Alex Clifton • Sabrehood 🏒
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MA/MLIS • 8.25 cats in a trenchcoat • occasional music critic @ TSJ • Sabres, music, running, books, puns, history, politics, dumbass memery • London Marathon 2025 • she/they
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It has been done, 5:55:36 according to Garmin, 6:02:08 official chip time but that was with a couple pauses to say hi to my dad and refill my water. Think I may be a one and done marathoner. I raised over £2500 for #TeamBreathe and am kind of proud of my results.
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All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
December 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
We learnt an important lesson today, which is that when you bring black tea to your mother’s grave as an offering, if you pour it out in the snow, it will not look like tea. It will look like piss. Mum would’ve got a real laugh out of it. Hope she’s having a great birthday in the afterlife.
December 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
We learnt an important lesson today, which is that when you bring black tea to your mother’s grave as an offering, if you pour it out in the snow, it will not look like tea. It will look like piss. Mum would’ve got a real laugh out of it. Hope she’s having a great birthday in the afterlife.
I love the Buffalo Sabres, they definitely don’t make me want to die at all 😭
November 16, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I love the Buffalo Sabres, they definitely don’t make me want to die at all 😭
Mad that brain cancer is a thing and takes some of the best among us :(
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Mad that brain cancer is a thing and takes some of the best among us :(
Hockey is mainly just me SCREAMING at the telly and my beloved partner watching me with mild amusement as I yell “GET THE PUCK BOYS WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING”
November 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Hockey is mainly just me SCREAMING at the telly and my beloved partner watching me with mild amusement as I yell “GET THE PUCK BOYS WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING”
PR’d my mini marathon this morning. Old best according to Garmin was 2:38:56 — today was 2:33:06. Wahey! Also PR’d 10 mile and 20k. Will post my playlist once I can get my shit together so you can see what terrible taste I have for my workout playlist.
October 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
PR’d my mini marathon this morning. Old best according to Garmin was 2:38:56 — today was 2:33:06. Wahey! Also PR’d 10 mile and 20k. Will post my playlist once I can get my shit together so you can see what terrible taste I have for my workout playlist.
Just finished my second-ever T. Kingfisher book (A Sorceress Comes to Call) and I am, once again, pleasantly ruined by her work. She’s so good!!!!! Read her work!!!!!!!!!!
October 15, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Just finished my second-ever T. Kingfisher book (A Sorceress Comes to Call) and I am, once again, pleasantly ruined by her work. She’s so good!!!!! Read her work!!!!!!!!!!
It is deeply unfair that Alex Kapranos is as hot and charismatic as he is
October 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
It is deeply unfair that Alex Kapranos is as hot and charismatic as he is
I must fight the primal urge to throw hands with Rolling Stone every time they release a new Giant List
October 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I must fight the primal urge to throw hands with Rolling Stone every time they release a new Giant List
Three years today since Mum died. Went to visit her at Cave Hill today. The longest three years of my life and yet they’ve gone by in a flash. I don’t think I’ll ever get over just how weird death and grief can be — not bad, just a strange, universal experience that is also totally personal.
October 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Three years today since Mum died. Went to visit her at Cave Hill today. The longest three years of my life and yet they’ve gone by in a flash. I don’t think I’ll ever get over just how weird death and grief can be — not bad, just a strange, universal experience that is also totally personal.
… sure is an album huh. Not the worst, more listenable than TTPD, but that’s easy when it’s a third of the length. It SOUNDS good, and there are a couple solid tracks here (Ophelia, title track, Eldest Daughter, Ruin the Friendship) but some other songs on here are Choices.
October 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
… sure is an album huh. Not the worst, more listenable than TTPD, but that’s easy when it’s a third of the length. It SOUNDS good, and there are a couple solid tracks here (Ophelia, title track, Eldest Daughter, Ruin the Friendship) but some other songs on here are Choices.
Hearing Dan Dunleavy and Rob Ray do Sabres commentary (even if it’s just a preseason game) delights my soul. I’ve missed Buffalo hockey. There’s always this year.
October 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Hearing Dan Dunleavy and Rob Ray do Sabres commentary (even if it’s just a preseason game) delights my soul. I’ve missed Buffalo hockey. There’s always this year.
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Courtesy of the CBC, this is the best out-of-context sentence I've come across in a while: "Practically every month, somewhere in the country, some person comes under fire for claiming their ancestors frolicked with the moose instead of merely watching from the bushes."
September 30, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Courtesy of the CBC, this is the best out-of-context sentence I've come across in a while: "Practically every month, somewhere in the country, some person comes under fire for claiming their ancestors frolicked with the moose instead of merely watching from the bushes."
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Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
EA selling the Sims is certainly a choice. The franchise has been going downhill for a long time — Sims 4 has some cool features, but EA clearly got real greedy with expansions — and this doesn’t really leave me hopeful for much else. Maybe I should just go back to Sims 3??
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
EA selling the Sims is certainly a choice. The franchise has been going downhill for a long time — Sims 4 has some cool features, but EA clearly got real greedy with expansions — and this doesn’t really leave me hopeful for much else. Maybe I should just go back to Sims 3??
Fully obsessed with Selena Gomez’s entire wardrobe on the newest season of Only Murders in the Building. She looks so phenomenal! Especially the pantsuits!!!
September 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Fully obsessed with Selena Gomez’s entire wardrobe on the newest season of Only Murders in the Building. She looks so phenomenal! Especially the pantsuits!!!
Did you know you can have the mandolin played aggressively at you? Because you can
August 15, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Did you know you can have the mandolin played aggressively at you? Because you can
Some recent snaps of the best cat in the world
August 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Some recent snaps of the best cat in the world
do you ever feel like a plastic bag
June 26, 2025 at 3:19 AM
do you ever feel like a plastic bag
Sorry I couldn’t respond to your email, I was too distraught about the death of Brian Wilson and had to binge the Beach Boys
June 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Sorry I couldn’t respond to your email, I was too distraught about the death of Brian Wilson and had to binge the Beach Boys
Forgot the phrase for “brain fart” so called it “memory shits.” English is my first language and yet my grasp on it is embarrassingly poor sometimes.
June 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Forgot the phrase for “brain fart” so called it “memory shits.” English is my first language and yet my grasp on it is embarrassingly poor sometimes.
Learning not everyone has a little blaring radio on their head that is hard to mute has been a little odd because what do you mean there are people out there trying to sleep and their brain isn’t screaming IT’S BEEN— IT’S BEEN— IT’S BEEN— IT’S BEEN ONE WEEK SINCE YOU LOOKED AT ME—
June 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Learning not everyone has a little blaring radio on their head that is hard to mute has been a little odd because what do you mean there are people out there trying to sleep and their brain isn’t screaming IT’S BEEN— IT’S BEEN— IT’S BEEN— IT’S BEEN ONE WEEK SINCE YOU LOOKED AT ME—
Current mood: physically unable to stop listening to the Barenaked Ladies
May 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Current mood: physically unable to stop listening to the Barenaked Ladies
What sucks about getting older is hearing about old friends losing their parents — folks I got to meet when I was a kid or in high school, who welcomed us all into their homes with open arms. It’s to be expected but I don’t think it’ll stop stinging anytime soon.
May 30, 2025 at 3:10 AM
What sucks about getting older is hearing about old friends losing their parents — folks I got to meet when I was a kid or in high school, who welcomed us all into their homes with open arms. It’s to be expected but I don’t think it’ll stop stinging anytime soon.
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Thys nys no partye
Thys nys no disco
Thys nys no foolinge arounde
Thys nys no alehouse
Nor roadsyde taverne
Ich have no tyme for mirthe now
Thys nys no disco
Thys nys no foolinge arounde
Thys nys no alehouse
Nor roadsyde taverne
Ich have no tyme for mirthe now
May 30, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Thys nys no partye
Thys nys no disco
Thys nys no foolinge arounde
Thys nys no alehouse
Nor roadsyde taverne
Ich have no tyme for mirthe now
Thys nys no disco
Thys nys no foolinge arounde
Thys nys no alehouse
Nor roadsyde taverne
Ich have no tyme for mirthe now