The latest selection to the "In the Third Sleep" ekphrastic poem project is poet and novelist @mcarthurmooney.bsky.social! And because the visuals of the website never change as new posts are added, I might need to shake up the social media graphics I use to publicize it.

The new Chris Hutchinson book is outstanding. (Lost Signal, Palimpsest Press)

The three of us went to the opening of the new @ttcalerts.bsky.social RT line and were gifted the Cookies of the Beast.

"Genesis, Chapter 0" from Autocorrect by Etgar Keret

I have decided that my only goal for 2026 is to somehow throw the first pitch at a Blue Jays game on behalf of @thebeaverton.com. We can make it happen, friends. I believe in us.

Don't get your hopes up, Blue Jays fans, but rumour has it Shohei Ohtani is on a plane flying to the Rogers Centre today!

Ah yes, here's the October baseball I remember...

My wife reads endlessly but also has an impeccable numbers sense, and this means that she foregoes bookmarks. She just stops reading, downs the book, remembers she's on page 167. And pages 305 and 84 of her other two books-in-progress. One of the top eight or nine most astonishing things about her.

TOMORROW NIGHT! CIUT 89.5 FM 10pm - 11pm - Host @valentinoassenza.bsky.social welcomes Ira Wells with his latest book “On Book Banning” @biblioasis.bsky.social - Also on the show Jacob McArthur Mooney @mcarthurmooney.bsky.social talking about his latest novel “The Northern” @ecwpress.bsky.social

I finally had the time to read this and it was really worthwhile. A character focussed coming of age story in the world of low level baseball and baseball cards. Dreams vs reality. It’s always fun to see #ldnont represented in a novel, even for a chapter. #booksky

Today's goodness is sponsored by my wife, who thrifted me this shirt someone made.

Why Writers Quit (or go crazy) Part 3 open.substack.com/pub/zoewhitt...

Today's read is from The Feeling Sonnets by Eugene Ostashevsky

Erev Yom Kippur and the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation share a date this year (Sept 30). The op-eds write themselves...

Today's read is Zeroville by Steve Erickson, which is mostly about the movies but contains the best paragraph about punk music.

from Existing Music, the new Nick Thran.

What a terrible time to have lungs.

The most common refrain in the parenting social media ecosystem is "Schools should start teaching {thing that is already subject to 100+ curriculum hours in most public schools}"

Baseball fans: I have three indie-published Canadian books for you to spend time with this summer. #CanLit The Northern by @mcarthurmooney.bsky.social from @ecwpress.bsky.social. ecwpress.com/products/nor...

Spoke to poet @mcarthurmooney.bsky.social about his novel The Northern ( @ecwpress.bsky.social ) for Turning Pages today. Episode is up now: umfm.com/programming/...

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

Happy to have a poem called "Fields & Arenas" up at @bookninja.bsky.social 's famously minimalist New Poetry today. newpoetry.ca/2025/06/09/f...

It is again that time of year when I have to suffer people using the word "graduand."

Happy birthday to The Northern. Would be great to see friends and neighbours at @anotherstoryto.bsky.social tonight for books, beverages, and entertainment from myself, Lex, and @utilityofboredom.bsky.social .

I have events next week! I'll be in Toronto on Monday supporting @mcarthurmooney.bsky.social and Alexis von Konigslow as they launch their novels. Details: festivalofauthors.ca/event/toront...

I am fully 100% onboard with unisex washrooms but I must ask for signage that tells me, when there are multiple options, which door can be relied on to lead to urinals, as I am a busy modern person and I have the capacity and desire to pee standing.

Referring to my kids' school mascot as "Trogdor" and he's looking at me like he's already shopping for rest homes.

I would like us to go back to using "outlandish" to mean "foreign."

Absolutely giggly about getting to appear on this show, as a listener for 10 years now. I'm as much an EW fan as a baseball fan, I think. Thanks Ben for bringing me on!

The earnest young gentlemen arrived today.

When it's Wrap Yourself in the Flag Season, and the donors have been commenting on how many American remounts you've done...

Black Thursday for my fellow Nintendo Dads.

Today's read is Forecast: Pretty Bleak by Chris Bailey, which manages the trick of being generously emotive while every speaker and subject in its poems remains tongue-tied by nature.

Today's read is the unerringly bleak The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe, trans E. Dale Saunders.

Today's book is Wellwater by Karen Solie

Today's book is total by Aisha Sasha John.

Absolutely thought Thomas Pynchon was dead. Not even a second thought on the matter. One hundred percent, iron bar, certainty. As dead as dandruff.

Hoo boy was this ever made for me! Andrew Forbes is Canada's Baseball Spokesperson and the interest in labour history in his newest is so rich and complex. He's such a world builder too, you'll notice how well the book-length motifs work with the episodic essay topics. @utilityofboredom.bsky.social

While I see all your conspiracy theories I regret to inform you that the horrible truth is that an old man with a tariff obsession has been given almost unlimited power in the world's richest country.

A wonderful interview with Guelph CWMFA alum Alexis von Konigslow.

Today's book is Familial Hungers by Christine Wu.

The love of my life discussing her practice and new book at @oncreativewriting.bsky.social. www.oncreativewriting.com/post/alexis-...

In further downstream Trump Effect news, the Juno awards apparently 5Xed last year's ratings.

Appropriate entertainment for Winter 2025's coda.

"Powerlessness is an alibi" feels like it's going to shift around some brain chemistry for me.

Just finished The Northern by Jacob McArthur Mooney, a book about boundaries: the porous borders between countries; between innocence and experience; at the edges of baseball cards. Funny, tender, wise, beautifully written, and highly recommended. @mcarthurmooney.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social

Nosferatu (1922 d. F.W. Murnau) #canpol