Off for a few weeks and Trying Not To Post but… I just found two of my biggest grails at Rotate This Ghostface is a new repress (which is fine since the only original I’ve ever seen was priced at $400) but Stephen Malkmus self-titled is a 2001 original. Gorgeous bridge between Pavement and Jicks

Gift article: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Canada’s animation and visual effects industry was one of our proudest exports. Now it’s struggling." Good read from the Globe and Mail about what many in the industry are feeling. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...

This. And the far-too-credulous reporters should be throttling the sources who dangled lies that made them look like fools

Josh O'Kane has a deep dive into Canada's declining animation business. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...

The Globe and Mail on an existential market crisis for Canada's animation and visual effects industries. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...

New: The end of production at Nelvana is just the latest blow to Canada's animation and VFX industry, which has been in a slow-motion collapse since 2023. Here's a deep dive into the struggles of one of Canada's most recognizable exports: on-screen magic www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...

Suspect Arrested After Montreal Festivalgoers Report Needle Pricks, Dizziness

Ooh - look at this archive.org/details/ocea...

Tonight! Our 2025 Wayzgoose is at 5 PM at Coach House Books (80 bpNichol Lane, Toronto). Please come by to celebrate 60 years of great books with us! Our anniversary toast will be held at *7 PM*, and we don't expect any rain, but please bring your umbrella along just in case!

"In Honour of Actor Graham Greene, Mirvish Productions Will Dim the Marquee Lights of the Royal Alexandra & Princess of Wales Theatre During the Opening Day of TIFF 50 on Thursday, September 4, 2025 @ 9:30 pm"

We finally got an official update from Corus themselves: Nelvana has become an “in-name only” unit of their company akin to what Warner Bros. did to Hanna-Barbera in 2001. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/televis...

The Globe and Mail confirms Corus has halted production at animation studio Nelvana, on the same day it shut down some of its children's TV channels www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/televis...

Google must hand over its search results and some data to rival companies but does not need to break itself up by selling its Chrome web browser, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. Here is what this all means for you, as explained by our tech columnist.

New: The rumours of the storied Canadian kids TV / animation studio Nelvana shutting down are (partly) true. After winding down its existing contacts, production is now on pause, and the remaining staff will focus on managing / distributing its properties

Graham Greene helped make the rest of the world see Indigenous people as real human beings. The first time I saw him on screen was in Dances With Wolves and the last time was in The Last of Us. What a tremendous legacy! RIP ✊🏽🙌🏽❤️

Happy Yes Day (a federal holiday in the United States)

I’m with The Weeknd: bring back the SkyDome

One of my favorite bands called it a day and it made me rethink everything about my work. @murderbydeath forever. Gift article. bsky.app/profile/grah...

Susan Aglukark has a new memoir, Kihiani / ᑭhᐃᐊᓂ, out next week, with co-author Andrea Warner. It's one of the most frank music-industry memoirs I've read in a long time. I spoke with her about it for this weekend's paper: www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/a...

NEW: A week before #TIFF50 begins — and just a year before its big, federally funded multi-million-dollar official content market launches — TIFF announces Montreal film vet Charles Tremblay will be head of market, quashing speculation the festival would pick someone outside Canada.

it's only 8am and my day is already derailed by viewing photos of a "Vancouver loft for bibliophiles" that appears to be filled entirely with fake books

Reuters journalist Hussam al-Masri had four kids and a wife who has cancer. He had been trying to get her out for treatment when an Israeli airstrike killed him at a hospital this week. www.reuters.com/business/med...

This is great from @joshokane.bsky.social.

Hello! I wrote an essay on Oasis, band merch, impending parenthood, and trying to be a less cynical person www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/a...

SCOOP: How Alberta's measles outbreak spiraled out of control. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... By @alannasmith.bsky.social

NEW: TIFF reveals details for Oct. 7 doc THE ROAD BETWEEN US, w/ film receiving single public screening at Roy Thomson Hall, Sept. 10, 2 pm. (I hear it was originally scheduled at smaller Lightbox cinema.) No press & industry screening (unusual, but not unprecedented). #TIFF50

Now that the labour strife is settling, I hope there's a bigger discourse about how Air Canada exercises its market power... I for one would like a public conversation about how AC justifies charging nearly the same price for a two-hour flight to the Maritimes as an eight-hour trip to Europe

All of this phasing out of criticism, this terrible devaluing of it. I’m sad for myself as a lover of it, someone whose life has been enriched by it, but also, how are young people going to learn to really engage with art, to think and feel deeply about it, make connections between it and the world?

part of medias responsibility in pushing back on the perceived inevitable nature of AI is not feeling the need to confirm that the authors at a literary festival are human. www.guelphtoday.com/wellington-c...

From CBC/Radio-Canada: "Norval Morrisseau family, estate rep have long said they're art fraud victims. Court docs question that" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"If governments keep showing such disregard for workers’ fundamental rights, we shouldn’t be surprised if workers start showing more disregard for government orders," writes @eidlin.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

You don’t have to be mad online, you can be on a train hurtling somewhere else listening to “Hey Jealousy” the hit 1992 single from Gin Blossoms. You can be free.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor are the latest band to pull their music from streaming services. The Canadian post-rock group’s catalog will now be available digitally exclusively via Bandcamp.

The Ford government touted Therme as a ‘world-class’ partner for Ontario Place. In Europe, ‘significant’ concerns have emerged over finances, records obtained by the Star show. From the front page of today's paper, by Ana Pereira and me: www.thestar.com/news/investi...

“We need your help, Doug, they identified us in the apartment.” This is a movie: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

There's some incredible investigative journalism happening these days and I'm over here digging into why bags of A&W fries kept mysteriously appearing on my neighbour's porch in the middle of the night for days and days and days... torontolife.com/deep-dives/t...

NEW: TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey's statement on The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue #TIFF50

Wrote about what @artsorority.bsky.social evocatively described as "incomplete vinyl," for @npr.org. Your favorite artists may have a chart incentive to rush out record pressings with only partial tracklists, but it could also be a sign of the times. www.npr.org/2025/08/12/n...

The year is 2025 and I am still writing about Lil Pump rapping "Fuck Westjet" (contextually)

Loved this piece from Cal Newport in the New Yorker about what if AI doesn't get much better than it is today, and not just because he quotes me www.newyorker.com/culture/open...