Brushing up my resume and it looked like I’ve had just about every great opportunity that goes to independent arts professionals in Waterloo Region … and I’m still fighting to keep my nostrils above water while peers in other cities get to enjoy salaries and audiences that no one here can muster up.

people like greta thunberg feel as close to modern-day saints as i can think. just someone absolutely committed to the cause of human justice. i feel totally inadequate when faced with that moral clarity

When I was thirteen years old I knew my local librarian by her first name. I didn’t even read all that much.

He thinks being from UK won't matter because the job isn't as "culturally specific" as detractors think. Then @aislingmurph.bsky.social hits us with this: 🧵.... (Read the whole article!)

I'm not sure who needs to hear this but success will heal your inner Damons.

I actually know who needs to hear this but success won't heal your inner daemons.

In my twenties, doing things like yoga and lifting weights was kind of fun. Now I’m 38, I didn’t expect to feel like this much of a chore.

A statement from Tylenol

Listen. Autism is beautiful.

Today I watched James and the Giant Peach with my kiddo. I forgot that we used to make horror movies for kids.

Toronto has its moments.

Nepal just had a revolution over the cost of living and access to information meanwhile the west is still trying to blame trans people because one gun nut shot another gun nut. Fun!

I swear I left somebody on read but there are so many dang’d apps on this thing I don’t know where they went!

If the shooter had killed a leftist podcaster, he would have a multi million dollar Go Fund Me to cover his legal fees tomorrow, and an interview lined up with Charlie Kirk.

I joined fb circa 2005. Still a very devout Catholic, building community semi-rurally, looking up to Harper’s alt-style conservativism, terribly self-righteous, and juust beginning to barely notice a wider world around me. 20 years later, I am a Very Different person …

As many in the US continue to blame rhetoric from progressives for the senseless murder of Kirk - these are his words from 2023: “I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God‑given rights.”

Do Canadian indie publishers send rejection letters? It would be nice to know …

There’s nothing like a recurring old injury to make you ruminate on everything your body has been through over the years. It’s a lot. And I’m grateful to be standing on two feet.

Graham Greene. ❤️

Anyone else smell an awful rubbery smoke in Kitchener last night?

if you read that something "worsens autism" try replacing that with "hurts &/or upsets Autistic people" & see if anything shifts it's not going to be appropriate or make a difference *every* time but when approaching research it's fascinating how they want to skip the part where the human suffers

Hey, trump dead?

“A genius is the one most like himself.” ― Thelonious Monk

Hope Taylor’s not too swift, I guess.

The way so few working artists are prepared to criticize anything that happens on the Stratford stage is a huge lesson in Canadian theatre.

"If it can only preserve our perspective and never give us a new perspective, I think that's a failure of a definition." #HankGreen

Thank you for this clarity!!

I’m reading that the CUPE members working for Canadian Airlines won their bid but also reading that Carney legislated their strike to end prior to its natural completion. None of which should have been necessary. But, also, huh??

I like that everyone and their dog was running agains PP but it might have been better if they all just got behind one good candidate, eh?

Darlings, artist opportunities that are "accessible" because they "don't cost the artists anything" are not where it's at. If you're theatre / gallery / company / whatever isn't paying its most crucial and precarious contributors then you're running a vanity project at best.

White women embracing witch culture is a tiny and beautiful step towards reclaiming the loss of culture and identity that happened when our ancestors left europe. There is trauma in there even if the privileged demographic refuses to acknowledge it for ourselves. And I’m here for it! 🧙‍♀️ ✌️ 🖤

Arts Build Ontario is hiring a new executive director … in case you know any arts administrators who work well with cities and also want to make $70k / year.

If I watch YouTube when I can’t sleep, no matter what content I start with, the night always somehow seems to end with Nina Simone. 👑

RFK jr can f^ck a dead pig.

I nearly forgot about Karl Paulnack’s welcome address to freshman parents at the Boston Conservatory. www.bc.edu/content/dam/...

The Dragon Prince is some of the best storytelling on Netflix.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but you should try — within reason — to make personal choices that are better for society, even knowing that personal choices are not sufficient for addressing large systemic issues. Just be normal about it.

The Toronto theatre scene is SUCH a rollercoaster.

Hamilton City Magazine calls Hum-Buzz “Well crafted and masterfully delivered … audacious and intense.” There’s only THREE performances left: don’t miss it at the Hamilton Fringe Festival this week! Thurs to Saturday. 324 James st N (through the alley). #theatre #fringe #review #performance #fly

Fourth production, first review: “Hum-Buzz is chaotic and compelling, with a surprise twist.” www.thevibehamilton.com/c/humbuzz On now at the Hamilton fringe festival.

Curiosity is a virtue.

This may be the first time I’ve experienced Writer’s Block … maybe ever?! It’s not a lack of ideas but a lack of focus. I’m just a tired overworked millennial dad. Anyone got a younger body and a summer off that we can transplant my brain into for a spell?

I'm constantly astounded by how ignorant and unwilling capitalism and it's systems are to accommodate children and caregivers.

Did Old Spice intentionally put a vaguely brown child in a crater and then offer to provide them with hope and justice during a genocide in Palestine? www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMi4...

The tired and clammy drive home from the beach.

FB memories are telling me that I finished my MFA 10 years ago today. Golly, feeling like I had so much to prove for those first few years after really blew the wind out of me. Anyway, uh, come see my little thing at the Hamilton Fringe this year??? 🤷‍♂️

Happy Canada Day. All “developed” countries are built on incredible violence. Boarders are one of humanity’s greatest failures. Our identities are only meaningful in relation to that which is foreign to us. No one is illegal. Arms embargo now! My ugly words are coming to you with love ✌️ 🍁

And just emerged in Kitchener 🌈

Putting off your own projects because you’re busy saying yes to other people’s projects. Then, when you want to finally focus on your own, there isn’t enough ‘yes’ from others to sustain its trajectory. Lalalala.