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Movie Review: Riceboy Sleeps

8/10. Excellent. Because it was Canadian and it was AAPI heritage month. The indie machine keeps on churning out hit after hit, particularly the Canadian indie machine. I view the 2023 film Riceboy Sleeps as a spiritual successor to the 1994 film, Double Happiness, both sponsored by various governmental arts…

Riceboy Sleeps

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Riceboy Sleeps

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May 25

Fiction: Dreams of electric fire hydrants

The knocking at the door persisted. Aidan’s roommate wasn’t supposed to be home for several hours. He thought he could feel his heart pounding inside his chest and his throat constricting. It had been a few weeks since this funny business started. And it all happened because of these captchas. …

AI

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AI

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May 18

Education in the time of AI, or The evolution of education

Depending on whom one asks, the purpose of education differs. I’m partial to two explanations: that it’s intended to equip its students with the capacity for rational and independent thought, or to turn freethinking individuals into gears of the machine that is society. Though these seem to be contradictory, as…

AI

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AI

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May 11

Death of the poseur and the triumph of aesthetics

The poseur is dead, and it is we who have killed them. A few weeks ago, I wrote about how to commit to a fit, and why hairstyles and tattoos show more dedication to a certain aesthetic compared to simply dressing the part. The main message was this: because while…

Poser

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Poser

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May 5

Fiction: Before Dawn

Winters in Montreal are especially cruel. The sun rises at 7:30 in the morning, and sets at 4:00 in the afternoon, leaving everything in snow-shrouded darkness thereafter. It was on such a winter morning that Jesse’s alarm went off, the only light coming from his glowing phone. He blinked a…

Before Trilogy

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Before Trilogy

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Apr 28

The Toronto Man

If someone says New Yorker, an image of a fast-talking, smartly dressed, New Yawker comes to mind. If someone says LA socialite then a vain, modernly styled, wannabe actor is recalled. A Seattleite conjures the portrait of a crunchy, athleisure sporting, tech worker. Denizens of smaller places get lumped together…

Toronto Mans

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Toronto Mans

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Apr 21

TV Review: Salade grecque (Greek Salad)

7/10: Good. Cedric Klapisch’s Salade grecque is an eight-episode TV series depicting the varied events of a group of young Europeans living in downtown Athens. Throughout the series, siblings Tom and Mia learn about each other’s secrets, and become stronger versions of each other, while making friends throughout the way…

Greek Salad

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Greek Salad

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Apr 13

Fiction: The Spittle of Air Conditioners

How strange it is, that in the dead of winter in Toronto in February is the height of summer in Buenos Aires. In streets of Yorkville people’s hoods are drawn around their faces on dark afternoons as they manouvre around snowbanks while in the parks of San Telmo, children yell…

Buenos Aires

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Buenos Aires

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Apr 6

Year Ten of Haruki Murakami

Once upon a time I joked that I could tell a lot about someone new by telling them that I liked Murakami and seeing what associations one had. Would they think of Takashi, the visual artist and occasional Kanye collaborator? Would they think of Ryū, the late twentieth-century author? Or…

Haruki Murakami

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Haruki Murakami

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Mar 30

Concerning the Anachronistic Insidiousness of the Mid-Century Modern Bubble, or Why Mid-Century Modern is so Popular Among Millennial Yuppies

I’m sure it’d be better for my blog and SEO if I had titled this piece just the second title, but I really liked how fun the first title was. Mid-century modern is an aesthetic that strives to imitate the furniture and interior décor of, well mid-century modern design. For…

Mid Century Modern

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Mid Century Modern

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