Every intelligent Torontonian is facepalming or punching a wall right now. Or angrily tweeting. Please excuse us. #Fordict

SINISTER taught me to focus on my writing and never start a family.

Re: female critics, here's something I wrote a couple of years ago about the difficulties facing female writers:  http://maisonneuve.org/post/2011/08/19/female-writers-dont-get-bylinesand-its-not-all-the/ …

"Do you have Beau's on tap?" #ShitOttawansSay

My response to Hamid Dabashi's recent piece on Iranian cinema, in which I explain why LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE is Iranian  http://bit.ly/13ps1FG 

ICYMI, I started a new feature on @moviemezzanine about Canadian film. Naturally, it's called The Invisible Cinema.  http://moviemezzanine.com/the-invisible-cinema-lonely-boy/ …

"I hate working for the government... No, no, I can't quit. I get benefits." #ShitOttawansSay

Hey Toronto, I'm officially a @baystreetvideo employee. Come say hello and rent movies from me.

Toronto, I'm looking for a job. Writing/editing/elearning/social media/communications/web dev. Hire me!

BING RING: Microsoft's secret mission to infiltrate Google's servers and obtain über-sophisticated search algorithms--using a decoder ring!!

Guys, Kiarostami was uh, pretty hot.  http://www.ybca.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/object_carousel/object_carousel/portrait_of_abbas_kiarostami_credit_janus_films.jpg …

instead of talking about what Vulgar Auteurism *is*, why don't we talk about what we want VA to *be*? or is that the same conversation?

So long, and thanks for all the thumbs.

"Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.”

#ff: my immensely talented fiancé @calummarsh, who proposed to me in Persian on March 18, 2011.

I really love Aniston's dress it's like she dressed up as the elevator from THE SHINING

ICYMI, I wrote on the rise of pro-anorexic imagery on Instagram (#thinspration) and my attempt to subvert it.  http://bit.ly/VLayUC 

"I'm going to die if I don't eat a shawarma right now." #ShitOttawansSay

"Do you guys have THEY SHOOT PIANO PLAYERS, DON'T THEY??"

BLING THING - John Carpenter and Sofia Coppola team up to make a movie OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE OMG