"If the dinner is free
And the dinner's not me
You can tell 'em we'll be there..."

Happy Hallowe'en (with the apostrophe, s’il vous plaît) from Toronto. With the World Series crowd mixing with the obligatory craziness on Church St., if the Blue Jays win it could be an "interesting" evening.

The view from my living room, 06:34 today

For no particularly good reason, the Laurentian lowlands seen from the Champlain lookout on the Eardley Escarpment (an ancient fault line that's now the southern limit of the Canadian Shield), Parc Gatineau

To be honest, before his killing I hadn't even heard of Charlie Kirk - had no idea who he was. But it's clear that his murder - cruel, callous murder - is MAGA's Reichstag Fire, the excuse for curtailing rights and demonizing the opposition. And we know what happened next...

This is just so wrong....

A reminder of how it was in the "good old days"

Is this real or just a window display? Why is it protecting a shy cat? And do they need protection?

The Opera (Nationaltheater) in Munich

"When everyone is thinking the same thing, there's not much thinking going on"

Karl Valentin

The U.S may have all the Trader Joe's, but Canada has the real, official TWO BUCK CHUCK

The Waxing Gibbous (one night before full) moon playing peek-a-boo in the clouds over Toronto tonight. And yes, it really is that bright

One of the entertainment stages at Toronto Pride, taken from the roof of my building about 8:45 last night. Where is everybody?

Two mid-morning Pride weekend rainbows, courtesy of the double refracting prism I keep in the window (shout out to the sun for the photons)

So, pardon the language, but IS THERE A FUCKING CEASFIRE OR NOT??!!!

It's sad to see the service of so many men and women (my father included) tainted by association with the first "Let's Ruin Washington DC Streets to Assuage an Oligarch's Ego" parade next Saturday. This was in today's New York Times - even the Waltons (of Walmart) have had enough.

The Former New York City General Post Office (now known as the James A. Farley Bldg.) was across 8th Avenue from Pennsylvania Station and was built to match its magnificence. And magnificent it remains. We built *post offices* like this, because it mattered to people. And people mattered.

I took this photo on a lamp post about 3 years ago in Göttingen (where I lived for a while). It sums up how I feel about the current administration and its merry band quite adequately.

The Toronto skyline about 10 minutes after sunset tonight

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