Anyone else have a song that you absolutely love even though you are unhappy with every existing recorded version of it? For me, it is Grant Hart's "2541." A transcendently beautiful song that suffers from echo-y production on the original single & a noisy, jittery performance on the album.

Happy 1985: The Miracle Year to all who celebrate!

I appreciate the drama and everything, but come on man…

Only 15 minutes in to the new season of The Diplomat and already being reminded that it seems designed to hit every pleasure center in my brain.

Despite (a) my general disinterest in baseball until late in the playoffs, and (b) my general disdain of Toronto (incubated by living in Montreal for over two decades), watching them come from behind with a 3-run dinger to punch their ticket to the World Series was pretty great.

Rewatching Annie Hall after maybe a decade since I last saw it, and I know this is a not original observation, but good god, I don't know if I've ever seen a more charismatic performance than Diane Keaton's in this film. Just off-the-charts brilliant.

Bc I am an idiot I just paid money to download part of the Numero Group Hüsker Dü live package that I already pre-ordered on CD and I don’t care oh my god this shit absolutely rips.

I get 16 sports channels in both English and French, including NBA Canada, yet none of them are broadcasting Lynx v. Mercury. WTAF.

Agreed, and it also serves as a kind of commentary on Redford's own star-text as a guy who tries hard not to capitalize on how handsome and charismatic he is, even as his ambition ultimately leads him to leverage these same qualities.

When a student complains “what you say is contrary to what the president says” and that ends with the instructor getting fired, fascism has fully arrived. And we all need to act accordingly to fight it.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

GardaWorld is also a security firm employed by McGill.

Not an artist, but … The Philadelphia Story. Its class and gender politics are horrific, yet there are very few films that I find more intensely enjoyable.

perfect album that came out when you were 16

As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]

It started to rain really hard, so I ducked into a cafe to wait it out, but now they are playing 4 Non-Blondes' "What's Going On" and someone is singing along with it, so I guess I'll get soaked.

A fifth faculty at McGill has submitted their union cards for certification! Welcome to the newest McGill academic union, the Association of McGill Library Academic Staff (AMLAS)!

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

This delightfully written piece is hilarious and true.

Does the "show less like this" button do anything on this site? I keep clicking it for a few things (not objectionable stuff, just shit I don't care about/find annoying) and yet the same proportion of the boring/annoying shit is showing up.

We feed you. They hunt us.

Why do so many of the NBA playoff games have such horrifically bad sound on the broadcast?

Just watched Bob Mould's commencement speech at Macalester and, as the kids used to say, it gave me all of the feels.

Just got back from seeing Pavements, and it is weird to encounter a movie that feels like it was made *precisely* for me.

Defector's @christhompson.bsky.social is absolutely right: the broadcast sound for Cavs-Pacers is appallingly bad! It's like the mics are all smothered under pillows, and the sound level keeps shifting without warning. C'mon, this is the goddamned playoffs!

There are many great diner scenes, of course, but the performances in this one are particularly stellar.

Post a song that earns it’s 10+ minutes. youtu.be/DFdR2LLM3bY?...

If kidnapped, what would you post that would alarm your followers without the kidnappers knowing you're asking for help? "Dead Poets Society is my favourite movie."

Some thoughts on the new McCarthyism on campus and the US complicity in Gaza. youtu.be/LvfafPaKjXo?...

I have always thought that great sports writing is like great literary/film/cultural criticism: it helps you see the devices and patterns that are generating the experience of the thing at hand. For example, this brilliant guide to close reading basketball:

As with FDR's Fireside Chats in days gone by, all of America comes together on Sunday nights to read posts where the President of the United States is like "due to 'you know what' and Incidents pertaining to your favorite President (Me!), Hugh Jackman is as of this moment Null and Void in AMERICA."

In my mind, the W and P tattoos on Dillon Brooks’s shoulders stand for WordPress.

My fave thing about Canadian election coverage: they show results for ridings even when they have only 11 votes counted so far.

This is shocking. One of the most provocative thinkers and genuinely great writers of our time. Everything I read by him made me think in new ways. Such a horrible loss.

This is how much international geopolitics have scrambled traditional alliances: my Quebecoise partner--a Rimouski girl who grew up rooting for the Nordiques & a lifelong, passionate HATER of the Habs--just screamed w/joy when they went up 2-1 against Washington. We are in uncharted waters here.

C'mon, we're all adults here, you can say Jimmy Butler is out with a bruised ass.

Not sure what is more horrifying: the possibility that these are DHS officers or the possibility that they are not.

Finally, honest campaign advertising: old white guys who complain about giving money to their children but who enjoy playing golf plan to vote Conservative. Bonus content: the misspelling of "four" in the title (taken from the Conservative Party's YouTube page!) youtu.be/hOd2zViVLeA?...

I would have preferred he wear a Rutgers shirt, but I’ll allow it.

There are so many reasons why, as an ex-pat USian, I love living in Canada, but headlines like these are right up there.

Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.

A lot of people seem to be under the belief that the post-war factory jobs their parents and grandparents had were good jobs because they were masculine and tough instead of, say, protected by a union under a progressive tax rate and a massive surplus

Just thinking abt this scene from one of Gen X's most beloved teen films, in which my generation is shown to be too bored to hear abt the historical track record of tariffs. [Yes, I know Ben Stein is a conservative asshat, but still] youtu.be/yuOHbyuanbY?...

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

This is like something out of Starship Troopers.

Another U.S. government abduction and disappearance of a political dissident.

Footage from every other intelligence service in the world, upon learning that Pete Hegseth unwittingly sent detailed war plans to a journalist on Signal.

no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good

This is fucking insane.