Todd MacEwen 🇨🇦

The Hendrix book is terrific fun.

The Blue Jays were the true winners this season. Their heart and team spirit are unmatched in baseball and any other sport. Minor league players became stars. Stars became superstars. Thank you for the memories, the fun and the great season of incredible baseball! #BlueJays

Fuck the Dodgers

#whiskerswednesday

For some inexplicable reason, Sensei’s last scene in the film where he is pulled over by the cops really ties everything together somehow - for me anyway. BDT is so good in this. Ocean Waves 🌊

Not a Phillies fan but definitely a Dodgers hater - tough finish after those late innings glimmers of hope.

I loved finding copies of the Sandman as a kid at the used book store that always had a pile of old comics for a quarter each-and then last year paid $25 for a copy of #1.

I genuinely love Tom Atkins performance as the most inappropriate doctor of all time in Halloween III which has become a “I can’t turn this off” movie for me.

Yes, that’s a doctor.

#scaryseason
#HalloweenIII

I like to think most of us deep down are always going to be fans of accurate portrayals of competency and morality.

Already has the kidnapping experience under his belt too.

YouTube video by REMVEVO R.E.M. - So. Central Rain (Official Music Video)

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So. Central Rain - Reckoning

I’d read more about REM and not heard a note until American Bandstand of all places played this video on an early June Saturday afternoon. 45 minutes later the album was in my hands and I spent the rest of the day listening.

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Happily donated all my Neil Gaiman hardcovers and trade paperbacks to a charity book drive last week - moving next spring and had no plans to take them with me.

Love that his action figure includes a can of Miller.

YouTube video by R.E.M. - Topic Sweetness Follows

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Sweetness Follows-Automatic for the People

The most direct, heartfelt, deep, sorrowful and beautiful song they’ve recorded. The reverb and feedback on the guitar, the cello cutting through and Stipe’s voice delivers every emotion. Joy and wonder indeed.

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That’s my question, “Reporting to who, motherfucker?”

If Alejandro Kirk isn’t one of your favourite players you’re doing baseball wrong ⚾️

#Bluejays

Critical thinking/analysis and research techniques were among my biggest takeaways from university years ago and if we continue to farm out these processes to AI we will continue to slide to the inevitable WALL-E future.

Clearly playing the long game.

And he subsequently played Elvis, an Elvis impersonator and provided the voice of Elvis in Forrest Gump - he is clearly our King.

I think the boys from South Park were right on the nose all those years ago. Pictures of You is perfect and i love that Homesick is so gloomy and they had to add Untitled to pull everyone back just a little bit from the abyss.

YouTube video by remhq R.E.M. - Drive (Official HD Music Video)

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Drive - Automatic for the People

Automatic IMO is start to finish their best album as it just sounds so of one piece and the opener conveys the confidence the band brings to the album and the strings working with the guitar is just perfection.

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YouTube video by remhq R.E.M. - Find The River (Official Music Video) [Parallel Video Version]

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Find the River - Automatic for the People

Whatever journey their albums take, they seem to try to end on a positive note and this song nails that.

“We’re closer now than light years to go” may be my favourite line ever.

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YouTube video by remhq R.E.M. - Nightswimming (Official Music Video) [British Version]

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Nightswimming -Automatic for the People

There’s nothing on this album that doesn’t work perfectly in and out of context. But for my ears the next four songs go places that most music doesn’t approach and captures a feeling or a mood in both lyric and music.

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YouTube video by utahwrx REM - Pretty Persuasion

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Pretty Persuasion-Reckoning

My last few choices come from the two albums I consider their best and my favourite. Reckoning is so murky and atmospheric but then this cuts through and shows off their punk and rock cred too.

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Had this conversation with out 8 kg guy couple months ago 🐈

YouTube video by remhq R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe 2025 (Jacknife Lee Remix) RFE/RL Dispatch

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Radio Free Europe - Murmur

The song that brought them to everyone’s attention (although not mine as I only saw the name in print with no outlet to hear something this new). Grown to really like the Jacknife Lee mix. Video with bonus history lesson.

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Remembering the three days we thought he was dead with great nostalgia and longing.

Could almost envision the state funeral on the 9th hole of the course where he won so many club championships and The Death of Stalin antics that would have followed.

Grab a hoodie for chiller weather