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AUDIO DESCRIPTION WRITER • lover of dark theatres & The Cure • born in the heart of Toronto • wonky eyeballs & a smart mouth • rhubarb obsessed 🇨🇦 + 🇬🇧 🚫 AI/zombros/cultish nonsense 🏳️‍⚧️ protect trans kids

Chris Murray and Matt Bergman smile in a photo. Text: Chris Murray, legendary voice of King Apparatus, accompanied by Matt Bergman. 7/24 Barrie CW Coops, 7/25 Toronto Bovine Sex Club, 7/26 Hamilton The Gate, 8-1 Newmarket The Lion, 8/2 Waterloo Band Crawl.
This random bloated asshat, a man, because who else, probably early 60s, messaged my sister-in-law on IG to bully her today. He needs to moisturize his flaky gob (skip the thin lips because they are invisible), a trim for his pube-y fringe, and some primer on his bald noggin. He’s called Brian Peter Barton, and he looks like he’s hiding some pizza pockets in his cheeks, probably made by his mum in the toaster oven upstairs.
Emergency Alert from Environment Canada: Tornado in this mobile coverage area. Take immediate cover in a basement or interior room if weather threat approaches. Shelter from flying debris if outside. 6:21pm EDT.
An image shows the cover of Ray Robertson’s book, ‘The Right to be Wrong,’ along with two author photos of Ray and Kim. Text: Ray Robertson in conversation with Kim Echlin. May 12, 7-8pm. Waterloo Public Library, Eastside Branch, 2001 University Ave E, Waterloo, ON
In a window card from the St Ann’s Warehouse NYC production of Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Cillian Murphy as crow/dad wears a black robe open to his bare abdomen. His short dark hair stands in spikes, and his lips part under a full reddish moustache. His sapphire blue eyes stare off, and his head is tilted slightly to the right. A single black jagged drip runs from his forehead to his solar plexus. Text reads: By Max Porter, Adapted and Directed by Enda Walsh. April 20-May 12. A Wayward Production in association with Complicité. The
The Cure’s beloved frontman, Robert Smith, in a white with blue Toronto Maple Leafs hockey jersey, plays a crimson electric guitar. (please feel free to add to the comments if you know the photographer)
An author event photo features a photo of CanLit author Ray Robertson. Wed April 29, 6:30-8pm, Chatham-Kent Public Library in Chatham, ON, Canada. Ray Robertson in conversation about his book, “The Right to be Wrong,” moderated by councillor Alysson Storey. Free event, light refreshments served.
In an iconic image by Andy Vella, The Cure’s Robert Smith stands with his back turned, with an electric guitar. He wears black clothing, and saggy white socks with white trainers. His head tilts slightly to the right, and his trademark dark locks stand on end. Blurred grey shapes appear on a white background. Perfection.
Snow falls and blankets a back garden, including the boughs of two towering evergreen trees. Bare branches in the conservation area beyond are snow-covered, and a bird feeder leans in the yard near a brown garden shed. We are all sick and tired of the snow here in Ontario, Canada.
And now the US and Israel have acted without engaging the UN or consulting with allies, including Canada. So where to from here? With a rapidly spreading conflict and growing threats to civilian life, Canada reaffirms that international law binds all belligerents. We condemn the strikes carried out by Iran on civilians and civilian infrastructure across the Middle East. We implore all parties, including the US and Israel, to respect the rules of international engagement.
On a bare rural road, the full yellow snow moon appears just above trees and power lines in a pale pink and blue dusk sky. Snow covers the fields behind the trees.
An image shows the brown sugar streusel topping on a sour cream coffee cake, freshly baked.
A gig poster shows dead flies around a grey stain. In grey and black block letters on a white background: Filmed for “quotethechaiman.” Jan 22nd: In Framings, Gutmachine, Insomniak. The Baby G, 1608 Dundas St W, 7:30 | 8:00 Show $10 doors 19+
A Merriam-Webster Bluesky post reads: “take a screenshot of this GIF and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let’s go! My word is “swampy.”
In a black and white image shot by artist Laurie Langford, Canadian author Ray Robertson stands to the right of a woman with a short dark bob. On the left is a woman with glasses and mid-length straight light hair. They all smile. In the background, writer Vanessa Stauffer stands by a window.
At the bottom of a photo that shows a peach, pink and orange sunset in a cloudy pale blue sky, spiky trees appear in silhouette.
Canadian writer Ray Robertson shares a laugh with high school friend and interviewer Rev Dr Brad Morrison at the launch event for Dust. Chatham, Ontario, Friday November 28 at the Chatham Cultural Centre.
In a still from the web series Kensington Diner, actor Amy Matysio stares off, with the CN Tower in the distance, and a sign that reads, “Kensington.”
A Toronto Star headline reads, “Under new rule, Canadians should prepare to be photographed at US border.”
A blue jay sits atop a wooden deck railing in autumn, against a backdrop of autumn leaves that have turned yellow, orange and plum.
Canadian singer-songwriter extraordinaire Ron Sexsmith stands at a microphone onstage at Maxwell’s in Waterloo. He holds an acoustic guitar.
A book cover shows, Ray Robertson’s “DUST, More Lives of the Poets with Guitars.” An event listing reads: Book launch, Thursday, November 6, 7pm at The Mezz, 1546 Queen St W Toronto. Performance by Staig & Billings, moderated by Alan Zweig.
An excerpt from the article reads, “A self-described Katy Perry super fan isn’t particularly pleased former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau is making fireworks with his pop idle.”
At TIFF in Toronto, a Q&A features director Tim Mielants, actor Cillian Murphy, actor Jay Lycurgo, and writer Max Porter.
Multiple jars of salsa sit cooling on sheet trays in a kitchen.
A screenshot from Air Canada’s website: record operating revenues of $5,404 billion for the 4th quarter, 4% higher year over year. Record operating revenues of $22.255 billion for the full year 2024, 2% higher year over year.
At the Pebble Beach Tour d’Excellence 2025, Don McLellan drives a classic open-topped 1920s Torpedo with a caramel brown ‘tulipwood’ finish.
In old paintings, a handsome young man with long wavy golden locks appears on the left. On the right, a middle-aged man with long frizzy hair and an under-bite scowls.
The sun glows red as it sets over Lake Huron’s deep blue waves.
A CP headline reads, “Trump lowers expectations of trade deal with Canada, gives 90-day delay to Mexico. Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press, July 31, 2025. An accompanying photo shows a clammy-looking Trump with the rusty skin of a poorly-applied self-tanner. His pie hole is wide open, but his heavily-lidded froggy eyes, not so much.
A hummingbird perches on the edge of a suspended round red feeder at dusk, with trees in silhouette in the background. The sky is pale grey.
Bright red mashed strawberries near the boiling point in a stainless steel pot.
A leaflet with pink and teal graphics and text: Public Seating DIY Presents: fundraiser show for shore centre, Iowa trans mutual aid fund, trans resistance network. Boxcutter, Body Nest, Human Form, Sullen, Gutmachine, One More Lane. Two cassette tapes feature Gutmachine and Human Form.
Two taupe-coloured birds groom each other on a wooden pergola beam, with leafy green trees in the background.
A ruffled pale pink English rose in full bloom fills the frame.
Ripe red Ontario strawberries fill green pint baskets.
A view of Toronto’s CN Tower shows the top of the tower looming over the Spadina Ave and Lakeshore Blvd exit ramp sign under cloudy grey skies.
A raccoon prowls across green grass near a shed.
Disappointed Cillian Murphy, as Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders, sits with his legs crossed in an armchair. He’s definitely not ever watching Fox News.
In a photograph by Simon Emmett for Esquire, Tom Hardy oozes masculinity as he sits with his legs crossed in a chair, dressed in an indigo pinstripe suit and waistcoat, with dark boots. His charcoal-coloured French bulldog sits on the floor and looks up at Tom.
A poster reads: Public Seating DIY presents: Fundraiser Show for Shore Centre, Iowa Trans Mutual Aid Fund, Trans Resistance Network. Boxcutter, Body Nest, Human Form, Sullen, gutmachine, One More Lane. 28 June 2025, doors 7, music 8. $20 pwyc all ages. Huether Hotel (basement, side entrance), 59 King St N, Waterloo. No advance tickets.
A grey cat curled in a ball sleeps in a carton of purple strip garlic bulbs at a plant nursery outside of Waterloo, Ontario.
A side mirror dangles from its base on a silver car after a wild turkey charged the passenger side.
Four blue jays eat seeds in the grass below a bird feeder.
A red-haired raccoon stalks across a dandelion-strewn lawn toward a bird feeder (out of shot).
I have an ample bundle of pink-stemmed rhubarb. Picked this morning in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Chopped rhubarb macerates in a bowl with sugar.
Actor Diana Bentley appears in a scene from The Handmaid’s Tale.
A view of a raccoon with reddish fur shows its hindquarters as it walks away from a patio door.
On a chained door in the East Village, on the south side of East 7th St west of 1st Ave, a portrait of Adam Yauch shows him in a yellow check shirt. It reads: MCA where have you been? Adam wears a grey Beastie Boys t-shirt.
I’m sitting in a hospital waiting room and this is my hospital bracelet because I can’t breathe and I’m waiting for a chest scan.
A black band t-shirt features a pink x-ray of a broken elbow post-surgery, and the word Gutmachine in pink.
A female cardinal perches on a bird feeder near a chain link fence. Dead leaves cover the ground.
A bright scarlet male cardinal sits atop a garden shed with its head cocked.
The CN Tower in Toronto rises into a cloud-streaked blue sky above the Skydome.
A photo shows rows of shiny multicoloured chocolate bonbons in a clear tray.
An image of an elderly couple from Saskatchewan, Elsie and Carl Jensen, accompanies a CBC article about how they’re angry about Trump’s tariffs but also the Liberal Party. She’s quoted as saying, “We’re carrying the country but they’re punishing us.”
A window sign in a bakery, in front of golden scones, reads, “cranberry scorn, $2.25 plus tax.”