Category: Blog
The Best Songs of 2025
What are the best songs of 2025? I mean, subjectively so, of course. I had to pick something, so I picked these. A good year ...
“You Like?” by Kailash Srinivasan, published by Ex-Puritan: a reflection
I never know what’s going on in the heads of other people, and I often don’t ask: “how do you feel?”, so I plug in ...
Baseball is the One Game that Can Make You Cry
Baseball is the one game that can make you cry. Sports are a funny tradition of on-the-fly stories built up during a game or a ...
Wolf Alice Establishes Themselves as the Greatest Band in the World
Wolf Alice is the greatest band in the world. I suspected this but didn’t fully get it until I saw them in Toronto on September ...
A Review of Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
I’m so busy right now but I make time for reading, so just finished Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. You have to make time ...
A Review of Wolf Alice’s ‘The Clearing’ after One Listening
Why would I post a review of Wolf Alice’s ‘The Clearing’ after one listening? Because I wanted to see how I felt immediately. I got ...
A review of Murgatroyd Monaghan’s ‘white spaces where we learn to breathe’
This is my review of Murgatroyd Monaghan’s ‘white spaces where we learn to breathe’, in advance of the book launch coming in Toronto in just ...
A Chunk of Ice Slips Down the Glacier to the Black Beach
Yes, a chunk of ice slips down the glacier to the black beach, as though these are common things. My previous post on Iceland. You ...
Borgarnes and the Settlement Centre
We never made it to Borgarnes and the Settlement Centre. What would have been the point? What’s interesting about Iceland is that it’s new. There ...
Rumours of the Grand River
I heard rumours of the Grand River, which starts in the Dufferin Highlands in Ontario, up near Dundalk. The elevation up there is so high ...