we? #Sigh

I don’t hate this — the variability in volumes on this route does make volume-based signaling potentially viable — but the intersection of Thistle and Wyse in Dartmouth is just as much, and maybe even more, in need of this.

The 2026 BLUE JAYS just got more hits off of Paul Skenes than ANY TEAM HAS EVER DONE. Make it make sense.

Went to a busy record store in Calgary today and I was the oldest patron in there by at least a decade, maybe more. The kids are alright.

Hat tip to @ErikSonOfLars for finding this! The photographer for this iconic Edwin/Jose Blue Jays photo is Mark Blinch. Here are some links to more of his amazing work on Instagram/X. 📸 instagram.com/mblinch/ 📸 x.com/mblinch

McNutt power source.

Victoria Day 1988

We* are so back. *15 min Alderney ferry service

Truly 10 of the weirdest minutes of the entire NHL playoffs so far.

Heard “How You Remind Me” today and finally decided to look up the lyrics, 25 years later, to disappointingly confirm the second verse does NOT go “And it must have been so bad / cause Little Women must’ve damn near killed you.”

Reading the comments (I know, I know) on Becky Druhan's post on joining the Liberal party, and much you'd expect, but my favourite was someone saying, "This is an ideological leap I find hard to comprehend." My dude: the Nova Scotia partisan political spectrum is narrower than the Canso causeway.

I think a lot about the irony in the COVID-19 pandemic being, in the short term, one of the most unifying social moments of my lifetime (maybe beyond) — but, in the long term, providing to be one of the most divisive and potentially society-wrecking events imaginable.

You can read my feature on Alberta's separatists for free with this gift link: www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

Driving home from Truro in last night's rain was so bad — especially on the 118 — that I immediately put on the Habs game when I arrived TO RELAX. Yeesh.

I can't think of Hantavirus without thinking of the first X-Files movie where it was part of the coverup, shout-out Martin Landau.

We're doing a project on public infrastructure for music in Canada and doing a final call for musicians to participate in a survey on musicmaking at this particular moment. If you'd like to do this, please email me at: [email protected]. Or pls share with others who may be!

Sometimes the internet is just Too Real

I've spent this Spring realizing that running Episodic Medium is four jobs—reviewing, editing, editorializing, and promoting—and I can only do two of them at a time right now, but let me take a brief moment away from prioritizing the first two to point out this milestone.

Still the greatest music festival experience ever.

Not a political comment so much as a reality one: If you genuinely think that Donald Trump "cares so much about everybody," you really, really need to stop and question who, exactly, you consider to be "everybody."

One of my grumpiest pop-culture takes is my dislike of any and all date-pun related celebrations. Love celebrations! But it grinds my gears that "Star Wars Day" is May 4 (because of the pun) instead of May 19 (the original film's anniversary). Same with Mario on Mar 10. Or Alien day on April 26.

Not impossible to think there might be a better series this Stanley Cup Playoffs than Habs/Lightning… but man, that’s a high bar to clear. Incredible hockey.

SHAFT

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only The Simpsons Star Trek: TNG The X-Files The Wire Friday Night Lights Lost Arrested Development* Breaking Bad The Leftovers The Americans Parks and Recreation The Good Place The Great British Bake-Off Succession Taskmaster

Harry Chapin released Cat's in the Cradle in 1974. Ugly Kid Joe released Cat's in the Cradle in 1992. There was no prominent version of Cat's in the Cradle in the 2010s. This is where it all went wrong.

This is a pretty good list, and I'd say the two biggest omissions are Jeff Tweedy and Jason Isbell, but I'm also not sure who I'd cut for them either. Maybe Outkast but... yeesh, I don't like that either. 30 is a tough number! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Reading and listening to conversations about social media's potential harm to young people and wondering at what point people will follow that line of thought to more seriously ask questions about its potential harm for adults.

Tom rightfully picks apart the stupidity in how rights holders for Rodrigo's influences (Taylor Swift, Paramore) have over-litigated her material. Just because a song expresses a similar vibe and sound doesn't make it an interpolation worthy of credit!