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I’ve read one of the Booker long list and have two others on my tbr list.

Let’s go

The Most Dangerous Game, but it's in a Brazilian prison camp

White letters against blue background: Earn cash by doing tasks

They are trying to monetize labour.

Black and white screenshot of a well dressed, middle aged man. Caption: After all, crime is only...

Black and white screenshot of a well dressed, middle aged man. Caption: a left-handed form of human endeavor.

screengrabs from John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle, posted by @nocontextnoir.bsky.social on insta

One of my favourite lines from a guy who wrote a lot of brilliant lines.

Sweeps week Columbo

Amazing! Thanks.

Summer Cold (Winter Version)

Tony Shalhoub as Monk in the new Parker movie.

social housing is less than FIVE % of Canada's housing stock

we don't have the right to housing. its an idea that hasn't been realized, a right that the federal government has the authority, resources and mandate to fulfill – if we demand it

mass homelessness didn't exist forty years ago

Metamorpho is basically DC’s version of a Marvel character. His powers a curse, they’ve made him a freak! He’s kindred to Hulk and the Thing.

Gilbert Hernandez wrote a 2002/2003 run of Birds of Prey guest starring Metamorpho.

Leaving tomorrow to go to "Canada"

The Vancouver show is now at the Pearl in case you didn't know. Some details below, consult the internet for more information.

Vancouver / Thurs, Aug 7 — The Pearl
Winnipeg / Fri, Aug 8 — Royal Albert
Toronto / Sat, Aug 9 — Allan Gardens

“The Xenomorphs are integral to the Alien franchise”

Promotional photo for Ferris Bueller tv series.

1970 front page of the Vancouver Sun.

Close up on the Sun logo where the S has two vertical lines through it like a dollar symbol.

Headline: BUS FARES CUT TO 7¢

Every inch of this 1970 @vancouversun.bsky.social front page screams wtf.

“This creative ecstasy, I knew, could very well culminate in a severe spanking.”

Storm season in the Bay of Bones is really something.

Map of post-Disaster western hemisphere as seen in the Jack Kirby comic series Kamandi.

It’s time to build a NEW Undersea New York Rat Network!

Who’s Who entry for DC supervillain the Gambler with a floating image of a pouting child behind him.

another Terry Gross form letter recipient

Is this #hotdogcode?

(dude says reservoir dogs is his favourite movie)

(checks kids’ letterboxd diaries: well, nevertheless)

Lanterns: Nathan Fillion Will Drop More F-Bombs Than Ever Before in DCU Show

Finally, a show about colourful space heroes with magical rings that I don’t have to share with my kids.

Using AI to fill in my writing with all the letters I had to leave out because they weren’t in the words I chose.

I did a fiction workshop with Rawi Hage years ago where he talked about taking photos at the beginning of a writing project, not necessarily for reference but for framing.

Two-Step, by Roger Dean Young & the Tin Sea from the album Threshold

Adelaide the phone is ringing
I gotta go answer to everyone they’ve got my number rogerdeanyoung.bandcamp.com/track/two-st...

Vacant buildings are an increasing safety risk in Vancouver, officials say Buildings left vacant are posing an increasing safety concern around Vancouver, and the system for dealing with them is inadequate, officials say.

Complaints by Vancouver Fire & Rescue about fire risks posed by vacant buildings seems of a piece with previous concerns regarding OD response & lockable torch lighters. Firefighters are really talking about having to increasingly fight the effects of #Vancouver's willful neglect of extreme poverty!

It’s like KC Constantine told me: writing is the gig. No other part of the publishing biz is worth your worries.