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A fifth faculty at McGill has submitted their union cards for certification!

Welcome to the newest McGill academic union, the Association of McGill Library Academic Staff (AMLAS)!

There are many great diner scenes, of course, but the performances in this one are particularly stellar.

My fave thing about Canadian election coverage: they show results for ridings even when they have only 11 votes counted so far.

There are so many reasons why, as an ex-pat USian, I love living in Canada, but headlines like these are right up there.

Footage from every other intelligence service in the world, upon learning that Pete Hegseth unwittingly sent detailed war plans to a journalist on Signal.

Basically everything Linda Williams wrote was brilliant and illuminating, but "Melodrama Revised" is maybe the most important essay I have ever read on U.S. commercial cinema. It fundamentally changed the way I thought about American film--and, by extension, U.S. popular culture and political life.

Texting with my delightfully Minnesotan mom.

This is what those of us living in Canada see in Google Maps, which is a perfect distillation of this country's response to Trumpism: "We resist you, sir! But also we can kind of see your point and will bend to your will while trying to look disappointed."

Re-watching *Dirty Dancing* for a thing I am working on & in addition to being really skillfully made, it has this shot/chaser that is just <chef's kiss>.

I know that I live in Canada, but I really think my gym should have thought twice about this new marketing campaign.

I really wanted to like the REM book, but lumping Prince, Michael, Madonna and Bruce in with “Rambo and Rocky” is just complete horseshit.

Wanted to post that while I did not publish anything this year, I did work with a bunch of colleagues to build the first union for Arts profs at McGill in its 200-year history; we were officially certified last month.

That said, I fear that this is the energy said post is giving.

The young person at the register showed tremendous restraint in looking at my middle-aged, bearded self and not saying "of course these are the books you ordered."