Turn and Work (Hugh)
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· Jul 6
Welcome Distractions - turn and work
Every Friday (or almost every, or almost Friday) I send out the Welcome Distractions newsletter, which, for lack of a better idea, is the newsletter I'd like
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Newsletter:
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tu newslettes
il ou elle newslette
nous newslettons
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It’s pretty cold and snowy here, and this is the only way we could get scooter to do business outside.
December 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
It’s pretty cold and snowy here, and this is the only way we could get scooter to do business outside.
Reposted by Turn and Work (Hugh)
xmas movie posters but with muppets: thread
December 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
xmas movie posters but with muppets: thread
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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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The Setlist on Dec 18:
A fresh batch of independent, under-the-radar music.
Apple Music, Spotify and now *YouTube*
A fresh batch of independent, under-the-radar music.
Apple Music, Spotify and now *YouTube*
Setlist - December 19, 2025 - Turn & Work
Eclectic, independent new music. Updated every Friday. Apple Music and Spotify.
www.turnandwork.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The Setlist on Dec 18:
A fresh batch of independent, under-the-radar music.
Apple Music, Spotify and now *YouTube*
A fresh batch of independent, under-the-radar music.
Apple Music, Spotify and now *YouTube*
Sweet Nobody’s third album is a nostalgic road trip, a near-perfect indie-pop record with influences spanning generations.
Lots more here:
Lots more here:
Driving Off to Nowhere - Turn & Work
Sweet Nobody's third album is a nostalgic road trip, a near-perfect indie-pop record with influences spanning generations.
www.turnandwork.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Sweet Nobody’s third album is a nostalgic road trip, a near-perfect indie-pop record with influences spanning generations.
Lots more here:
Lots more here:
saved the nerdiest read of the year for the last review of the year:
Longtime Canadian politics pundit Andrew Coyne makes the case that the Canadian Government is one of the most dysfunctional in the Western world. It’s essential reading, for nerds.
More here:
Longtime Canadian politics pundit Andrew Coyne makes the case that the Canadian Government is one of the most dysfunctional in the Western world. It’s essential reading, for nerds.
More here:
The Crisis of Canadian Democracy - Turn & Work
Longtime Canadian politics pundit Andrew Coyne makes the case that the Canadian Government is one of the most dysfunctional in the Western world. It's convincing and eye-opening reading, for nerds.
www.turnandwork.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
saved the nerdiest read of the year for the last review of the year:
Longtime Canadian politics pundit Andrew Coyne makes the case that the Canadian Government is one of the most dysfunctional in the Western world. It’s essential reading, for nerds.
More here:
Longtime Canadian politics pundit Andrew Coyne makes the case that the Canadian Government is one of the most dysfunctional in the Western world. It’s essential reading, for nerds.
More here:
A mammoth newsletter this week, all links to stuff about books and music that'll keep you busy thorough the holidays.
Including a very interesting Dave Grohl interview from MuchMusic just before In Utero was released.
Sign up to get it on Friday, I'm not posting it on the site:
Including a very interesting Dave Grohl interview from MuchMusic just before In Utero was released.
Sign up to get it on Friday, I'm not posting it on the site:
Welcome Distractions - Turn & Work
Every Friday (or almost every, or almost Friday) I send out the Welcome Distractions newsletter, which, for lack of a better idea, is the newsletter I'd like
www.turnandwork.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
A mammoth newsletter this week, all links to stuff about books and music that'll keep you busy thorough the holidays.
Including a very interesting Dave Grohl interview from MuchMusic just before In Utero was released.
Sign up to get it on Friday, I'm not posting it on the site:
Including a very interesting Dave Grohl interview from MuchMusic just before In Utero was released.
Sign up to get it on Friday, I'm not posting it on the site:
If you don’t know Jason Narducy’s name, you’ve heard his work with Bob Mould, or playing R.E.M. songs with actor Michael Shannon. Mostly the Van is a collection of easy-reading, warm and charismatic road stories.
More about the book here:
More about the book here:
Mostly the Van - Turn & Work
If you don't know Jason Narducy's name, you've heard his work with Bob Mould, or playing R.E.M. songs with actor Michael Shannon. Mostly the Van is a collection of easy-reading, warm and charismatic r...
www.turnandwork.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
If you don’t know Jason Narducy’s name, you’ve heard his work with Bob Mould, or playing R.E.M. songs with actor Michael Shannon. Mostly the Van is a collection of easy-reading, warm and charismatic road stories.
More about the book here:
More about the book here:
Up now at Turn & Work: quick recos on new music from MM'99, Victor Strange and Often Wrong.
Check it out:
Check it out:
Lunch Break: MM'99, Victor Strange, Often Wrong - Turn & Work
Short hits on records you shouldn't miss: MM'99, Victor Strange, and Often Wrong.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Up now at Turn & Work: quick recos on new music from MM'99, Victor Strange and Often Wrong.
Check it out:
Check it out:
Radiator’s debut record is four songs of anxious, atmospheric, stunning post-punk. You’d be forgiven for thinking this record is an overlooked classic.
More:
More:
Glass EP - Turn & Work
Radiator's debut record is four songs of anxious, atmospheric, stunning post-punk. You'd be forgiven for thinking this record is an overlooked classic.
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December 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Radiator’s debut record is four songs of anxious, atmospheric, stunning post-punk. You’d be forgiven for thinking this record is an overlooked classic.
More:
More:
The Monday Music Post, with emerging artists who have just landed on my radar.
Playing today:
Weather by Schatz
Underwater by Very Nice Person
Chimera by Ancient Channels
Loose Screw by XTC Cowgirl
Care Takers by No Singing
Hot and Bothrd by knackered
Momentarily by Kai & Oolong
Check it out:
Playing today:
Weather by Schatz
Underwater by Very Nice Person
Chimera by Ancient Channels
Loose Screw by XTC Cowgirl
Care Takers by No Singing
Hot and Bothrd by knackered
Momentarily by Kai & Oolong
Check it out:
The Monday Music Post December 15, 2025 - Turn & Work
New music from Schatz, Very Nice Person, Ancient Channels, XTC Cowgirl, No Singing, knackered, Victor Strange & Chelsea Daghita, and Kai & Oolong.
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December 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The Monday Music Post, with emerging artists who have just landed on my radar.
Playing today:
Weather by Schatz
Underwater by Very Nice Person
Chimera by Ancient Channels
Loose Screw by XTC Cowgirl
Care Takers by No Singing
Hot and Bothrd by knackered
Momentarily by Kai & Oolong
Check it out:
Playing today:
Weather by Schatz
Underwater by Very Nice Person
Chimera by Ancient Channels
Loose Screw by XTC Cowgirl
Care Takers by No Singing
Hot and Bothrd by knackered
Momentarily by Kai & Oolong
Check it out:
This is a legit NYT scrabble play (Crossplay or whatever it’s called)
December 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This is a legit NYT scrabble play (Crossplay or whatever it’s called)
I once said to a friend “as a parent, you can learn more from your teenager than you can teach them”. He looked at me like I had two heads.
Today I am once again making loads of new Bluesky friends by insisting on one of my most sincerely held beliefs that makes way too many people fucking furious: that teenagers are autonomous beings who are not their parents' property and who possess independent volition and interiority
December 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I once said to a friend “as a parent, you can learn more from your teenager than you can teach them”. He looked at me like I had two heads.
it's 5am, I'm in a hotel room in London, Ontario for work and I can't sleep. But that's ok because I've been reduced to a weepy mess by Mike Monteiro:
How to bury your father
This week’s question comes to us anonymously: How do you lovingly care for an aging parent who treated you like shit? This question has been sitting in my...
buttondown.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
it's 5am, I'm in a hotel room in London, Ontario for work and I can't sleep. But that's ok because I've been reduced to a weepy mess by Mike Monteiro:
The Setlist on December 12, 2025:
2 hours of independent, under-the-radar music. I've been listening to this on a couple of long, snowy drives.
It's a killer mix.
Apple Music and Spotify.
2 hours of independent, under-the-radar music. I've been listening to this on a couple of long, snowy drives.
It's a killer mix.
Apple Music and Spotify.
Setlist for December 12, 2025 - Turn & Work
Eclectic, independent new music. Updated every Friday. Apple Music and Spotify.
www.turnandwork.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The Setlist on December 12, 2025:
2 hours of independent, under-the-radar music. I've been listening to this on a couple of long, snowy drives.
It's a killer mix.
Apple Music and Spotify.
2 hours of independent, under-the-radar music. I've been listening to this on a couple of long, snowy drives.
It's a killer mix.
Apple Music and Spotify.
this book is outstanding, you should pick it up.
(just finished it the other day, glowing review to come)
(just finished it the other day, glowing review to come)
If cost has kept you from picking up There Is No Place for Us (which is totally understandable), good news: the ebook is *$1.99* today—93% off!—on Kindle, B&N, Bookshop, and elsewhere.
So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.
So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.
There Is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone: 9780593237144 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
this book is outstanding, you should pick it up.
(just finished it the other day, glowing review to come)
(just finished it the other day, glowing review to come)
been updating the 'other people's lists' pages to include more year end books and music lists. Check em out and let me know if there's a great list I missed.
2025 Favourites (For Now) - Turn & Work
Turn & Work
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December 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
been updating the 'other people's lists' pages to include more year end books and music lists. Check em out and let me know if there's a great list I missed.
This is a great list. It has Loved and Missed on it. The other books on here that I've read are also great (Wilkerson, El Akkad, Ge Fei, Highsmith, Bronte, Safekeep)
But you should read Loved and Missed first. It's the best.
But you should read Loved and Missed first. It's the best.
One thing about us is that we’re never not reading. Here are 29 old books we read and loved in 2025.
The 29 Best (Old) Books We Read in 2025
It is the hallowed tradition of every cultural publication under the sun to, come December, curate a list of their favorite books of the year. (No shade, we did it too.) But at Literary Hub, we als…
buff.ly
December 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This is a great list. It has Loved and Missed on it. The other books on here that I've read are also great (Wilkerson, El Akkad, Ge Fei, Highsmith, Bronte, Safekeep)
But you should read Loved and Missed first. It's the best.
But you should read Loved and Missed first. It's the best.
"... I don’t believe there is any special virtue in finishing a book. I read all but the final 92 pages of Infinite Jest. My regret is not the 92 pages I didn’t read."
Book Time #26: How I Read
Finding Books My most reliable method for finding books is in the endnotes of other books I enjoy. I don’t flip to every endnote, but if I’m reading a...
buttondown.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:58 AM
"... I don’t believe there is any special virtue in finishing a book. I read all but the final 92 pages of Infinite Jest. My regret is not the 92 pages I didn’t read."
I updated a whole bunch of the links at the 'other people's lists' pages - aggregating year-end lists from other sources, mostly off-the-beaten path sources for book and music recos.
I've found a ton of interesting stuff from these, so check 'em out.
Go here and scroll down:
I've found a ton of interesting stuff from these, so check 'em out.
Go here and scroll down:
2025 Favourites (For Now) - Turn & Work
Turn & Work
www.turnandwork.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I updated a whole bunch of the links at the 'other people's lists' pages - aggregating year-end lists from other sources, mostly off-the-beaten path sources for book and music recos.
I've found a ton of interesting stuff from these, so check 'em out.
Go here and scroll down:
I've found a ton of interesting stuff from these, so check 'em out.
Go here and scroll down:
Hey, I have a new favourite podcast.
It's a deep dive into the excellent recent Ea Othilde record -- the hosts pull out details I missed in my piece.
Lots of great records in their archives too, it's appointment listening for me now.
Thanks for my first-ever audio shoutout (I think)!
It's a deep dive into the excellent recent Ea Othilde record -- the hosts pull out details I missed in my piece.
Lots of great records in their archives too, it's appointment listening for me now.
Thanks for my first-ever audio shoutout (I think)!
I just finished editing our new episode of "For the Record" on the emotive, inventive debut LP from Norwegian singer-songwriter Ea Othilde. Thank you @turnandwork.com for the recommendation!: fortherecordpodcast.tumblr.com/post/8023255...
#eaothilde #music
#eaothilde #music
For the Record #244: Ea Othilde's "I Will Not Be Like That"
Norwegian singer-songwriter Ea Othilde pares her emotive voice with a variety of styles and instrumentation to create a debut record that seems wise beyond its years. We discuss "I Will Not Be Like...
fortherecordpodcast.tumblr.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Hey, I have a new favourite podcast.
It's a deep dive into the excellent recent Ea Othilde record -- the hosts pull out details I missed in my piece.
Lots of great records in their archives too, it's appointment listening for me now.
Thanks for my first-ever audio shoutout (I think)!
It's a deep dive into the excellent recent Ea Othilde record -- the hosts pull out details I missed in my piece.
Lots of great records in their archives too, it's appointment listening for me now.
Thanks for my first-ever audio shoutout (I think)!
"I suddenly realise my pulse is racing from the second-hand smoke. The mild stimulation and slight dissociation is not pleasant, but at least it isn’t medetomidine. "
what a read.
what a read.
The real people of America's 'Zombieland'
Medetomidine has arrived in Kensington • The most powerful drug yet • 'You go straight to sleep'
dispatch-media.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"I suddenly realise my pulse is racing from the second-hand smoke. The mild stimulation and slight dissociation is not pleasant, but at least it isn’t medetomidine. "
what a read.
what a read.
The year-end-list-making-machine sputters, shudders and collapses, deafening noise in a cloud of ash and debris.
As the dust settles and smoke clears, only two items are undamaged:
Favourite 20 singles of 2025
Favourite moments of 2025 (this is coming later, I got shit to do)
See it all here:
As the dust settles and smoke clears, only two items are undamaged:
Favourite 20 singles of 2025
Favourite moments of 2025 (this is coming later, I got shit to do)
See it all here:
2025 Favourites (For Now) - Turn & Work
Turn & Work
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December 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The year-end-list-making-machine sputters, shudders and collapses, deafening noise in a cloud of ash and debris.
As the dust settles and smoke clears, only two items are undamaged:
Favourite 20 singles of 2025
Favourite moments of 2025 (this is coming later, I got shit to do)
See it all here:
As the dust settles and smoke clears, only two items are undamaged:
Favourite 20 singles of 2025
Favourite moments of 2025 (this is coming later, I got shit to do)
See it all here:
"BUT I'M SICK OF YEAR END LISTS!"
The year-end-list-making machine doesn't care. It keeps churning 'em out. You can't stop it. Nobody can.
Today:
Favourite albums of the year
Favourite fiction
Favourite singles #40-21
Check out the lists here:
The year-end-list-making machine doesn't care. It keeps churning 'em out. You can't stop it. Nobody can.
Today:
Favourite albums of the year
Favourite fiction
Favourite singles #40-21
Check out the lists here:
2025 Favourites (For Now) - Turn & Work
Turn & Work
www.turnandwork.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
"BUT I'M SICK OF YEAR END LISTS!"
The year-end-list-making machine doesn't care. It keeps churning 'em out. You can't stop it. Nobody can.
Today:
Favourite albums of the year
Favourite fiction
Favourite singles #40-21
Check out the lists here:
The year-end-list-making machine doesn't care. It keeps churning 'em out. You can't stop it. Nobody can.
Today:
Favourite albums of the year
Favourite fiction
Favourite singles #40-21
Check out the lists here:
I bought this sampler, and it’s been a constant in the rotation. So much weird stuff that somehow hangs together perfectly.
December 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I bought this sampler, and it’s been a constant in the rotation. So much weird stuff that somehow hangs together perfectly.