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Thoughts on Tomes - The Fall of Book Editing
Posted on January 12, 2026Video #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 on December 30, 2025I’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 on December 27, 2025There’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 on December 22, 2025OK, 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 on December 22, 2025I’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 on December 21, 2025CW: 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 on December 16, 2025In 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 on December 08, 2025I 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 on December 07, 2025Monday 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 on December 03, 2025Let’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…