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RS Konjek
@rskonjek.bsky.social
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Books, music, films, art, photography, food, baseball...

...and that guy with the blog.
https://christiehillside.blogspot.com/

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Time for The Great Black Friday lie-down. Yes, yes!

#StringQuartets #Glass #Smith
Cover art for the double CD of Philip Glass' complete string quartets by the smith quartet. A series of footprint-shaped drops of liquid over a gradient grey background.
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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I’d love a new Boards of Canada album.
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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The IBL is dead, long live the CBL.

A recap of a momentous day for fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs of Christie Pits.

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#Toronto #MapleLeafs #Baseball
Pastimes, They Are A-Changin'
The IBL is dead, long live the CBL. Earlier today, southern Ontario's 106-year-old Intercounty Baseball League shucked off its historic iden...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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🤔How many times can I blast this one at full volume before the neighbours launch a petition against me?

#M83

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M83 - Solitude (instrumental)
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November 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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A wild day of running around to meetings. Finally home and ready to lie down. Bring on the complete Maconchy quartets.

#StringQuartets #Maconchy #Hanson #Bingham #Mistry
CD cover for Elizabeth Maconchy's complete string quartets. The titles are presented above a painting of water lilies.
November 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Noon is an eternity away but already exhausted. Time to lie down with this timely recommendation.

#StringQuartets #Janáček #Panocha

@geshtin.bsky.social 👍
CD cover for Janáček's string quartets performed by Panocha Quartet. A mysterious figure in a pale dress races through the woods in a blurred black and white image.
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Every year on #Halloween we carve a #Pumpkin from our collection of Penguin Books. 🎃

We're up to our elbows here in juicy plots and seedy characters. Luckily there's not much pulp fiction. 🎃
A pumpkin made from orange and black Penguin books with a spooky face stuck on it
October 31, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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🎃Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash.
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!🎃
October 31, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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In a nice coincidence with the Jays, the new issue of Spacing opens with a mini-section on sports - with a feature on Toronto's other baseball team (the other Maple Leafs), whose games, by contrast with the Jays, are free, and @jbcurio.bsky.social on the major league baseball teams we almost had.
October 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Interesting display outside the Lillian Smith library today. Got to assume this was a clever idea borne of actual window damage?

#TorontoPublicLibrary #Toronto #Library #LillianSmith
A photo of a boarded-up window at the Toronto Public Library Lillian Smith Branch. The window has caution tape and a sign that says "Find books on HOME REPAIR in Non-Fiction section 643."
October 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Just dug this out of a dusty pile of old papers. Remember when Rogers used to mail you free magazines?? 😃 This one with the provocative cover is from July 2014.

#Toronto #Montreal #baseball #Expos #BryceHarper #Rogers
The cover of Rogers Sportsnet magazine, July 2014. It shows a computer-altered image of Bryce Harper wearing a Montreal Expos grey road uniform, beside the title "What if... the Expos never left Montreal".
October 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Bush Gala Lights Up Liberty Village

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#Toronto #MapleLeafs #baseball
Bush Gala Lights Up Liberty Village
Jordan Castaldo accepts the Golden Bush statuette as the winner of the 2025 Bush.V.P. award. The stars were out at Left Field Brewery for th...
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October 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Opera in Brief: Così Fan Tutte by W.A. Mozart.

Don Alfonso: "My young friends, no woman can resist an Albanian. Wanna bet?"

Young Men: "You're on!"

Young Women: *immediately fail*

#OperaInBrief
DVD cover of the 1989 production of Mozart's Così Fan Tutte. It shows the characters of Fiordigili and Dorabella holding masks.
October 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Time for a nice lie-down. Something new-ish but with classic sounds.

#StringQuartets #Ferrero #Cremona
CD cover for Lorenzo Ferrero's Tempi di Quartetto, performed by Quartetto di Cremona. A nighttime scene in a town square, with a couple in silhouette, strolling along holding hands. The entire image is blurred as if the camera was jarred.
October 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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It's the most pumpkiny time of the year. 🎃
Three cans of seasonal pumpkin-flavoured beers, from three different Ontario breweries, each with a spooky pumpkin graphic.
October 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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OOF, what a day / week / year.

Time to lie down with another onslaught of Onslow.

#StringQuartets #Onslow #Diotima
Cover of Quatuor Diotima's recording of three string quartets by George Onslow. It's a full-length image of four men standing dressed in suits of varying shades of grey, punctuated by red highlights (one with red gloves, another with red boots, another with red necktie, another with red cummerbund).
October 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Castaldo Tops Leafs' MVP Poll

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#Toronto #MapleLeafs #baseball
Castaldo Tops Leafs' MVP Poll
Jordan Castaldo Jordan Castaldo is the 2025 Toronto Maple Leafs team MVP, having received the most votes in a players-only poll. The Leafs'...
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October 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Misty morning view from the Leslie Spit lighthouse.

#Toronto #cycling
A view of the Toronto skyline and Toronto Islands from the base of the Leslie Spit lighthouse.
October 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Q: Which string quartet would you most like to hang out with?

A: The Cleveland Quartet. They look so fun and casual.

Their 1973 recording of the complete Brahms quartets is perfect for a Friday lie-down.

#StringQuartets #Brahms #Cleveland
The cover of Cleveland Quartet's 1973 recording of the Brahms string quartets. With Niagara Falls in the background, two members are perched on a fence and two are standing. Casual clothing and shagged out hair for the men, a long psychedelic print skirt for the lone female member.
October 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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September 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Meanwhile, at Massey Hall, Elvis Costello rocked the house with all his popular faves. #radioradio
Elvis Costello live onstage at Massey Hall, Toronto. Wearing a sylish ensemble of blue suit, white panama hat and silver boots, he's playing guitar and singing.
September 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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From the Annex Gleaner: Maple Leafs Wrap Up Historic Season

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#Toronto #MapleLeafs #baseball
From the Annex Gleaner: Maple Leafs Wrap Up Historic Season
A summer of memorable moments outshines early playoff exit For fans of the game, baseball is the annual accumulation of statistics and memor...
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September 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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A stunning new design by Mike Blackbird aka www.instagram.com/bignishbrand/

Brilliant little details emerge if you zoom in.

#Tkaronto #Indigenous #Design #BlueJays
A plush Tour de France lion wears a blue and white ballcap featuring an Indigenized logo for the Toronto Blue Jays / Tkaronto Diindiisiwag.
September 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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A surprise find at a book sale today. A CD of music by Canadian Srul Irving Glick, including his String Quartet No. 2 which I’d never heard before.

WHAT A MELODRAMA. Three movements heavy with anxious tension. 😬 Not one for lying down and relaxing with.

#StringQuartets #Glick #StLawrence
September 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Sato's Farewell

#Toronto #MapleLeafs #baseball #Japan

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Sato's Farewell
Ayami Sato chats with a fan following a screening of "See Her Be Her" at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre. This week, Ayami Sato made s...
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September 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM