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Anyway, hey there.
It’s been a minute. You’ve been busy, I’ve been busy. We had intended on coming back to NECo. season three in September, but—shit happened. I moved to New York, part-time anyway; Vermont is still home. For those who are unfamiliar with NYC, imagine Montreal with inferior bagels, no universal healthcare, and horrible infrastructure. But my love is there, building a career in sculpture, and I can indulge in my scribbles in any old place, so Bushwick it is for a while. I promise not to be that writer who can’t stop telling you I live in Brooklyn. NECo is not becoming the Canadian expat version of HBO’s Girls.
I’ve been scribbling good, though. I went to Lisbon again for DISQUIET, where I was in the best workshop I’ve ever been a part of—The Spondaic Dumb Fucks—with the radest writers I’ve hung out with in a long time, and led by Adam Levin. That group renewed my faith in community, and I’m blessed by the experience, which inspired me to finish writing a novel and begin a new one. (If you’re interested in publishing either, please DM me. Bidding starts at a three-book, eight-figure deal.) Oh, and the love and I are working on a graphic novel together.
I also taught some classes and some colleges, drove 25 hours a week in my Subaru, hit the eighth-year anniversary of my sobriety, and got another Master’s degree. I regret I did not find the time to be here, but I’m coming back in January with season three, with new reflections on hauntology, lost futures, and the coming apocalypse. If you’re new to NECo., you’ll want to review seasons one and two, which are conveniently listed below.
Look, at least I’m back quicker than Severance. See y’all soon.
SEASON ONE
EPISODE ONE: Why Can’t Monsters Get Along with Other Monsters?
Trying to figure out who the villains are when they’re everywhere.
EPISODE TWO: The Music Dance Experience is Officially Cancelled
The Argument for Revolt and Dissent in Severance
EPISODE THREE: Saturday Night Live and the Institutionalization of Counterculture (brought to you by T-Mobile)
This weekend, I did something fucking crazy; I watched Saturday Night Live live, as it aired on broadcast television.
EPISODE FOUR:Do You Hate Fascism? Boycott the Super Bowl
It’s Super Bowl week, but all I can think about is Nazis
EPISODE FIVE: My Classmates Ate Each Other, Too
Yellowjackets and Growing Up in the Wilderness of the 90s
EPISODE SIX: Colleges vs. DOGEbros
Elon, AI, LMS, and the Erasure of Writing and Community in HighEd
EPISODE SEVEN: Hammer the Mirror: Reclaiming Art Through Community and the Collective (or: Why I’m Not a Sociologist)
EPISODE EIGHT: Seven Years In: Sobriety and Salvation through WTF, HDTGM, and David Berman
The years I spent in prison with Marc Maron were transformative.
EPISODE NINE: It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Don’t Feel Fine)
EPISODE TEN: Where My (Celeb) Canadians At?
Deafening silence from prominent Canadians during threats of annexation
SEASON TWO
EPISODE ONE: Is This The Last of Us? Speculative fiction and reality intersect
As the post-apocalyptic HBO series begins season two, it hits a bit too close to home.
EPISODE TWO: No Longer Afraid of the Dark: On Finding Horror Once the Nightmares Stopped
Indie Spirit and Inspiration in a Genre and Feeling I’ve Avoided
EPISODE THREE: All the Young Dudes
What the world needs now is another Gord Downie, but we might be alright with Jesse Welles and MJ Lenderman
EPISODE FIVE: Locked in a Hotel Room with Prince: Film, Gen Z, and the Absence of Challenging Media
How 80s Movies Taught Us to Grow Up—and Why Gen Z’s Media Won’t
EPISODE SIX: Wilcohatchee: Four Friends, Two Americas, and the Road Between Them
A Southern Road Trip Through the Heart of America’s Culture Wars
EPISODE SEVEN: TV Used to Be a Window to Conversation—Now It’s Just a Door to More Content
From playground debates to subreddit theories, what the death of weekly TV has cost us culturally




















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