Pamela Haskell

Tomorrow! Free tickets still available. Will be an interesting evening. #yyc

Our flâneur president is exploring the psychogeography of the White House in the context of its urban environment but go off

Both are true. Cars are terrible, cyclists are insufferable. We all know this.

This calls for a strongly worded cease-and-desist letter

He wasn’t in the US illegally. He had entered the immigration system and was waiting for a hearing. The allegations of domestic abuse are sad, but they aren’t “cases”. Words have meanings.

Do you think finding out that Trump got bad grades in college is the thing that will make supporters of the coup change their mind? I have my doubts

Lot of empty seats and empty space in that room. If there hadn’t been so many protestors the turnout would have been a bit embarrassing for her.

Commenting on the body of an abhorrent person is still commenting on a person’s body and is still a gross, creepy thing to do.

a man in a white shirt is dancing in a living room ALT: a man in a white shirt is dancing in a living room

Justin Trudeau, later today.

they* don't honor movies** real people*** see****

* I don't know who I specifically mean by this

** assembly line VFX behemoths

*** me, myself, the designated real person

**** experience chiefly as a months-long advertising campaign that may or may not have a movie at the end of it

The Oscars 1) don’t have a best musical category and, 2) haven’t happened yet this year.

remember that JK Rowling is a vicious bigot

Slacker and Generation X - the foundational documents of Gen X - came out in 1990 and ‘91, respectively, and were about people in the their mid-to-late 20s. I’m 1975 and was originally too late for Gen X. Now you’ve got fakers from the early 80s claiming they’re not Millenials.

ScHoolboy Q -Blue Lips

#MWE Day 10 (on day 13)
ScHoolboy Q - Blue Lips. Fast forward ten years from Oxymoron and this is good, but I think I like Oxymoron more, probably it sounds both modern and familiar to my ears, where this might be too new for my untrained ears.

In the short film One Week, Buster Keaton builds a mail order house. However, his rival sneaks in and changes the number on all the pieces so it goes together wrong.

A perfect joke, no notes.

Cover of ScHoolboy Q’s Oxymoron album from 2014

#MWE day 9 (on day 12)
ScHoolboy Q has an intelligent, aggressive style that feels authentic and uncompromising even when the music is catchy as hell. I love Collard Greens, don’t love Studio. Apparently both songs were big hits at the time, but I’m ten years behind so they’re new to me.

#MWE Day 8 (on day 11)
I like Blues, in that vague way that just about everyone likes Blues music. But I only *love* a tiny subset - trance-like country blues, vocals with a haunted edge. Music that balances unstudied rawness with tremendous skill. Basically, I love this Junior Kimbrough album.

Cover of Jessie Mae Hemphill’s album She-Wolf. Portrait of Jessie Mae, a middle-aged Black woman with braided hair and a cowboy hat.

MWE day 7 (on day 10)

Jesse Mae Hemphill was a huge talent, tapped into a regional blues tradition that’s inseparable from her personal lineage. My personal tastes veer away from boogie-style and more to sad, droney Blues, so I liked this less than I probably should

Junior Kimbraugh - God Knows I Tried

#MWE Day 6 (on day 10)
Saw this on @awnothimagain.bsky.social’s MWE and thought it sounded like exactly my thing, and I was right. I love this so much I’m genuinely upset to have missed it for so long. Hypnotic and droney, with the spectral, timeless quality of the best country blues

#MWE Day 5 (on day 9. I’m getting there)
There’s some genuinely good stuff here. The country/roots-inflected tracks are the strongest, and serve his warm, distinctive voice the best. Variety is this album’s weakness - the generic pop-rock and Imagine Dragons soundalike tracks drag it down.

Obvious as in obviously the most correct possible answer

Shabaka - Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (2024).

#MWE day 4 (on day 9)
Having grown up in the age of Zamfir, I’m very suspicious of any music that goes flute-first, so this made me anxious from the opening notes. It won me over at the album’s midpoint (and highlight) ‘I’ll Do Whatever You Want’. The layers emerged as I opened up to it.

#MWE day 3 (on day 8)

Family Affair and No More Drama are enough for this album to plant its flag as a classic, but it’s honestly pretty uneven and most of the tracks that aim for inspirational land in generic platitudes.

#MWE day 2 (but on day 8)
Essentially the same sound as What’s the 411? but the strength is in her personality emerging in the songwriting

#MWE day 1 (it’s day 8 but whatever

The worst part of #MWE is revealing your shameful blind spots. This hits all the points of a classic soul album - huge voice, harmonies, raw emotion and groove - and then added hip hop to reinvent the whole genre.

I gotta say, Americans - or Americans who comment on NYT articles - don’t seem like they’re getting it. You’re losing your country and still sitting around calling Donald Trump a toddler? It’s a little late to be acting like he’s a temporary nuisance.

Chappell Roan gets the job done

Every Canadian needs to be vigilant - JD Vance’s Canadian friends could be anywhere. If you see something, say something.

“[the LA fires are]even affecting some of the wealthiest and most powerful individuals in our country, some of whom are sitting here right now. They don’t have a home any longer. That’s interesting.”

Who’s he subtweeting?