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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · Sep 9

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

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

Orcutt Shelley Miller, by Orcutt Shelley Miller

5 track album

orcuttshelleymiller.bandcamp.com

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Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books @greatworm.ca · Aug 18

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

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

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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · Aug 12

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...

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · Aug 12

Thanks Frandroid!

Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · Aug 6

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

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

www.theguardian.com

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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · Aug 4

Yesssss up on the website soon >:)

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · Aug 1

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

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · Aug 1

I'll mail you one next week!

Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · Aug 1

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

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Internet Archive @archive.org · Jul 15

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

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.

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Sara Spike @saraspike.bsky.social · Jul 9

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 ☮︎

Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hi! Here’s a little personal peek behind the curtain for you - I just got hit with a BIG tax bill that I was unprepared for.. Poor planning? Yes! Unreliable executive function skills? You bet! And so I have added a number of new things to Ye Olde Shoppe!

paulghammond.bigcartel.com

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Carla Gillis @carlagillis.bsky.social · Jul 8

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

Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hi! Here’s a little personal peek behind the curtain for you - I just got hit with a BIG tax bill that I was unprepared for.. Poor planning? Yes! Unreliable executive function skills? You bet! And so I have added a number of new things to Ye Olde Shoppe!

paulghammond.bigcartel.com

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · Jul 8

RIP to the first place I bought nutritional yeast

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.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · Jun 24

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

Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · Jun 24

Sweet essay, with cameos from some of my all-time favourite novels

Canadian Books Made Me Canadian - Macleans.ca

I left Russia as the country slid into authoritarianism and arrived in Canada knowing no one. In its novels, I found a blueprint for how to survive as a nation in the age of anger.

macleans.ca

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Jun 13

@wordsweaver.bsky.social‬ on writing stories of African Black queer joy under oppression as an act of faith.

Liberating Lit: Iryn Tushabe on Writing Stories of African Black Queer Joy Under Oppression

In the spring of 2015, after I’d been working as a journalist for nearly two years, my post-graduation Work Permit expired. I’d been in Canada for seven years by then. I was allowed to stay in the …

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · Jun 13

Wonderful!

Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · Jun 10

The best ever 'Dining across the divide'! Matter and anti-matter find common ground

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · Jun 6

Happy new Pulp album day! Here’s an interview I did with Jarvis Cocker in 1998 about life after Britpop, making adult-contemporary pop music that isn't shit, not understanding 22-year-olds, and why he's mortified by his early records: stubermania.substack.com/i/148668090/...

A conversation with Jarvis Cocker from 1998

The Pulp frontman on life after Britpop, making adult-contemporary pop music that isn't shit, not understanding 22-year-olds, and why he's mortified by his early records

stubermania.substack.com

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · Jun 6

New Pulp and Turnstile records on the same day feels like a rare celestial event. A solar eclipse I'm going to stare into all day long

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · May 29

"Ballot Result" gets my vote. Second is Avail "Live at Kings Head," for a big part of the record there's no music because they're fighting Nazis in the crowd

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YouTube video by Minutemen - Topic

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · May 29

You won't be disappointed! It's luminous

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · May 29

Encampment by @maggiehelwig.bsky.social is wonderful. A clear-eyed look at a broken system, yes. But also a rare honouring and centering of people on the margins. Helwig captures individuality and never caricatures. Beautiful and troubling and alive. Read it! @coachhousebooks.bsky.social

The book Encampment by Maggie Hedwig against a colourful floral back drop

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Jim Munroe @jimmunroe.net · May 26

Whoo hoo! New book day! My sci-fi rom-com graphic novel about a shapeshifting situationship ZEROED OUT is out now. Sample and buy it via jimmunroe.net/comics/zeroe...

A purple covered graphic novel named Zeroed Out by Jim Munroe and Eric Kim

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