Alex Willis
@alexjwillis.bsky.social
The Once and Future Chicken à la King | East York | Toronto | Fan of Your Comedy (But Not Your New Stuff) | Ex-Pat New Brunswick | Falsely Accused of Supercilious Behaviour
Found at 8:23 pm on Sept. 28 on Alejandro Kirk's Wikipedia entry. You know it's gonna get removed as the baseball obsessives scour everything for clinical rigor, but in the meantime, let's enjoy life's little editorial grand slams. #bluejays #toronto #kirk #grandslam
September 29, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Found at 8:23 pm on Sept. 28 on Alejandro Kirk's Wikipedia entry. You know it's gonna get removed as the baseball obsessives scour everything for clinical rigor, but in the meantime, let's enjoy life's little editorial grand slams. #bluejays #toronto #kirk #grandslam
Fires have started in Nova Scotia. Painful memories from 2023. Many friends and family in the area. Besides COVID, few things have united Canadians in the 2020s, from coast to coast, like wildfires. It's not synchronicity -- it's an actual pattern.
August 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Fires have started in Nova Scotia. Painful memories from 2023. Many friends and family in the area. Besides COVID, few things have united Canadians in the 2020s, from coast to coast, like wildfires. It's not synchronicity -- it's an actual pattern.
I'm in awe at Valerie Bauerlein's "The Devil at His Elbow". As a true crime fan (I'm basic; don't judge), I was familiar with the Murdaugh saga; had seen the Netflix specials, etc. But this book is on a whole other level. Meticulous, Gothic, relentless. Author as True Detective, not law enforcement.
July 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I'm in awe at Valerie Bauerlein's "The Devil at His Elbow". As a true crime fan (I'm basic; don't judge), I was familiar with the Murdaugh saga; had seen the Netflix specials, etc. But this book is on a whole other level. Meticulous, Gothic, relentless. Author as True Detective, not law enforcement.
Bless the Park Attendant and his Water. Bless that he gets breaks in the shade. May his chemicals cleanse the pool. May he keep the wading for his People, Ages 0-12.
July 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Bless the Park Attendant and his Water. Bless that he gets breaks in the shade. May his chemicals cleanse the pool. May he keep the wading for his People, Ages 0-12.
"Baba, it's so hot my butt is melting." #withrowpark
July 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"Baba, it's so hot my butt is melting." #withrowpark
City of Toronto garbage bin, High Park
June 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
City of Toronto garbage bin, High Park
It might be fashionable to dislike mothers in law, but when your Chinese MIL makes you a ready supply of homemade jiaozi for on-demand lunches, you remain eminently unfashionable.
June 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It might be fashionable to dislike mothers in law, but when your Chinese MIL makes you a ready supply of homemade jiaozi for on-demand lunches, you remain eminently unfashionable.
Yes, it's a new era of product licensing, and SEO is a critical tool in that consolidation of meanings. Hasbro, for example, is starting to do this with their D&D line. "Beholder" will now typically return the monster.
May 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Yes, it's a new era of product licensing, and SEO is a critical tool in that consolidation of meanings. Hasbro, for example, is starting to do this with their D&D line. "Beholder" will now typically return the monster.
Toronto doesn't muck about when the sun comes out. We roll to the occasion.
May 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Toronto doesn't muck about when the sun comes out. We roll to the occasion.
As part of my quarterly existential crisis, I got hung up on my bad habits that could also be considered good habits. This is one of the takeaways from my notes.
May 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
As part of my quarterly existential crisis, I got hung up on my bad habits that could also be considered good habits. This is one of the takeaways from my notes.
Chaperoning my twins' SK class on a field trip today. 10 mins into the bus ride and the carsick cascades have begun. I have under-caffeinated for these circumstances.
May 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Chaperoning my twins' SK class on a field trip today. 10 mins into the bus ride and the carsick cascades have begun. I have under-caffeinated for these circumstances.
Taylor Creek ravine in East York, Toronto. Never take these spaces for granted. They are a joy to young kids growing up in the concrete jungle.
May 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Taylor Creek ravine in East York, Toronto. Never take these spaces for granted. They are a joy to young kids growing up in the concrete jungle.
Yadda yadda a few steps, Alcatraz is rebuilt, and Forgotten Man Feels Listened To. It's the Pepe Silvia Theory of Where the Mail Went, except of instead of a couple of buffoons in the basement, it's a bunch of Heritage Foundation interns chatting about how to dismantle the Fed. Reserve on Discord.
May 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Yadda yadda a few steps, Alcatraz is rebuilt, and Forgotten Man Feels Listened To. It's the Pepe Silvia Theory of Where the Mail Went, except of instead of a couple of buffoons in the basement, it's a bunch of Heritage Foundation interns chatting about how to dismantle the Fed. Reserve on Discord.
More so than the aggregated loss of knowledge that this will incur, I am struck by the solipsism of these moves. As an inoculation against religious self-centeredness, Hitchens once told a debate opponent, "the galaxies are not arranged with you in mind." Nationalism merits a narrowing, a slow wilt.
May 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
More so than the aggregated loss of knowledge that this will incur, I am struck by the solipsism of these moves. As an inoculation against religious self-centeredness, Hitchens once told a debate opponent, "the galaxies are not arranged with you in mind." Nationalism merits a narrowing, a slow wilt.
cool cool cool cool cool no doubt no doubt
May 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
cool cool cool cool cool no doubt no doubt
Downtown Toronto in a quietly cathartic mood this Good Friday. Busy busy. You get the feeling of retail therapy in the air.
April 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Downtown Toronto in a quietly cathartic mood this Good Friday. Busy busy. You get the feeling of retail therapy in the air.
No context How I'm Doing, April 16. #nocontextfeeling
April 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
No context How I'm Doing, April 16. #nocontextfeeling
Even ChatGPT could not have concocted a more stereotypically Canadian bit of breaking news.
April 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Even ChatGPT could not have concocted a more stereotypically Canadian bit of breaking news.
5yo daughter in front of mural painted by her and a half-dozen selected "artists" from SK and grades 1 & 2. She recited all their names, and I remarked on how talented they all were. Her response: "Yeah, and there were also some boys there."
April 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
5yo daughter in front of mural painted by her and a half-dozen selected "artists" from SK and grades 1 & 2. She recited all their names, and I remarked on how talented they all were. Her response: "Yeah, and there were also some boys there."
Take that... **checks list** Saint Pierre and Miquelon! In your face... **checks list** Madagascar!
April 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Take that... **checks list** Saint Pierre and Miquelon! In your face... **checks list** Madagascar!
Chris Donovan's series in the NYTimes and Macleans continue to generate controversy in my hometown (current and former residents alike). I love where I grew up, but NB consistently ranks at or near the bottom in Canada for family income. Life is hard there for many.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/w...
April 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Chris Donovan's series in the NYTimes and Macleans continue to generate controversy in my hometown (current and former residents alike). I love where I grew up, but NB consistently ranks at or near the bottom in Canada for family income. Life is hard there for many.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/w...
My 5-year-old daughter is a prolific doodler. She accomplishes this amidst the maelstrom of a senior kindergarten class. She brings home wads of these sketches every day, crumpled and forgotten.
March 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
My 5-year-old daughter is a prolific doodler. She accomplishes this amidst the maelstrom of a senior kindergarten class. She brings home wads of these sketches every day, crumpled and forgotten.