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it's a hard knock life

while i'm living in my parents's house, i've been experimenting with where and when and how i can film videos. this chatty update was one of those experiments, sitting at the open patio door while it was raining, but the light was so good!

and nobody gives a damn

the vancouver goldeneyes lost their first game after the olympic break, and instead of hearing "golden" by harry styles as we exited pacific coliseum, they played "i'll believe in anything" by wolf parade. the song is the centrepiece of the climactic moment in episode

one more cup? one more cup.

It's been a while, but I finally made a new zine: tea at night , about the ritual of coffee in the morning, a pot of tea at night. I missed the last two jams—the first time since I started Sunday Zine Club . Motivation has been a

come to my cottage we'll have so much fun

if you've been wondering where all your internet friends have been, you can blame the queer hockey show. i knew this show was coming (when you're canadian, and you like hockey, and ppl know you're into gay romance, they're gonna let you

let's just make this thing

Tara Klager from Providence Lane Homestead interviewed me for her newsletter. Call it punk or call it DIY, for Driscoll, it’s about demystifying a skill set. “This isn’t a secret practice, right?” she says. “Like, you don’t have to go to

sorry, we can't get it to stop printing in landscape

The Magic of Pockets turns 3 YEARS OLD this month, and a brand new Canadian edition, with a brand new cover, is out now . more to come, promise, but i finally drew this alignment chart i had written up for fun, while i was finishing the book in 2022. tag

today is the day to pay your rent

The complete truth, before reconciliation. Gratitude time! This month we’d like to offer the chi-est of miigweches to Amanda, Robert, Gabriel, Jennifer, Alicia, Kevin, Mme Horrell, and Kelvin for signing up as paid subscribers! Amanda who signed up on Patreon, and one time gifts from Amanda, Catherine,

this could’ve been my book

Editing Modernity by Dean Irvine this is what i was going to study for my master’s degree. this book could’ve been my thesis. what a treat that i get to read it now, and i didn’t have to write it.

jelly or jam?

it's time for another sunday zine jam to start! i put the prompt up to a vote in our discord, and the people chose RUIN (how did they know this is how i feel right now? lol) the theme is RUIN i streamed this morning, but whew, it

i'll say this for microblogging

it's way easier than opening a new website, logging in because it's been too long, deciding on a post title, and then writing something that feels worthy. and when you're ready to publish, ghost (the name of my publishing software, not an apparition haunting

The Magic of Pockets—again!

the pockets you've always deserved My book is coming out—again! It's been three years since Pockets was published, and now it's available in a Canadian edition with a new cover and subtitle. Something I've always loved about books is that

14 year old me is LIVING

Noah Wyle is on Alan Alda's podcast today. Believe me when I tell you I have never hit play on something so fast. My favourite shows when I was 14: ER , MASH , and The X-Files . (When Gillian Anderson or David Duchovny are on the podcast, I will

I don't scroll here

Why can I write on Tumblr, but not on my blog? A question for the age we're living through. I've been there from the beginning; I was there before fandom, before the aesthetic blogs, before Homestuck ; I was there when the only people posting on Tumblr

10 years ago this month, I made the first Sunday Zine

I had been trying to make a zine a week, but procrastinating, as usual. Then, in May 2015, I gave the project a name: Sunday Zine. I gave myself a deadline: make a zine by Sunday night or else. if I can do it, you can do it And it

Alan Alda is NOT dead

But Vanity Fair is out here giving me a heart attack with their headline: Alan Alda at 89: A Legend on The Four Seasons, Life With Parkinson’s, M*A*S*H, and Carol Burnett What’s the strangest question anyone has ever asked you? I was at