Lockdown is still with us, but we’re creeping closer to spring. My understanding from last year is that all this should just magically disappear when the weather warms up. Someone said that, I think. Who was it? Pfft. I guess we’ll never remember.

- Libel chill moves mining book from Europe to Toronto;
- I love watching child stars escape the fate of weirdoism… Sarah Polley to publish essays;
- Lots of internal strife at PRHC over the publication of incel hero and noted philosophical huckster Jordan Peterson’s new book… but no one’s really talking… wonder why;
- You have to be shaved to get a death mask made? There’s goes my plans — on Keats’ face;
- On that time Paul McCartney pranked Paul Muldoon by pretending to be Donald Trump; \
- A few Stephen King quotes never hurt no one;
- This is an “interview” Sam Beckett’s gave on getting the Nobel Prize… There are no words spoken in it… I still worship the guy the way I worship Han Solo — I want to watch everything he does, but not do any of it;
- How are comic book artists dealing with the pandemic?;
- Coronarotica … how hot is it? UPSETTINGLY SO, BABY…
- Tips on reading those Proust books you swore you’d get to during lockdown but never will;