white Suzuki kei truck, with plexiglass sides on the back. parked on the street

bet you could fit a lot of cats in there

Now I'm flashing back. There was a gag in Creem magazine back in that era, saying that in an effort to be more hip, Slade was now pronouncing their name "slar-day."

Not quite the same thing, but I instantly flashed back to working at A&A records in 1986, and a customer who insisted on buying a Slade album after hearing Sade at the Grammy's. Would not be dissuaded.

Tomorrow (Tues 21st) at UBC from 4-6pm. I don't often speak in public, so, rare chance to hear me talk about making photographs; underrated AbEx painters (Jay DeFeo! Joan Mitchell!); "rhizomatic scholarship" & what it means for young working-class artists.

criticalimageforum.ubc.ca/events/malco...

FBI director Kash Patel files $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic | CNN Business FBI director Kash Patel has sued The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick over a story that alleged Patel has “alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.”

Okay, if I were in Kash Patel’s position, I’d probably throw the dice too, but let’s be honest: his is not a $250 million reputation. Kash Patel’s the kind of guy who should aim for a solid 90 grand when someone defames him. www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/m...

A great way to avoid this problem: lose your sessional teaching.

The stupidest timeline, latest installment

September 2026: 352 page short-fiction collection including what sounds like at least one new novella-length piece in the "Sunflower" sequence. Very excited for new work by "SF's Thomas Bernhard," though fully anticipating the author's withering reflexive dismissal of my fanboy enthusiam.

Press releases | Riese & Müller

Riese and Muller ceasing operations in the US because of the "...persistently challenging and increasingly volatile market conditions in the United States." www.r-m.de/en-us/press/...

William Gibson, typescript for the short story "Johnny Mnemonic," with revisions throughout in the author's hand. Vancouver, [no date, but c. 1981]

🎶 Who received the first "Bang, bang?"
It was the whole goddamned gang
What can the price for freedom be? 🎶

pasta sauce panopticon only a week after wool sneaker AI marks the beginning of silly pivot season

Henceforth to be known as Schrödinger's Strait.

Holding vintage paperback copy of Jim Thompson's KILLER INSIDE ME:

-This looks like a funny book. Is it funny?

Our False Creek correspondent writes: "I think what I heard was a PA test for a blues rock cover band playing somewhere here today. They’ve played Night by Night and Black Friday. Also Boys are Back in Town and some very generic stuff I do not know. Sultans of Swing! HAPPY SUN RUN EVERYBODY!"

Humans Who Used a Bear Suit to Defraud Car Insurers Sentenced to Jail The California residents collected more than $141,000 in insurance payouts after staging bear attacks on their luxury cars, state officials said.

Three Southern California residents were sentenced to jail after masterminding a scheme in which they staged fake bear attacks on their luxury cars, then collected more than $141,000 in insurance payouts, officials said on Thursday.

Not really yacht rock BUT

"Source unclear (maybe boat?) but I can hear 'Godwhacker' blasting out [of the] east end of False Creek right now from [an] Olympic village balcony."

Footnote-amended; no edit button on this thing

*NIGHTWOOD, d'oh!

Vancouver poet and Phoenix Poetry Prize founder Isabella Wang holds signed copies of her NOVEMBER, NOVEMBER (Nightboat, 2025) in our stacks.

Saturday visit from @isabellawangbc.bsky.social, who very kindly signed copies of her NOVEMBER, NOVEMBER (Nightboat, 2025) & dropped off Phoenix Poetry Prize swag, of which more very soon.

Extensive details about this excellent new initiative: www.phoenixpoetryprize.com

3D-Printed Homes, an Abandoned $590,000 Deposit, the FBI: What Really Happened in This Small Town? Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix Cairo, Illinois’ housing crisis. More than a year later, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished. And the more we asked questions, the weird...

A report from the unevenly-distributed future, latest installment

Possibly the worst taxidermy I have ever seen in a museum, but it's very old so they probably made do with what they could get in the way of taxidermists back then.

Old bad taxidermy of an honored important creature: the Māori dog

ALOHA SHIRTS. They're what's up for spring.

The Wetland Project has been my favorite alternate-reality radio experience since it began. Since it only happens once a year, you can’t become accustomed to it. Close your eyes and be washed over by the sonic reality of an isolated bog on Saturna Island!

The adult patiently guards its foraging cub

A trip to @pfbvan.bsky.social and $100 later...

I am John M. Fordmaxxing

By writing little plays about his friends, did Plato invent “autofiction”? In this essay, I will

huge old section of a tree cut at the stump sitting on the sidewalk just up from main and Hastings on one of the flat cut bits, someone has printed I AM A GROOT in white chalk

NO I AM A GROOT

#DTES

2. I saw my first Donegal in a Scarborough, Ontario Value Village. A beautiful moss green, but also full of moth holes. It took me a few months to find this one, all full of colors. Thanks to peerless @dieworkwear.bsky.social & Upper Canada Weaving for teaching me how to look at fabric.

A bald man wearing a very beautiful thrifted slate-blue Donegal tweed sport coat

1. Thrift SCORE: Donegal tweed sport coat. A roughly textured weave, maybe not as bad as the Brillo pad/steel wool experience of genuine Harris tweed. By design, Donegal has little colored flakes scattered through the dominant color, like fading fireworks.