What I'm Listening To

The National, High Violet. Buy it now.



Read the (amazing) Pitchfork review here.

Happy New Year!

Best Movies of 2009 (My Best)

1. Adventureland
2. An Education
3. Away We Go
4. Funny People
5. Brüno
6. District 9
7. (500) Days of Summer
8. Art and Copy
9. The Class
10. Fantastic Mr. Fox

Honourable mention and Can. con: One Week (crappy movie, great landscape porn: "You live in one of the most beautiful countries in the world." "I know. Too bad we're fucking it up.")

Confessions of a Reluctant Information Manager

The New Quarterly has posted their e-newsletter, which previews the upcoming issue (#113, due out in January, 2010). In it you can read my "e-exclusive," "Confessions of a Reluctant Information Manager: My First Semester of Library School." Want to know what I've been doing for the last 4 months? Read here!

And look for Issue 113, which features my story "You Wouldn't Recognize Me," on newsstands, in bookstores, and available online, this January!

Ladders

The kind in knitting, not for climbing. But these are big enough to climb on. Why? What am I doing wrong? I've knit and purled before. Is it the circular needles? Is k4, p4 a bad combination? Help!

Tropical Storm Danny

Compared to Hurricane Bill? Worse:



And yet, where was the news coverage? Where were the live reporters and hourly updates? Get your shit together, CBC et al.

And Bill? Danny? What is this, attack of the WASPs? I envy Mexico and their Jimena. But look out, Kevin is coming. Though he seems rather depressed.

What I'm Listening To

Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago. Buy it now.



Read the Pitchfork review here.

Hurricane Bill

The mines are no place for a hurricane, even one as brave as Bill.



Update at 11:37 a.m. Sunday: