when men know that the appropriate stance is worshipful respect Joni Mitchell / Mark Carney Vanessa Redgrave / Mark Kermode

because of a tech incident at my workplace, there's been just one printer for 3 weeks I can get to work but only if it's a PDF and I ask it really nicely also phones are down -- in the past I could pick up a landline & say "hello?" but now I've got 2 pages of how-to instructions re: calls via Teams

Ron Swanson Displays 'Poop' in Parks And Rec

ALT: Ron Swanson Displays 'Poop' in Parks And Rec

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My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

have discovered cocktail heaven and yes that is salted honeyed air atop my cinq à sept

another iffy #caturday photo shoot

Very short mystery tale idea no.37: Poe's The Purloined Letter, but instead of a letter, I lose a package of flossers and find them weeks later, right where I left them, in plain sight, near the bathroom sink

Dang. Once again forgot to collect free birthday drink from St*rB*CKS but I guess I'm boycotting anyway.

Review of Bday 64. Worked, bought cat food. Took my kids out for dinner. Returned home to eat cake I'd made last week & put in freezer. Watched Lanterns with offspring & listened to them argue about plot issues. Youngest disabled my computer as his keyboard crapped out, so he took mine. Rating: A+

my grumpiness about "Canadian" poet Anne Carson goes back years, as this not-recent comic by Jonathan Dyck, feat. me & @josiahneufeld.bsky.social testifies 📚💙

Canadian Nobel Literature win? Huh.🤨🙄🤨🙄🤨🙄

my dad would be pleased I'm at an NHL game since he used to expend a lot of time yelling at me for not watching hockey with him (hence my disenchantment)

Jets update: The puck should be bIgger so I can see it from the 2nd highest row

Sue Sorensen@suesorensen.bsky.social · 6d ago

have agreed to go to an NHL game tonight with my kid and, knowing that I am not fond of hockey but like baseball moderately better, he has assured me that it's just like cold baseball

have agreed to go to an NHL game tonight with my kid and, knowing that I am not fond of hockey but like baseball moderately better, he has assured me that it's just like cold baseball

in my household, there are some bongos which nobody has touched in at least a decade & I swear as soon as I sell them or give them away, I will desperately need them

it's past midnight so it's time for this insomniac nutbar to fire up her credit card and order a bunch of stuff from the interwebs that will arrive in 3 weeks and fuel general bafflement

posting two vampires that aren't Dracula

Mobland has been in standard Guy Ritchie territory, elevated by showrunner Jez Butterworth's literary cred & an A-list cast. But with tonight's episode, S2 Ep 3, the head-to-head of smart, softspoken players of extraordinarily dangerous villains - Johnny Flynn & Tom Hardy - this story ignites.

Today's Top Typo: for the jazz lover who simultaneously wants to keep up with the crosswords. "____ Lounge has some of the best acrostics for live music events in Wpg no matter where you sit."

What a great 7 x 7 event at the Winnipeg Book Festival this afternoon. SO MANY people at the Forks to hear about writing, editing, bookselling, publishing. Here I am, hosting: listening to award-winning author (and singer and lawyer and...!) Zilla Jones.

Wonderful crowd at The Forks as we head into the 7 x 7 writing & publishing industry session at the Winnipeg Book Fest today!

Did I just see an ad for Lord of the Flies Season 2? I mean, I read this novel. Because I had to. Anyway, I don't remember any hope of continuation or basically anything resembling a future.

Sometimes after a tough day, you just need to watch a western. The Long Riders is better than I remember. I fondly recalled the long dusters. But there's more here than romantic coats. Good attention to female roles, great cinematography, excellent horses & serious brotherly love in the casting.

Some great writing by Bartley Kives @bkives.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

ANALYSIS | When the Manitoba PCs lost their leader, the NDP lost its greatest asset | CBC News

Obby Khan was to Wab Kinew what Justin Trudeau was to Pierre Poilievre: The gift that kept on giving, as long as he remained in his position. Unfortunately for the NDP, he self-ejected.

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drank two cups of strong coffee this morning and went back to sleep so I think I'm turning into a cop or a bus driver

am holding out for the Lee Child novel where Reacher makes cookies or homemade soup for one of those incredibly tough, smart, beautiful woman cops or soldiers he accidentally ends up solving everything with, instead of just stealing a car with her and going to a diner and snapping a bunch of necks

Students in film class want to know unusual things. Like: Which Winnipeg hotel did Charlie Chaplin stay in? 🤨 (In 1914, it was the Windsor Hotel--called another name at the time--which burned down 109 years later.)

being a parent is like this: you start in on an excellent anecdote about your hilarious past and instantly your kid says, I've heard this before, Mom

my beloved ancient weirdo, Sophie, is communing with her verandah shadow on this beautiful autumn Sunday

Yup. Now I just need to teach him apostrophe use. (Wonderful song from a shortlived Cartoon Network sketch show called Incredible Crew.)

Theo@virtute2112.bsky.social · 2w ago

open.spotify.com/track/0C9M93... me and my moms favourite song

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.