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At 4 Mile Beach with Barb, pelicans flew over us. Caught a shadow.

I'm sure Biden & Harris had their differences about 'handling' their country's PR when speaking on the genocide that they will never call a genocide. But come on.

"No one will read AI slop novels, they'll be terrible piles of clichés and overused tropes!"

Well yeah. There's lots of books like that already, some people eat them up. Publishing professionals have been ADVISING PEOPLE TO WRITE LIKE THIS.

Snobbery is our only real defence now.

Or possibly

I read everything from HIGH SOCIETY to READS as monthly issues & then stalled for the customary reasons.

Aardvark Politick - Believer Magazine In March of last year, the Canadian cartoonist Dave Sim published the final twenty-page installment of Cerebus, the 6,000-plus-page comic-book epic he’d been writing and drawing since 1977. (Virtually...

A full set of CEREBUS THE AARDVARK phonebooks arrived yesterday, & I plan to read the series end to end.

In preparation, this is the best account I've found of Dave Sim's formally brilliant, idiosyncratic & occasionally repugnant lifework:

www.thebeliever.net/aardvark-pol...

PACE Is Closing After 31 Years of Supporting Sex Workers | The Tyee The result will be a dangerous lack of supports and resources for highly marginalized people, community members warn.

The announcement is being met with rage and grief, as it affects what supports are available for street-based sex workers, who are some of the most marginalized people in society, say women with lived and living sex-work experience.

A Columbia genocide scholar says she may leave over university's new definition of antisemitism Academics around the country are raising alarm about growing efforts to define antisemitism on terms pushed by the Trump administration.

After Columbia’s recent adoption of a new definition of antisemitism, Prof. Hirsch fears she may face sanction for even mentioning a text by Hannah Arendt, who criticized Israel’s founding.

“A university that treats criticism of Israel as antisemitic is no longer a place of open inquiry.”

YVR -> YYZ again, to see Don Breithaupt's Monkey House live in concert; to visit the spot where my friend, the great painter and writer Robert Linsley, died; & to continue work on my own pictures, including one of this fake "classical ruin" made of old architectural details stripped from YYZ towers.

this motherfucker. because why would you need public broadcasting or functional passenger rail when you can have pipelines and military spending?

good. bye Giller awards

with $5M, the Canada Council can give 100 emerging writers $50K

PSA: commercial landlord dangling "below market rent" for a building whose ceiling pipes reliably break & flood multiple times a month, to the point where they might be reasonably advertised as a water feature, is not, in fact, "below market rent." Not my issue, but could be yours if you move fast.

So much of it feels like a DIY kit for information, not information itself.

As an aside: has anyone else noticed that a lot of UK news writing at the moment is painfully short on relevant information? It's like

X is happening, Y says. Z objects.

No context. Z's history of bad faith is missing. No examination of X. Y's financial interest goes unmentioned.

A Master of Surrealist Fiction and a Bard for Anxious Times

Jonathan Lethem discovers another "international master of fantastical and surrealist literature": Dino Buzzati

In this essay DB compared to: Kafka (not for the 1st time), Poe, Camus, Sartre, Cortázar, Anna Kavan, Robert Coover, Paul Bowles, Haruki Murakami, Calvino, de Chirico, Buñuel.

I've found the perfect Instagram account. Seattle's Twice Sold Tales owner Jamie recommends books and shows her cats. That's it.

IG twicesoldtales

Plus side, I'll have the opportunity to sue the Privy Council in BC Small Claims Court. Defeating the Privy Council in court is a bit of a feather in your cap if you're an Indian.

I received an invitation to attend the government's First Nations summit last week, reconfirmed with them by email before booking tickets. And now like a day before I'm due to fly out - they email and say 'oops - you're not on the invitation list'. Not thrilled at the $2k waste of my money.

No, but I’ve got a recording of him singing “Sweet Coraline”.

At this point I turned to Wikipedia to see if ND had ever covered the Chordettes' "Mister Sandman" or not

I still carry them - still lots of asks! - but donate all proceeds to a local sex assault center; seems an acceptable compromise.

-HEY do you have any of Neil Diamond's "Sandman" comics?

so there is a pee tape after all

“In a saner time, that alone — even if no executive order or blatantly lawless action followed — would be a presidential scandal, revealing a commander in chief with nothing but contempt for the First Amendment, baseline constitutional values, and his own people.”

“And now, the president is openly telling a celebrity and political enemy that he is “serious” about taking away her American citizenship, merely because she has exercised her free speech rights..”

In grade 12, I saw a motorcyclist leave this same road on a hairpin in my rearview mirror. He flew into the trees & disappeared. No cells in '88; I drove for help. When I returned w fire & police the victim's shocked friends were making a gasoline soaked pile of bike & body parts in the woods.

Consider me the entity within the industry without a history

@pfbvan.bsky.social here is @talleryne.bsky.social repping in the competition's HQ

Medicaid? Y-O-Y-A. Food or housing assistance? Y0YA. Wildfire ripping down the hill toward your home? Y,O,Y,A. & things aren't going to change without acknowledgement of what government should be: those nets on the side of the Golden Gate Bridge that catch you, should you fall.