Norman Fell and John Vernon in Charley Varrick.

An excuse.

repost with an iconic fictional band (if you feel like it)

Tortoise in March.

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

How to Draw a Novel, Martín Solares

28 Bonds Later

The next Bond movie should be about how they have to go to Hell and bring Bond back because of austerity measures and Brexit.

Ever since I bought X at Y, Y emails me every day with new deals on X.

Wallace Stevens

"The golden age of jerks" (sound on)

Peter Hyams has a hell of a catalogue, genre flicks that hit harder than they need to. From Busting to Timecop. Narrow Margin was a frequent rental from the neighbourhood Sev.

You hang around here long enough, you’ll get a visit from ZZ Top.

From The Absolute Perfection of Crime by Tanguy Viel

Holy shit. I emailed the director of Sebadoh's music video "Ocean" to find out what the fuck it was about, and she emailed me back.

easiest pitch meetings ever

i suspect every issue of Zoning Practice magazine features a societal ill and then suggests solving that ill through zoning.

Ppl are messy and complicated and that’s what makes stories good. Everyone is messy and complicated in The Lowdown and it just makes for such a rich and compelling story. I shed a tear, I’m not ashamed.

Men embracing reading is the absolute worst thing to happen to manosphere influencers and hate groups. They don't know how to pivot to take advantage of that. It's not like Andrew Tate is going to be able to lead a YouTube discussion on Watchmen.

So many things to say about The Lowdown, but how about the sweet presence of Tim Blake Nelson?

Sterlin Harjo: It’s not very hard to look out your window and see diversity, and it’s very lazy when you don’t try to understand that diversity around you. And it’s like, Well, are you a writer or not? That’s your job, you know?

Regarding Henry/Thelma & Louise

My out of office auto reply

Still obsessed with this. It’s kind Billy Idol fronting the Blues Explosion (complimentary). alanvegaalexchiltonandbenvaughn.bandcamp.com/album/cubist...

There’s a scene set at Toronto’s Woodbine Racetrack in my crime thriller YARD DOG. A jockey tries to dodge his debts & it doesn’t end well. Or as my buddy who named the horse said, “ you did write a violent scene with a jockey… but the horse doesn’t know that.” 😄 www.dundurn.com/books_/t2211...

Joe Brainard

One of my fave LC songs, especially this version in Poland with a country-rock band that plays for keeps. youtu.be/5zHAUoVc8eg?...

A1. Shout out to my weekly writing group, though we haven’t met for a while. We have great discussions. #TWSOchat.

King George Parkade!

Collier’s no. 2, aka Tales of Malevolence (1992) David Collier

Real gut punch to find out some other town has a Gordie Howe Bridge. I’ll never call my hometown the City of Bridges again.

Also in my massive 3$ haul, the first issue of Tiger-Man, with gorgeous Ernie Colón art.

I bought another copy of Kyle Baker’s Dick Tracy vs the Underworld today but hear me out. It’s great. And it was in the 3/$1 bin with some Eagle Judge Dredd issues.

This year’s Orin apples are tart. Last year’s had an almost pineapple sweetness.

This book slaps.

This one-two punch at the end of The Lowdown ep 7. My real and my imaginary friends are working together to make my favourite show.

The music is so good too.

GO GET IT. Come inside here. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

just for a moment, think about all that drug prohibition has done to every one of you, to all of us together, to this world has made for what who benefits

I'm not living in slow motion I am breathing actual air Sorry dude, that just kind of slipped out The new isn't so you anymore lambchop.bandcamp.com/track/the-ne...

Julie Christie, the rumours are true.

Name your fav superhero that isn’t DC or Marvel

in light of Elenore Sturko's comments, she was a member of the BC Conservative Party (which receives hundreds of thousands of public dollars) during the period they allegedly committed a MASSIVE fraud where over 2000 memberships were purchased using only 3 credit cards. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...