Rob Lapier

Roses are red, (The white ones excepted). My mail-in ballot’s Received and accepted.

Today @alyalyoops.bsky.social gives us a look at some short reads for spooky season: @tkingfisher.com's Sworn Soldier series! -JI🐉 "Classic literature, ancient myth, and Lovecraftian horror is a winning combination & highly effective." fantasy-faction.com/2026/sworn-s... #booksky 💙📚🪐 #horrorbooks

#Booksky Spooktacular 2026 Day 26: Southern Gothic horror the way only @tkingfisher.com can do it? That’s what’s on the menu in A House with Good Bones. Also insects, vultures, and teeth! Kingfisher has that tricky skill of making you laugh and creeping you out in quick succession, which I love.

In Vanishing Point (1971), the prototypical speed vector manifests through Kowalski's Dodge Challenger. Stripped of a dyadic pursuer dynamic, the car becomes a high-velocity projectile on an urgent A-to-B highway trajectory driven solely by a tight deadline and pure speed.

"Private Symphony" which I engineered on the Juno Award-winning album Maestro Fresh Wes SYMPHONY IN EFFECT (Attic Records 1989) played Y/d eve on PopCanRetro.ca The LP was the 1st Canadian urban/rap album to go platinum. 2nd-best selling Cancon LP in Canada of 1990 onlineradiobox.com/ca/popcanret...

Wonderful and joyous news for democracy in Europe. Trump-aligned and Putin-backed longtime Serbian leader Vucic and his right-wing party concedes defeat in Serbia's national election to a student-led opposition movement!!

Do you remember...The Kings Formed in 1977 in Oakville, Ontario, they had one platinum album and two Top 40 hits in Canada. Their song, The Beat Goes On/Switchin' To Glide, was a major hit in Canada and the USA. They continue to tour today with three of four original members.

Staff Pick of the Week: A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT (2014) In an Iranian ghost town, a place that reeks of death, a lonely vampire stalks the most unsavory inhabitants. But when boy meets girl, a love story begins to blossom...blood red. Stream now: https://bit.ly/47tHUPd Available: 🇺🇸|🇨🇦

🇺🇦🛡️🇬🇧❗️ Some Russian monitoring channels report a possible new launch of Ukrainian Storm Shadow cruise missiles — already the second in the last week, which coincides with the recent delivery of a new batch of these missiles from Great Britain to the Ukrainian Air Force this month. -Daniele Ferrari 4͏h͏

Stepped out of the restaurant with two friends, and a woman yells at us. HER: Hey! What band are you in? US: Eh? HER: What’s the name of your band? KEVIN: We’re not in a band? HER: You’re not? ME: We’re just weirdos. And then she began singing “Creep” at us.

It's so much fun sharing our adoration of @tkingfisher.com with her fans. Yeah we sell her books, but we voraciously READ her books too. She spans so many genres from YA to Fantasy to Horror to Romance. One of the reasons we love selling her books is because there is something for everyone.

New to Kanopy! MAGELLAN (2025) Available: 🇺🇸|🇨🇦 DOCTOR WHO: S8 (2014) Available: 🇺🇸|🇨🇦 Access may vary by library. THE BROOD (1979) Available: 🇺🇸|🇦🇺 SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE (2000) Available: 🇺🇸|🇨🇦 THE GLORIAS (2020) Available: 🇺🇸

Just a periodic, friendly reminder that we could actually avoid all this by not caring who’s attracted to, who’s having sex with who, who’s marrying who, let alone believing any of it should matter in public policy. We could just all mind our own business and all have rights. ✨

you can call it a metaphor, but I call it vandalism. pearls before swine.

A rogue spy who bugs foreign embassies and then uses those sensitive recordings as a subtly evolving soundbed on which to summon a richly interwoven sonic tapestry of granularized folk melodies and achingly languorous feedback drones as an elegy for our once better collective aspirations.

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AI shouldn't be able to fire you, fire a weapon, or deny you healthcare.

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In 1966, Bill Mason released his acclaimed live-action short film Paddle to the Sea with the National Film Board. The Oscar-nominated film became a fixture for Canadian children in schools for decades. This is the story of that film. 📸 NFB 🧵1/10

42 years ago #otd October 19, 1984 Sturm Group w/ Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Slightly Damaged at The Rivoli, Toronto 42 yrs ago, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, who shared our rehearsal space, played their first ever gig, on a dare, opening for my band Sturm Group.

Whodini effortlessly explaining why AI music isn’t music in 1982 over a Conny Plank produced beat. youtu.be/FEZEiympuBM

Good Night From The Drummer, My Friends. Sleep Tight.

Oh it’s a gorgeous show for sure but episode two lowkey triggered me xD

No one warned me about how gross Hannibal (the tv show with Mads Mikkelsen) is

Good Morning From The Drummer, My Friends.

My band Raggadeath today on popcanretro.ca with "Electric Avenue" from our 2nd album Raggadeath RAGGADEATH (Attic Records 1997) Produced by Walter Sobczak and Stephen Kendall Engineered by Walter Sobczak Mixed by Walter Sobczak and Stephen Kendall onlineradiobox.com/ca/popcanret...

The mocking will continue as long as wealthy people with no skills continue to stand up and tell us how smart they are. To coin a phrase, Fuck these rich morons.

Online activity for the CONservative Party of Canada is down 60% after Ukraine destroys largest Russian data centre. Probably nothing.

What I like about Bluesky is that Ukraine's bombing of the Russian Bots has no effect on traffic here, we all blocked those bots long ago

lukewarm take: covers of songs that we grew up listening to and kind of idolizing are never going to be as good as covers of songs we're a tiny bit making fun of and thus feel free to do something actually genuinely new to

My band Raggadeath on Funky Fridays CIUT 89.5 FM 2 days ago with "Everyday Action" from Raggadeath RAGGADEATH (Attic Records 1997) Produced by Walter Sobczak and Stephen Kendall Engineered by Walter Sobczak Vocals Michie Mee Guitars Steve Major Bass Walter Sobczak Drums Stephen Kendall

"Private Symphony" which I engineered on the Juno Award-winning album Maestro Fresh Wes SYMPHONY IN EFFECT (Attic Records 1989) played last night on Kingston's PopCanRetro.ca. The album was the 1st Canadian black r&b/rap album to go platinum & was the 2nd-best selling Cancon album in Canada of 1990

I appreciate the sentiment and a appreciate a few Republicans showing signs of a spine with Brian Fitzpatrick's attempt to block the importation of russian diesel with a proposed “Ronald Reagan Peace Through Strength Act.” However it is already illegal for USA to purchase russian diesel... cont'd

early "October Surprise" for Trump and Putin. installment one.

republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution

Good Morning From The Drummer, My Friends.

Manye of the rest of us reade it as a fielde guide for survivinge bad tymes and tryinge to keepe our soules intact whilst doinge so. Gramercy to you, wyse and stylish bard.

Btw, I didn’t create the term “utopian porn”. Saw it recently in a post and instantly embraced it.

This is such a fun record👇

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

From The Automatic Detective, my retro sci fi detective novel: Joseph Jung, mutant gorilla And an unfinished sketch of Alfredo Sanchez, mutant cop. Is he a man who mutated into a possumoid or a possum who mutated into a humanoid? I’ll never tell.

Ford's plans to shift towards health care privatization is costing Ontarians more money and time! https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/how-doug-ford-s-health-plan-costs-taxpayers-billions-and-privatization-is-making-it-fail/article_46cdf5e5-41c3-4585-96b6-bf5927027078.html #onpoli #onhealth