Hey everyone! The next film I'll be editing with my friend Olive Holmes is now in pre-production!
LINGER is a short lesbian period drama about an actress past her prime in 1930s LA, reliving old memories of what she's gained and lost in the pursuit of stardom.
We are currently fundraising through the Australian Cultural Fund to cover production design, equipment hire, crew catering and other expenses.
Olive and I have previously worked together on Circuitus, another queer short film soon to be showing at a few local film festivals. As you may know from my podcast work I'm really passionate about queer cinema, and this new script from Olive is the kind of thing I've always dreamed about working on.
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when thinking about the futurity of the pwhl i think a major warning sign is the fact that the pwhlpa didnt strongly and immediately align themselves with the wnbpa and nwslpa and the broader interests of women's sport labor unions. in many real respects the success and failure of women's ice hockey leagues is tied to the success or failure of genuine solidarity in labor organizing, which the pwhlpa clearly lacks. there is no real incentive for the white women who make up the leadership of the pwhl to represent the interests of players of color, trans women, reserve players, non-north american players, draftees, or any of the other marginalized minorities in the pwhl
so much energy has been put into people trying to convince themselves cmd is a good captain, only for it to come out that he's chill with babcock which is implicit approval for the rest of his team to be abused and humiliated. and we're worried about nick suzuki?
in the constructed ethos of hockey fandom regarding the young guns of the usntdp, cole landing with the habs and then finding nick suzuki as the guy who he has the most on ice chemistry and developing a genuine friendship with is just so interesting and almost never considered
MTL v BUF — nick wearing cole's hat after game 2 05/08, cole wearing nick's hat after game 3 05/10 (cole scored in game 3 to break his scoreless drought in the playoffs)
Excerpt from the episode Moving on to Buffalo from The Basu & Godin Notebook from 5 May 2026. On Nick Suzuki's leadership and what he learned from Shea Weber [53:59-57:48].
GODIN: What leadership attributes do you think Nick has picked up from Shea Weber?
BASU: I think a lot. I think the biggest one that he's picked up from Shea Weber is his propensity for organizing group activities, for making sure everyone's involved, making sure everyone on the team feels part of the group. We've heard countless players, when they are traded, or arrive in Montreal as a new player on the team, the first person to reach out is Nick Suzuki. He's very cognizant of the group dynamic and that is something that Shea Weber did very well, and he did so behind the scenes a lot. I remember one year, someone had mentioned a group activity that Weber had organized during training camp, and I asked to speak to him about it, and he didn't wanna come out and do a full scrum. So the Canadiens PR brought me to kind of the back area of the dressing room to talk to him, and even then, he refused to tell me what he'd organized. He just said uh, I'm not gonna tell you, you could find out anyway, but it won't be from me, you can go ask the guys if they want to tell you, but I'm not telling you. And that's kind of how Nick Suzuki operates, you know, he doesn't... He organizes their golf outings whenever the team goes out to play golf, he's the one taking care of it, he's getting all the logistics ready.
And in the room, and on the ice, he's just an understated, lead by example type. And I think that also, he learned a lot of that from Shea Weber, and just, you don't have to talk about it, go out and do it, and show everyone that you're willing to do it. And I think the first series (Round 1, Tampa-Montreal 2026) was a perfect example of it. I think if any guy on that team looked at Nick Suzuki and said, okay, well I could be sort of slumping my shoulder and hanging my head that I haven't been able to score yet, but he hasn't been able to score either and look at what he's doing. You know, he's making an impact without scoring, and maybe I should do that too.
And so, it's very much the lead by example stuff and the team building, you know—when everyone says like this group loves each other and we're so tight, a lot of that is Nick Suzuki, like he's really a big part of that. And I think he learned that from Shea Weber, that was one of Shea Weber's biggest qualities as a leader was how he made everyone feel welcome at all times. And he did that in very subtle ways, but like, when Victor Mete showed up at his first training camp for instance, I remember that his first day of training camp, Shea Weber invited him and Lehkonen over for steaks. And they had steak at his house, just him and Lehkonen. That's just, it's just the kind of guy he was. And I think Suzuki is very similar in that way.
BASU: It is, 100%, and there's definitely a clear throughline from Weber to Suzuki that manifests itself in many ways. Suzuki's still his own guy, but if you're a 21-year-old Nick Suzuki in your first playoff run as a professional hockey player, and you have Shea Weber come up to you and tell you, I think you're gonna be the next captain of the Montreal Canadiens, that's a life changing moment for a 21-year-old kid. And sure enough he was.
the thing of note is really just "when everyone says like this group loves each other and we're so tight, a lot of that is Nick Suzuki, like he's really a big part of that" he is the heart, the soul, the steady beating drum. everyone in and around the team says it, and I'm supposed to tolerate when people say shit like his teammates don't like him??? no. not under my watch.