Bleak Week: THE DIRTIES – Q&A with actor/filmmaker Matt Johnson!

Heads Up - The Revue gives us its own spin on the Bleak Week concept in June: revuecinema.ca/series/bleak...

grilled cheese report: old cheddar, fried egg, half an avocado, sour cream, dijon, worchestershire

Reading Jim Crace's Harvest. "...that his ill-shaped, flimsy life is swinging on a thread of gossamer, and could soon be swinging from a sturdy noose."
That's what I'm talking about!!!

REALLY good

Celebratory celeriac + sweet garlic pie – Recipes – Anna Jones This has been my Christmas centrepiece many times. It is everything I want in a pie: a Cheddar and winter herb flaky pastry; a creamy filling, sweet with balsamic garlic and roasted celeriac; and a cr...

gave blood and made this annajones.co.uk/recipes/cele...

I want to complain about being told to go to a sleep clinic without being told to go to a sleep clinic

it's never too early to learn about the male orgasm (if you saw that typo no you didn't)

Amaryllis check

Friday the 13th: wore my blousest blouse to talk about vampires, inadvertently went to a black cat themed restaurant for brunch, scratched a demanding orange cat while picking up a copy of Harvest and The White Book, icicle check, bath.

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Now that our water is back on and I can wash my hair I'm sadly closing all the tabs for stupid hats

Diary: neighbours basement filled with sewage so our water is off until the city can figure out why, it's been three days, many trucks, snakes, and one robot. Went out for breakfast and dinner since we're out of clean dishes.

I think the HR boys are both too beautiful and have become difficult to look at

"If you have to work late you're either inefficient or understaffed" 💯

"I thought I'd give you the most concerning gift in front of my parents"

Future Unremembered Poet of the Seventeenth Century AccepIs a Christmas Cookie from the Great Veiled Bear by Edward Gorey.

Happy 21st December evening everyone. May the Great Veiled Bear pass over you house tonight and not present you with one of his cursed Christmas cookies.

I bet

If anyone is ever looking for an active, meaningful volunteer role, I always recommend Shelter Movers first! Also a great place to donate to (tinyurl.com/draiser2025).

AD HOC #84: Derek Jenkins: Vulgar Reliquaries Artist in person! Derek Jenkins’ films are handmade documentaries in the most literal sense: they insist that the moving image is a set of transactions between tools and bodies, chemicals and…

December 11 in Toronto, ON: Derek Jenkins: Vulgar Reliquaries presented by AD Hoc & U. of T. Cinema Studies Institute. A program of films by Derek Jenkins with the filmmaker in person!
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and what about it

Weird they'd send someone who's clearly never been online to write a piece about gooning

6am train means I got to enjoy the sunrise with some cows

Half an hour before children are due to arrive we were asked if we have caution tape

Breakfast sandwich at emmer, drive for two hours, car banana, celebration of life at a polish combatants hall, drive for five hours which includes an emmer chocolate croissant, a tim hortons cheddar bagel with butter, tim hortons chocolate chip muffin, tim hortons crueller, lots of stretching

I know one of the filmmakers! V cool project

rained this morning so all the windows were open, post-poned watering house plants, leftovers for every meal, THE BAY is too gross for me to eat chips while watching it

it's so dumb but very watchable, ideal netflix content

I love him