Ten years ago today David Bowie left this earth. Safe travels Starman. ★

It’s your fault as well for listening to a podcast called Diary of a CEO. You made that decision.

Wrote about Thai Mart, a grocer with an ice cream stall and 2 sit-down restos in the former A&W on the Yonge strip. By the same guy behind Som Tum Jinda, Le Lert, Koh Lipe (I feel like many dont know they're all related). thestar.com/life/food-and-…

I went to Jack Kerouac's Florida death house and attempted to figure out why I keep writing and the things that remain sacred in this snake bitten world. On the next season of "Ghost Hunters.."

Finally giving the Slash Need album a proper listen. Holy shit.

People need humanities degrees so they don't embarrass themselves when talking about movies on social media

The Subway Takes guy has a movie out? Hmmm…

"There have been times where people are like, 'I read your book and then I canceled Spotify and I got Apple Music!' That kind of misses a lot of the point that this book lands on." – 𝘔𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦 author Liz Pelly hearingthings.co/liz-pelly-on-t…

For Exclaim!, I reviewed the lovely new album by Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore. Experimental ambient music to get lost in, or get lost to. exclaim.ca/music/article/…

I ranked Kendrick Lamar's albums for Spin: spin.com/2026/01/every-…

The major downside of WFH on snow days? Still having to work

First listen favourites on Don’t Be Dumb: Helicopter, Stole Ya Flow, Stay Here 4 Life, Playa, Stop Snitching, Punk Rocky, Air Force. Worth the almost 8 year wait between ASAP Rocky albums 🔥

I see the point about how it's difficult to say, yes this counts as AI & is banned, or that this doesn't & is permitted. But more importantly, Bandcamp's move signals a resistance to tech industry influence in music communities/narratives of AI inevitably, & is valuable as such

Michael Rapaport looks like an animatronic scab

For the new issue of Rolling Stone, I wrote about how American Idol has largely pivoted into faith-based music and become a launching pad for contemporary Christian pop stars. Carrie Underwood (a judge on the show) has had a lot to do with this shift. rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-m…

so everything is just a gambling ad now

The world is probably ending, but Olive Garden is reopening at Vaughn Mills. Thanks to the Star's archives, I also learned a bit more about the Olive Garden's history in Canada (and when the Atrium on Bay location closed cause that's been bugging me). thestar.com/news/gta/olive…

Braving the cold for Cate Le Bon at the Concert Hall tonight

"In a lot of ways, the fight for a world where music and culture are more accessible and democratized is connected to the fight for free time, because there’s so many people whose everyday lives are mostly spent on work and trying to survive." hearingthings.co/liz-pelly-on-t…

Scoop: The AGO is reckoning with the resignations of a senior curator & two members of a collections committee after the group narrowly voted to not acquire a work by Nan Goldin over accusations that the Jewish-American photographer’s views are antisemitic theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-an…