Pamela Haskell
@plynn.bsky.social
urban planning and public art, but let’s be honest, mainly dumb jokes and memes.
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Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean
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Tomorrow! Free tickets still available. Will be an interesting evening. #yyc
The Downtown Core Neighbourhood Association in #yyc is co-presenting a free evening of Indigenous storytelling, with screening on Saturday of two films, and a conversation with the director.
You can find out more details and RSVP at the link here.
downtowncoreneighbourhood.ca/event/free-t...
You can find out more details and RSVP at the link here.
downtowncoreneighbourhood.ca/event/free-t...
4 Oct 25 - Free: Truth and Reconciliation Double Feature Documentary Screening | October 4th
downtowncoreneighbourhood.ca
October 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Tomorrow! Free tickets still available. Will be an interesting evening. #yyc
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Our flâneur president is exploring the psychogeography of the White House in the context of its urban environment but go off
August 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Our flâneur president is exploring the psychogeography of the White House in the context of its urban environment but go off
Both are true. Cars are terrible, cyclists are insufferable. We all know this.
Humans have existed for nearly 300,000 years. Cars have existed around 125 years, & in that time society, our cities, & countries completely reconfigured to make way for the car. The environment has suffered & millions have died from being hit or the pollution, but yeah Bicycle users are smug!
July 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Both are true. Cars are terrible, cyclists are insufferable. We all know this.
Justin Trudeau, later today.
a man in a white shirt is dancing in a living room
ALT: a man in a white shirt is dancing in a living room
media.tenor.com
March 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Justin Trudeau, later today.
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they* don't honor movies** real people*** see****
* I don't know who I specifically mean by this
** assembly line VFX behemoths
*** me, myself, the designated real person
**** experience chiefly as a months-long advertising campaign that may or may not have a movie at the end of it
* I don't know who I specifically mean by this
** assembly line VFX behemoths
*** me, myself, the designated real person
**** experience chiefly as a months-long advertising campaign that may or may not have a movie at the end of it
February 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
they* don't honor movies** real people*** see****
* I don't know who I specifically mean by this
** assembly line VFX behemoths
*** me, myself, the designated real person
**** experience chiefly as a months-long advertising campaign that may or may not have a movie at the end of it
* I don't know who I specifically mean by this
** assembly line VFX behemoths
*** me, myself, the designated real person
**** experience chiefly as a months-long advertising campaign that may or may not have a movie at the end of it
#MWE Day 10 (on day 13)
ScHoolboy Q - Blue Lips. Fast forward ten years from Oxymoron and this is good, but I think I like Oxymoron more, probably it sounds both modern and familiar to my ears, where this might be too new for my untrained ears.
ScHoolboy Q - Blue Lips. Fast forward ten years from Oxymoron and this is good, but I think I like Oxymoron more, probably it sounds both modern and familiar to my ears, where this might be too new for my untrained ears.
February 14, 2025 at 5:47 AM
#MWE Day 10 (on day 13)
ScHoolboy Q - Blue Lips. Fast forward ten years from Oxymoron and this is good, but I think I like Oxymoron more, probably it sounds both modern and familiar to my ears, where this might be too new for my untrained ears.
ScHoolboy Q - Blue Lips. Fast forward ten years from Oxymoron and this is good, but I think I like Oxymoron more, probably it sounds both modern and familiar to my ears, where this might be too new for my untrained ears.
In the short film One Week, Buster Keaton builds a mail order house. However, his rival sneaks in and changes the number on all the pieces so it goes together wrong.
A perfect joke, no notes.
A perfect joke, no notes.
February 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
In the short film One Week, Buster Keaton builds a mail order house. However, his rival sneaks in and changes the number on all the pieces so it goes together wrong.
A perfect joke, no notes.
A perfect joke, no notes.
#MWE day 9 (on day 12)
ScHoolboy Q has an intelligent, aggressive style that feels authentic and uncompromising even when the music is catchy as hell. I love Collard Greens, don’t love Studio. Apparently both songs were big hits at the time, but I’m ten years behind so they’re new to me.
ScHoolboy Q has an intelligent, aggressive style that feels authentic and uncompromising even when the music is catchy as hell. I love Collard Greens, don’t love Studio. Apparently both songs were big hits at the time, but I’m ten years behind so they’re new to me.
February 13, 2025 at 5:10 AM
#MWE day 9 (on day 12)
ScHoolboy Q has an intelligent, aggressive style that feels authentic and uncompromising even when the music is catchy as hell. I love Collard Greens, don’t love Studio. Apparently both songs were big hits at the time, but I’m ten years behind so they’re new to me.
ScHoolboy Q has an intelligent, aggressive style that feels authentic and uncompromising even when the music is catchy as hell. I love Collard Greens, don’t love Studio. Apparently both songs were big hits at the time, but I’m ten years behind so they’re new to me.
#MWE Day 8 (on day 11)
I like Blues, in that vague way that just about everyone likes Blues music. But I only *love* a tiny subset - trance-like country blues, vocals with a haunted edge. Music that balances unstudied rawness with tremendous skill. Basically, I love this Junior Kimbrough album.
I like Blues, in that vague way that just about everyone likes Blues music. But I only *love* a tiny subset - trance-like country blues, vocals with a haunted edge. Music that balances unstudied rawness with tremendous skill. Basically, I love this Junior Kimbrough album.
February 12, 2025 at 7:52 AM
#MWE Day 8 (on day 11)
I like Blues, in that vague way that just about everyone likes Blues music. But I only *love* a tiny subset - trance-like country blues, vocals with a haunted edge. Music that balances unstudied rawness with tremendous skill. Basically, I love this Junior Kimbrough album.
I like Blues, in that vague way that just about everyone likes Blues music. But I only *love* a tiny subset - trance-like country blues, vocals with a haunted edge. Music that balances unstudied rawness with tremendous skill. Basically, I love this Junior Kimbrough album.
MWE day 7 (on day 10)
Jesse Mae Hemphill was a huge talent, tapped into a regional blues tradition that’s inseparable from her personal lineage. My personal tastes veer away from boogie-style and more to sad, droney Blues, so I liked this less than I probably should
Jesse Mae Hemphill was a huge talent, tapped into a regional blues tradition that’s inseparable from her personal lineage. My personal tastes veer away from boogie-style and more to sad, droney Blues, so I liked this less than I probably should
February 11, 2025 at 6:51 AM
MWE day 7 (on day 10)
Jesse Mae Hemphill was a huge talent, tapped into a regional blues tradition that’s inseparable from her personal lineage. My personal tastes veer away from boogie-style and more to sad, droney Blues, so I liked this less than I probably should
Jesse Mae Hemphill was a huge talent, tapped into a regional blues tradition that’s inseparable from her personal lineage. My personal tastes veer away from boogie-style and more to sad, droney Blues, so I liked this less than I probably should
#MWE Day 6 (on day 10)
Saw this on @awnothimagain.bsky.social’s MWE and thought it sounded like exactly my thing, and I was right. I love this so much I’m genuinely upset to have missed it for so long. Hypnotic and droney, with the spectral, timeless quality of the best country blues
Saw this on @awnothimagain.bsky.social’s MWE and thought it sounded like exactly my thing, and I was right. I love this so much I’m genuinely upset to have missed it for so long. Hypnotic and droney, with the spectral, timeless quality of the best country blues
February 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
#MWE Day 6 (on day 10)
Saw this on @awnothimagain.bsky.social’s MWE and thought it sounded like exactly my thing, and I was right. I love this so much I’m genuinely upset to have missed it for so long. Hypnotic and droney, with the spectral, timeless quality of the best country blues
Saw this on @awnothimagain.bsky.social’s MWE and thought it sounded like exactly my thing, and I was right. I love this so much I’m genuinely upset to have missed it for so long. Hypnotic and droney, with the spectral, timeless quality of the best country blues
#MWE Day 5 (on day 9. I’m getting there)
There’s some genuinely good stuff here. The country/roots-inflected tracks are the strongest, and serve his warm, distinctive voice the best. Variety is this album’s weakness - the generic pop-rock and Imagine Dragons soundalike tracks drag it down.
There’s some genuinely good stuff here. The country/roots-inflected tracks are the strongest, and serve his warm, distinctive voice the best. Variety is this album’s weakness - the generic pop-rock and Imagine Dragons soundalike tracks drag it down.
February 10, 2025 at 6:42 AM
#MWE Day 5 (on day 9. I’m getting there)
There’s some genuinely good stuff here. The country/roots-inflected tracks are the strongest, and serve his warm, distinctive voice the best. Variety is this album’s weakness - the generic pop-rock and Imagine Dragons soundalike tracks drag it down.
There’s some genuinely good stuff here. The country/roots-inflected tracks are the strongest, and serve his warm, distinctive voice the best. Variety is this album’s weakness - the generic pop-rock and Imagine Dragons soundalike tracks drag it down.
#MWE day 4 (on day 9)
Having grown up in the age of Zamfir, I’m very suspicious of any music that goes flute-first, so this made me anxious from the opening notes. It won me over at the album’s midpoint (and highlight) ‘I’ll Do Whatever You Want’. The layers emerged as I opened up to it.
Having grown up in the age of Zamfir, I’m very suspicious of any music that goes flute-first, so this made me anxious from the opening notes. It won me over at the album’s midpoint (and highlight) ‘I’ll Do Whatever You Want’. The layers emerged as I opened up to it.
February 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
#MWE day 4 (on day 9)
Having grown up in the age of Zamfir, I’m very suspicious of any music that goes flute-first, so this made me anxious from the opening notes. It won me over at the album’s midpoint (and highlight) ‘I’ll Do Whatever You Want’. The layers emerged as I opened up to it.
Having grown up in the age of Zamfir, I’m very suspicious of any music that goes flute-first, so this made me anxious from the opening notes. It won me over at the album’s midpoint (and highlight) ‘I’ll Do Whatever You Want’. The layers emerged as I opened up to it.
#MWE day 3 (on day 8)
Family Affair and No More Drama are enough for this album to plant its flag as a classic, but it’s honestly pretty uneven and most of the tracks that aim for inspirational land in generic platitudes.
Family Affair and No More Drama are enough for this album to plant its flag as a classic, but it’s honestly pretty uneven and most of the tracks that aim for inspirational land in generic platitudes.
February 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
#MWE day 3 (on day 8)
Family Affair and No More Drama are enough for this album to plant its flag as a classic, but it’s honestly pretty uneven and most of the tracks that aim for inspirational land in generic platitudes.
Family Affair and No More Drama are enough for this album to plant its flag as a classic, but it’s honestly pretty uneven and most of the tracks that aim for inspirational land in generic platitudes.
#MWE day 2 (but on day 8)
Essentially the same sound as What’s the 411? but the strength is in her personality emerging in the songwriting
Essentially the same sound as What’s the 411? but the strength is in her personality emerging in the songwriting
February 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
#MWE day 2 (but on day 8)
Essentially the same sound as What’s the 411? but the strength is in her personality emerging in the songwriting
Essentially the same sound as What’s the 411? but the strength is in her personality emerging in the songwriting
I gotta say, Americans - or Americans who comment on NYT articles - don’t seem like they’re getting it. You’re losing your country and still sitting around calling Donald Trump a toddler? It’s a little late to be acting like he’s a temporary nuisance.
February 6, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I gotta say, Americans - or Americans who comment on NYT articles - don’t seem like they’re getting it. You’re losing your country and still sitting around calling Donald Trump a toddler? It’s a little late to be acting like he’s a temporary nuisance.
Chappell Roan gets the job done
February 3, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Chappell Roan gets the job done
Every Canadian needs to be vigilant - JD Vance’s Canadian friends could be anywhere. If you see something, say something.
This is unbecoming of anyone serving in elected office. There’s also a logical conclusion to his “three ways of stopping this,” and it’s absolutely fucking insane.
February 3, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Every Canadian needs to be vigilant - JD Vance’s Canadian friends could be anywhere. If you see something, say something.
“[the LA fires are]even affecting some of the wealthiest and most powerful individuals in our country, some of whom are sitting here right now. They don’t have a home any longer. That’s interesting.”
Who’s he subtweeting?
Who’s he subtweeting?
January 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“[the LA fires are]even affecting some of the wealthiest and most powerful individuals in our country, some of whom are sitting here right now. They don’t have a home any longer. That’s interesting.”
Who’s he subtweeting?
Who’s he subtweeting?
“If you commit to writing every day for the next three to ninety-six years, you’ll be sipping gin and tonics on the French Riviera with your fellow Pulitzer Prize winners before you know it. Or be dead in a pauper’s grave. It’s a coin toss, really.”
"A writing career is not a sprint. It is also not a marathon. A writing career is one of those wilderness survival challenges where they dump you in the woods without a map or a compass or food and whoever finds their way out wins."
How to Become a Professional Writer
Do you enjoy writing? Do you like the idea of taking the thing you love doing the most in the world and turning it into work? So that your access t...
buff.ly
January 17, 2025 at 5:37 AM
“If you commit to writing every day for the next three to ninety-six years, you’ll be sipping gin and tonics on the French Riviera with your fellow Pulitzer Prize winners before you know it. Or be dead in a pauper’s grave. It’s a coin toss, really.”
Remember when Dylan Roof killed nine Black people in a church and the arresting officers bought him a burger?
December 20, 2024 at 2:05 AM
Remember when Dylan Roof killed nine Black people in a church and the arresting officers bought him a burger?
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