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"Folk horror," Lonsdale Avenue

Went in cold to this one back in the day, and, well, um. One of the wildest rides I've ever had in a theater. Profoundly ahead of its time.

Thursday is a paid holiday. Because Flavor Flav said so.

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

Here come the results for Helsmouth, Ontario, a bucolic bedroom community of 700K in the Golden Horseshoe, where former Energy Minister Louise Davis is challenging the third term of the former host of The New Bumper Stumpers, Gord Meighton.

Ontario civic election night is so wild because you find out whatever happened to federal cabinet ministers and tv weather presenters: they’re mayors of towns you’ve never heard of that have populations twice the size of Saskatoon. Ontario is absolutely inscrutable to Western Canada.

One of PW's major technical footnote references for the "Freeze-Frame Revolution" turns out to be exciting & imaginative (mostly) plain-English reading: "Are Black Hole Starships Possible?" (free PDF download)

FLANAGAN: We asked ourselves, 'Why would a man wear his mother's clothes and stab a woman in a shower?' After, all, Norman says he wouldn't hurt a fly. We wanted to reconcile that contradiction. CHOTINER: Soviet mind control is not a solution I'd have thought of. FLANAGAN: [smiling] Thank you.

in other news, i rescued a beetle that had gotten stuck on a washed up sea jelly

Rex didn't like those provincial election results, either

Liberal democracy remains a towering achievement of humanity and it is worth fighting for.

Behold, the Grand Prize Winner in the Age 0-6 Category of The Toronto Public Library 2026 Design A Bookmark Contest! I love this bookmark so much! 😃 kids.tpl.ca/fun-stuff/co...

this guy loves to read!!

Yesterday's chaos gremlin just came back & TAPPED ON THE DOOR. "If you're cold, they're cold," & etc.

Remember, this all started with Kevin Falcon kicking John Rustad out of the B.C. Liberals for retweeting climate science denialism

Somebody should have told Eby that he can resign without calling an election.

I've reported a lot on OneBC and Dallas Brodie, the party that did its best to promote residential school denialism and attack Indigenous rights in this province. Tonight she lost her riding of Vancouver-Quilchena about as hard as you can lose.

I grew up in a lower income immigrant family and we ate at Red Lobster for "special days." But we also understood the White House should not look like the inside of Red Lobster. It's condescending to assuming working ppl are culturally illiterate bc their experience is shaped by their limited means.

Back from lunch: -You missed a crow in the front room. It was AN EVENT. Took 3 of us to herd him out. 8 minutes of total bedlam.

I don’t know when WSB wrote this in the copy I’d sent him, except that it would have been over 28 yrs ago, on July 31, in Lawrence. Leary had encouraged him to read Neuromancer and he’d liked it, which thrilled me. We hadn’t yet met, and wouldn’t for a few yrs.

@pfbvan.bsky.social is still alive and kicking. We’re back for our next dose of paper.

One week til Halloween. (He carved it with a shotgun.)

Well, the swamp-cat's outta the swamp-bag, so reckon it's OK to talk about this now. We've been secretly chipping away at this project behind-the-scenes this year, cool to see it announced the very same week the two TYRANT® collected-edition hardcovers are on the printing presses, too!

Remembering the time in 6th grade when I gave a mixtape to a girl i liked, but I forgot to record over the last 90 seconds on Side B, which was me rapping about my GI Joes.

A curious thing about the fondness of many BC Cons people for dropping racial and ethnic slurs is that many would not have passed for white in the white man's province for which their leader Aaron Gunn is so nostalgic. All the more reason to signal you are in the 'in group', perhaps.

Yes, the real danger isn't so much that the AI will choose the targets but rather that the humans responsible will wash their hands of it and say the black box told me to bomb there.

Main & Broadway was the centre of my universe when I first moved to Vancouver. Comics, books, coffee, barber, essential bus transfers. Don’t get over here often anymore. Nice to see it still has some things going for it.

Best visual arts exhibition I've seen locally in a decade plus. At the Pendulum Gallery, on the north side of Georgia Street across from the VAG, where in a more just world this ambitious & satisfying ensemble would be hanging.

I follow a lot of bookstores on instagram so now I get served videos of guys saying “here are 6 absolutely perfect books beyond criticism” and then holding up a copy of Ready Player One.

ah, the perfect crime - no one suspects me. after weeks of silence the case has grown cold and I am in the clear. now why the fuck was that little Belgian twerp staring at me at breakfast? I don’t think his English was very strong. quite annoying. I must ask the butler to disinvite him.

People go into bookstores with recs from ChatGPT? Can hardly imagine a worse, more depressing way to find books.

I think one reason Jon Ossoff is really popping right now is he's not afraid to say forthrightly that Trump's corrupt enablers should get ready to appear before Congress. He doesn't get derailed by fake MAGA outrage or MSM laundering of it as "controversy." newrepublic.com/article/2168...

This is really good in a bunch of ways. I was especially caught by the materialist explanation of contemporary short story aesthetics (regardless of region, genre, etc.) — stories are published and awarded for the qualities that make them attractive to readers with much too much to read.

More meat for the OBC delusional racist base. No broadly acceptable policies in the party platform; time to antagonize a minority group, a right-wing move as old as time, historically (& in many cases, still) turned by the right on women; Black people; queer people; Palestinians; Muslims; Jews...

all the trouble of making a nice edition of my boy and then you put the wrong kind of whale on it?? like how many more whale facts did you need him to put in this thing

Alberta seems like they could totally run their own country.

Only way Macron can deliver his promise of accountability is to put his own head in the guillotine. Somehow doubt that’s the accountability he’s thinking of

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