This is my last piece of writing on staff at The Narwhal. It started with a question: how can we learn to sit with uncertainty? To me, it's a hopeful, if complicated, story and I hope you'll take some time to sit with it. Thanks to all who have read my words over these past six years.

We got to move these refrigerators. We got to move these colour TVs

Ken Sim has spent his mayoral career making it rain for police and no one else on the DTES. That’s the expensive, ideological social experiment we should be assessing.

show me a comic book page you love, no explanation needed

Just watched Escape From New York for the first time. I didn’t think it would live up to the esteem, but does it ever.

Tom Cruise finally has his own Mortdecai.

One more by Carol Ann Duffy to close out the weekend

50 gates of understanding, 49 are closed

One of the best things about doing cable access or community radio is meeting people like this Omaha station manager (Howard Swain) who gives the perfect response to worries public access is showing Satanic snuff films or whatever.

Me examining a new follower

Telling my kids about Bill Sienkiewicz while they mash buttons.

Just sold my woke Day of the Dolphin remake to Warners as a Free Willy reboot.

All day special #hotdogcode

Life on the summer pedestrian zone has me on nodding terms with several human statues.

It’s Fabulous Five o’clock somewhere www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDmo...

hey boss, got those new beds you wanted. Involuntary, just like you wanted.

At the time, my arms were covered in dark hair. Kind of ape-like. [Lou Reed] said: “You should never wear a short-sleeved shirt on stage.”

This week, I had a great time watching the new Polar vid, David Reyes does it big for what might be his 7th or 8th board sponsor, the Dern Bros. are on the Zumiez rack, my cousin is on the podium at the Calgary Stampede, and more. www.simplemagic.ca/a-free-assoc...

I'm going down to the Giant I'm going down to the Lake Well, he's got sleeping-in down to a science And I'm getting tired of staying awake parkas.bandcamp.com/track/my-lif...

Ain’t no use jivin’, ain’t no use jokin’

Whenever someone tells me they work in the video game industry, I picture them wearing an apron full of quarters.

find I'M NOT ARGUING THAT WITH YOU wherever you download podcasts today

the only Tom Hanks movies I wanna talk about are Joe Vs. the Volcano and Dragnet. Join me on my podcast where I invite guests on to talk about other Tom Hanks movies and then try to steer the conversation back to the JvsTV and Dragnet.

McFarlane: all the editors at Marvel said, stay away from the Spidey office. It’s in shambles. And, uh, you don’t say stuff like that to me and my personality, right?

Todd McFarlane: Think of yourself as the director of a movie. Yes. Somebody wrote the novel. Yes, somebody wrote the screenplay. But over your dead body, do they get to tell you where to put the camera and how to move it, and what lens to use? Come on, man. Right. Take a little bit of pride here.

Do you like werewolves? Over at Strange Pilgrims I dug into the 900-year history of werewolf stories. It's full of surprises! www.strangepilgrims.com/p/a-brief-hi...

you know what would be good though? dunking your hot dog, Joey Chestnut style, in Pepsi.

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Soft hard soft serve.

Latest Slulder v Computer, this time embodied by fancy wristwatch fetishes, just dropped. Check it and the rest of Saros SF #6 out, you guys. 🤖 ❌⌚️

I spoke with the authors of this project at the newsletter this week adamsnotes.substack.com/p/saros-6

Trucker shanties avant la lettre

[gag essay about how songs about trucks are sea shanties of our times]

A man’s best friend.

“nine bucks worth of superpremium” (The Friends of Eddie Coyle, George V. Higgins, 1971)

Thinking about how Jonathan Richman and Jackie Brown from The Friends of Eddie Coyle might’ve crossed paths out in some 1970s Massachusetts night.

It’s a small world, but like Steven Wright says, I wouldn’t want to paint it.

Early Will Oldham ep

Here’s a free beak zine template should anyone want it! Scaled for A4. Prob been downscaled by bsky but you do absolutely not need these at a high resolution since you’re just gonna be light boxing over it or putting it on a layer as reference anyway

Five good years on the Dole factory floor, ensuring only fun shapes made it off the line through to the public. Then out on my can like so many pineapple chunks.

Glad you asked!!! Look for The Book of Notable Sandwiches: A Lunchtime History of the World next summer!!!

Pete Seeger said that the worst thing you can do to a song is make it official.

I spoke to my old friend...

I spoke to my old friend…35 minutes ago

Mike D: I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell Ad Rock: about IRAN MCA: UKRAINE Mike D: the unfolding situation all 3: in MAINE