In my first essay for @2067Journal, I wrote about Canadian's men's soccer. In short, I ask, is it "our game now?"
In many ways it's a microcosm of two challenges Canada faces - building durable institutions, and thick loyalties and identity. This is what's needed to make the game our own, and it's a lesson writ large about the Canadian experience not just in soccer or sports, but across all sorts of industries and facets of our national life.
It’s clear that hugh jackman really just wants to do musicals for the rest of his career but all the money he needs is in the superhero movies so I propose we fix both of these issues for him and get an x-men musical rolling
One thing I love about older fantasy books is their expectations of the readers. They'll sling dozens of unfamiliar terms and places and names at you and expect you to patiently wait for those things to be explained, or to learn them from context. And you do.
"If you take enough ayahuasca you can speak with your ancestors"
Okay, well if I drink enough beer I can DM the creator of tv's Bones and tell him there should have only been 206 episodes
ideally akotsk should have like fifteen episodes of filler. just 30-45 minutes of our boys solving a problem in some town, leaving, maekar gets there five minutes after they leave, that kind of stuff
in a way this is the best outcome for the future of canadian hockey because now younger players won’t just want to recreate the golden goal they’ll want to avenge sidney crosby