you can really feel the enthusiasm for NL's 2025 provincial election!!!

(from vocm.com/2025/09/15/p...)

a friend sent me this photo of his logic textbook... truly delighted that riffing on the trudeau-castro conspiracy theory might be my most enduring contribution to human culture

rereading the 1981 Captain Newfoundland comic and totally forgot about the arc where, after teaching a kid in a wheelchair how to do astral projection and speak with the dead, the Captain travels to a mermaid kingdom in order to defeat Satan using only his insights about the nature of consciousness.

perennially reminded of this perfect Worker's Spatula (RIP?) headline

Embrace Premier Smallwood Thought (the grindset)

sometimes i roll my eyes at all the stuff from the 70s comparing smallwood to mao because it seems so obviously overblown but then i will open a government document from 1967 and find stuff like this

started idly reading about my hometown last night and now i am having my worst flareup of Newfoundland Madness since moving home in 2016. bodes well

86 years ago today, some people wrote so many angry letters to the editor of The Grand Falls Advertiser about Windsor being incorporated as a town that half of Newfoundland's Commission of Government had to go look into it (before concluding that the protesters were cranks).

time is a flat circle.

two guardians appear before you. one always lies and the other always tells the truth. how do you proceed

people are often saying i would make a great helicopter pilot or perhaps a submarine captain of some kind

Venus in Furs (1870). 5/5. come for the erotic adventure in 19th century femdom; stay for the extraordinarily thoughtful (and funny) reflections on fetishism and the pleasures of pain from the man who gave us the term "masochism". plus, its proto-feminist conclusion makes for a nice surprise ending.

No One Is Talking About This (2021). 4/5. this funny & touching novel—in content & in form—captures the experience of twitter in its heyday & the very specific way Posting colonizes your mind ("like a BPD spiral," as a friend put it); Online as a simulacrum of connection masking a deeper alienation.

A Complicated Kindness (2004). 4.5/5. fun, spellbinding 'memoir' of a teenager in a rural mennonite enclave processing an adolescence defined by religious trauma and family disintegration, where holding onto love feels like abandonment & real abandonment is tightening a death grip. it's complicated.

The Fake (2023). 4/5. total page-turner, if rushed. cammie is the only character who feels fully realized, an effect faithfully replicating the experience of loving someone like her. perfectly captures the maddening pain & futility of trying to reconcile real kindness with real abuse & manipulation.