Dennis Cooper's in Toronto for the first time in decades, showing his latest film with Zac Farley, ROOM TEMPERATURE, at the Paradise on Sept 24. @derekmccormack.bsky.social will be interviewing them both after the screening! paradiseonbloor.com/movies/room-...

Endlessly delightful & bonkers interview with my dear @derekmccormack.bsky.social over at Full Stop magazine www.full-stop.net/2025/05/21/i...

Derek McCormack

Canadian author, Derek McCormack, writes like Vincent Price possessed by Elsa Schiaparelli: minimal, obscene, cartoonish. His early works include Dark Rides (1996), The Haunted Hillbilly (2003) and Th...

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Thanks for @bradwheelerglobe.bsky.social for all the fashionable tidbits in Kevan Staples's obit--from an Alina Gildiner line about his penchant for Muglerian shoulder pads to a David Livingstone line about his pant cuffs....

PSA for all my fellow Gen X-ers—dig up yr immunization records or get yr doc to check yr immunity. Just learned I no longer have measles immunity & am about to travel & it could have been bad

Canada’s Ambassador to the U.N. calling it like it is.

Bob Rae@bobbyrae48.bsky.social · last yr.

Putting the Arctic Ocean closer to the center, this brings the Greenland Canada gambit into focus. It is a grab for power, money, water, and resources, also giving the US complete control over the Northwest Passage. Fentanyl and the border are a smokescreen for a much bigger project: theft.

Read @premthakker.bsky.social's breaking story on Marco Rubio signing off on the arrest of Palestinian Columbia student protestor Mahmoud Khalil zeteo.com/p/marco-rubi...

Marco Rubio Personally Signed Off to Detain Mahmoud Khalil on 'Foreign Policy Grounds,' Sources Confirm

The government is staking its entire case to deport Khalil on whether Rubio “personally” thinks the Columbia student protest negotiator would “compromise” US foreign policy.

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the fact that people are being disappeared in the name of ""preventing antisemitism"" by a christian nationalist administration is making me nauseated and horrified in ways i cant even begin to explain

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Room Temperature - teaser

Room Temperature (2025) A film by Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley One night every year a family transforms their home and yard into a haunted house and invites…

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I know it's impossible as a normal person to completely disentangle yourself from Amazon's tentacles, but I don't understand how at this point any actor, writer, or filmmaker can take a penny from Amazon Studios. Surely there are still (a few) other less evil options?

And not one of the polite ones. We’ve written a response to @nytimes.com’s Peter Baker and every other American who is taking the annexation of Canada as a fun thought experiment. Here in @foreignpolicy.com with my daughter @alicesouthey.com. Gift link.

Canada Would Like a Word About Trump’s Threats

Americans should stop treating attacks on their neighbor as a joke.

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Never forget.

“Culture”

I don’t think enough people realize how out of control the crackdowns on pro-Palestinian speech in Canada are. This is completely outrageous.

Canadian Dimension@canadiandimension.bsky.social · 2y ago

CD supports our long-time columnist and contributor Yves Engler and urges the Montréal police to drop these outrageous charges for social media posts opposing Israel's apartheid and genocide. 👇

I need at least one more student by the end of the week, maybe two. learn.utoronto.ca/programs-cou...

2366 - Playwriting II

For those who wish to write for the theatre, this workshop in dramatic writing serves as a followup to 2825 Playwriting: Introduction and will introduce you to the fundamentals of playwriting. The foc...

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If this were Putin talking about Latvia, or Xi talking about Vietnam, there would be statements of condemnation from international organizations… at this point, the silence is more than awkward…

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2y ago

Trump during his Super Bowl interview: "I think Canada would be much better off being a 51st state because we lose $200 billion a year with Canada, and I'm not gonna let that happen."

The press has gotten used to acting as a mouthpiece for Reisman, and writes about her as though she's just some benevolent book lover. Meanwhile, she and her husband Gerald Schwartz bankroll IDF mercenaries, max out donations to Pierre Poilievre, and donate to homophobic, anti-vax sham colleges

This is Quisling crap. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

Elon Musk’s Blitz Shakes U.S. Government as He Sweeps Through Agencies (Gift Article)

The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual.

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I wonder how the writers who sided with the Giller Prize and that sweet, sweet blood money over their colleagues last year are feeling right now. This is welcome news, but I'm gonna remember those writers going forward.

I need three more students for this to be a go. The class will be small, you’ll get a lot of attention. I’m a good teacher! learn.utoronto.ca/programs-cou...

2366 - Playwriting II

For those who wish to write for the theatre, this workshop in dramatic writing serves as a followup to 2825 Playwriting: Introduction and will introduce you to the fundamentals of playwriting. The foc...

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“My cancer & the surgery & the repercussions, it all fulfilled a fantasy that was there in my writing to begin with. That’s maybe what made me my full self, was illness. That might have finally made me the writer I always wanted to be: just a person flinging shit at the world.” - Derek McCormack

Nathan Whitlock@nathanwhitlock.bsky.social · 2y ago

@derekmccormack.bsky.social is the author of more than a dozen books, including Dark Rides, The Haunted Hillbilly, and Judy Blame’s Obituary: Writings on Fashion and Death, a collection of his fashion writing. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... Not-Apple: open.spotify.com/show/5qyPVcH...

While French avant-garde artist Francis Picabia, born on this day in 1879, is best known for his affiliation with Dada, I am (characteristically!) drawn to his animal portraits. First up, his painted portrait of Gertrude Stein's pet poodle, Basket

Building on a previous thread, you might like to know that because Yale's Beinecke Library holds the Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas papers, its collection includes this luscious painted portrait by artist Marie Laurencin of the pair's poodle, Basket II collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2068...

When the 'liberal' side has been enabling genocide in plain view for 2 years now with zero repercussions, why on earth would the fash side think they have to hide their true selves as they take power?

Spoiler for tomorrow's episode. This one gets pretty filthy. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT is presented by @thewalrus.ca thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...

Hey, @nytimes.com any words for your Canadian readers concerned by you publishing a column arguing in favour of the annexation of our country?

I wrote a little thing for the @theglobeandmail.com about one of my favourite films of 2024, @brettstory.bsky.social & Stephen Maing's UNION. If you're in Toronto, I urge you to see it this w-e at the Hot Docs Cinema www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/ar...

Why a Canadian director’s documentary on Amazon’s labour unrest is striking a chord

Union patiently chronicles the slow, messy labour of organizing employees at an Amazon fulfillment centre and has racked up a number of wins itself, despite being shut out by major distributors

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"He was one of the last hotlines to a way of being almost entirely eclipsed." Bruce Hainley's beautiful, heart-wrenching tribute to Gary Indiana www.textezurkunst.de/en/articles/...

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