• Years ago, I got the idea for a book about an authoritarian state that uses a semi-sentient AI to control its citizens. I published it exactly one year ago and did NOT count on it becoming nonfiction so quickly.
  • Known Order Girls
• Earlier this year, I wrote about how I feel about AI being used for creative purposes.
• The song recommendation for this episode is Paranoid Android by Radiohead.
• For the video edition of this, I wore a t-shirt from Stevie's Safe Spaces. It's the one that reads "You Will Have To Go Through Me" in trans colours

This week, I have the pleasure of talking with writer Gordon Bonnet. Gordon and I have been friends for a long time, and it was great to spend some time catching up and chatting about writing, creativity, impostor syndrome, and more!

• Check out this video of Gordon and me being sexy beasts
• The song recommendation for this episode is Oh Yeah by Yello
• Arc of the Oracles trilogy by Gordon Bonnet
• Known Order Girls by Andrew Butters

• My “Kiss Me You Fool” by The Northern Pikes a cappella cover
• 54-40
  • I Go Blind covered by Hootie & The Blowfish and used on the Friends soundtrack
  • Nice to Luv You LIVE from Moncton
  • Other great songs: Baby Ran, One Day In Your Life, One Gun (sang by me and my now retired coffee shop band Argyle Speedo), Miss You, Baby Have Some Faith, She La, Ocean Pearl, Nice To Luv You, Lies to Me, Crossing a Canyon
• The Northern Pikes
  • In the She Ain’t Pretty video, “she” was a counsellor at the summer camp I went to
  • She Ain’t Pretty LIVE from Moncton
  • Other great songs: Teenland, Hopes Go Astray, Girl With A Problem, Kiss Me You Fool, Dream Away, Believe
• Other Bands Discussed
  • hHead
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • Kane & Potvin

This week, we take you back to Paddock Park, a place that provides many joyful memories for many, but for me, it was the source of much misfortune.

• The metal geodesic dome + stranger danger
• The massive crab apple tree
• The crab apples from the massive crab apple tree

Buy my book, Near Death By A Thousand Cuts: A Humorous Memoir of Misfortune

The song recommendation for this episode is Jesus of Suburbia by Green Day

This week, I do a quick lesson on the Canadian electoral system and recap the election. I discuss the differences in campaigns and platforms between the Liberals and Conservatives. The song recommendation for this week is It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) by Great Big Sea (R.E.M. cover).

This week, I welcome Ken Tizzard (The Watchmen, Thornlea, Music For Goats, Whiskey Wednesdays) to the show, and it was a rockin' good time for sure. We discuss core music memories, connections, creativity, and more. He's a fine musician and a hellova good human.

The song recommendation for this episode: Drunk, Stoned, and Broke by Ken Tizzard and Music for Goats.

• Whiskey Wednesdays
  • Evelyn Jess
  • Jing Xia
  • Sean Panting
• kentizzard.com
• Ken Tizzard on Spotify

• Website Store | Redbubble Store | Facebook | Bluesky
• Known Order Girls (a young woman speaks truth to power and subverts authority)
• Near Death By A Thousand Cuts: A Humorous Memoir of Misfortune (laughs)
• Bent But Not Broken: One Family’s Scoliosis Journey (all royalties go to charity)
• Retribution: The Mogul (Sex, drugs, manipulation, and hard truths)
• Losing Vern (short story, only 99¢)

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• My a capella cover of “Subversives”
• Spirit of the West
  • “Save This House”
    • Theme song for the Western University dorm “The Zoo”
  • “Home For a Rest”
  • “And If Venice is Sinking”
  • John Mann: Spirit Unforgettable
• Lowest of the Low
  • Shakespeare My Butt
    • One of my top 5 albums of all time
  • Do The Right Now
• Ron Hawkins & The Do Good Assassins
• Greg Smith Sounds
• Weakerthans

• Website Store | Redbubble Store | Facebook | Bluesky
• Known Order Girls (a young woman speaks truth to power and subverts authority)
• Near Death By A Thousand Cuts: A Humorous Memoir of Misfortune (laughs)
• Bent But Not Broken: One Family’s Scoliosis Journey (all royalties go to charity)
• Retribution: The Mogul (Sex, drugs, manipulation, and hard truths)
• Losing Vern (short story, only 99¢)

This week, we go back to the beginning. Before the beginning, even. I'll tell you about my very first misfortune incident that occurred when I was in utero, how I scaled a giant television set when I was two, played "ghost" and saw the business end of a flight of stairs, and almost drowned—all by the age of five!

Find the book Near Death By A Thousand Cuts here.

Song recommendation for this episode is Fall to Pieces by Velvet Revolver.