I'm not a religious person, per se, but I feel the need to thank some higher power for the prospect of Philomena Cunk interviewing Michael Bay. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Jeff Cottrill
@jeffcottrill.bsky.social
Jeff Cottrill is a novelist, Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, journalist and spoken-word artist based in Toronto.
In two days. Tell your #Vancouver buddies who like poetry. @wordvancouver.bsky.social made a sweet poster.
Poems in Yvonne Blomer’s third, water-focused anthology exemplify sublime as both verb and adjective. Date: Wednesday, September 16, 6PM - 8:PM Location: Gallery Room, Britannia Library, 1661 Napier St. With: Daniela Elza· Natasha Boskic. Poets from Sublime & Jeff Cottrill
We are confident this group of Exhibitors will help bring back that "Scholastic Book Fair" feel you've been missing. The Literary & Art Fair is STACKED full of talent. Anyone you are particularly excited to see again? New exhibitors catching your eye? More: www.wordvancouver.ca/exhibitors-2...
I finally watched Meatballs today. A bit late. I remember wanting to watch it when I was nine, because it looked like a funny comedy about kids. (And the title was Meatballs. Meatballs! Hilarious.) I was told that it wasn't really a movie for nine-year-olds. Now I understand why... sort of.
Imagine if you shot a man in Reno just to watch him die... but you got distracted and missed it.
"9 to 5" is a great song (the only Dolly Parton tune I like, in fact), but every time I get it as an earworm, it morphs into either Led Zeppelin's "Hot Dog", or the theme from The Jeffersons. You didn't have to know that, but I told you anyway.
On this 25th anniversary, we mourn the thousands of lives lost on 9/11. Our hearts are with their loved ones. Let us also honor the courageous first responders who gave their all in our darkest hour. We will #NeverForget their bravery in the face of such terrifying tragedy.
📌All the bigots asking why the mayor of New York City is presiding over the remembrance of the 9/11 attacks, need to shut up and explain to us why they support the traitor who attacked us Jan. 6.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Dir: Martin McDonagh, 2017)
Just got my copy of the new Brownstone Poets anthology. My poem "Depressing Thoughts for Your Thirty-Fifth Birthday" is on page 63. You can get one too, from Amazon. There's a kitty on it.
To observe the Star Trek anniversary, I give you this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3fZ...
Leonard Nimoy : The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins(Music Video)(1968)
YouTube video by Joseph Snyder
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Jeff, we are honoured to feature your award winning story in Harvest Moon Volume Two.
Jeff Cottrill@jeffcottrill.bsky.social · last wk.I'm in this. It features my story "The Madness East of St. George", winner of last year's @mgliterary.bsky.social short-fiction contest. #canlit #fiction #shortstory #satire #humour #humor #horror #ttc #subway #publictransit
I'm in this. It features my story "The Madness East of St. George", winner of last year's @mgliterary.bsky.social short-fiction contest. #canlit #fiction #shortstory #satire #humour #humor #horror #ttc #subway #publictransit
MoonLit Getaway@mgliterary.bsky.social · last wk.Here it is: the cover for Harvest Moon V2! The artwork by Danielle Whitehead (@nielle_renee) is titled: Loving You. Danielle is a visual artist from Michigan with a BFA from Michigan State University. Volume 2 will available on September 23! #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #5amWritersClub
Oh lookie, my name's on the #WordVancouver exhibitor poster. Very small, but still counts. (Full list with bios at www.wordvancouver.ca/exhibitors-2...)
Finally seeing Coyote vs. Acme today. Fun fact: when I watched Warner cartoons as a kid, I didn't realize Acme was the name of a company. I thought it was like a technical description of the products. (And when I learned what the word meant, I assumed it was just an ironic joke, nothing more.)
Wile E. Coyote's Loony Tunes Lump Massager
ALT: Wile E. Coyote's Loony Tunes Lump Massager
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HEY THIS IS JUST A PAINTING OF A THEATER SHOWING COYOTE VS. ACME
If you weren't aware, Coyote Versus Acme is (loosely) based on a New Yorker humor essay of the same name. It's well worth the read.
Coyote V. Acme
From 1990: “Much as he has come to mistrust Defendant’s products, Mr. Coyote has no other domestic source of supply to which to turn.”
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If I were Rush, I would have added a 39-second guitar solo to the song 2112 so that it clocked in at exactly 21:12. Missed opportunity.
Ian Donker, who took over when his father retired in 2014, says he can’t remember a time when Book City wasn’t part of his life. Read Cassandra Drudi's feature here: https://bit.ly/3T9F7He
Spent an unreasonable amount of time this week defending Bluesky to a few folks on Twitter. My take is still the same: it's the only social-media site I fully trust right now. It's like Twitter for nice people. Twitter randos responded, "It's just an echo chamber for extreme leftists!" and so on.
Gloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist campaigner, dies aged 92
Gloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist campaigner, dies aged 92
Famous for the 1963 exposé in which she worked as a Playboy Bunny, her books and journalism took on many varieties of discrimination Gloria Steinem, the American feminist and journalist whose activism helped push through greater rights for women around the world has died, aged 92. Steinem “passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her”, a statement shared to her Instagram page said. Continue reading...
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