Sean Eckford
@seaneckford.bsky.social
Mostly retired reporter, broadcaster & podcaster. Resident of Gumboot Nation. Hubby to @tessaj65.bsky.social Opinions mine alone & a bit goofy.
www.seaneckford.com [email protected]
www.seaneckford.com [email protected]
If my great grandfather (Eckville’s namesake) was alive today I’m not sure how I’d explain the concept of “Your town is trending on X” to him. Let alone the apparent reason. 🤣
January 15, 2026 at 5:52 AM
If my great grandfather (Eckville’s namesake) was alive today I’m not sure how I’d explain the concept of “Your town is trending on X” to him. Let alone the apparent reason. 🤣
Radio friends, especially those that lived in Ontario in the 80s, I highly recommend the TVO documentary on the life and times of CFNY; Spirit of Radio. A bit melancholy if you miss radio as it was, but a good hour nonetheless tvo.org/video/document…
TVO Today | Current Affairs Journalism, Documentaries and Podcasts
https://tvo.org/video/document…
January 8, 2026 at 5:45 AM
Radio friends, especially those that lived in Ontario in the 80s, I highly recommend the TVO documentary on the life and times of CFNY; Spirit of Radio. A bit melancholy if you miss radio as it was, but a good hour nonetheless tvo.org/video/document…
Official New Year’s Eve photo featuring tree and moon
January 2, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Official New Year’s Eve photo featuring tree and moon
Today at the airport Teresa got me a coffee featuring a phonetically logical, but uniquely off piste spelling of her name :)
December 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Today at the airport Teresa got me a coffee featuring a phonetically logical, but uniquely off piste spelling of her name :)
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“This is totally the World Juniors” says woman trying to trick her boyfriend into watching Heated Rivalry
“This is totally the World Juniors” says woman trying to trick her boyfriend into watching Heated Rivalry
SUDBURY, ON - Local girlfriend Ashlynn Timbers is currently monitoring her boyfriend as he watches the program she told him was the World Juniors Hockey Tournament, but is in fact the steamy gay roman...
www.thebeaverton.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
“This is totally the World Juniors” says woman trying to trick her boyfriend into watching Heated Rivalry
Props to Environment Canada for their new colour-coded weather warnings, but my inner 10 year old will never stop laughing about being under a yellow snow warning
December 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Props to Environment Canada for their new colour-coded weather warnings, but my inner 10 year old will never stop laughing about being under a yellow snow warning
Hittin a little too close to home there McSweeney
"Unlike the music from his day, he thinks everything the youth are listening to is just a bunch of noise, noise, noise, NOISE."
Is He the Grinch or Just a Gen-X Man at Christmas?
“Why, for fifty-three years, I’ve put up with it now! I MUST stop this Christmas from coming! But HOW?” — Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas...
buff.ly
December 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Hittin a little too close to home there McSweeney
Now with some festive AI, Charlie Brown
'Tis the season for Drew Magary's Hater's Guide to the Williams-Sonoma catalog: defector.com/the-2025-hat...
The 2025 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog | Defector
[Opens front door while holding a toy corgi in one arm] Merry Christmas! Oh my God, you made it! I thought you might be stuck at the airport for weeks! Well, because it’s such madness out there.…
defector.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Now with some festive AI, Charlie Brown
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My latest Left Coast Dispatch:
Libraries At Their Breaking Point buttondown.com/leftcoastdis... #yyj #bcHist
Libraries At Their Breaking Point buttondown.com/leftcoastdis... #yyj #bcHist
Libraries At Their Breaking Point
With library funding in BC unchanged for almost two decades, the federal Liberal government is set to make things even worse.
buttondown.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:07 AM
My latest Left Coast Dispatch:
Libraries At Their Breaking Point buttondown.com/leftcoastdis... #yyj #bcHist
Libraries At Their Breaking Point buttondown.com/leftcoastdis... #yyj #bcHist
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are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson
December 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson
*sigh* I’ve always been partial to Times New Roman, but I guess I’ll have to move to another font… maybe Electra which I’ve become fascinated with after reading this note in my copy of a collection of Dashiell Hammett novels :)
December 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
*sigh* I’ve always been partial to Times New Roman, but I guess I’ll have to move to another font… maybe Electra which I’ve become fascinated with after reading this note in my copy of a collection of Dashiell Hammett novels :)
Kicking myself for not adding this to my 2025 revenue stream
"When we sent the first Christmas newsletter, we were just a two-person operation. Now we have to cover nine busy family members across four states. And sometimes Jessica has a boyfriend. It’s a big operation, and Clare had to learn Microsoft XL or whatever it’s called."
Why We’re Paywalling Our Family Christmas Card
Season’s Greetings from the Mortons! We know many of you look forward to opening your mailbox each December to receive the Morton annual Christmas ...
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December 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Kicking myself for not adding this to my 2025 revenue stream
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I can’t look away… also loved this line “In the American imagination, Florida is where you go when you’ve done something wrong. California is where you go when you’ve done something wrong and want to be pretentious about it.”
"All the surf and smoke and Didionesque stylings in the world cannot disguise the central problem with ‘American Canto’: It is not honest," Helen Lewis argues. theatln.tc/3UOQskEP
December 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I can’t look away… also loved this line “In the American imagination, Florida is where you go when you’ve done something wrong. California is where you go when you’ve done something wrong and want to be pretentious about it.”
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Our pretend facts are just as good as the real thing. If not better.
Time magazine quotes Canadian satirical website The Beaverton
A recent Time magazine article used a quote from Canadian satire site, the Beaverton, as a fact in reference to U.S. relationships with other countries.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Our pretend facts are just as good as the real thing. If not better.
Thank god they got that sorted…
Several years ago, the Stylebook advised that you heat your oven, because "preheat" is redundant.
That might be true linguistically, but we heard you. Common usage in cookbooks calls for preheating.
That might be true linguistically, but we heard you. Common usage in cookbooks calls for preheating.
November 28, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Thank god they got that sorted…
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When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".
They say everybody has that one teacher… I just learned mine, the one who inspired me to study history, has died. Michael Smith also introduced me and many of my classmates to the cinematic classic Zulu (and its admitted flaws as a historical document).
November 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
They say everybody has that one teacher… I just learned mine, the one who inspired me to study history, has died. Michael Smith also introduced me and many of my classmates to the cinematic classic Zulu (and its admitted flaws as a historical document).
Best read of my morning so far!
“Gretz brought the loonie in the room and everybody went nuts. It was a gong show in there.” Me in @defector.com on the hockey-related rise of "gong show"
How A Campy 1970s Game Show Became Part Of Canada's National Lexicon | Defector
On tiny Hornby Island northwest of Vancouver, after the Women’s World Cup in the summer of 2015, our bed-and-breakfast host was telling us about the town. The pizza place in the park is terrific, he s...
defector.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Best read of my morning so far!
Cleo is keen on the fire… she did not love it as a young cat, but like so many of us has grown to enjoy being near heat in her old age!
November 20, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Cleo is keen on the fire… she did not love it as a young cat, but like so many of us has grown to enjoy being near heat in her old age!
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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Ian Fleming, though he named his famous character after the author of a birding book, never said if his Jamaica home, Goldeneye, was named for a bird. Bob Marley was a later owner of the property. So I say we unofficially add all that to the lore behind the team’s new name just for fun
November 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Ian Fleming, though he named his famous character after the author of a birding book, never said if his Jamaica home, Goldeneye, was named for a bird. Bob Marley was a later owner of the property. So I say we unofficially add all that to the lore behind the team’s new name just for fun
I’d love to see the venn diagram of these and things ruined by millennials 🤣
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I’d love to see the venn diagram of these and things ruined by millennials 🤣
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In Mexico, I asked Lewis Hamilton about what pet ownership taught him about himself. A simple question... but one with a LOT of baggage in the #F1 paddock.
This is your sign to ask your questions, no matter what others think.
open.substack.com/pub/deadlypa...
This is your sign to ask your questions, no matter what others think.
open.substack.com/pub/deadlypa...
November 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In Mexico, I asked Lewis Hamilton about what pet ownership taught him about himself. A simple question... but one with a LOT of baggage in the #F1 paddock.
This is your sign to ask your questions, no matter what others think.
open.substack.com/pub/deadlypa...
This is your sign to ask your questions, no matter what others think.
open.substack.com/pub/deadlypa...
I still have my special double cassette of Outlandos and Reggatta da Blanc :)
On this day in 1978, The Police released their debut album 'Outlandos d'Amour'. With "Roxanne" and "Can't Stand Losing You," punk met reggae and the world met one of rock's sharpest trios.
November 3, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I still have my special double cassette of Outlandos and Reggatta da Blanc :)