People who don’t pick up their dogs’ poops believe in magic. (derogatory)

Long live the Approximators!!

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I have sung with The Approximators, and watched other people sing with them, and it was a damn good time.

We are the realest fake band to ever fake realism.

The Approximators is a *lot* of fun if you ever find yourself in Hamilton

Amy Jones (@amylaurajones.bsky.social) spreads the joy of our real fake band in Hamilton City magazine. #hamont

Peak Canada content.

And they had PLENTY of time.

“It IS tricky to rock a rhyme that’s right on time. I made a list of some other words that rhyme with time: Crime, tim, crumb and time.” - Run-G.P.T.

They don't say the words "bohemian rhapsody" even ONE time in that song. What a scam.

I am tired to the bone of anti-immigration talk. My father moved to Canada from Italy when he was 20 and barely spoke a word of English. He drove cabs, got married, became a bricklayer, raised his children, built libraries and homes and paid his taxes. HE MADE THIS COUNTRY BETTER. AS THEY DO 🇨🇦

Pretty sure I can hear NIN from my house. #hamont

I am very lucky to have already read an early draft of Meaghan's new book - it's all killer, no filler. @nashls.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social

Maybe not the *solution*, but it definitely helps. (And there is ZERO Kid Rock in our song list. Not now, not ever.)

Holy shit would someone bend that arc of history toward justice already

The problem: algorithmically induced isolation, cynicism, and fascism. A solution: live-band karaoke. #hamont www.tixtree.com/e/third-anni...

I find it very easy to avoid getting tricked by AI book club scams. Is someone messaging me to tell me they loved my book? That's a scam.

Show runners = dads

Here is the episode with Michelle. We cover a lot of dark subjects—white supremacist movements, the new Trump era, Guantanamo Bay, etc—but also how she manages to not get emotionally crushed while covering all these.

Served salads to Maury Chaykin and Saul Rubinek.

On my podcast this week, author and journalist @michelleshephard.bsky.social talks about bruising her hip with a tambourine onstage at last November's Newzapalooza event. Here she is that night, on the far left, inflicting damage. (Photo by Jim Rankin)

Literary mystery: who tricked David Szalay into being an award-winning author, and why can't he get out of it?

On my podcast this week, author and journalist @michelleshephard.bsky.social talks about bruising her hip with a tambourine onstage at last November's Newzapalooza event. Here she is that night, on the far left, inflicting damage. (Photo by Jim Rankin)

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

"I thought, 'Oh, my God. How am I going to write like this guy?' We are opposite in every way. I'm this lefty Canadian agnostic. I don't even like cops." Author and journalist @michelleshephard.bsky.social on her initial reaction to being chosen to co-write a book with former FBI agent Scott Payne.

Live-band karaoke parties are good for getting it out of your system. #hamont

"I thought, 'Oh, my God. How am I going to write like this guy?' We are opposite in every way. I'm this lefty Canadian agnostic. I don't even like cops." Author and journalist @michelleshephard.bsky.social on her initial reaction to being chosen to co-write a book with former FBI agent Scott Payne.

Pretty sure I manifested this band while listening to YES on acid at age 17.

Macbeth: SHIT

"Amid intense speculation that Gil Scott-Heron would use 'Whitey on the Moon' to critique America's racist spending priorities and its lack support for its poorest citizens, it was perhaps no surprise that he did precisely none of those things."

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We did this last week. This past week it was WAITING FOR GUFFMAN. My 11-year-old now believes I have a crush on Catherine O'Hara. And um...

Fun to see my podcast* interview with Rachel Reid get a shout-out in the Toronto Star story about the ongoing total cultural domination of HEATED RIVALRY. *sporting a slightly altered title...

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

One of my favourite tracks off that album by J Dilla is the very timely ‘Anti American Graffiti’ . I still think ‘Donuts’ should go down as one of the greatest aural experiments of the early 21st century. youtu.be/EZ3ronLw3ec

"Leave Dad alone – he's watching his programs."

Fun to see my podcast* interview with Rachel Reid get a shout-out in the Toronto Star story about the ongoing total cultural domination of HEATED RIVALRY. *sporting a slightly altered title...

Author who interviews authors interviewed by author who interviews authors. Antonio Michael Downing is the author of the memoir Saga Boy the children’s book Stars in My Crown, and the novel Black Cherokee, and is the current host of CBC Radio’s The Next Chapter. Listen:

All 5 of mine have singers who look like this:

It's cold out again. So listen to this.

WhatsApp offering to have its in-built AI interpret my wife's messages to me is a bad joke, both in the sense of it being something a hacky comedian would riff on for 5 minutes, but also in the sense that "See you soon, love you" would require bleeding-edge tech to suss out the meaning of.

The reason I don't engage with Louis CK stuff anymore is NOT because I suddenly discovered in late 2017 that he was never funny in the first place.

January episodes - all great conversations. Never the usual book talk. Please subscribe, listen, and review. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT is presented by @thewalrus.ca thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...

January episodes - all great conversations. Never the usual book talk. Please subscribe, listen, and review. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT is presented by @thewalrus.ca thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...

Among its many other strengths, the opening theme music for BLUE LIGHTS lasts all of about 3.5 seconds. Very much in keeping with the "lets get down to business" feel of the show. (Though it does make you think you're in for something a little more narratively hi-octane.)

When you look at the Wikipedia of an old white guy whose books you read in college there is an unfortunately high probability it will look like this

When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."

SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods. S1: archive.org/details/sctv... S2: archive.org/details/sctv... S3: archive.org/details/19-m... S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s... S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky

When anyone from SCTV dies it’s like 30 people have died. Every character they created was as alive as anyone else you’ve ever met.