Adrian Markle

Obviously a disappointing result. No one likes to see the bad guys win. But I'm so impressed by #teamcanada for the game they played. It was such an entertaining and exciting and edge-of-your seat game. Loved it for every second but the last.

Regardless of the outcome of the game, #teamcanada women's hockey are always such an incredible source of national pride.

But obviously I hope they win.

One of my students who is central to the her year's social structure is Swiss and obviously I'm Canadian.

We've been making all the other students choose sides in advance of this weekend's #hockey game between #canada and #Switzerland.

That goalie interference call was laughable but doesn't change the fact that Canada was never in that game at all. Disappointing result, but there's more hockey to come.

China famously hates competition and sports, which is why they've only finished in the top three in 7 out of the 7 Summer Olympics this century.

They were playing the long game. We should have seen this coming.

Women's Big Air Snowboarding was a great event. So cool.

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I'm seeing a lot of people saying a lot of mean things about Kid Rock's "performance," and that just makes me think ... good.

"Hmmm.... Maybe we could peddle our AI tech using this crime doc about murdered babies"

Remember this whenever you have imposter syndrome or doubts about your intelligence.

I hadn't seen it before. Ridiculous.

Absolutely ludicrous. What a joke.

I'm sure this has been said by others but I will never get over the awful, garish, cartoon-y AI anonymizing in Netflix Lucy Letby documentary. So clownish. So unserious.

Seems Amazon and I have a different understanding of what is or is not "great news"

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'Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case with a simple example, saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."' - EXACTLY!!!

Aren't we all

Just saw Dragonfly, and at the end of the film the twenty or so people in the screening just sat there through the silent, black and white credits. No one got up or spoke or even looked at each other. Never seen that before. A singular viewing experience.

You should go.

I know! So good. Im never going to get any work done.

And I've got a lot more to find a home for yet

The bookshelves in the writing students studio are filling up

Ages of our dearly beloved Ambit!

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Almost 20 YEARS of The Believer! @thebeliever.net

I got an email from our main librarian. She asked me if I wanted some old Literary Magazines they just had sitting around in storage. I said sure. She delivered SIX CRATES!

I don't want to see any more writers using kintsugi as a metaphor. It's almost 2026. We get it.

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Only a very rough idea. I sent fiction selections to the journal eds at the beginning of the month. If the other subject eds were able to do the same, the issue should be in out by Christmas.

But sorry I can't be more certain than that. I'm not much involved in production after making my choices.

And ill end on my favourite small detail:

The blink-and-you'll-miss-it recreation of the moment where, after Coleman's triumphant comeback victory, he fails to jump out of the ring and falls awkwardly onto the canvas. Such a fun little reference for fans.

They did a GREAT job of emphasising just how big he was. His size was *conspicuous* and even thoughts the film never acknowledges steroids, youre aware of their presence.

The viewing experience is constantly: "woah thats a big guy..."

The many fight scenes are well choreographed, as you'd expect. It feels pretty real.

But the Foley art is bad, the punches often sounding cartoonish.

In The Smashing Machine documentary #thesmashingmachine there's a single transcendent image: Kerr hiding his tears under a towel after his loss. I did my own version in BRUISE. They had no towel in this version presumably as as not to hide The Rocks face. Feels very different.

One last bit on casting thats probably only interestingto me: interesting to see Satoshi Ishii as Enson Inoue, as Ishii was the inspiration for Tamura in BRUISE.