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Thoughts on Tomes - The Fall of Book Editing

Posted at January 12, 2026

Video #1 argues that publishing has an issue with developmental editing. Video #2 follows up with more detail about developmental editing is…

Year In Review: 2025

Posted at December 30, 2025

I’m doing this early, for once. Personal Deets It’s been a strange year. There’s so much going on politically that I’ll just name check…

What We Love: The Holiday

Posted at December 27, 2025

There’s an endless discussion about what counts as a Christmas movie. Does it have to be about Christmas, like Home Alone? What about movies…

East Van Panto: West Van Story

Posted at December 22, 2025

OK, I just explained pantos. Moving on! Holly’s the daughter of an evil real estate developer (boo!) in West Vancouver. Her mother-father…

What's a Panto?

Posted at December 22, 2025

I’ve talked about pantomimes before, but I spent most of my life knowing absolutely nothing about them. Here’s my attempt to explain what…

Wake Up Dead Man

Posted at December 21, 2025

CW: Spoilers for the first two Knives Out films, mild spoiler for the latest. The first two Knives Out movies both rely on mid-story reveals…

Jack and the Beanstalk

Posted at December 16, 2025

In this production of Jack and the Beanstalk—my second panto at Metro Theatre—the trouble comes less from giants and more from the evil…

Morning Walks

Posted at December 08, 2025

I posted this on Discord last weekend: According to my watch, which knows too much about me, my cardio peak this week was walking a klick…

Busy Week!

Posted at December 07, 2025

Monday A friend and I hung out online in the evening. We’ve been doing this regularly for the last few years—this is how I got into Baldur’s…

Book, So Confusing (Remix)

Posted at December 03, 2025

Let’s work it out on the remix. War for the Oaks, by Emma Bull Reread. I pitched it to my book club twice. They picked it the second time…