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Lia Matthew Brown
Lia Matthew Brown (he/she) is a bigender, Toronto-based screenwriter, novelist, and film critic. L’s stories explore genderqueer euphoria, pop culture, and the end of the world.
Hollywood
Some simple rules to un-dumb your entertainment journalism
Dispatches from an art form in decline
time
Timeskipping
Now it's now again
Stranger Things
Rainbow Sprite
Catching up on Stranger Things style explosions and Ian Fleming style expansions
A.I.
The intention craft
We gotta discuss some matters of the spirit
Toronto
Dear The TTC
Our city's shame is rocket-red
writing
One of a thousand days
Fall, fall, fall. Rise, rise, rise
travel
Ramen Safari, Part II
It wasn't just about the ramen
cats
The Legend of Boneless Bud Gundy
The rude abides
travel
Ramen Safari
I went to Japan to eat ramen and kill the dream and this is what happened
short stories
Some of the Jedi were gardeners
A short story
social media blah blah blah
The Killer App
deletia