Two separate groups randomly took their seats beside each other at the café I'm in and it turns out both are visiting from the Netherlands. Feels like I'm back in Leiden ☺️
Matt Cahill
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Novelist (Radioland, The Society of Experience) / short fiction / essays. Agent: Kelvin Kong, K2 Literary Former film/TV post supervisor, currently Registered Psychotherapist in private practice Haunting the margins
“When I wrote that letter,” replied Darcy, “I believed myself perfectly calm and cool; but I am since convinced that it was written in a dreadful bitterness of spirit.” There are legions of guys on message boards and in people’s replies who need to have this hot-iron branded onto their asses.
It's hard to believe that the west end rail path was closed for four years (versus 1yr as originally proposed by Metrolinx), however running on it today for the first time, even in the rain, felt restorative. #runTO
I did not anticipate how hard it would be to find collaborators in Edmonton. Throwing a bottle out to sea looking for an opera singer versed in extended technique and comfortable with physical performance for a short performance (12 min) in September at U of A. Paid gig, weird art. Reach out.
Blood donations are down across N. America, so for the first time since I was a teenager I decided to do my civic duty--it's honestly something I've been meaning to do for years. Easy peasy.
The more AI books in a genre, the more ground non-AI books lose. Their hold on top-chart spots runs ~88% in the least-AI genres vs ~63% in the most. Worst in Kindle Unlimited-heavy genres. KU readers draw from one shared subscription pool, so every new AI book competes for the same borrows. (6/n)
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Barbet Schroeder's Old Man, Dead In A Room, starring Mickey Rourke
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
Bizarre times we live in, when an @edsunspot.bsky.social designed poster for a @billorcutt.bsky.social & Chris Corsano show from last year can get turned into someone else's commodity, albeit with the wrong details and four paragraphs of nonsense. xfrogpremium.com/product/bill...
Bill Orcutt And Chris Corsano At Louisville Jazz Society On Jun 25 2025 Poster Shirt
The anticipation is already building. Imagine, if you will, a cool summer evening in Louisville, Kentucky, the air thick with the promise of vibrant sounds. The date: June 25, 2025. The venue: the est...
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The Muppets could do the funniest thing...
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · last wk.Swedish James Bond dropped.
FASCINATING (😏) that the media seems more invested in mentioning Taco Bell by name…instead of Taylor Farms, a repeat offender who choices have already killed/harmed so many. How many more will suffer because folks love judging/ignoring lower-income people?
Sphere (1998, dir. Barry Levinson). To put salt on the wound there was a scratch going down the entire last reel.
Defector@defector.com · 3w agoWhat's the worst movie you've ever watched in a theater? defector.com/whats-the-wo...
Happy I'm seeing The Odyssey this weekend as I can already hear the sound of pedants fussing with their cravats.
Dear Andy Serkis: Hobbits aren't real. Nowhere in the Lord of the Rings did Tolkien say "every single hobbit in the Shire is white." Also, if he did, hobbits aren't real. It won't destroy your story, which again, is fiction, to have some Black and Brown hobbits. Sincerely, Sheryl
Wait, so CN Rail abandoned three freight trains carrying “combustible and flammable materials” near a First Nations community? “OPP disclosed shortly before 5:00 pm Tuesday that three trains carrying combustible and flammable materials were stopped and staged near … Collins First Nation”
Freight trains hauling combustible products stopped by wildfire
OPP said three CN trains were halted on the track because of forest fires in the Armstrong area.
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Read an excerpt from TAKE THIS FOR THE PAIN (@palimpsestpress.bsky.social), the fascinating new essay collection by Alex Boyd! #AmReading #Nonfiction #Essays #CanLit open-book.ca/News/Read-an...
Read an Excerpt from TAKE THIS FOR THE PAIN, the Fascinating New Essay Collection by Alex Boyd
Art has a way of turning up in unexpected places, and Take this for the Pain (Palimpsest Press) follows those moments wherever they lead. Drawing on ...
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Perhaps overshadowed today by the tragic news about Sam Neill, but we also lost another great actor today: Wai Ching Ho. A well-kent face most widely known for playing as Matriarch crime boss Madame Gao in the Marvel Defenders shows, and the voice of Grandma in Turning Red.
Wai Ching Ho, ‘Daredevil’ and ‘Iron Fist’ Actress, Dies at 83
She played crime boss Madame Gao in the Marvel series.
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This is the Toronto they're too afraid to show you on the news.
This is pretty well known, but the Australian flag Sam Neill wore on his uniform in Event Horizon was designed at his request to show the Union Jack replaced with the Aboriginal flag, because he hoped in the future this is how it would actually look. A proper fucken ally in every way, this bloke.
Although I often disagreed with the chimp who tore my child's face off and wore it as a little hat to impress the other chimps, I was nevertheless sad to hear etc., etc.
Only two corners in the 1st half as far as I can see. Is this a record of some sorts?
It's the same reason per capita GDP comparisons between Canada and the US are so bogus. Super-profits of US tech oligopolies certainly lift US GDP & apparent productivity. Yet the median Canadian has more income & wealth, better health, and lives longer. centreforfuturework.ca/2025/05/06/p...
Per Capita GDP is a Deeply Flawed Measure of Economic Performance and Living Standards - Centre for Future Work
During the recent federal election, some business and political commentators used data regarding Canada’s relative performance in growing its “GDP per capita” to argue that Canadians have experienced ...
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Have you tested your smoke alarm lately? We recommend testing them once a week and you should have one installed per floor of your home.
A very sweaty #runTO made easier by choosing Roncesvalles on my return route. Since they widened it years ago, i can easily stick to the curb without worrying about being in the way.
I feel like there'd be more high-profile contenders if the media would give a soupcon of coverage to people other than Olivia Chow and a rotating line-up of generic right-wing dudes
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