Erin MacLeod
@touchofallright.bsky.social
I teach teens about lit and theory. Also, Polaris Prize jury foreperson, working on M&E, coms, español, français and sleeping. Settler In Montréal. https://www.youtube.com/@ErinExplainsStuff
Yes, it's me, I'm part of the problem, it's me. Yet another person talking about Taylor Swift - but also Madonna and Shania Twain. open.substack.com/pub/touchofa...
Yes, it's another person talking about Taylor Swift
But also Madonna and Shania Twain
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October 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Yes, it's me, I'm part of the problem, it's me. Yet another person talking about Taylor Swift - but also Madonna and Shania Twain. open.substack.com/pub/touchofa...
I feel like Taylor Swift's attack on CharliXCX is the least brat song in existence. Maybe the least brat anything.
October 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I feel like Taylor Swift's attack on CharliXCX is the least brat song in existence. Maybe the least brat anything.
Was it better in the 1990s? substack.com/home/post/p-...
Was it better in the 1990s?
Thinking about nostalgia (and soft launching "Erin Explains")
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October 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Was it better in the 1990s? substack.com/home/post/p-...
Me talking about how TeacherTok is not helping anyone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N52...
Erin Explains: School Supplies and Teacher Tok
YouTube video by Not Another Gen X Guy
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September 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Me talking about how TeacherTok is not helping anyone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N52...
Is it just me or did Chappell Roan do a Kate Bush song last summer ("Good Luck Babe") and a Cocteau Twins song this summer ("Subway")?
September 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Is it just me or did Chappell Roan do a Kate Bush song last summer ("Good Luck Babe") and a Cocteau Twins song this summer ("Subway")?
Posted this on Labour Day - the article that made me a working journalist: Love a reggae beat ’cause it’s so…: Omar Lye Fook open.substack.com/pub/touchofa...
Monday Reprint: Love a reggae beat ’cause it’s so…: Omar Lye Fook
My first cover story ever: from back in 2006
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September 1, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Posted this on Labour Day - the article that made me a working journalist: Love a reggae beat ’cause it’s so…: Omar Lye Fook open.substack.com/pub/touchofa...
Jeff Buckley is the only answer
OK, a little quiz here. Coffee shop is playing angsty '90s alt-femme music—Alanis, Tori, Fiona, Ani, Mazzy Star, etc. And the first song by a man is __________?
August 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Jeff Buckley is the only answer
Wrote about Wolfgang Tillmans and libraries: open.substack.com/pub/touchofa...
Nothing could have prepared me
Wolfgang Tillmans at the Pompidou
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August 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Wrote about Wolfgang Tillmans and libraries: open.substack.com/pub/touchofa...
Me talking about Sabrina Carpenter: youtube.com/watch?v=SWMj...
Erin Explains: Sabrina Carpenter & Man's Best Friend
YouTube video by Not Another Gen X Guy
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August 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Me talking about Sabrina Carpenter: youtube.com/watch?v=SWMj...
Want to read what I thought about #Osheaga day 1? northerntransmissions.com/osheaga-day-...
Osheaga Day 1 recap - Northern Transmissions
Osheaga Day 1 recap by Erin Macleod for Northern Transmissions. Artists performing include The Killers, Lucy Dacus, Doechii and many more
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August 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Want to read what I thought about #Osheaga day 1? northerntransmissions.com/osheaga-day-...
Missive from Black Sabbath Bridge
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Missive from Black Sabbath Bridge
There's something lovely about old fashioned fandom
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July 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Missive from Black Sabbath Bridge
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As someone who grew up in a hockey town, I can say that from the moment hockey players show up for a game in those fucking suits, they are respectable young men, and nothing in Canada will change that. Certainly not the testimony of a woman.
July 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
As someone who grew up in a hockey town, I can say that from the moment hockey players show up for a game in those fucking suits, they are respectable young men, and nothing in Canada will change that. Certainly not the testimony of a woman.
I feel like this video about how ICE is becoming Trump's personal militia is essential viewing. I've also just spent time going to some museums in Berlin and it's hard not to make comparisons. Take a look: youtu.be/2Pwu5ZOnh1A?...
How the next US Election will be STOLEN by ICE
YouTube video by Not Another Gen X Guy
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July 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I feel like this video about how ICE is becoming Trump's personal militia is essential viewing. I've also just spent time going to some museums in Berlin and it's hard not to make comparisons. Take a look: youtu.be/2Pwu5ZOnh1A?...
It’s amazing how if you respond kindly to a random troll that they get extemely upset. It’s like niceness is their cryptonite.
July 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It’s amazing how if you respond kindly to a random troll that they get extemely upset. It’s like niceness is their cryptonite.
I loved Rejection.
‘He writes in the exaggerated register of the internet post: one story in “Rejection” even takes the form of a Reddit post, while “Main Character” is a series of entries on a forum.’
Becca Rothfeld reads Tony Tulathimutte’s linked stories: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Becca Rothfeld reads Tony Tulathimutte’s linked stories: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Becca Rothfeld · Whatevership: Tony Tulathimutte’s Anti-autofiction
Tulathimutte recognises that the internet has all the elements of great fiction: Talmudic feats of interpretation,...
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July 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I loved Rejection.
So a couple years back I wrote a piece about how Quebec TV rules. Here is a list of must-watch programs:
1. Série noire
2. C'est comme ça que je t'aime
3. Feux
4. M'entends tu?
5. Empathie
Have any other suggestions?
1. Série noire
2. C'est comme ça que je t'aime
3. Feux
4. M'entends tu?
5. Empathie
Have any other suggestions?
July 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
So a couple years back I wrote a piece about how Quebec TV rules. Here is a list of must-watch programs:
1. Série noire
2. C'est comme ça que je t'aime
3. Feux
4. M'entends tu?
5. Empathie
Have any other suggestions?
1. Série noire
2. C'est comme ça que je t'aime
3. Feux
4. M'entends tu?
5. Empathie
Have any other suggestions?
Ok American friends - does Zohran Mamdani have any chance at all?
June 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Ok American friends - does Zohran Mamdani have any chance at all?
It's my birthday today. Tell me why being 49 is great.
May 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
It's my birthday today. Tell me why being 49 is great.
Get out there and vote like your national broadcaster and all foreign assistance depends on it. Because it does.
April 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Get out there and vote like your national broadcaster and all foreign assistance depends on it. Because it does.
The feeling of the first real warm and sunny spring day in Montreal.
April 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The feeling of the first real warm and sunny spring day in Montreal.
Ok - trying this place one more time. Give me some folks I must follow...
April 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Ok - trying this place one more time. Give me some folks I must follow...
Check out @delcowie.bsky.social talking about Director X and Canadiana in music videos at #popcon2025
March 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Check out @delcowie.bsky.social talking about Director X and Canadiana in music videos at #popcon2025
Reposted by Erin MacLeod
And finishing the panel with @touchofallright.bsky.social with “Distinct Society” on music from Quebec and Canada and wider national identity questions especially notable now. #PopCon2025
March 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
And finishing the panel with @touchofallright.bsky.social with “Distinct Society” on music from Quebec and Canada and wider national identity questions especially notable now. #PopCon2025
Boiler Room is $75???
March 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Boiler Room is $75???