Ellie
@ellie.bsky.social
Writing, music, figure skating, & bicycles.
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"Sometimes you are the hammer, sometimes you are the nail." - G. Thomas
Website: elzyg.com
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YVR 🇨🇦
"Sometimes you are the hammer, sometimes you are the nail." - G. Thomas
Website: elzyg.com
Instagram: @elzyg_
FS gifs: edgecallskating.tumblr.com
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Ellie
@ellie.bsky.social
· Oct 6
Dan Mangan is in Your Corner | Elzyg
It's impossible to listen to Dan Mangan and not think of the blizzards and the broken glass. His music has provided the soundtrack for moments great and small for the best part of 20 years.
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I went to a spectacular @danmanganmusic.com show at the Vogue last Friday. Writing about that concert rolled into writing about all the Dan Mangan concerts I've seen over the years and the joy of returning to his music again and again.
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Mikhail Shaidorov's porgram is a hot mess of a composition (Phil Colins and Kaleo??) but no one else is throwing down a quad lutz combos so YOLO. #SkateAmerica #GPFigure
November 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Mikhail Shaidorov's porgram is a hot mess of a composition (Phil Colins and Kaleo??) but no one else is throwing down a quad lutz combos so YOLO. #SkateAmerica #GPFigure
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whatever. jason brown, lord of the riverdance, does not need your stupid toeloops. he has the irish gods on his side #SkateAmerica #GPFigure
November 15, 2025 at 2:19 AM
whatever. jason brown, lord of the riverdance, does not need your stupid toeloops. he has the irish gods on his side #SkateAmerica #GPFigure
Jason Brown showing everyone how you actually do a Riverdance program. #SkateAmerica #GPFigure
November 15, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Jason Brown showing everyone how you actually do a Riverdance program. #SkateAmerica #GPFigure
I would line up in a storm for Club Clean Kazuki. #skateAmerica #GPFigure
November 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I would line up in a storm for Club Clean Kazuki. #skateAmerica #GPFigure
Interrupting the figure skating posts to show off my freshly framed *and signed* Sigur Rós show poster from Wednesday’s Vancouver gig! The 19 year wait to see the band was worth it!
November 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Interrupting the figure skating posts to show off my freshly framed *and signed* Sigur Rós show poster from Wednesday’s Vancouver gig! The 19 year wait to see the band was worth it!
I love how even the rink-side volunteers are going bananas for Jason Brown AS IS CORRECT. #SkateAmerica #GPFigure
November 15, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I love how even the rink-side volunteers are going bananas for Jason Brown AS IS CORRECT. #SkateAmerica #GPFigure
November 15, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Tatsuya Tsuboi strikes me as a very polite skater: everything is very tidy and nice, but I look forward to the moment he busts out. Good comeback from that opening fall. #SkateAmerica #GPFigure
November 15, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Tatsuya Tsuboi strikes me as a very polite skater: everything is very tidy and nice, but I look forward to the moment he busts out. Good comeback from that opening fall. #SkateAmerica #GPFigure
Tatsuya Tsuboi has a floppy skate lace and it's making me *nervous* #SkateAmerica #GPFigure
November 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Tatsuya Tsuboi has a floppy skate lace and it's making me *nervous* #SkateAmerica #GPFigure
November 15, 2025 at 1:47 AM
November 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
If you're going to skate to Bolero, I think you need to go for a full orchestral arrangement. You really want to feel the violins thrashing around in there. It needs drama, not a diet. #SkateAmerica #GPFigure
November 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If you're going to skate to Bolero, I think you need to go for a full orchestral arrangement. You really want to feel the violins thrashing around in there. It needs drama, not a diet. #SkateAmerica #GPFigure
November 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Akopova/Rakhmanin are skating to program music that I indelibly associate with Alexander Abt and it is throwing me for an absolute Y2K nostalgia loop. #SkateAmerica #GPFigure
November 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Akopova/Rakhmanin are skating to program music that I indelibly associate with Alexander Abt and it is throwing me for an absolute Y2K nostalgia loop. #SkateAmerica #GPFigure
#SkateAmerica #GPFigure Ice Dance podium prediction:
1. Chock/Bates
2. Lajoie/Lagha
3. Carreira/Ponomarenko
Barring a Stationary Lift - Base moment, this is a Chock and Bates coronation lap.
1. Chock/Bates
2. Lajoie/Lagha
3. Carreira/Ponomarenko
Barring a Stationary Lift - Base moment, this is a Chock and Bates coronation lap.
November 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
#SkateAmerica #GPFigure Ice Dance podium prediction:
1. Chock/Bates
2. Lajoie/Lagha
3. Carreira/Ponomarenko
Barring a Stationary Lift - Base moment, this is a Chock and Bates coronation lap.
1. Chock/Bates
2. Lajoie/Lagha
3. Carreira/Ponomarenko
Barring a Stationary Lift - Base moment, this is a Chock and Bates coronation lap.
#SkateAmerica #GPFigure Women's podium prediction:
1. Alysa Liu
2. Rinka Watanabe
3. Wakaba Higuchi
Prayers for Wakaba's foot 🙏
1. Alysa Liu
2. Rinka Watanabe
3. Wakaba Higuchi
Prayers for Wakaba's foot 🙏
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
#SkateAmerica #GPFigure Women's podium prediction:
1. Alysa Liu
2. Rinka Watanabe
3. Wakaba Higuchi
Prayers for Wakaba's foot 🙏
1. Alysa Liu
2. Rinka Watanabe
3. Wakaba Higuchi
Prayers for Wakaba's foot 🙏
#SkateAmerica #GPFigure Men's podium prediction:
1. Mikhail Shaidorov
2. Daniel Grassl
3. Jason Brown
Might as well be throwing spaghetti at the wall and divining placements from the splatter marks. Total YOLO event.
1. Mikhail Shaidorov
2. Daniel Grassl
3. Jason Brown
Might as well be throwing spaghetti at the wall and divining placements from the splatter marks. Total YOLO event.
November 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
#SkateAmerica #GPFigure Men's podium prediction:
1. Mikhail Shaidorov
2. Daniel Grassl
3. Jason Brown
Might as well be throwing spaghetti at the wall and divining placements from the splatter marks. Total YOLO event.
1. Mikhail Shaidorov
2. Daniel Grassl
3. Jason Brown
Might as well be throwing spaghetti at the wall and divining placements from the splatter marks. Total YOLO event.
Last minute #SkateAmerica #GPFigure Pairs prediction!
1. Miura/Kihara
2. Metelkina/Berulava
3. Hocke/Kunkel
1. Miura/Kihara
2. Metelkina/Berulava
3. Hocke/Kunkel
November 14, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Last minute #SkateAmerica #GPFigure Pairs prediction!
1. Miura/Kihara
2. Metelkina/Berulava
3. Hocke/Kunkel
1. Miura/Kihara
2. Metelkina/Berulava
3. Hocke/Kunkel
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There are two factions at every small town wedding reception that can be identified according to which song by The Chicks summons them to the dance floor: "Cowboy Take Me Away" or "Goodbye Earl".
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
There are two factions at every small town wedding reception that can be identified according to which song by The Chicks summons them to the dance floor: "Cowboy Take Me Away" or "Goodbye Earl".
I am heartened to no end that 220 (!) people and counting have showed up at a budget hearing to tell Ken Sim and ABC to get wrecked.
200: watching comunity disappear. You’re not cutting waste you’re cutting the ladder, pulling it up after you go up. Where is the money going? Police. You take away dignity and housing. This budget is class warfare. It’s sleight of have. You’ve abandoned your city. Remove yourself from office.
November 13, 2025 at 5:14 AM
I am heartened to no end that 220 (!) people and counting have showed up at a budget hearing to tell Ken Sim and ABC to get wrecked.
ISU: How do we get people excited about figure skating?
Social media manager: How about being as cringe as possible by jumping on a tech trend that many people hate and associate with revenge p*rn, theft, and self-harm?
ISU: This will fix EVERYTHING.
Social media manager: How about being as cringe as possible by jumping on a tech trend that many people hate and associate with revenge p*rn, theft, and self-harm?
ISU: This will fix EVERYTHING.
The ISU is a deeply embarrassing organisation, wdym you can't write one! single! sentence! about one of your athletes without using GenAI #GPFigure
November 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
ISU: How do we get people excited about figure skating?
Social media manager: How about being as cringe as possible by jumping on a tech trend that many people hate and associate with revenge p*rn, theft, and self-harm?
ISU: This will fix EVERYTHING.
Social media manager: How about being as cringe as possible by jumping on a tech trend that many people hate and associate with revenge p*rn, theft, and self-harm?
ISU: This will fix EVERYTHING.
Vancouver vibes this week.
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Vancouver vibes this week.
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football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it
November 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.