Expertly aligns you with a shameful protagonist. A great book about being a writer, and how most writers feel, regardless of their success. Spoiler: they are all miserable.

I do appreciate a good wifi name.

Most of the headline obits for Val Kilmer are leaving out his greatest role: Nick Rivers in TOP SECRET.

Hey @leadnowca.bsky.social: please stop providing a button to tweet your anti-Musk campaigns on X. It's like sending us to Loblaws to buy eggs to throw at Galen Weston.

Switch it to Bluesky!

I'm doing my first ever Vancouver reading. Please come!

The Writer’s Studio Reading Series
Monday, February 24
7 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Container Brewing
1216 Franklin Street, Vancouver

Stefan Trifu
Carol Tulpar
Diary Marif
Brian Panhuyzen
J.G. Chayko
Barbara Kmiec

PUBLISHERS: when you open an Ingram sales sheet, you're not the only one who gets this alert; EVERYONE does. 100% Ingram's fault. File is tab-delimited, but the .xls extension looks like a trick to fake the file-type as old Excel.

I've asked Ingram repeatedly to fix this, and so should you.

DJ Leo is in da house

You think you have problems? Imagine it's the end of January and your store is stuck with 80 cartons of oat milk egg nog with a best before of June 2025.

Vancouver delivers all manner of sky magic.

Here me out: make the shells of stuffed dog toys from Kevlar.

Ah, Goosey, we hardly knew ye

Step closer: Leo wants a sniff.

I expect nothing less than confetti canons and party horns once I complete today's meditation.

Vancouver outer harbour, fog and sunshine, 11am, December 2nd, 2024.

That said, today I worked not in a café, but Vancouver's seaplane terminal on Coal Harbour. Good wifi, comfy seating, and the view. THE VIEW.