Windfall

A printed poem on cream-coloured paper, photographed close up. The title reads "THEY/THEM" in small caps, with an italic dedication to Nex Benedict beneath it. The poem is set in a serif typeface, its lines built from ampersands as it moves through times of day — dawn, dusk, sunset, twilight, morning — before closing on a two-line stanza about binary perception and the divine.

Love this poem I found:

They/Them
(dedicated to Nex Benedict)

If God created night & day
& dawn, of course
& dusk
& the tangerine rosepink sunset
& the deep amethyst twilight
& the infact bright of morning

the to perceive the world in binary is to forgo knowledge of the divine.

Poster for the film The Devil Wears Prada.

Watched The Devil Wears Prada and it has not really aged well.

Two painted canvases leaning against a graffiti-covered brick wall in a dim alley at night. The larger central canvas is a black ink-and-charcoal drawing on a cream ground: elongated, sketchy human profiles and faces, with one figure in a coat holding a cigarette near a tiny orange figure perched on the hand. Below the image it's titled "BIDDING WAR," dated "2 JUNE 2026," and signed "GRAF ALLEY" with a heart and an artist's signature. A smaller canvas to the left, in the same scratchy style, shows two faces and reads "SOLVE & RASOLUTE." Behind them the wall is covered in red, teal, and grey graffiti, including a snarling wolf and the word "RASCAL" in red. On the concrete in the foreground, handwriting reads "LIFE & DEATH ARE THINGS YOU JUST DO WHEN YOU'RE BORED," and beside a small sketch, "YOU CAN'T TAKE THIS ONE" with an arrow.

Love this Basquiatist graffiti.

Just finished watching Mile End Kicks, made me very nostalgic for the early 2010s.

A hand-lettered cardboard sign staked into a grassy curb strip. The top reads "DOG LIBRARY" in colored block capitals; beneath it, smaller handwritten text says "TAKE A STICK / LEAVE A STICK (OPTIONAL)." A few sticks lie scattered in the grass below the sign. A sidewalk runs along the left, and a young staked tree sits in a mulch bed to the right.

Mechanical Pencil is a collection of illustrated tear-downs of everyday products by Bryan Macomber. The Zippo tear-down is particularly impressive.

A plastic-wrapped flyer taped to a pole, headed "Good Friends Market," reading "GARAGE SALE — May 30th, 6 Florence St, 9AM–4:20PM. Lots of high quality GOODS for sale.. that's gangster talk for vintage clothes, knick knacks, video games, collectibles etc!" A quiet street with a bike lane sits behind it.

A yellow sticker wrapped around a city utility pole reading "BRAIN ON PLANT — Rework Gallery, 1450 Dundas Street West — arthouse of reworked clothes, design & culture — Made in Toronto — slow fashion, fast life — @brainonplants — brainonplants.com." A sunny Toronto street is blurred behind it.

A large lilac bush in full bloom, covered in pale purple flower clusters, growing in front of a tall maple on a sunny day.

A weathered wooden deck running alongside a red-brick farmhouse with white gingerbread trim on the porch, looking out to a lilac bush in bloom and green trees.

A tall black planter of trailing greenery and red flowers on a weathered deck, overlooking a green lawn, a ploughed field and a treeline under a clear blue sky.

A covered patio under a louvred pergola, furniture wrapped in mauve covers, with a curly-haired apricot dog resting on a sofa and a sunlit lawn and trees beyond.

Photo dump from a weekend at the farm.

Just watched Is This Thing On?. Pretty meh.

I’m hosting Silent Reading Club at 1RG on June 16 starting at 6pm. Bring whatever you’re reading, find a comfy spot, and enjoy a few hours of quiet company with friends old and new.