About Brennan Kenneth Brown Queer Métis writer, cultural critic, and web developer based in Mohkínstsis (Calgary), Treaty 7 territory. Author of nine books and counting, the founder of Fireweed Writing School and Berry House Studio, and of Write Club at Mount Royal University. His work has been cited in Le Monde and other publications. Enjoy this content? Support my work and help me create more: Patreon | Ko-fi | GitHub Sponsors
I am an old hand at not being on TV. There are more of us than you'd imagine. Let's survey the whole field from top down, from the perspective of someone who was actually a prospect. At any given moment a handful of hit TV shows make lots of money. So much money that they shower down nourishment for the entire TV ecosystem. There are also a few dozen (I'm making up numbers, but the gist is correct) TV shows simply holding on, chugging along, and making good money. And in TV world, "good" money…
June always feels like a little celebration in the kitchen, doesn’t it? The moment local strawberries arrive, everything suddenly tastes brighter, sweeter, and just a bit more special. Today I’m sharing a fun early‑summer treat that makes the very most of those gorgeous berries — Fresh Strawberry Waffles with Caramel and Strawberry Dips. Crisp on the outside, soft inside, and generously studded with juicy berries, these waffles are a delight whether you serve them for brunch, a weekend…
Our condolences to football fans in Germany and The Netherlands. Tough, tough losses, both of them. Trump Goes 1-5 with Supreme Court on Monday The Supreme Court released its rulings in four cases yesterday, and declined to hear two others. Donald Trump got one big win, and five smaller losses. Click here for full story
This post is a follow-up on my previous post. I was wondering whether it's safe to use Grid Lanes today. I came up with a solution I find okay, but there is a caveat. Note: This post contains interactive demos. If you want to see them instead of screenshots, enable the CSS Grid Lanes Layout flag in Edge or Chrome or use Safari 26.4+ or Polypane 29+. In my last blog post, Your Grid Lanes will likely fail WCAG 2.4.3, I explained how Grid Lanes are inherently inaccessible by default unless you…
Yup. That one. ::chuckle:: Belatedly, but okay... BLTN, as the cliché goes. ...and as one can see, I promptly named it. Just like I did "Number 1," way back in the day, in Thanksgiving of 2022. [ in progress... ]
One of the most interesting artworks in the Naoshima New Museum of Art was created by Makoto Aida especially for the museum. It is the latest iteration of his "Monument for Nothing" series, which he started in 2008.Subtitled "Red Torii Gate" for obvious reasons, it will be difficult to talk about, not least because photographs are prohibited.However, I found a loophole... I did find a loophole, but because there are almost no pictures of the artwork online—not even on the official website—and…
I made a thing. In a world where prompt-to-code costs twenty bucks a month, writing about your side project is basically singing the song of my people. It is called Hisohiso, it lives at hisohiso.org, and it does two things at once. That is one thing more than most things manage, and it may turn […]
Nau maiYesterday we played at Kemba Live! in Columbus, Ohio. I composed a new breakfast: guac and chips on toast. The guacamole was simple with just an avocado, salt, lime juice, chopped tomato, and a bit of salsa which hopefully brought some diluted herb and spice flavours to this dish. On the side you can see strawberries and rasberries which bring a colour balance to the plating. From the bus: a chain link fence covered with privacy netting. The Scioto River. I’m sure I’ve taken this exact…
My father by trade was an ironworker and on the side he ran a welding business. The garage was his workshop. There he kept the usual oxy-acetylene gear, used when he was making wrought-iron railings. For certain jobs he relied on the arc welder. Whenever the lights in the house flickered we knew he was using it. The drain on power was enormous. To this day, whenever the lights dim during an electrical storm, I think of my father and his welding shop. I also think of “Blacksmith Shop” by Czesław…
June has been a bit of a slow reading month for me. The hot weather has certainly not helped. On the plus side though I had a great time at the 11th Bodies in the Library conference and it was fun catching up with my GAD friends. Although most of my posts this month were reviews, I also published a post on oxalic acid poison mysteries, and I really appreciated the extra examples blog readers uncovered for me. Another first for the blog in June was a review for a crime novel written by a beauty…
Tuesday 30th June 2026 Halfway through 2026 and time for another month end round up of miscellany spotted on my travels during the last few weeks. Its very first Nationalised journey And first up is the irony of spotting the very first GBR branded Southern Class 387 train calling at Hassocks station on the very first weekday morning of the new nationalised regime of the former Govia Thameslink Railway on Monday 1st June ….. on the 08:06 Brighton to Victoria which is….. a Gatwick Express…
There is a small voice inside of me that always tells me, “You’re too old to start something new.” In his book Three Mile an Hour God, Kosuke Koyama says, “When I think about time, I have no other choice than to be humble.” Bob Dylan said something interesting while pontificating on his 80th birthday. I don’t have the exact quote in front of me, but it was something to the effect of: time moves on, but we stand still. To me, that really says that we’re all passengers here, and we get to react…
A simplified list of rules I try to live by. Be kind to yourself. Be kind to others.
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has a model for ridership estimation for public transit lines, called STOPS. It’s designed to be simplified enough that transit agencies can compute rough projections with it without having a large permanent in-house team dedicated to it (the MTA has a team of about 12). At the Transit Costs Project, we’ve taken to using it to do estimates for potential extensions under various assumptions on speed, frequency, and service pattern. For example, the…
A practical guide to OWASP A05:2025 Injection. Learn how SQL, command, and other injection flaws really work, and how to stop them for good with parameterized queries and safe APIs in Python.
A practical guide to OWASP A04:2025 Cryptographic Failures. Learn the real-world mistakes - weak password hashing, plaintext data, bad randomness, hardcoded keys - and how to fix them with secure Python.
A practical guide to OWASP A03:2025 Software Supply Chain Failures. Learn why it's a brand-new Top 10 category, real attacks from xz to dependency confusion, and how to lock down your dependencies and CI/CD pipeline.
Virtually every fighting game appearing in arcades in the 1990s brought together martial artists from around the world to engage in one-on-one combat. Samurai Shodown did this as well, but it stood apart as a result of two crucial differences. For one, it had each fighter bring a weapon into battle, and for another, it was the rare period piece fighting game, with the ten playable characters convening in Edo-era Japan specifically in the spring and summer of 1788. In the background of the…
Virtually every fighting game in the 1990s brought together martial artists from around the world to engage in one-on-one combat. Samurai Shodown did this as well, but it stood apart as a result of two crucial differences. For one, it had each fighter bring a weapon into battle, and for another, it was the rare period piece fighting game, with the ten playable characters convening in Edo-era Japan over the course of the spring and summer of 1788. In the background of the tournament, however,…
It's kind of interesting to see 7 Dogs hit American theaters a week after Unidentified; they've got very little in common aside from having "Saudi Arabia" as the first country listed under "Country of Origin" on IMDB, and sort of represent the two poles of a film industry, especially one that is very new: Unidentified is almost all homegrown talent, topical, and has a genuine sense of place (
Jun 0407:36 PMSo, I accidently read news about the news today and it began to click in my mind. I suddenly realized the old guard of social media VC deal flow underbelly are now considered the media heirs apparent mouthpieces and proxies where of those that were, at best, journalism adjacent have somehow mysteriously ascended into media leadership roles that I did not forsee… as somehow the patina or simulacrum of credentials is no longer of profound importance… unless this is all a simulation…
Swedish death cleaning is about discarding possessions before you die as a kindness. But in the smaller universe of personally meaningful objects, the ones you leave behind will be the last story you tell. And you shape that narrative by what you keep and throw away. If you’ve ever had to go through a late loved one’s physical possessions, you sometimes discover things they kept that didn’t fit the image you had of them. You wish you could ask them why they kept those things, and what they…
LGB couplings, Accucraft choppers, both incompatible with each other. The solution? A length of bath plug chain. Small scalers won't be impressed with the lack of fidelity of this setup, but outdoors, we are just happy that it works, and we can get on with running trains. I do love a cheap and simple solution.
I ran, as mentioned in the previous post, and the good news is the surgery didn’t seem to have any effect. After 42 days off, I was slow, but that’s because I took 42 days off. I also had a respectable sleep last night. These things please me. Here is a cat looking pleased.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission: Between November 2023 and August 2025, Amazon AU’s Prime contracts with more than one million annual subscribers contained what the ACCC alleges were five unfair contract terms that allowed it to unilaterally make negative changes during the contract period without offering subscribers a remedy. It is also alleged that Amazon AU later relied on one or more of these unfair terms when it introduced ads to Prime Video in Australia in July 2024.…
Sure, there may be a few tense minutes while the little rascal gets trapped between the sliding doors, but if you’re patient he’ll eventually find his way outside and you can rest feeling a little less murderery. AWESOME! All-new awesome things posted daily here: Photo from: here The post #648 Shooing a fly outside without having to kill it appeared first on 1000 Awesome Things.
Legions is a 2-player card game set in the world of Abyss. There are five regions between the two players, and you play cards to compete for dominance in each of these regions. There are two ways you can win. If you manage to capture five banners, you win immediately. Banners only appear on some cards, and it is not easy to achieve this victory condition. If no one achieves this by the
