Oh man, this really hurts!!! He is one of my absolute favourites. RIP to one of the most unique actors we have seen
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Udo Kier, German Actor Who Appeared in ‘My Own Private Idaho,’ ‘Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein,’ Dies at 81
Udo Kier, a German actor who collaborated with everyone from Andy Warhol to Lars von Trier to Madonna, died on Sunday morning. He was 81.
variety.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Oh man, this really hurts!!! He is one of my absolute favourites. RIP to one of the most unique actors we have seen
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
My work is putting on a really awesome 35mm screening of this rare film!! You should come! There may or may not be free cookies! But there will be a q&a and an opportunity to see this very infrequently screened film for freeeeee!!!!!! Monday, Dec. 1st - Tix available here: go.utlib.ca/popup2
See a glorious 35mm print of The Virgin President dir. by Graeme Ferguson at Innis Townhall. The film is not in circulation & very hard to find! There'll be a post-screening Q&A between our archivist Christina Stewart & Graeme's son Munro Ferguson. Dec. 1, at 6pm Free tix here: go.utlib.ca/popup2
November 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
My work is putting on a really awesome 35mm screening of this rare film!! You should come! There may or may not be free cookies! But there will be a q&a and an opportunity to see this very infrequently screened film for freeeeee!!!!!! Monday, Dec. 1st - Tix available here: go.utlib.ca/popup2
Ever hear a song and be instantly transported to a scene from a movie that uses said song? A friend sent a spooky playlist and on listening to Season of the Witch I had this vivid mental image of Ileana Douglas skating on a frozen lake at the end of To Die For - a perfect scene!!
October 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Ever hear a song and be instantly transported to a scene from a movie that uses said song? A friend sent a spooky playlist and on listening to Season of the Witch I had this vivid mental image of Ileana Douglas skating on a frozen lake at the end of To Die For - a perfect scene!!
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The cats are doing spells. I'm sure it's fine.
October 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The cats are doing spells. I'm sure it's fine.
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The ability to remove your post when a hostile account quote-tweets you is a great feature of Bluesky.
To do it, go to their quote-tweet of you, click on the three dots in the bottom right, then click “detach quote.”
It shows up as “removed by author.”
To do it, go to their quote-tweet of you, click on the three dots in the bottom right, then click “detach quote.”
It shows up as “removed by author.”
October 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The ability to remove your post when a hostile account quote-tweets you is a great feature of Bluesky.
To do it, go to their quote-tweet of you, click on the three dots in the bottom right, then click “detach quote.”
It shows up as “removed by author.”
To do it, go to their quote-tweet of you, click on the three dots in the bottom right, then click “detach quote.”
It shows up as “removed by author.”
RIP to such an important legend and activist.
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.
October 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
RIP to such an important legend and activist.
My students are writing a mid-term today so I wore these shoes
October 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
My students are writing a mid-term today so I wore these shoes
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The best part of having caramelized onions and roasted garlic yesterday is how amazing my apartment smells when I come back from running errands!!
May 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The best part of having caramelized onions and roasted garlic yesterday is how amazing my apartment smells when I come back from running errands!!
It's SUCH an inconsequential thing but it made me so happy that it was warm enough to wear mary-janes instead of shoes with socks to work today!!!
April 3, 2025 at 11:34 AM
It's SUCH an inconsequential thing but it made me so happy that it was warm enough to wear mary-janes instead of shoes with socks to work today!!!
My newest orchid is starting to bloom!
February 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
My newest orchid is starting to bloom!
I just voted! I love early voting! There was no line up and the Elections Ontario staff were absolutely lovely!!
February 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I just voted! I love early voting! There was no line up and the Elections Ontario staff were absolutely lovely!!
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"SAA finally distributed a press release stating its alarm at the situation... Nowhere did they mention anything about the active erasure of data and information from government websites that's been going on since Trump and his cronies took office"
www.pop-archives.com/post/archive...
www.pop-archives.com/post/archive...
Archives in the News: Fascists Take Over the National Archives
Let's talk about the Archivist of the United States and control of information by Fascist Regimes, shall we?
www.pop-archives.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"SAA finally distributed a press release stating its alarm at the situation... Nowhere did they mention anything about the active erasure of data and information from government websites that's been going on since Trump and his cronies took office"
www.pop-archives.com/post/archive...
www.pop-archives.com/post/archive...
I have tested negative for two days in a row but do I dare venture outside in a blizzard?
February 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I have tested negative for two days in a row but do I dare venture outside in a blizzard?
A friend gave me this orchid in January and she's about to bloom!!!
February 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
A friend gave me this orchid in January and she's about to bloom!!!
Woke up in the middle of the night and for no earthly reason I cannot stop thinking about the OST for the 1993 film In The Name Of The Father. From what I remember the whole soundtrack really slaps
February 15, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Woke up in the middle of the night and for no earthly reason I cannot stop thinking about the OST for the 1993 film In The Name Of The Father. From what I remember the whole soundtrack really slaps
One of my neighbours made a snow person in the outside common area yesterday! It brightened my morning when I looked out the window! Still stuck in my apartment but there's this delightful whimsical thing to look at!
February 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
One of my neighbours made a snow person in the outside common area yesterday! It brightened my morning when I looked out the window! Still stuck in my apartment but there's this delightful whimsical thing to look at!
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i still can't believe it's called doge. this is like if the nazis called the wehrmacht "Der Fartenboys"
February 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
i still can't believe it's called doge. this is like if the nazis called the wehrmacht "Der Fartenboys"
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Black history is every month all the time, of course, but I’ll play this game. Almost a decade ago, Dan Kois and I put together the Black Film Canon, then we updated it in 2023, and it’s a great (but def not exhaustive!) primer for black film history:
slate.com/culture/2023...
slate.com/culture/2023...
The 75 Greatest Films by Black Directors
As chosen by critics and filmmakers—and including four movies from 2022.
slate.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Black history is every month all the time, of course, but I’ll play this game. Almost a decade ago, Dan Kois and I put together the Black Film Canon, then we updated it in 2023, and it’s a great (but def not exhaustive!) primer for black film history:
slate.com/culture/2023...
slate.com/culture/2023...
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Ford didn’t have a “mandate” to announce his US booze ban, so why is he saying the election is to give him one? His translucent excuse offers us a way to look back on his six years of doing dubious things without a “mandate”.
My @thestar.com column.
My @thestar.com column.
Shawn Micallef: Doug Ford hasn’t needed a mandate to make major changes in Toronto. So why does he need one for Donald Trump?
By framing his election call in terms of needing a mandate, Premier Doug Ford invites us to look back on all that he’s done to the city without such a mandate.
www.thestar.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Ford didn’t have a “mandate” to announce his US booze ban, so why is he saying the election is to give him one? His translucent excuse offers us a way to look back on his six years of doing dubious things without a “mandate”.
My @thestar.com column.
My @thestar.com column.
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Trump’s attempt to blame the tragic air crash in DC on DEI is shamefully insensitive, but Pete Hesketh’s claim that merit should be the only consideration when people are promoted suggests it’s not only empathy that this administration lack, but a sense of irony too.
January 31, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Trump’s attempt to blame the tragic air crash in DC on DEI is shamefully insensitive, but Pete Hesketh’s claim that merit should be the only consideration when people are promoted suggests it’s not only empathy that this administration lack, but a sense of irony too.
Arg! This one hurts she was one of my all time favourites. RIP
Marianne Faithfull, singular icon of British pop, dies aged 78
Marianne Faithfull, singular icon of British pop, dies aged 78
Singer and actor overcame drug addiction and homelessness to collaborate with everyone from the Rolling Stones and Metallica to Jean-Luc Godard
Marianne Faithfull, whose six-decade career marked her out as one of the UK’s most versatile and characterful…
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Arg! This one hurts she was one of my all time favourites. RIP
My work is now on Blue sky! Give them a follow to hear about screenings, events we put on, and much, much more!
The Media Commons Archives at University of Toronto Libraries is now on Bluesky! We're excited to interact with you on here!
January 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
My work is now on Blue sky! Give them a follow to hear about screenings, events we put on, and much, much more!