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JJ Lee in New Westminster BC he him 李仕深 Writer - Editor - Podcast Producer Holidays 2025, check out the latest anthology of worst-case-scenario Christmases: BETTER THIS YEAR https://linktr.ee/jj_lee
I've been thinking about Joey's Video Stop in New Westminster. I worked there for over a year. Here's a Christmas ghost story I wrote the year it closed. My way of saying goodbye to the shop. I loved it there. (note the broadcast date is probably wrong) soundcloud.com/jj-lee-5/the...
24.12.2025 18:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Note: start time is 7:30 PM!
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7:30 not 7:00 PM, Friday, Dec. 19. It'd be great to see you #newwest #newwestminster
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Need to know someone had a worse Christmas than you?
Come to the free live storytelling event (surprise drop, friends) at @ GROOVE CAT BOOKS & RECORDS in #newwestminster.
Hear stories from Jennifer Lutes, Subbu Govindarajapuram, and me.
First volume of the anthology series made a comeback at the very niche Amazon.ca category of Canadian Collections. We're #9, we're #9, we're #9!
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A diptych comprised of the cover of Better This Year featuring evergreen branches holding a single repair Christmas tree ornament and a head shot of the editor JJ Lee in black glasses and a denim shirt.
The cover of BETTER NEXT YEAR which is illustrated with a shattered red Christmas tree ornament with pieces on the floor.
Anthologies getting some just-in-time holiday love in the form of reviews and shoutouts...
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Cozy? Seasonal? Storytime? The live HOLIDAY storytelling continues! Friday, Dec. 5th at West Vancouver Memorial Library. Reserve a free ticket here:
westvanlibrary.ca/event/fa-la-...
BETTER THIS YEAR's Thi Tran compares Vancouver's Kingsgate Mall to Oakridge BITD.
For more worst-case-scenario holiday stories, join us at the West Vancouver Memorial Library Dec. 5!
Reserve seats here: westvanlibrary.ca/event/fa-la-...
Buy the book: www.tidewaterpress.ca/better-this-...
Do you have a true story of a horrible Christmas? I want to hear about it and quite frankly share it with the world. Call the brand new WORST CHRISTMAS EVER HOTLINE!
1-604-223-4628
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#newwest Join us Nov. 19 for a night of real stories of truly awful holiday moments! I'm hosting storytellers who are featured in the latest nonfic anthology Better This Year.
@artsnewwest.bsky.social artsnewwest.ca/new-westmins...
Hopefully it will pickup.
17.09.2025 06:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Think so. smoke smells really chemically uptown. Once sure if the #newwest hashtag would work on bluesky. Thanks.
17.09.2025 06:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0#newwest strong smokey smell uptown..anyone else. Out of nowhere.
17.09.2025 05:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0#newwest, hope you're feeling better this morning. not perfect but better.
29.04.2025 15:52 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I heard so many people talking like who gets to be PM was actually on the ballot. Appalling. 9 Ndp seats would have locked in a progressive parliament.
29.04.2025 05:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0#newwest Voting liberal basically endangers a liberal minority. @mpjulian.bsky.social was our guy. All you had to do was stay steady.
29.04.2025 04:56 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0#newwest wtf
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Leading a discussion at North Shore Writer's Festival on Unsettling Fiction w Sam Wiebe Linda Cheng Erica McKeen... andI think I'll focus GORE HORROR EVIL! www.eventbrite.ca/e/unsettling...
15.04.2025 15:26 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social "He works out"??? It was a revealing interview. Slightly depressing.
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here's some video of that day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kekh...
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I went to the site in North Vancouver with Lenore Rattray who was held for over a week there by a serial sexual assault perpetrator and convicted double murderer. Here's Lenore podcast about her trip back there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBkK...
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Join us IRL to hear the trailers and ask your podcasting questions on Saturday westvanlibrary.ca/event/podcas...
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On Saturday Mar 22 at the West Vancouver Memorial Library 1030am the workshop for Older Adult I helped facilitate will share their podcast trailers. And here we are on CBC Radio yakking it www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
21.03.2025 12:39 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Proud to share with you Episode 9 of LENORE RATTRAY's Stand Up Eight. Her brave account of survival after being abducted by a double murderer and serial rapist 30 years ago. This episode she returns to the scene of the crime. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/len...
07.03.2025 19:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0No plans yet but I'm always being asked to run programs... I'll post if something comes up. Thanks for your interest.
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west vancouver memorial library ad for a podcasting workshop with jj lee
EXCITED. Starting Sat. Feb 15, learn how to use WVML’s Recording Studio while helping create a podcast about #podcasting! We'll record our progress through this workshop, learn audio engineering skills, build community, and tell our stories. #westvancouver westvanlibrary.ca/event/podcas...
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Such a thirll to hear tasteful, sensitive piano backup for a jazz vocal album. Cottage for Sale · Lucy Yeghiazaryan · Michael Kanan, piano. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUmT...
26.01.2025 00:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0ok. have left the breadcrumbs from facebook and instagram to here.
24.01.2025 18:16 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Admittedly I feel I have certain amount of social media energy I need to vent. But as long as I have a space, I think I might be okay
24.01.2025 06:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And I think I can break the habit. Have the most followers on Twitter bitd and I no longer feel the need to be on it. So it's possible.
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