Derek Nystrom

They were my first ever concert (March 1986). I had forgotten just how relentless, in the best possible sense, their live shows were. Over the moon about this release.

Happy 1985: The Miracle Year to all who celebrate!

I appreciate the drama and everything, but come on man…

Only 15 minutes in to the new season of The Diplomat and already being reminded that it seems designed to hit every pleasure center in my brain.

Despite (a) my general disinterest in baseball until late in the playoffs, and (b) my general disdain of Toronto (incubated by living in Montreal for over two decades), watching them come from behind with a 3-run dinger to punch their ticket to the World Series was pretty great.

Rewatching Annie Hall after maybe a decade since I last saw it, and I know this is a not original observation, but good god, I don't know if I've ever seen a more charismatic performance than Diane Keaton's in this film. Just off-the-charts brilliant.

Bc I am an idiot I just paid money to download part of the Numero Group Hüsker Dü live package that I already pre-ordered on CD and I don’t care oh my god this shit absolutely rips.

Maybe my favourite movie of the decade so far.

No! Enraging!

Also, as a grad school friend observed, "Just hold my hand while I come/To a decision on it" is a stunning use of enjambment.

I get 16 sports channels in both English and French, including NBA Canada, yet none of them are broadcasting Lynx v. Mercury. WTAF.

Woo-hoo! Congrats, Brian!

Agreed, and it also serves as a kind of commentary on Redford's own star-text as a guy who tries hard not to capitalize on how handsome and charismatic he is, even as his ambition ultimately leads him to leverage these same qualities.

Absolutely. Rare to find a show that does not condescend to rural midwestern characters! And he is fantastic in it.

When a student complains “what you say is contrary to what the president says” and that ends with the instructor getting fired, fascism has fully arrived. And we all need to act accordingly to fight it.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

GardaWorld is also a security firm employed by McGill.

Not an artist, but … The Philadelphia Story. Its class and gender politics are horrific, yet there are very few films that I find more intensely enjoyable.

perfect album that came out when you were 16

As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]

It started to rain really hard, so I ducked into a cafe to wait it out, but now they are playing 4 Non-Blondes' "What's Going On" and someone is singing along with it, so I guess I'll get soaked.

A fifth faculty at McGill has submitted their union cards for certification!

Welcome to the newest McGill academic union, the Association of McGill Library Academic Staff (AMLAS)!

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

This delightfully written piece is hilarious and true.

Does the "show less like this" button do anything on this site? I keep clicking it for a few things (not objectionable stuff, just shit I don't care about/find annoying) and yet the same proportion of the boring/annoying shit is showing up.

We feed you.
They hunt us.

Maybe this is the Minnesotan in me, but Cocteau Twins for me is winter music. Glorious, gorgeous winter music.

Why do so many of the NBA playoff games have such horrifically bad sound on the broadcast?

“at the speed of compute”