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🧹🧹🧹🧹 Going for the sweep (Jays).
October 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
🧹🧹🧹🧹 Going for the sweep (Jays).
Here's an intriguing headline:
Vibrations and victories at the World Worm Charming Championships
Vibrations and victories at the World Worm Charming Championships
October 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Here's an intriguing headline:
Vibrations and victories at the World Worm Charming Championships
Vibrations and victories at the World Worm Charming Championships
This headline from the New York Tims is rather ominous:
Octopuses Invade the English Coast, ‘Eating Anything in Their Path’
Octopuses Invade the English Coast, ‘Eating Anything in Their Path’
September 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This headline from the New York Tims is rather ominous:
Octopuses Invade the English Coast, ‘Eating Anything in Their Path’
Octopuses Invade the English Coast, ‘Eating Anything in Their Path’
I was lucky enough to have a number of encounters and conversations with Ken Dryden. If you are seeking the epitome of a great Canadian, he is it. Writer, athlete, lawyer, public servant and much, much more. His contribution to Canada was unsurpassed.
September 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I was lucky enough to have a number of encounters and conversations with Ken Dryden. If you are seeking the epitome of a great Canadian, he is it. Writer, athlete, lawyer, public servant and much, much more. His contribution to Canada was unsurpassed.
Great headline in the Vancouver Sun:
B.C. camper heard yelling in the woods not in distress, just singing Nickelback
B.C. camper heard yelling in the woods not in distress, just singing Nickelback
August 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Great headline in the Vancouver Sun:
B.C. camper heard yelling in the woods not in distress, just singing Nickelback
B.C. camper heard yelling in the woods not in distress, just singing Nickelback
The subject is tomatoes: The New Yorker writer Thomas Whiteside found in 1977 that one survived a six-foot fall onto the floor intact, thus easily exceeding the federal standard for automobile bumpers. (NYT)
June 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The subject is tomatoes: The New Yorker writer Thomas Whiteside found in 1977 that one survived a six-foot fall onto the floor intact, thus easily exceeding the federal standard for automobile bumpers. (NYT)
You know when a favourite product is discontinued?
Melissa Kirsch NYT: "I once wrote so desperate a love letter to the manufacturer of a discontinued lip balm that the company sent me the last remaining dregs of the product from the lab, scraped into a jar.
Melissa Kirsch NYT: "I once wrote so desperate a love letter to the manufacturer of a discontinued lip balm that the company sent me the last remaining dregs of the product from the lab, scraped into a jar.
June 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
You know when a favourite product is discontinued?
Melissa Kirsch NYT: "I once wrote so desperate a love letter to the manufacturer of a discontinued lip balm that the company sent me the last remaining dregs of the product from the lab, scraped into a jar.
Melissa Kirsch NYT: "I once wrote so desperate a love letter to the manufacturer of a discontinued lip balm that the company sent me the last remaining dregs of the product from the lab, scraped into a jar.
There are cougars roaming our hood on Vancouver Island. Hoping there won't be any face to face encounters.
May 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
There are cougars roaming our hood on Vancouver Island. Hoping there won't be any face to face encounters.
From the Washington Post:
On a remote Australian island, the birds are so full of plastic they crunch.
What a mess of the world we have made.
On a remote Australian island, the birds are so full of plastic they crunch.
What a mess of the world we have made.
May 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
From the Washington Post:
On a remote Australian island, the birds are so full of plastic they crunch.
What a mess of the world we have made.
On a remote Australian island, the birds are so full of plastic they crunch.
What a mess of the world we have made.
I was the answer to a crossword clue today: 2001 villain perhaps.
May 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I was the answer to a crossword clue today: 2001 villain perhaps.
Isn't it wonderful when you uncover one of your favourite books in storage?
April 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Isn't it wonderful when you uncover one of your favourite books in storage?
The quintessential Canadian sound: the stutter step when hockey players step onto the ice.
February 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The quintessential Canadian sound: the stutter step when hockey players step onto the ice.
Forgive me if I Rip Van Winkled, but did the world ever find out who Elena Ferrante really was?
February 15, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Forgive me if I Rip Van Winkled, but did the world ever find out who Elena Ferrante really was?
Beautiful work by Laura Zindel.
February 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Beautiful work by Laura Zindel.
Ultimately there is only one thing the U.S. wants from Canada - water. And lots of it.
February 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Ultimately there is only one thing the U.S. wants from Canada - water. And lots of it.
Congratulations to Linwood Barclay with a new book soon and being chosen as a judge for a national award. That old train keeps steaming along.
January 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Congratulations to Linwood Barclay with a new book soon and being chosen as a judge for a national award. That old train keeps steaming along.
if you were kind you could call me odd. Otherwise, you might choose, psychologically strange.
When I reach the last episode of a show I like, I stop. I can't bear it ending. I still have the last episode of Shrinking awaiting.
That, and my favourite character in a commercial is a snail.
When I reach the last episode of a show I like, I stop. I can't bear it ending. I still have the last episode of Shrinking awaiting.
That, and my favourite character in a commercial is a snail.
January 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
if you were kind you could call me odd. Otherwise, you might choose, psychologically strange.
When I reach the last episode of a show I like, I stop. I can't bear it ending. I still have the last episode of Shrinking awaiting.
That, and my favourite character in a commercial is a snail.
When I reach the last episode of a show I like, I stop. I can't bear it ending. I still have the last episode of Shrinking awaiting.
That, and my favourite character in a commercial is a snail.
I might have been the biggest fan of The Bear tv series, until this season. You start watching hoping it will bounce back and it doesn't, it just stays a hopeless muddle
January 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I might have been the biggest fan of The Bear tv series, until this season. You start watching hoping it will bounce back and it doesn't, it just stays a hopeless muddle
For fans of the Toronto Raptors (Canada), watching Quebec-born Chris Boucher tear up the opposition is so much fun. On Monday he dominated in a game in which Steph Curry played.
January 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
For fans of the Toronto Raptors (Canada), watching Quebec-born Chris Boucher tear up the opposition is so much fun. On Monday he dominated in a game in which Steph Curry played.
This is the back cover of a catalogue that featured Samurai armour.
January 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
This is the back cover of a catalogue that featured Samurai armour.
Back in the day, small presses in Canada broke the mold when it came to creative covers.
January 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Back in the day, small presses in Canada broke the mold when it came to creative covers.
I hope that when I finish the book "Why Birds Sing" I'll know the answer.
January 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I hope that when I finish the book "Why Birds Sing" I'll know the answer.
Anyone hear even a whisper these days about Q-Anon?
January 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Anyone hear even a whisper these days about Q-Anon?
Rummaging through random books in my collection. I came across a mystery written by K.C. Constantine. The series centred on a police chief, Mario Balzic, in a declining industrial Pennsylvania town. Does anyone remember reading him?
January 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Rummaging through random books in my collection. I came across a mystery written by K.C. Constantine. The series centred on a police chief, Mario Balzic, in a declining industrial Pennsylvania town. Does anyone remember reading him?
Years ago, back when I didn't know what streaming even was, I discovered a TV show called River. I suppose it has been on Netflix for ages but I just rediscovered it. Man, is it good.
January 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Years ago, back when I didn't know what streaming even was, I discovered a TV show called River. I suppose it has been on Netflix for ages but I just rediscovered it. Man, is it good.