this one hurts - a few of my favourite events were at Bluestockings, and one the places in NYC i'd make sure to always hit on trips

Buffalo! I'll be in town to read at @gutterpopcomics.bsky.social on October 10, alongside @philmcandrew.bsky.social, Gia Ligammari and Max Weiss

the title card to "Bite of Love," featuring the likeness of George Lam as a vampire

Olivia Chow is saying "parks are for families" to defend carrying out a mass eviction of an encampment cbc.ca/news/canada/... Notable how this supposedly "progressive" mayor has abandoned all pretense and is now openly embracing reactionary, anti-poor rhetoric

Hundreds of indie musicians and labels join the cultural boycott of Israel, pull their music from streaming: BADBADNOTGOOD, Elisapie, Grizzly Bear, Japanese Breakfast, MJ Lenderman, King Krule, Erika de Casier, Oklou, Nourished by Time, Yaeji ... ra.co/news/83615

oh yes, i drew an illustration for this book of essays by Jacob Geller!

poster for a Black Gold screening of Zeinabu irene Davis' Compensation here in Toronto, a very beautiful movie

hahaha oh shit this rules

The 5th protester from the 2023 Gillers has *finally* had her charges dropped. The Gillers directly lobbied police to charge those protesters, and the production team behind the CBC broadcast helped police carry out the arrests. Enjoy the longlist celebrations canlitresponds.ca/boycott-giller

poster for karaoke. that i host in toronto ontario

this is soft, dude. this is really, really soft. a few years back, Frank Tieri threatened another critic and myself with violence, directly, at a comic-con over Batman opinions. That dude kept his job. He slid into my DMs with a fake apology. C. Kirk called for extermination. A joke didn't kill him.

congrats to Barry Avrich for the biggest film of his career. all it took was being a major TIFF donor, a Zionist lobby full of his billionaire friends, a street movement of violent psychopaths, and a bit of gumption, and he managed to put out a movie that no one will remember in 2 weeks

guy maddin? lmk when its girl chillin

maybe i should have waited 24 hours before publishing a piece about political assassination

Two Comics That Aren't About Political Assassination -- for Patreon subscribers, went a bit long writing about the popular freeluigi_kr webcomic and Imai Arata's Flash Point, a satirical manga about Shinzo Abe's killing: www.patreon.com/posts/two-co...

UPDATE — *Another* boat on the Sumud Flotilla has been hit in a suspected drone attack, according to organizers. Comes after one of its boats, the Family, was attacked yesterday in Tunisian waters. The flotilla is seeking to break the Israeli siege of Gaza and aid Palestinians.

poster for A Better Tomorrow screenings at Fox and Bytowne in Toronto and Ottawa!

A lot of what I was trying to write about in Brat (the culture sector as a space that contains/depoliticizes otherwise volatile ideas) have been preoccupations of mine again, so was grateful to see @dialhforhagai.bsky.social's thoughtful read on it

Reissue of Creep Highway's 2014 s/t tape, out today on Bandcamp. creephighway.bandcamp.com

this is why i don't care about the "Can AI make art?" arguments -- that's not what it's built to do. this is can i use a tank to mow my lawn? maybe, but i'm not sure why i'd try

Adam Tooze linking to Tetsuo: The Ironman in a Chartbook . . . i see you

why can’t every movie poster go this hard … what’s the excuse

Lots of baby brained stuff to unpack here, but describing coups, political assassinations, arming nazis, etc as “shady” puts it over the top

The neighborhood of Shuja'iyya was once home to 120,000 people. It has now been erased. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/gaza...

Did Patreon’s update retroactively fuck up the formatting on older posts for anyone else?

poster for Peking Opera Blues at Fox Theatre and Bytowne Cinema - one of the greatest movies ever

Hard Boiled poster - another for the Fox Theatre and Bytowne Cinema's HK Cinema Classics screenings

small batch of Sunbird shirts up from Soft Hand, last to be printed in a while - 100% of proceeds going to direct aid to Gaza softhand.bigcartel.com/product/sunb...

Toronto Star offering more free publicity to genocidal psychopath Heather Reisman Indigo - a monopoly that gutted Canadian bookselling and basically holds independent Canadian publishers hostage - is a "community hub"???

I liked Andor fine enough, but this articulates something I found troubling about the way it flattened historic atrocities and revolutionary movements into a sci-fi/action-adventure mishmash without engaging with any of them meaningfully: "the general idea of resistance, the aesthetics, the vibes"

poster for Bullet in the Head screenings at the Fox Theatre and Bytowne Cinema

Still posting blog posts on SAME HAT in the year 2025?? Yes... Yes, I am. www.samehat.com

doing posters for the Hong Kong Cinema Classics series of screenings at The Fox and Bytowne - here's one for City on Fire

Pile and Ren

STAND TOGETHER - BE HEARD - MAKE A DIFFERENCE: Air Canada Component of @cupenat is holding solidarity rallies tomorrow! All CUPE Ontario members are invited to join @AirCanada flight attendants tomorrow at T1, Toronto Pearson, 9-11am #unpaidworkwontfly

In an almost unthinkable display of conflict-of-interest, a former Air Canada legal counsel, Maryse Tremblay, will rule on whether to end job action by striking Air Canada flight attendants at the Canada Industrial Relations Board.

was a pleasure to work on this key art for Gawlo, an upcoming feature film from director Aicha Diop www.instagram.com/p/DNX_FMAtCK...

look, it's not too late for someone to let me make an Alien movie

NEW: Four branches in the Toronto and Hamilton area have had their windows broken and graffiti written on them this summer, calling out Scotiabank’s large investments in Israeli weapons during the Gaza genocide.

these two

A short Pile and Ren comic that's exclusive to Patreon subscribers: www.patreon.com/posts/pile-a...

Heather Reisman, Gerald Schwartz, and their many genocidal investments www.justpeaceadvocates.ca/who-received...

Pile and Ren

NEW: Subsidizing The Occupation is a major project from The Maple explaining how you and other Canadians have helped fund Israeli violence. www.subsidizingtheoccupation.ca

Canada’s Foreign Enlistment Act makes it illegal to recruit for foreign armies on Canadian soil, yet Israeli military recruitment has taken place here for generations, often in plain sight. The law is clear. The political will to enforce it is not.

periodic post to remind people I have a Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/michaeldef... This month, I have notes on the Aesthetics of Resistance (book), the aesthetics of resistance (generally speaking), behind the scenes work, and some “from the archives” art made for shelter hotel organizing