Drink Tea Read Books

Drink tea and read ALL the books 2019.12.15

Split Tooth, Lettres en forêt urbaine, All Systems Red, Les brutes et la punaise, and more: there have been so many good books read this year!

books

Reading Notes on “A Closed and Common Orbit” by Becky Chambers

This sequel continues the theme of found family from the first book, and is bursting at the seams with several themes common to a lot of disabled, queer, and trans experiences: dysphoria, dissociation and depersonalization, healing from traumatic childhoods, gender fluidity, to name just a few.

Tea • Thé

My 5 favourite teas and herbal teas of fall 2019

Here are a few of my favourite tea blends from the past few months that have kept me happy and warm.

about this website

Blog & Social Media Hiatus for November 2019

This November, I am going to take a proper hiatus from my blog, as well as my Twitter & Facebook accounts.

2019 Blogging Challenge

Wrapping up my 2019 Blogging Challenge

It's not quite the end of 2019, but I am going to wrap up my 2019 Blogging challenge here and now with a quick retrospective on what I've learned throughout my blogging challenge.

Work ∙ Le travail

A brief (and only a little bit) sarcastic guide to becoming an accomplished freelancer

Independent work is bullshit and here are three tips that may help make the stress a little more manageable. Maybe. Sort of. Probably not.

Drink Tea Read Books

Drink tea and read comic books 2019.09.22

This month's edition of #DrinkTeaReadBooks features some pu'er-fuelled ramblings prompted by a recent reading of Alan Moore's "Watchmen" and Kat Verhoeven's "Meat and Bone".

Tea • Thé

My 5 Favourite Teas of Summer 2019

My 5 favourite teas of summer, plus a bonus herbal tea. Have a great end of summer!

Drink Tea Read Books

Drink tea and read books 2019.08.12

Drink tea and read books! The biweekly assortments are now a slightly less formal monthly or so report on what I've been reading lately, and what I've been drinking lately.

travel notes

Summer travels and a traditional Japanese tea workshop

I was on vacation from the 29th of June until the 11th of July — and it was so nice! I was really fortunate to get a bit of travelling done

2019 Blogging Challenge

Brief round-up of interesting things for the 21st of June 2019

My motto lately is fuck toute. So let's skip the intro and get right into it.

Tea • Thé

A serene moment at Salon de thé Cha Do Raku

ANNOUNCEMENT: I HAVE FOUND A NEW FAVOURITE TEA SHOP!!!

2019 Blogging Challenge

Brief round-up of interesting things for the 7th of June 2019

The blogging challenge is back for the month of June! Decolonial feminism, political changes, a superb debunking of Jordan Peterson, and the report on the genocide of Indigenous women and girls in Québec and Canada.

bandes dessinées

Five Finds at the Festival BD de Montréal

Leif and I were taking advantage of the sun in La Fontaine park when we stumbled upon the Festival BD de Montréal. So here are the 5 BDs that I found on Saturday!

Life ∙ La vie

After Winter

Let's wrap up April — and this interminable winter — with a blog post about what I've been up to these past few months.

science fiction

Thoughts About Endgame

(Warning: Spoilers) Here are some extremely disjointed notes about the themes and character arcs in in Avengers: Endgame.

2019 Blogging Challenge

Brief Assortment of Interesting Things — 26th of April 2019

This week, we look at Ryan McMahon's rending podcast about the unsolved murder of Indigenous teenagers in Thunder Bay, a "debate" on the existence of "state racism" in France, and end with the extraordinary poem "The Palace" by Kaveh Akbar.

books

Reading Notes on "The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet" by Becky Chambers

It's the journey, and not the destination, that counts — even when one is on a ship like the Wayfarer, whose job is to punch stable wormholes through the fabric of space-time.

minecraft

Let's Play Germinal Minecraft (with Joachim)

Joachim and I played Minecraft together and had some meandering conversations about Minecraft, the modding culture, the history of the server, and the inherent colonial nature of these games.

2019 Blogging Challenge

Brief Assortment of Interesting Things — 12th of April 2019

Here's the round-up from between the 30th of March and the 12th of April, 2019.

about this website

I Removed Disqus and Google Analytics (Finally)

As of today, my website and blog no longer have any Disqus or Google Analytics tracking code anywhere. That also means I no longer use Disqus or Google Analytics.

Games ∙ Les jeux

Why Skyrim Remains My Favourite Place To Get Lost In

I realised when I was thinking about the videogames I love that I've written about, that I had never actually written about Skyrim, and I decided to try. So here are some of the reasons Skyrim, 8+ years after it launched, remains my favourite game to escape into.

2019 Blogging Challenge

Brief assortment of interesting stuff — 15th of March 2019

This week: a post-apocalyptic novel by Aliette de Bodard in the ruins of Paris, the ethics of mining trauma for literature by Lindsay Nixon, the inimitable Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom, a critical look at IWD in Québec by Émilie Nicholas in Le Devoir, and more!

Concordia

Some Notes on the Third-Party Climate Review Q&A with (Present and Former) Students of Concordia Creative Writing

C.A.S.E invited some alumni and I to join a departmental review today (Friday the 8th of March, 2019) at 10 AM to respond to the Climate Review of the Department of English at Concordia University.

2019 Blogging Challenge

Brief assortment of interesting stuff — March 1 2019

This week, I look at the second novel of the Ciel series by Sophie Labelle, an interview with Julie Michaud, the book Black Writers Matter by Whitney French, the comic The Thread That Binds by Noel Arthur Heimpel, and much more...