Heads up: I'll be reading from my new novel, Performance Reviews, at this Zoom event on Saturday. 1:00 p.m. EST 10:00 a.m. PST 6:00 p.m. U.K. Zoom link at eyepublishewe.com

Yay! The new novels from world-renowned Toronto authors @krakennotstirred.bsky.social and @jeffcottrill.bsky.social came in! #booksky

The Prize, one assumes, is that you don't have to hear the song anymore

⚫ Bye-bye BB : icône du cinéma français, chanteuse, star mondiale activiste de la cause animale... Brigitte Bardot est morte à 91 ans ➡️ bit.ly/3LjDEKA

Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025, no matter how small: Published my second novel Held book launch in fancy nineteenth-century mansion Got said second novel in local bookstore Won a short-fiction contest Second story shortlisted in same contest Visited Greece Ate some pizza

WHERE IS THIS?😍😍 #CalvinandHobbes #Christmas

Glassfinger

On Her Majesty's Secret Room Service

All of them.

Front row seats. Close enough to feel Tiny Tim's dying breaths.

"It's your Snow Globe / And you'll give if you want to / Give if you want to..."

Going to see A Christmas Carol (Michael Shamata stage adaptation) in Regina today. If weather doesn't get in the way. What happens if you watch the Scrooge story after Xmas, though? Does the ending change? "Boy! What day is it?' "It's Boxing Day, gav'nuh." "Crap, I missed it." And he stays mean.

I guess the real Bishop's Wife was inside of them all along.

I wish I had a million dollars. Hot dog!

Edward Albee's "The Zoo Story."

Christmas Day? Then I haven't missed it.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, wished a real rain would come along and wash all the scum off the streets.

One thing Wonderful Life has over any Christmas Carol is showing what an irredeemable sociopathic wretches the Trumps of the world are, and how they can’t even fathom the simplest, tiniest acts of charity and self-sacrifice most people regularly engage in.

Needs ominous Bernard Herrmann music

Wait, he doesn't already?

Why do I always think getting you home for Life Day is gonna be easy?

Looks like we'll have to send someone down. A lot of people asking for help for a man named George Bailey.

WELL TONIGHT THANK GOD IT'S THEM INSTEAD OF YOU!

The Beatles have traveled in time from sixty-one years ago to wish you a happy Chrimble and a merry goo year. Also, they'd like to thank all of you for going to see the film. youtu.be/S2E7-VutnwA?...

Air Canada. The TTC of the skies.

Another favourite Xmas album from when I was a wee lad. Evidently this was a huge seller in the '60s. I still love "Do You Hear What I Hear?" (Not the religious context, just the song itself) www.youtube.com/watch?v=apDD...

This was one of the Xmas records I grew up with. Listened to it endlessly. As a kid, I never thought of Gene Autry as a country singer. He was the Xmas guy. Also, when I heard this duet as a kid, I imagined Rosemary Clooney as some stiff old lady, for some reason. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5ZT...

Every Christmas I want the roast beast from The Grinch for dinner

Not that anyone cares, but here's my movie list for 2025. Limited to what I actually saw. GREAT: Sentimental Value NEAR-GREAT: It Was Just an Accident One Battle after Another VERY GOOD: Frankenstein Wake Up Dead Man No Other Land* Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl* Nouvelle Vague [1/3]

Important holiday message: When you're celebrating this year, don't forget to observe that 2025 is the eightieth anniversary of two iconic fictional movie events -- George Bailey's crisis and redemption, and the attempted assassination of Vito Corleone. Both events occurred around Xmas 1945.

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You couldn't write A Christmas Carol today because half of people would root for Scrooge.

Dick Van Dyke is 100 years old tomorrow. I hope he's making the most of his finally night of Lego building.

An excerpt from my new novel, Performance Reviews, is in this.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that #JaneAusten was born two-hundred-and-fifty years ago today. Here's her masterpiece. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2PM...

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Apparently, The Cars (the band) were from Boston. Does that mean we have to call them The Caahs?

Unsurprisingly, the president's reaction to the murder of Rob Reiner confirmed that he is indeed one of the most vile men ever to occupy the White House.

Rob Reiner had a wonderful range as a director. This Is Spinal Tap is a genuine comedy classic (I watched it again a few months ago, just before seeing the sequel). To me, though, he'll always be Meathead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=prRt...

Alternate title for Mad Men

This entire weekend

Hate begets hate, and violence begets violence. Always. #bondi

I don't have a Xmas miracle for you. But how about a Xmas mondegreen? Would you dig a Xmas mondegreen? In "Up on the Housetop" for the line "Up on the housetop / Reindeer paws...", as a kid, I thought it was "Reindeer pause." Because, like, they have to pause while Santa gets off the sleigh. See?

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Wow. This looks... bloody awful. (And I'm not saying that just because it's one of my favourite books.) A little reminiscent of the Soulpepper stage adaptation a few years ago, which had some funny moments, but generally missed Orwell's point.

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My new novel, Performance Reviews, is now available at Book City's Beach location! (Queen and Woodbine)