8 October 2019 work 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.
22 September 2019 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".
30 August 2019 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!
12 August 2019 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.
19 July 2019 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 last fall, but
21 June 2019 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.
15 June 2019 tea • thé A serene moment at Salon de thé Cha Do Raku ANNOUNCEMENT: I HAVE FOUND A NEW FAVOURITE TEA SHOP!!!
7 June 2019 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.
27 May 2019 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!
29 April 2019 life & personal updates 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.
29 April 2019 science fiction Thoughts About Endgame (Warning: Spoilers) Here are some extremely disjointed notes about the themes and character arcs in in Avengers: Endgame.
26 April 2019 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.
17 April 2019 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.
15 April 2019 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.
12 April 2019 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.
23 March 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.
21 March 2019 games 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.
15 March 2019 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!
8 March 2019 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.
1 March 2019 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...
16 February 2019 dungeons and dragons Dungeon Mastering For The First Time I've started Game Mastering a Star Wars table-top RPG set in the Old Republic/pre-Mandalorian Wars era, and it's one of my favourite things right now.
15 February 2019 2019 Blogging Challenge Brief assortment of interesting stuff — 15th of February 2019 This week, let's look at a comic book collection of nonbinary fairy tales, a ritual on destroying your books to make art, a book that shows how feminism became a marketplace buzzword, and more...
1 February 2019 2019 Blogging Challenge Brief Assortment of Interesting Stuff — 1st of February 2019 This week, a critical video on Elon Musk's "Loop" by donoteat, a brilliant article on Hawaii, tourism, and decolonization by Bani Amor, and a Québecois podcast on depression and anxiety.
18 January 2019 2019 Blogging Challenge Brief Assortment of Interesting Stuff — 18th of January 2019 This week's biweekly round-up: an interview back in December with Angela Davis, the latest Sandy&Nora podcast episode, ancient Roman history, and more.
4 January 2019 2019 Blogging Challenge Brief Assortment of Interesting Stuff — 4th of January 2019 Every two Fridays, I publish a brief round-up of some of the interesting articles/blogs/YouTube videos/books/music/games that have come across my metaphorical and actual desk.
