Agent Palmer

By the numbers, 2025 was not that out of the ordinary.

Fifty-two blogs were posted here, 26 episodes of The Palmer Files were published, and I had seven Proxycast appearances. There were also over 70 other podcasts which I produced across a few shows – The Good Government Show, Leading Iowa, and As Fate Would Have It.

If you are a regular viewer of this blog, you may be thinking to yourself, “Palmer reviewing a Coupland book about Marshall McLuhan? Hasn’t this already been done before?”

It has! Back in February of 2024, I reviewed Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan by Douglas Coupland. But the thing about reading through an author’s biography is that sometimes they cover a subject more than once.

I used to have a massive box of fortune cookies. I “used” to. It’s gone now. 

I didn’t eat them, but I did open them. You see, for a while, when I was single, I would order enough takeout for a few days, especially over a weekend when I planned on doing a project. And when you do that, you get enough fortune cookies for the four people that they think are going to be eating the goods.

It’s easy for the uninitiated to look at Tim Minchin’s Time Machine as an odd assortment of greatest hits. But it really is an emotional and artistically brave revisiting of older material.

Minchin’s announcement on his website about the album states, “All 11 songs were written in my 20s, now reimagined and finally properly studio-recorded for the first time. Some have been played on stages all over the world, and some have barely ever been heard; some are pretty silly and some are very chill; but all are tunes that I think have stood the test of time… ish.”