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Writer, essayist on culture, alt music & film. Disarm Magazine, books: Apple of my Eye, We are all Fixed Stars (2025) & developing our mag into a video essay project. Canadian.
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I've been using DuckDuckGo for years and highly endorse. They also have an email you can sign up for that strips out tracking (I use that too!)

Liam Gallagher weighed in on the Oasis Rock Hall nomination. Haha.

One of our very favourite bands is coming to Toronto. As we always say, get there for the openers! @thedears.bsky.social #METRIC @blocparty.com #OpeningAct #LiveForLiveMusic

GREAT line up, too! At Budweiser Stage, June 6th, Toronto folks.

North America, it's time. See you this Summer. Pre-sale starts Weds 12th Feb at 10am local time in each city. Sign up for access at blocparty.com

Dallas/Fort Worth moviegoers: do you have plans for Valentine’s Day? If not, I have a deeply romantic option for you: a 25th anniversary screening of American Psycho with director Mary Harron and screenwriter/castmember Guinevere Turner in person! TIX: thetexastheatre.com/film/america...

As recent polls go, this isn't quite the winner in terms of how crushingly disappointing people can be, but it's on the list.

The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.

10 years ago tonight, Better Call Saul debuted with “Uno.” If you’re feeling nostalgic for the Kettlemans, tales of Slippin’ Jimmy, Kim smoking dramatically, and more, have I got the book for you! www.abramsbooks.com/product/saul...

I see that it’s Jack Lemmon’s centenary which is a great excuse to show that he came up with the best gravestone ever.

The 1964 hit "As Tears Go By," penned by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, made her a star, but Marianne Faithfull demonstrated a remarkable ability to change with the times.

I've got some rearranging to do in my life:

call me old-fashioned but in my day boys didn’t write love letters using ChatGPT. instead they would recite Lord Byron’s “She walks in beauty like the night / Of cloudless climes and starry skies” and then add, “I made that up, just for you.”

I'm excited to share an excerpt from my new Better Call Sall book, where co-creator Peter Gould talks about the day of Bob Odenkirk's heart attack, what the contingency plans were for such a frightening event, what he thinks happened to Jimmy and Kim after the finale, and more:

can I explain this gap in my resume? yeah that was when I was just tired & bored with myself & sitting around here trying to write this book

“I believe life is a continuum, and that no one really dies, they just drop their physical body and we’ll all meet again, like the song says. It’s sad but it’s not devastating if you think like that… We’re all going to be fine at the end of the story.” Till we meet again, DAVID LYNCH... 🖤

Some favourite greens: Grouch Green Kermit Green Grinch Green Grogu Green

Dumpster diving for crowns is not the way. Mantra for 2025.

Happy New Year!

My thoughts on Nosferatu, from which I've just returned: IT FED WHAT REMAINS OF MY SOUL Art! Cinema! Story! Set design! Oh, the costumes (erotic moan) Truly scary & truly funny. Film of the year!

My parents gave me a cat paw baking pan yesterday so I’m in the process of making dozens of little toe bean cornbread mini-muffins. 😆🫘

Siri dictation auto corrected Nosferatu as Nice for her too

Family block of tickets for Nosferatu secured for the four of us brave enough! Can't wait!

I miss Rdio. www.headphonesty.com/2024/12/spot...

Start your day worshipfully

Schur genius!

The Garrison: Self-portrait.

"Jonathan Demme's SOMETHING WILD differentiates itself with the curiosity it extends toward its characters, toward art, toward America; Lulu is a case study for the care & attention the film applies to its characters and the lives they run toward and from." - @christch.bsky.social

"Just because I'm in public doesn't mean I want to socialize." Happy Blow Up 30!!!!!

Me to me (Dec 12): Listening to music Very Quietly to accommodate another's home office, while repairing a very old mirror I'm gifting to my neighbour "I love John Hughes/Molly Ringwald forever but truthfully the song Pretty in Pink (/Psychedelic Furs) is by far the best thing about the film."

Hi. I've got three photo books and a memoir out there on sale now. They're all on Amazon and elsewhere. I worked hard on all this stuff. Thanks for supporting

Public service message: Your local Salvation Army store has a large number of very good, affordable artificial Christmas Trees & ornaments (often new in package) you can save/re-home.) The one I just visited is also attentively organized & merchandised, colour coded & full of good stuff as a bonus.

In my small Mennonite town it was: “Hey! get paid buy a truck!” I’m serious.

Topping those podcast charts - thanks all x

Meet my cat-dog doing her best Nadia Comenici impression: Yes, the Christmas Tree and candle display gets shifted for her 20 minutes at a stretch window time.