boozysmurf
@boozysmurf.antipathy.ca
I play video games, wrench on cars, bust my knuckles on power tools, fight traffic on a bicycle, and read cereal boxes if I can't find a book. he / him. Canadian. Never 51.
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This is, frankly, awesome.
This is the Canadian Premier League soccer finals and we have a bicycle kick goal in the middle of a blizzard … and that’s the most Canadian thing I’ve ever seen 😂
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is, frankly, awesome.
Also, I'm ranting about winter tires again, over at The Drunken Wrench.
thedrunkenwrench.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/r...
(Using Winter Tyre Reviews testing for data)
thedrunkenwrench.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/r...
(Using Winter Tyre Reviews testing for data)
Ranting About Winter Tires. Again.
Honestly, this one is pretty simple. the TL:DR is “buy the winter tires, use them”. If we’re going to get a little deeper, gain a little more nuance to the conversation, yes, you …
thedrunkenwrench.wordpress.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Also, I'm ranting about winter tires again, over at The Drunken Wrench.
thedrunkenwrench.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/r...
(Using Winter Tyre Reviews testing for data)
thedrunkenwrench.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/r...
(Using Winter Tyre Reviews testing for data)
You ever put off playing through / finishing the story in a game, because you just don't want it to end, and complete that first-time experience in a game?
Apparently, that's where I'm at with Borderlands 4. Best BL game since BL2.
Apparently, that's where I'm at with Borderlands 4. Best BL game since BL2.
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
You ever put off playing through / finishing the story in a game, because you just don't want it to end, and complete that first-time experience in a game?
Apparently, that's where I'm at with Borderlands 4. Best BL game since BL2.
Apparently, that's where I'm at with Borderlands 4. Best BL game since BL2.
Y'all forgot how to drive again, huh, Ottawa?
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Y'all forgot how to drive again, huh, Ottawa?
It was fantastic seeing Kimi Antonelli fight for that podium today.
100%v deserved it.
100%v deserved it.
November 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
It was fantastic seeing Kimi Antonelli fight for that podium today.
100%v deserved it.
100%v deserved it.
How did I come to do a 24 gameathon every year for 14 years?
By mistake, I think?
markramsden.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/1...
By mistake, I think?
markramsden.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/1...
Team Bombshelter – 14 Years of ExtraLife
So, here’s a story (and a request) for you, as I delve back into using the blog. How did I get to fourteen years of Extra Life (which, if you can throw a donation to, you can do here. D…
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November 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
How did I come to do a 24 gameathon every year for 14 years?
By mistake, I think?
markramsden.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/1...
By mistake, I think?
markramsden.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/1...
Yes, I'm begging! I'm about seven and a half hours into the ExtraLife gameathon (Team Bombshelter). Fourteenth year (and I can't remember if I posted my blog psost about it)
But every dollar helps!
www.extra-life.org/participants...
But every dollar helps!
www.extra-life.org/participants...
Extra Life | Change Kids' Health, Change the Future
I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to change kids' health.
www.extra-life.org
November 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Yes, I'm begging! I'm about seven and a half hours into the ExtraLife gameathon (Team Bombshelter). Fourteenth year (and I can't remember if I posted my blog psost about it)
But every dollar helps!
www.extra-life.org/participants...
But every dollar helps!
www.extra-life.org/participants...
Jesus fuck. The fuck is wrong with the NYT?
What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Jesus fuck. The fuck is wrong with the NYT?
TOMORROW is game day. I'll be streaming, and the link is on my donation page.
Unrelated, I'm bad at streaming.
If you can throw five bucks (or more) to help us help CHEO, it would be hugely appreciated.
www.extra-life.org/participants...
Unrelated, I'm bad at streaming.
If you can throw five bucks (or more) to help us help CHEO, it would be hugely appreciated.
www.extra-life.org/participants...
Extra Life | Change Kids' Health, Change the Future
I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to change kids' health.
www.extra-life.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
TOMORROW is game day. I'll be streaming, and the link is on my donation page.
Unrelated, I'm bad at streaming.
If you can throw five bucks (or more) to help us help CHEO, it would be hugely appreciated.
www.extra-life.org/participants...
Unrelated, I'm bad at streaming.
If you can throw five bucks (or more) to help us help CHEO, it would be hugely appreciated.
www.extra-life.org/participants...
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...Real talk, though:
If you've ever thought "I want to read more graphic novels, but I have no idea where to even start?"
I put together a booklist of my top favorite, absolute-must-read graphic novels!! 👇👇 It's like a list of potential holiday gifts for comic fans!
bookshop.org/lists/must-r...?
If you've ever thought "I want to read more graphic novels, but I have no idea where to even start?"
I put together a booklist of my top favorite, absolute-must-read graphic novels!! 👇👇 It's like a list of potential holiday gifts for comic fans!
bookshop.org/lists/must-r...?
You: Please act normal; you need these people to like you.
Me: Ok!
People: hi.
Me: You heard of these things called graphic novels?? They’re like comic books that are the length of novels, and employ compositional storytelling to—here, I’ll just start you off with these 20 first, you got a pen?
Me: Ok!
People: hi.
Me: You heard of these things called graphic novels?? They’re like comic books that are the length of novels, and employ compositional storytelling to—here, I’ll just start you off with these 20 first, you got a pen?
You: Please act normal; you need these people to like you.
Me: Ok!
People: hi.
Me: So Bionicle is a metaphor for cancer. One LEGO designer, while being treated for a brain tumor, imagined the pills he was taking contained tiny warriors that would battle the monsters inside his body...
Me: Ok!
People: hi.
Me: So Bionicle is a metaphor for cancer. One LEGO designer, while being treated for a brain tumor, imagined the pills he was taking contained tiny warriors that would battle the monsters inside his body...
November 14, 2023 at 2:10 AM
...Real talk, though:
If you've ever thought "I want to read more graphic novels, but I have no idea where to even start?"
I put together a booklist of my top favorite, absolute-must-read graphic novels!! 👇👇 It's like a list of potential holiday gifts for comic fans!
bookshop.org/lists/must-r...?
If you've ever thought "I want to read more graphic novels, but I have no idea where to even start?"
I put together a booklist of my top favorite, absolute-must-read graphic novels!! 👇👇 It's like a list of potential holiday gifts for comic fans!
bookshop.org/lists/must-r...?
Four days until game day. I still have to (same as every year) figure out streaming.
If you can make a donation, it's hugely appreciated, and every dollar counts, there is no "too small" donation.
If you can make a donation, it's hugely appreciated, and every dollar counts, there is no "too small" donation.
Ten days until RXTRA-LIFE game day! 24 hours of gaming, in my case to raise funds for the Children's Hospital Of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), here in Ottawa.
If you can spare a few bucks, it's hugely appreciated
www.extra-life.org/participants...
If you can spare a few bucks, it's hugely appreciated
www.extra-life.org/participants...
Extra Life | Change Kids' Health, Change the Future
I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to change kids' health.
www.extra-life.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Four days until game day. I still have to (same as every year) figure out streaming.
If you can make a donation, it's hugely appreciated, and every dollar counts, there is no "too small" donation.
If you can make a donation, it's hugely appreciated, and every dollar counts, there is no "too small" donation.
Teen Vogue political coverage has been next level for years. The dissolution of that is absolute balls.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Teen Vogue political coverage has been next level for years. The dissolution of that is absolute balls.
Holy God, it's me in 1997. So much frog.
I wrote about The Ivalice Chronicles and my undying love of turning Final Fantasy Tactics' Mandalia Plains into a endless grind fest. For @aftermath.site aftermath.site/final-fantas...
October 31, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Holy God, it's me in 1997. So much frog.
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Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior
sting? fucking STING? who in 2025 wants to see solo sting? this has to be a joke
www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
NFL Succumbs To Bad Bunny Criticism And Announces Special Super Bowl Concert With Sting
In an unexpected bid to calm the frenzy over Bad Bunny headlining the 2026 Super Bowl show, the NFL has introduced a special feature.
www.yahoo.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior
Ten days until RXTRA-LIFE game day! 24 hours of gaming, in my case to raise funds for the Children's Hospital Of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), here in Ottawa.
If you can spare a few bucks, it's hugely appreciated
www.extra-life.org/participants...
If you can spare a few bucks, it's hugely appreciated
www.extra-life.org/participants...
Extra Life | Change Kids' Health, Change the Future
I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to change kids' health.
www.extra-life.org
October 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Ten days until RXTRA-LIFE game day! 24 hours of gaming, in my case to raise funds for the Children's Hospital Of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), here in Ottawa.
If you can spare a few bucks, it's hugely appreciated
www.extra-life.org/participants...
If you can spare a few bucks, it's hugely appreciated
www.extra-life.org/participants...
Added to the list.
Blood fueled action balanced by romance captures the best parts of Fujimoto's story Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc isn't spectacle, it's storytelling.
Read our review:
Read our review:
REVIEW: ‘Chainsaw Man The Movie — Reze Arc’ Puts Romance Before Mayhem
Blood fueled action balanced by romance captures the best parts of Fujimoto's story Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc isn't spectacle, it's storytelling.
Read our review:
butwhytho.net
October 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Added to the list.
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Don't break bread. Don't accept gifts. Make sure you spell their name right. If you're INSIDE the salt circle you're ON the record.
the rules of journalistic ethics and the rules of Faerie ethics are eerily similar
September 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Don't break bread. Don't accept gifts. Make sure you spell their name right. If you're INSIDE the salt circle you're ON the record.
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Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
October 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
I'm very late at it this year, but it's ExtraLife (fundraising for CHEO) time again, and in two and a half weeks, I'll (at age 52!) spend 24 hours gaming to raise money for the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario!
www.extra-life.org/participants...
www.extra-life.org/participants...
Extra Life | Change Kids' Health, Change the Future
I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to change kids' health.
www.extra-life.org
October 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I'm very late at it this year, but it's ExtraLife (fundraising for CHEO) time again, and in two and a half weeks, I'll (at age 52!) spend 24 hours gaming to raise money for the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario!
www.extra-life.org/participants...
www.extra-life.org/participants...
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The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes
“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”
Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”
Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...
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October 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes
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Today marks the two-year anniversary of a great modern sci-fi show: Scavengers Reign. 🥰
A new classic that is only officially available in a few countries.
A new classic that is only officially available in a few countries.
October 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Today marks the two-year anniversary of a great modern sci-fi show: Scavengers Reign. 🥰
A new classic that is only officially available in a few countries.
A new classic that is only officially available in a few countries.
Very fucking this. Happy to be "cringe" if it means I keep my humanity.
one of the worst fucking things in the world is the move to call sincerity and care "cringe"
fuck that shit. let's build a political community based on care for one another.
fuck that shit. let's build a political community based on care for one another.
October 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Very fucking this. Happy to be "cringe" if it means I keep my humanity.
Well, LeClerc did what he did best - get in front of overall faster cars, and let the leader run away with the race, while he holds up traffic.
A little unfair, maybe, but it is becoming predictable, even when he has a decent race.
A little unfair, maybe, but it is becoming predictable, even when he has a decent race.
October 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Well, LeClerc did what he did best - get in front of overall faster cars, and let the leader run away with the race, while he holds up traffic.
A little unfair, maybe, but it is becoming predictable, even when he has a decent race.
A little unfair, maybe, but it is becoming predictable, even when he has a decent race.
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Not going to lie, I’m not convinced the tesla-style NACS port is as big of a game changer as we think it is.
Native access to the supercharger network is nice, I guess, but I don’t know if real EV drivers will use it outside of one-off roadtrips.
insideevs.com/news/775910/...
Native access to the supercharger network is nice, I guess, but I don’t know if real EV drivers will use it outside of one-off roadtrips.
insideevs.com/news/775910/...
Tesla’s NACS Plug Should've Fixed EV Charging. Here’s What We Got Instead
EVs with Tesla-style ports are all the rage. But access to the Supercharger network didn’t really move the needle for me.
insideevs.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Not going to lie, I’m not convinced the tesla-style NACS port is as big of a game changer as we think it is.
Native access to the supercharger network is nice, I guess, but I don’t know if real EV drivers will use it outside of one-off roadtrips.
insideevs.com/news/775910/...
Native access to the supercharger network is nice, I guess, but I don’t know if real EV drivers will use it outside of one-off roadtrips.
insideevs.com/news/775910/...