Hello friend! This Saturday, I’ll be set up at Amazing Stories (2508 8th Street East, Suite A) as the store celebrates Local Comic Shop Day 2026, and I’m looking forward to spending another day talking comics with fellow readers, collectors and creators. The event goes all day, but the group of artists will be there 11am-3pm. Whenever I’m in a…
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Letting Go…
Hello friend! We moved houses recently. We were at our old place from May 2015 onward, and during that time we accumulated all the things you’re supposed to accumulate: memories, familiar haunts, friendships with great neighbours. We also accumulated an alarming amount of stuff. This should surprise exactly nobody. I’m a collector by nature, and I suspect growing up with…
Ooby Dooby
Hello friend! I love Roy Orbison. For some reason, growing up in the 80s and 90s, we were steeped in 50s-and-60s culture. At the movies there was Dirty Dancing, Stand By Me, American Boyfriends, Back to the Beach, La Bamba, etc. In pop music Billy Joel did an entire (flawless) album of doo-wop pastiche (one of three tapes I owned…
Consumed: By the Book
Hello friend! Well, it’s been a very long time since the first edition of “Consumed,” the little ongoing series I came up with to let friends know the pop culture stuff I was, y’know, consuming. This edition is about all the books I’ve read so far this year. As mentioned in previous posts, I travel a lot for work nowadays.…
Podcast Boy
Podcast Boy Two recent media appearances for your listening pleasure… Hello friend! As regular readers of this newsletter will know, I have always been a talk show person. Whether it was late night television, call‑in radio or a well‑moderated panel, I enjoy the shape of a good conversation and the way it can wander a bit before landing somewhere useful. Over the years, through a…