Matthew Gourlie

Are you aware of autopolo?

A few come to mind… had a row of 13yo girls there to see Leo who didn’t know how Romeo & Juliet ends. Seeing the Notebook in a full theatre of people sobbing was something. And a woman in our row laughed until she fell out of her seat and hit the floor at the Boo Radley quip in Benny & Joon (?!).

This is the root cause of how the first person died in competition at the Olympics.

Sure, why not...

I decided to go with Coherence as off-the-board pick instead of trying to decide between Knives Out, Oldboy, Cold War, Adaptation & Talk To Her.

I hate to put this out into the world but this reminds me of San Pedro Sula.

This is the level it took for the CFL to delay a pre-season game by an hour.

It feels right to go with this one on the first day of Pride as well… youtu.be/NHjvDXIkZ_w?...

I was legitimately wondering what Laura Dern's ex had gotten up to and had always thought he'd seemed cool. I caught up, but it took a minute.

Uh-oh there might be beef at the Cathedral Village Arts Festival.

YouTube video by The Brick Tired of Waking Up Tired? Get the Sleep You Deserve!

This makes me feel ancient but hopefully The Diodes made a decent chunk of change…

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How an IT worker from Saskatchewan made the best game of the year - The Logic Balatro is up for every video game award going. Its developer, an anonymous former IT worker from Saskatchewan, explains where the idea came from.

My latest for The Logic, an interview with Balatro developer LocalThunk.
thelogic.co/news/balatro...

Cory Doctorow suggested that Canada tear up the IP laws they were forced to pass to keep access to US markets and sell jailbreaking kits for US software -- third party ink! tractor repair! independent car maintenance! Don't expect it, but would be cool.

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You on your way home? Pity to be so close but it’s ugly out there. Remind me to tell you about the Super Bowl champion I was trying to interview at Chubby’s…

Chubby’s never lets you down!

I think if you gave WA, OR & CA that option, it might be tempting, no? I am sure it will never happen, but seeing the reaction in some quarters to the LA fires gave me pause.

In the meantime, take care of Woobens Pacius for us. I'm hoping he can have a big year for the Rowdies.

Bugs and Daffy standing by a tree, sign reads DUCK SEASON, then RABBIT SEASON then ELMER SEASON, and they both glare ominously off camera

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

My first thought was Brando before even seeing the choices. I'm 47. But when I saw Bale, I immediately thought of the Machinist, so that reference worked perfectly too.

I feel that. I'm our work admin for Meta & X. I can't really leave, but I wish I could. I would also miss seeing photos of old friends/family on FB, but it's also 90% ads/groups I have zero interest in now so I feel like I'm not seeing that much anyway.

My American friend asked me why Trudeau was resigning. I told her it was because Canada lost in the quarter-finals at the world juniors.

I feel like knowing that you listen to Sibylle Baier this much is something I'm going to remember every time I see you on TV.

As a Packers fan, Micah has always been a favourite. We didn't have Rasul Douglas for that long either, but I love that guy too.

Introduce yourself with four footballers

You are talented and delightful and I am so happy I discovered you exist.

I think I’m too old to understand what “brat summer” is but I’m watching the Maries in honour.

The NYT only said this was 2.3 out of 5 difficult. I certainly bed to differ. And I would have never guessed purple in forever if I hadn't gotten the other three first. And that should be in my wheel house, but was kind of a reach IMO.

And here they have a "ReStore" that sold surplus and reused home building supplies and working hours there could also help get your hours in.

When I helped build one, the owner had to put in a certain number of hours, but they could also have friends and family help fill those hours. I think there would be tasks anyone could help complete.

A 12-minute version of Inhuman? Now that’s love. I am a little sad that your wife’s disdain for SY was passed on.

I just discovered there there is a company called Soylent who claims that they offer “The World's Most Perfect Food.” Naturally it comes in green. Why not lean into that dystopian marketing?

Heist, adorn, plumb…