Jeff Miller

Shotmaker & Okara — Final Live Show at 5 Arlington, Ottawa (January 3, 1996) YouTube video by P.M.S.G.

Thirty(!) years ago tonight we were at the last show at 5 Arlington. Wow. Thanks to the old heads who shepherded this footage onto the internet. And rest in power to the one and only Mathieu Trudel, who filmed it youtu.be/kT7C1WtboJg?...

Hope it's not the only thing under the tree! 😂

A hand holding a Penguin Classics edition of Sketches From a Hunter's Album by Ivan Turgenev in front of a domestic background

Lately

illustration of a night-blowing cereus flower and the words SAID THE GRAMOPHONE BEST SONGS OF 2025.

it's december! life is sometimes bleak! here are my 100 favourite songs, and a man's fumbling swerves about why he loves them so much.

www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/bes...

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Excellent review of a recent book about a Paris squat @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social! Squats partout!

Drimonis: From Greece to greasy spoon — a chat with Greenspot's co-owner Sharing a large apartment in the Mile End with other immigrant families to save money and eventually invest in something was the norm back then.

Perfect Saturday morning read. ☕️https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/drimonis-from-greece-to-greasy-spoon-a-chat-with-greenspots-co-owner

This is so kind! Thank you so much Carla!!

Extremely excited for @theghostpine.bsky.social's Temporary Places, coming in April. Warm, insightful, relatable writing from one of the best humans I know.

We're here tonight, and that's enough “Wonderful Christmastime” is not a perfect song. It might not work on your holiday playlist, or stand proud on a list of beloved classics, but it might be that it’s not a song to be played at home wit...

Wrote a newsletter about rebuilding a Walmart overnight, exhaustion, memories of home and the holidays, and why I think "Wonderful Christmastime" is good when heard in the right place.

Thanks ao much Lee! 😊

so excited about this-- @theghostpine.bsky.social is one of my favourite writers, as well as one of the kindest people you could hope to know.

read an early copy of this and really loved it, keep an eye on this one next year

Excerpt from "Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands" by Turgenev describing some cart business I really don't get

I love 19th c literature but sometimes worry I don't know enough about horse carts to really get it

“Final Boy,” by Sam Lipsyte “Oh, you write fan fiction,” she said. “We all write fan fiction,” I told her. “Some of us are just more honest about it.”

Happy Amazing there's a new Sam Lipsyte story in the @newyorker.com day to all who celebrate!!!

Yes! There is defintely a time travel element in this music! A return to the ancient tradition of the 90s!

Orcutt Shelley Miller, by Orcutt Shelley Miller 5 track album

In need of joy? Check out this powerful instrumental underground rock and feel alive again

Photo of a photocopied flyer: ZINEDUMP New Toronto Zine Fair (then the same information as in the post) Apply more and learn more: www.zinedump.fyi IG: @zinedump.fyi

ZINEDUMP is a new Toronto #zinefair that aims to provide a venue for the open expression for independent publications, radical art and ideas.

The inaugural fest will be held on Nov. 9th between 12-5pm at the Cecil Community Centre.

Applications are due August 31st!!!
zinedump.fyi
#zines #zinesdiy

Ghost Pine, a quarter-letter sized zine, whose cover image shows an old illustration of two people in dresses and big hats perusing books under a sign that reads "All the very latest novels." The zine is shown against a blue-green gradient background, with the sheer spite logo of a coiled snake. Text along the sides of the image reads "all stories true", a slogan that has appeared on other issues of Ghost Pine

After an 11-year hiatus, @theghostpine.bsky.social has put out a new zine!

Memories of growing up in suburban Ottawa and discovering coffee and punk as a teenager, Jeff’s current life in rural Nova Scotia, exchanging letters with friends across decades.

sheerspite.ca/product/ghos...

Thanks Frandroid!

Dick Diver review – beloved ‘dolewave’ band’s one-off reunion brings out Melbourne for four magical shows Thornbury Theatre, MelbourneIt has been 10 years since their last album but you’d be forgiven for forgetting any time had passed at all – they sound as tight as ever

Beautiful review of the reunion of one of the greatest bands of the 2010s. They made music perfect for hot sunny days like these

Yesssss up on the website soon >:)

Thanks! Lee from @sheerspite.bsky.social is hopefully going to carry them in Mtl :)

I'll mail you one next week!

Heading to Sappyfest this weekend with a new issue of Ghost Pine zine, the first in a while!

Cover of Dark Fantasy No. 22 (1980), published by Shadow Press. The title is printed in bold, stylized yellow and black text at the top. The central illustration features a medieval knight in armor leaning against a large, leaf-covered tree, holding a bow and arrows. A castle is faintly visible in the background. A diagonal black-and-yellow banner across the bottom reads, “Nominated for 10 SPWAO Awards.” Price is listed as $1.50.

New from Internet Archive Canada: Queen’s University Library has digitized a collection of rare, self-published sci-fi & fantasy fanzines, making long-lost voices from 1940s–1980s more widely accessible.

⚔️ Start your side quest: blog.archive.org/2025/07/15/s...

@internetarchiveca.bsky.social

I asked our friend Paul to design this Cooler At The Coast shirt for Jeff's birthday and it turned out so rad! Now you can get your own and/or some other cool stuff from him! Check out the Peace Worm pin ☮︎

Buy some of @paulghammond.bsky.social's excellent work!

Kardish Health Food Centre closing all Ottawa stores Ottawa-based Kardish Health Food Centre has announced it will be closing all its remaining locations after nearly five decades in business.

RIP to the first place I bought nutritional yeast

The French balados on Radio Canada's Ohdio app are wild. Today I listened to a lady who wrote a book about Proust, a gruff chansonier, and the first drummer of Motorhead(!) on a panel discussion about books and music. The Ringer podcast network would never