Here’s the Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/joeplanta.b…

Somebody I've always wanted to interview is @AlbertBrooks. I love his films. I'd want to ask him how serious Nancy Reagan was considered for Mother.

I talked to Vince Kelley about playing Blanche in The Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue at The Vancouver Playhouse 12-16 November 2024: thecommentary.ca/ontheline/2…

I've always wondered if the players eat the candy that fans give them.

FACE THE NATION'S 70TH ANNIVERSARY: On this day 70 years ago, embattled Senator Joseph McCarthy appeared on the premiere of @FaceTheNation. In this interview, McCarthy denounced the Senate's move to censure him, calling it a "lynch-bee." Less than a month later, he would be censured by the U.S. Senate for his ruthless pursuit of communists he said infiltrated the U.S. government. Follow along for the next month as we share key moments throughout Face the Nation's long and historic run on @CBSNews. You can watch the full episode on our YouTube page here: youtube.com/watch?si=nXwKMqm…

My book "Crackdown: Surviving & Resisting the Drug War" comes out in April 2025 on @PenguinRandomCA. It's part memoir, part manifesto. If you can, pre-orders really help! amazon.ca/Crackdown-Survivin…

Now more than ever the books matter. The challenging ones, the ones that make you uncomfortable, the uplifting ones, the ones that tell you a story you have never heard before. Books matter. Art matters. Don't let them take those away from us.

This speech feels like it’s taking four years.

I moustache you a question. Have you donated to Movember yet? Help me change the face of men’s health! ca.movember.com/mospace/4109… #Movember

I’m watching the Canucks game instead.

What’s the deal with Don Rickles and Connie Haines? I’ve seen a couple of Johnny Carson appearances that Rickles made and Carson brings it up as if he shouldn’t have.

ACWW remembers Faye Leung who passed away this week. Faye was a friend and supporter of ACWW and champion of Asian Canadian arts and literature. You will be dearly missed, Faye. asiancanadianwriters.ca/2024… #asiancanadian

1130 NewsRadio Bookshelf: John Ackermann (@jackermann) sits down with Marc Garneau, author of A Most Extraordinary Ride: Space, Politics, and the Pursuit of a Canadian Dream vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/1…