I think the real tragedy of all these book club and publishing industry scams is that for a small press poet or writer, a simple note from an interested reader is huge, and it doesn’t happen as often as you would think. That is why attentive, thoughtful reviews are as important as ever.

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

wow, six years old and Be Scared of Everything is a staff pick at Bay Bloor Indigo

Modest Mouse voice: The Starbuckses are the soon to be Shake Shacks So long, farewell, goodbye

hot day for a concert in Toronto eh

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

if you have taken more than three years in between publishing books, don't browse bookstore sections under your last initial

hot couple of days to be in the big city, jeez

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of exclusive signature patterns; even bakeware and cookware are supposed, by some, to dream.

Wrong turn (1/3)

people will tell you that an essay collection cannot be a sequel, but the book proposal I am finishing this week begs to differ

“I don’t celebrate death” okay well skill issue

When Toni Collette gets her lifetime achievement Oscar, I will sing Abba at karaoke every night for a week. boxd.it/fc46xV

jeff hiller as mary todd lincoln with a really really short mary's husband

www.strangelibrary.com/post/8218941... might be something I wrote before, but I still stand by it. And it's nice to unbury the stuff I wrote years ago. Happy reading!

Hi new followers! I am a culture writer and memoirist based in Kingston, Ontario. I write about music, film, tv, technology, games, mental illness, and the occult. My essay collections contain my entire essence: BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING, and HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE. I hope we can be friends.

When a piece of media gets popular enough, the discourse around it flattens and then you get people fighting over the weirdest bullshit, like the type of wood used for the One Wish Willow in Obsession.

I did it!

Five books have been shortlisted for the 2026 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Read the list here: https://bit.ly/4bi28gZ

When your parents catch you ogling split diopter shots and make you smoke the whole pack:

Theory: If you change like five or six lyrics to most U2 songs, you can make them about Narnia.

It’s also funny that about 70% of all the online dorks who are pissing blood about THE ODYSSEY are spurned Nolan lovers who based their personality in important stages of their development around Heath Ledger as The Joker

Meta now lets anyone use your Instagram photos in AI images without your consent. SAG-AFTRA recommends that #SagAftraMembers (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness.

🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump ADMITTED to doing 9/11 live on the air, as he calls for war on Israel. 🚨 Hear the stunning confession now!!!

ChatGPT uses too many dream sequences and Gemini won’t stop describing characters.

I don't want to be around anymore. variety.com/2026/digital...

It's also ridiculous that these stories don't explain where the heavy metals come from in the first place, and propose "eat less brown rice" as a solution.

"Heavy metal pollution in agricultural soil has become an important environmental concern worldwide and mainly originates from anthropogenic activities, such as mineral development, fertilization, wastewater discharge, and metal smelting" Arrrrrrg. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Theory: If you change like five or six lyrics to most U2 songs, you can make them about Narnia.

not saying anything new, but if these folks actually believed in genAI writing, they'd disclose it, tout it, and build their own audiences elsewhere and leave others be. hiding and sneaking it to markets who want no part of it doesn't prove you're good at writing. just proves you're good at fraud.

Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep in @theguardian.com and thanks to the incomparable Lisa Tuttle. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

According to the movie, about 90% of being a part of Jack Nicholson's Joker crew is just going around dancing with him

Today in editorial malpractice: this article cites sushi as a safer rice heavy meal, but the featured image makes it seem like it could give you cancer. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/cons...

new Jack White rules can't wait to see him live on Tuesday

When your parents catch you ogling split diopter shots and make you smoke the whole pack:

happy new Jack White eve

revising the 15th draft of the first essay in this book proposal and I swear I'm almost there

a contestant openly weeping on Wheel of Fortune because "it's more than just a game show" - the third seal is broken

"Deliteracy is not symptom of algorithmic tech, the tech is being developed to assist deliteracy."

Finally started watching WIDOW'S BAY and, folks, that's just growing up in Newfoundland.

Everyone agrees: With Pure-O oxygen pills, you no longer need the "gulping method" to get maximum oxygen. Read below!

There's a Kathy Bates directed episode in season one of Six Feet Under where David and Kieth are watching HBO, implying either: a. They have an alternate HBO without Six Feet Under ...or... b. They could potentially watch themselves watching HBO on HBO

So gonna try something I've tried elsewhere, a trio of demonic producers allow you to remake one movie from the 1960s to the 1980s. You have complete carte blanche and can do whatever you want, you just have to cast a pro wrestler as the lead and it can't be The Rock. Who, what movie, and why?

maybe if we just give Planter his inevitable Netflix special we can skip all this weird bullshit where a bunch of as-yet unaccused rapists out themselves by aggressively apologizing for him

LRT: imagine calling Twitter "X" with a straight face

I've never said "X" in real life. As a writer, I only use it to say "X, the platform formerly known as Twitter" because I get paid per word and this earns me enough money for an appetizer

According to the most rigorous studies, 10.8% of college men perpetrate at least one rape before graduation. This statistic always comes to mind when I see men in power reacting with disgust to the idea that one of their peers could face even a shred of accountability.

truly cursed vehicles at your local renaissance faire