William S Burroughs - The Junky's Christmas. Full Version. youtu.be/u6kHN92Yv48 'Fantastic narration by Burroughs about Danny, a poor unfortunate junkie who reveals his last remains of selflessness and humanity despite his urgent physical predicament. The Junky's Christmas is a story by...

Back to the December blogging! I wrote about five excellent metal albums that just missed my overall top ten. basementgalaxy.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/a...

You will be visited by 3 spirit

There’s a sentence on page 2 that is longer than Bluesky’s character limit. And the sole knowledge that sentence conveys is “Olivia was born on January 6th.”

I was just diagnosed with ASD, and suddenly eeeeeeeeverything makes sense.

It's not as though the Chiefs are done forever, far from it, but it's always a seismic feeling whenever a sports dynasty is confronted with its own mortality. Like last night's extraordinary game.

PopMatters' Best Albums of 2025 list is up! I wrote about numbers 15, 10, and 9. @popmatters.com www.popmatters.com/best-albums-...

My latest for @breachmedia.ca: When Saskatchewan's government brought in anti-trans laws, unions pushed back. Right-wing premiers are using the notwithstanding clause to attack their culture-war punching bags. Solidarity between unions and trans advocates in SK shows how to put up a fight.

Wrote about a band I love very, very much for today's blog. 🙂 basementgalaxy.wordpress.com/2025/12/06/m...

Episode 3 of Heated Rivalry wrecked me. What a show.

Toronto spending $400 million dollars on hosting World Cup games... ...and the one & only Team Canada home game is gonna look like guys from Woodbridge and College Street coming down to the stadium like this

Save the date for France vs Norway.

Looking at Group B, it is going to be absolute insanity in Montréal's Little Italy next summer. CAN-ITA will tear the neighbourhood apart! 😅

F**k Wayne Gretzky, that bootlicking nazi traitor.

All these decades, I always missed the world cup draw. How in the effing eff do billions of you guys sit through this ridiculous spectacle?!?!?!!

I saw a ton of great shows in 2025, but one concert stood out above the rest, for fanboy reasons. basementgalaxy.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/l...

Today's piece is one more obit for a hero. basementgalaxy.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/g...

My fave thing I wrote was an Insta post detailing a day that began w/ me punching myself twice in my face during a nightmare, seeing the ugly vibe outside the Canada-USA hockey battle during the peak of the 51st state madness, & seeing Undergang play in a packed room, where I caught a BRUTAL virus.

I wrote a little thing about Ozzy, and I didn't know it was his birthday today. basementgalaxy.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/t...

I expected my generation to be shaken to its core when Ozzy Osbourne died, but I still wasn't ready for it. One never is with an artist so emotionally connected to a specific subset of people. basementgalaxy.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/t...

Glancing at the EOY album lists, it's clear that I almost missed the boat on Oklou. Totally up my alley.

I've been making year-end albums lists since 1986, because I am a nerd. This marks the 40th such list I've compiled. basementgalaxy.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/t...

Geese in 2025 ≠ The Rapture in 2003 🤷🏻‍♂️

I like how Québec calls today Vendredi Fou. Speaking of, my book is super duper cheap today! www.amazon.ca/Cranking-Up-...

Childhood trauma?

A horrible person until some slightly less crazy stuff at the end

Taylor Swift getting good reviews has traumatized an entire generation of culture writers lol

Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do

Mani played some of the wickedest bass lines in rock history. Fool's Gold, man.

Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.

Happy 40th to Macca's worst song. Still sounds like he wrote it whilst on the loo.

TSN/CTV choosing not to air Bills-Bucs is curious, to say the least. 🤔

SNL just did a Bergman sketch complete with a Stellan Skarsgard bit, and I'm dead. 😅

Absolute banger, 20 years later.

It's so much fun, pretty much the (refreshing) antithesis of American reality TV.

Wayne Gretzky is Canada's Charles Lindbergh.

This'll be a nice little image rehab for Jason. Back where he belongs!

Currently working on my first 2026 album review, so as I used to do on the old platform, Happy Music Critic New Year, everybody. 🤘

Melissa Lantsman is the Wario version of Sarah Sherman.

Grammy nominations for Best Rock Album: • Turnstile - What If Hardcore But Boring • Eric Clapton - The Vaccine Stole M'Trousers, Innit? • Bon Iver - SM∞K∑D S@LM◊N 4 SₐL∑∑∑∑∑ • Haim - Millennial Music Your Dad Will Like • Bono's audiobook • Black Pumas - Album That Definitely Exists

#tbt sorry we missed this, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

So close. Centimetres.

This is Blue Monday all over again. #Expos

That's as painful as sports gets.

Sportsnet crashed again.

As a spectator with an emotional connection to one of the teams, the world series is psychological torture. It is never fun.

As a loooongtime Pulp fan and a real nerd for album design, it pleases me to no end to FINALLY own the Different Class LP with its interchangeable cover art.

Whenever it has the world's attention, Toronto ALWAYS overplays its hand. 😖

The Story Behind Ben Cooper Halloween Costumes

Halloween Friday Jays game might be the drunkest this country has been in a while.