Every other post.
Here’s a list of written works I’ve released in the past decade or so:
Other projects are listed here. I’ve also written a number of articles.
A Useful Ghost is a 2025 Thai tragicomedy by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke.
I went in expecting a comedy about how women are raised to please; what with the plot centering a wife’s ghost being trapped in a vacuum cleaner. I didn’t expect all that much from it.
I vastly underestimated where this film would go.
The film opens to a few laughs, but then explores themes of homophobic rejection, systems that pit people on the bottom against each other and the toll that it takes, corruption with a smile, and more yet. All the while mixing humour and heart in a way I hadn’t seen before.
The easy laughs of the beginning give way to a Greek tragedy, before closing to a few gags. So tonally it was a bit abrupt but it largely succeeded in its commentary.
I recommend this one.
I hate watched the Melania movie last night with my best friend. I thought it would be fun to roast together.
The film is widely understood as a vehicle to bribe the Trump family by billionaire Jeff Bezos. His payment of $28M to the criminal family paid off; the billionaire’s company subsequently received a $7B tax break. The project was helmed by disgraced director and sexual predator Brett Ratner.
(more…)Conservative strategists concocted a panic around trans people as a proxy issue to rob cis women of their agency. This manufactured panic has been so successful that even liberals are portraying trans people as threats to be eliminated:
In 2012, a Bramfekta at Ottawa’s Bramasole Diner was $11.89:
In 2014, it was the same price:
In 2017, it was $13:
In 2019, it was $14:
In 2022, it was $16:
In 2023, it was $21:
Today, in 2026, it’s $22.50:
As a chart:
The price hike is comparable to general food inflation in Canada:
