hollowmines

Go take a look at r/canadaland for the details, but basically AFAICT Jesse Brown is a lunatic.

I live in a small apartment complex above a commercial space in a huge city, dead center of downtown. recently this space has been rented by a string of doomed businesses, currently a very poorly conceived and executed theme cafe/restaurant that uses AI art and just emanates a cursed vibe overall. I have to walk directly past/beside it to enter my building now and it's honestly embarrassing. also they trashed our back alley and now it's a rat paradise. hate these ppl.

I've put in my hours making breakfast and brunch for friends and myself (often just myself tbh) but I used to really enjoy going to select diners in other places I've lived, like the long-gone Moe's (RIP!!!) in Montreal - places where the food was cheap and dependable and you just liked being there. so naturally I have been daydreaming (and note-drafting) about what I would do with the space if someone were to hand me the couple hundred g's for the equipment and lease after this place inevitably shutters. (not very likely but dreaming is free.)

It's been fun to build a menu, conceptualize items, and think about how I would manage the space and manage orders and stuff. I actually devised and made a delicious new pancake this morning, great fun. I've been feeding them to neighbours and my roommate and it's been all raves. I've been just openly raging and despairing over (gestures at everything that's happening) and there seems to be no protest activity here so this has been a nice lil wholesome activity/distraction

I guess my q's for fellow hexbears, I know we're not exactly pro small business tyrants around here but I was wondering if anyone had a resto concept they batted around in their heads a while even just for fun, and also if anyone had some cool diners they wanted to shout out (alive or dead) or had any thoughts on what makes a good diner or shared eating space generally.

my niblings are 5 and 6 respectively. they like to read and be read to and I would like to get some books to help foster their enjoyment of reading as they grow up - so ideally stuff that's not too challenging but still good for fostering young imaginations. obviously sneaky subversive themes are welcome - the sneakier the better, I kinda suspect their dad leans chud.

"he is heading towards certain death."

(CW: implied future animal death.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWH_9VRWn8Y

based on site demographics I can't be alone in this. immediately feels like 2004 never ended.

fuck every single person involved in conceiving and executing these actions, and the many who will make excuses for it.

EDIT: idk why I was so specific about the years. any fellow "war on terror" experiencers are the intended audience here.

the one with the most relevance to the broader hexbearverse would seem to be avi lewis, who is married to naomi klein.

the dockworker guy sounds interesting on paper but painful to watch. cartoon villain vibes.

it seems like there's a glut of left-leaning candidates with questionable charisma levels, the kind of situation an establishment candidate could cruise through

under the guise of getting more housing built, of course. grim grim stuff. I have to imagine this is a preview of where every province is headed.

https://deadline.com/2025/10/david-chase-limited-series-project-mkultra-hbo-1236594283/

The project, which would make Chase’s first series since his groundbreaking HBO mob drama, will be based on the non-fiction book Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKUltra by author John Lisle. Chase has optioned the book and will write the adaptation which falls under the first-look deal his company Riverain Pictures has at HBO.

Project: MKUltra is a dramatic thriller centered on the infamous chemist and spymaster Sidney Gottlieb, often known as The Black Sorcerer, who headed the CIA’s MKUltra Psychedelic program which conducted dangerous and deadly mind control experiments on willing – and unwilling – subjects during the height of the Cold War. Gottlieb is also known as the unwitting godfather of the entire LSD counterculture.

I think its generic title and weird availability (audience network??) doomed it to obscurity but there's a lot in it for slop enjoyers.....incredibly deep bench of character actors in the main and guest/recurring cast for starters. frank grillo, paul walter hauser and jonathan tucker alone being in so much of it makes it worthy. uh nick jonas is there also

I would basically describe it as a kind of a douchebag hot couch take on a prestige drama. lots of fighting, lots of betrayal, lots of alcoholism, lots of melodrama. but also for long stretches, some of the most realistic unflowery dialogue I've ever seen on tv? the non-male characters are mostly not embarrassing from what I remember? the second season is twenty episodes long, and then the third is the hottest mess imaginable?

this is as good a clip as I'm gonna find. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4QZ9fjgoHM

Interesting if true.

had a couple of v pleasant movie watching experiences with others and realized I have been missing out on one of life's utmost pleasures, watching movies in a group setting. to remedy this, I am starting to screen movies on a schedule, two evenings a week, for myself, my neighbors (I live in a small apt complex), and select others to drop in on when they feel like.

seeking recommendations along two lines:

1. What movies have you watched in a group setting that have absolutely killed?

2. Every month will have a theme, and for November the theme is "just to feel" - v emotional movies. Doesn't have to be super sad, it could be joyful, but preferably not a children's/family film or an anime (sorry just not my thing, though there are exceptions of course - you can't do an emotional movies program without Grave of the Fireflies)

......man I could have gotten SO much reading and writing done if only someone had simply thrown me in prison as a teenager

(I'm only 50 pages in)

Anyone else read this or other Deutscher work? Fans? Haters?