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So I'm almost 3 months behind on my podcasts so I had missed that Jesse Brown had Hal Niedzviecki on Canadaland in February. Jesse declares right away that they won't be talking about Israel, by which he means that they won't be talking about how they both got cancelled for genocide-supporting speech (when not spreading blatant lies about Palestinians, their supporters, Hamas, etc) whike being so-called champions of alternative voices. Instead Brown decided to celebrate the life and times of Broken Pencil, the zine-review and Canadian indie culture magazine that he ran for 30 years. While that's problematic in the above context, it could have been an interesting episode, except that Hal is a boring interviewee and isn't able to discuss zines above the level of a liberal journalist finding out about them for the first time. Pretty pitiful! They had to intercut the interview with excerpts of the zines discussed to make it somewhat interesting.
When Hal decided to cancel Canzine and Broken Pencil, there was radio silence for a while, until Jonathan Rotzstain wrote a good account for Toronto alt-monthly The Grind. It turns out that there was radio silence for a while because 4 different national progressive publications refused to touch the story and even The Grind asked for the part where he linked Hal's case to Jesse Brown's to be cut from the story. So Rotzstain published a zine, Really Broken Pencil, with his original story and some extras. So now I'm distributing this zine. When better is that it turns out Rotzstain and others are planning to organize a zine fair to replace Canzine, and now I'm joining them. Exciting!!
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Unrelated anti-recommendation: Dr. Oz was on the Jordan Peterson podcast... I thought it could be hilarious, but Oz's thing is to say stuff that sounds reasonable in a calm and measured manner so in the end it was just an exercise in breaking down lies, and I have other things to do with my life. We know these quantities.
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I pulled an all-nighter while procrastinating on preparing my trip to Québec (on top of already having a significant sleep deficit this week) and I still ended up packing and showering at the very last minute. I didn't take my medication but somehow I'm still awake? So strange. Not good for my body, for sure. Tried sleeping on the bus (10 hours total today) but I can't sleep during up. I might have caught one or two hours at best.
When Hal decided to cancel Canzine and Broken Pencil, there was radio silence for a while, until Jonathan Rotzstain wrote a good account for Toronto alt-monthly The Grind. It turns out that there was radio silence for a while because 4 different national progressive publications refused to touch the story and even The Grind asked for the part where he linked Hal's case to Jesse Brown's to be cut from the story. So Rotzstain published a zine, Really Broken Pencil, with his original story and some extras. So now I'm distributing this zine. When better is that it turns out Rotzstain and others are planning to organize a zine fair to replace Canzine, and now I'm joining them. Exciting!!
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Unrelated anti-recommendation: Dr. Oz was on the Jordan Peterson podcast... I thought it could be hilarious, but Oz's thing is to say stuff that sounds reasonable in a calm and measured manner so in the end it was just an exercise in breaking down lies, and I have other things to do with my life. We know these quantities.
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I pulled an all-nighter while procrastinating on preparing my trip to Québec (on top of already having a significant sleep deficit this week) and I still ended up packing and showering at the very last minute. I didn't take my medication but somehow I'm still awake? So strange. Not good for my body, for sure. Tried sleeping on the bus (10 hours total today) but I can't sleep during up. I might have caught one or two hours at best.
