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Interviewing yourself

Aiden Truhen and Nick Harkaway discuss the morality of fiction, the descent of the world, and the Addams Family” AT: Except that we have different writing styles and different ways of being in the world and I’m massively antisocial and live in a houseboat on a middle-European river and you live in London and you’re […]

a last word for #bellletstalk 2018

also this was funny.

The future of performance art

This Is Not an Interview with Poppy What do you think people will think of social media in the future? People aren’t going to think in the future. We will become one knowing consciousness. What drove you to YouTube as a medium for your work? I like YouTube because it is owned by Google. Google […]

Almost all true

How to Pay Programmers Less To create software, you need programmers. Unfortunately. They are expensive, lazy, and almost impossible to control. The software they create either works or doesn’t, but you still have to pay them, every month. Of course, it’s always better to pay less. However, sometimes they may figure out they are being […]

Drumpf as blunt instrument

How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind i am usually loath to comment on specifics of American politics. As a Canadian, i am conscious that i have no standing in the affairs of another country. Mostly though, i wish for a Canada where those affairs don’t matter to us. More than enough politics that […]

bad record contracts

Why Canadian bands (sometimes) can’t make it in the States “It doesn’t fucking matter that The Hip had limited success in the U.S.,” wrote music journalist and broadcaster Alan Cross in the days after Downie’s diagnosis went public. “There’s only one reason why things didn’t work out: bad record contracts. It had nothing to do […]

A theory

The Berenstein [sic] Bears: We Are Living in Our Own Parallel Universe In 1992 they were “stEin” in 1992, but in 2012 they were “stAin” in 1992. Some explanations have been proposed. via A.V. Club

“Monica”, by Hera Lindsay Bird

The Friday Poem: “Monica”, by Hera Lindsay Bird And to be able to maintain a friendship Through the various complications of heterosexual monogamy Is enormously difficult Especially when you take into consideration What cunts they all were

Statistical proof: the Leafs stink

The Maple Leafs’ Collapse Is A Victory For Rationality This is not me being overdramatic. This was a season with a built-in black-and-white storyline, making it a referendum on who better grasps hockey—those who know how to interpret the numbers, or those actually running a team.

Welcome to Sex House!

A masterpiece of modern satire from the Onion, they’ve really outdone themselves this time. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL622682EF88B3C077[/youtube]