Here is a gift link that I believe should work. www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

Everyone loves summer! But for years, that wasn't me. I used to dread it. But now, I too look forward to the warmer months. I wrote about why. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Here is a gift link that I believe should work. www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

Everyone loves summer! But for years, that wasn't me. I used to dread it. But now, I too look forward to the warmer months. I wrote about why. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

I spent some time looking at the company behind a massive lobbying push to have Toronto's island airport expanded. What I found was a deep tangle of corporate and PR webs that all obscured a relatively simple truth. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Strangely soothing thing to do is to sit and create a note of the things you want to happen upon your passing. Control what you can etc etc.

Choose the correct option

“Right or wrong, we tend to believe ... that the artisan or the writer puts something of themselves into the work, so that to own or hold the handmade or crafted thing is like carrying a piece of its maker with you.” – by @navneetalang.com in 2015

Maybe I’m just mad about the series perpetuating the idea that the martini is a shaken drink. Why not just spit in it while you’re at it?

Has anyone considered that a series about an agent of a dead empire, now an arguably declining state, roaming the world and acting out the fantasy of extrajudicial, masculine, colonial violence might not actually be a thing worth continuing?

Finally, @maris.bsky.social says the thing that so many have thought! Hotwashing. Going to use this all the time, and only half bc I have some weird psychic injury when it comes to attractiveness. lithub.com/hollywood-ne...

If you ever catch an Ontario main with $1.5k of cheese (but not chocolate), you're allowed to include me on your list of suspects. globalnews.ca/news/1184722...

Hey! Canadian journalism jobs! The Narwhal is hiring a reporter in B.C. and one (almost) anywhere in Canada. We're looking for seasoned, ambitious reporters to focus their skills on the natural world and how it connects to politics, industry - and people. thenarwhal.bamboohr.com/careers?sour...

Lies editors tell themselves: "I'm going to just read this once all the way through without correcting anything at all just to get a sense of the piece."

I did not know this: "More than 80 per cent of Canada's power grid is non-emitting thanks to hydro-electricity generation, nuclear and renewables like wind and solar." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Whenever a big discourse comes up about Bluesky I maintain my long standing view that this is the only perspective to have on posting here

Someone filmed themselves riding around the side streets and back alleys of Toronto's west end and watching it I was the calmest I've felt in weeks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GstJ...

People who have lost their moms, mothers who have lost a child, people who desperately want to be moms and can’t be, people who have strained or no relationships with their mothers…. It’s a big boat. 💔 You are not alone.

Saw Fran Lebowitz talk last night. Tbh I impulse bought tickets months ago without knowing that much about her. But she has her shtick and it is very funny.

have there been other technologies which have had the consequence of (to probably oversimplify something) "making people lazy"... but in the bad way? i.e. some ppl will assert that e-bikes make people lazy but I don't think that's true. but a machine that purports to fact-check, inform etc.?

So @thestar.com has some important reporting today by Richard Warnica about the separatist movement in Alberta. Some parts are laughable, others are deeply alarming. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... #CDNpoli

ICYMI, @weareravenous.com launched this week, and I went long on chef Telly Justice working with restaurants around the country to offer pay-what-you-can dining, showing how it's possible to be a for-profit restaurant and give away food for free. www.weareravenous.com/pay-what-you...

Tomorrow morning, going to talk to a group of academics about pitching mainstream pubs. As either an academic or an editor, what would you want to hear or tell them?

Show Up Toronto turns 1 this week!! I'm so proud of this little project and thrilled to welcome some new volunteers who will help it grow even bigger. Take a look at this week's newsletter for some fun event stats, a reader survey, and a mindboggling 68 events!! buttondown.com/showup/archi...

Bluesky can be terrible in many, many ways, but to criticize Bluesky on the platform formerly known as Twitter is...

Tomorrow morning, going to talk to a group of academics about pitching mainstream pubs. As either an academic or an editor, what would you want to hear or tell them?

-it’s spring again so you know that that means -flowers, I guess, or young love maybe or— -that’s right, people are putting their phones on tripods and filming themselves dancing in public pla— -wait what?

Final paragraph of my introduction to my textpocalypse manuscript, at least as it stands.

say what you will about accents in The Odyssey, but I think we can all agree it's great to finally see some American representation in Hollywood

for @gqmagazine.bsky.social, i went in on the American accents in The Odyssey (why they're both good, and not actually that unusual)

I think it’s bad that the social internet has been reduced to short clips of the full version of things, and creatives will suffer even more because of this demand.

There would be a certain irony if, in response to a potential further surge in energy prices, more states decide to return to COVID-like work from policies...

No great fan of the writer in question here but isn't this just longstanding NYer house style?

Saw a reel in which an influencer talked about a trick to get a midnight snack in India. The trick was: going to get langar at the Golden Temple.

Ridiculous but true: put off by the put-on American accents in the Odyssey trailer? Accents of any kind in a historical film will of course be "inaccurate" or whatever... but why make British actors put on American accents?

One of the sorta “epistemological”-ish arguments one might make about the shift from book era to web era was a change from the logic of the book to the logic of the database which, in very loose terms, was something like a move to nonlinear rearrangement of pre-existing sets of information…

For @thestar.com, I lean in to being a crotchety old curmudgeon to complain a perennial nuisance: how incredibly f'in annoying loud motorbikes and cars are. Cities are about balance. But one loud bike on a highway can disturb thousands, even tens of thousands of people. That's absurd.

Too obvious: Yorkville, Scarborough, King West Better: North Toronto mum, her son, his girlfriend who's obsessed with that new place on Dundas West Or: Annex, Etobicoke south of Eglinton, Ossington but at precisely 8:30pm on a Friday night

I'm genuinely ambivalent about cars. I love the engine sound of a big block V8 or a twin turbo 6. I get why you'd want to drive your Jaguar F-Type, top down, hearing the cacophonous din it can make. But at a certain point, it becomes a constant pain for the people who have to deal with the noise.

For @thestar.com, I lean in to being a crotchety old curmudgeon to complain a perennial nuisance: how incredibly f'in annoying loud motorbikes and cars are. Cities are about balance. But one loud bike on a highway can disturb thousands, even tens of thousands of people. That's absurd.

Used to quite like Sun Kil Moon... and now I just get bummed up whenever the music pops up on shuffle etc.

"Bluesky will never be Twitter." Then how come I look at it every morning and it makes me sad, hmm? Explain that.

So grateful to @rahawahaile.bsky.social for this piece on the catch-22 of hardcovers, the expensive gauntlet a book must run before it gets a chance at paperback. I'm pushing for my next book to come out as a paperback original for many reasons described here: www.talkscratch.com/list-full-of...

On a grey, cool morn, somewhere in the midlands of modern day England, you’d find me cooking over an open fire, blooming herbs I’ve foraged in the rendered fat of game, occasionally stirring a bubbling stew, seasoned with salt I’ve stolen the night before from the manor house of a local Lord.

I think it was @jjvincent.bsky.social who suggested the Vision Pro was meant to be a Mac replacement, not an iPhone replacement. In the long term, as AR glasses rather than a VR headset, that seems like the most compelling version of them to me.

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