Thanks to @mrbullbull.bsky.social for giving my equity research report flash fiction a home (and a cool photo)

Loving it!

Jay Birds
Robbie Craig
n.d.

Still thinking about The Surrogate, on for another week at @crowstheatre.bsky.social. Lots to think about, lots of laughs, and a lot of heart. I wasn’t the only one wiping away tears when the lights came up.

“Tawdry” comes from “St. Audrey’s lace.” At fairs honoring the Anglo-Saxon saint Audrey, vendors sold cheap lace necklaces to pilgrims. The phrase St. Audrey’s lace slurred into tawdry lace, and eventually tawdry—meaning cheap, showy finery.

#etymology

It’s a start @shawnmicallef.bsky.social - and @dylanreid.bsky.social ’s handiwork, after I tried valiantly in what turned out to be the wrong spot

Riverdale/Leslieville/Pocket/Danforth LFLs - Google My Maps Riverdale/Leslieville/Pocket/Danforth LFLs

New year, new additions to my map of little free libraries in the east end of Toronto (for this project: roughly Broadview to Woodbine, O'Connor to the lake) -- now over 100 identified!

www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...

Two fake Christmas trees, a large one with frosted needles and a small green one.

From the hallway to car rental at Halifax Stanfield Airport. I thought maybe the offspring tree just hadn‘t been decorated yet, but after two days it was still just there, like an afterthought.

Hoping our Fit lasts until Honda comes to its senses and starts selling them in Canada again (I think the Jazz, which is the Euro name for it, may live on?)

I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.

All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.

Tanks

I couldn’t even turn on the sound until the last strikeout.

Ah, @dylanreid.bsky.social and I were wondering what that big ship was!

I remembered this as soon as I heard it! Definitely an earworm

In my neighbourhood - you’re making it easy! Will stop by.

A photo of Canadian actor Graham Greene during the filming of 1991’s Clearcut

My dad died a month ago. Among his photos I found some he’d taken on the shoots of movies and TV he‘d worked on as a sound recordist/mixer — including some nice ones of the late Graham Greene while filming Clearcut, the 1991 indigenous horror movie that was featured at that year‘s TIFF.

There’s at least two of us, after all…

Corn sweat will intensify a heat wave this week Corn sweat and a heat dome will bring dangerous heat and humidity to the central United States this week.

How did I get this far in life without knowing about "corn sweat" and its contribution to stifling humidity?
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

Really enjoyed this!

The oven has been turned off. #dlws

Image of Popes John Paul I and II and title “Habemus Papam”

Description of album contents, including interviews with journalists and the announcement of a new Pope

Slightly regretting that I didn’t pick up this 1979 album from my neighbour’s lawn when I had the chance.

I never knew that was the original Sick Kids! Was it then OCA for a while after that?

Good chance to bring out the “wintry mix” term I’ve seen used from time to time.

The private viewing reminded me of going to see a matinee in an upstairs cinema - "Barrikadnaya" - in 1990s St. Petersburg, where, since I was the only customer, they were discussing whether to bother starting the projector. I persisted.

This Toronto theatre has lain dormant for years. Here’s why a young musician spent everything he had to revive it Kinkade Davis plans to open the space, now called the Mercy on Gerrard, this spring.

Saw a few movies at this space on Gerrard during its last revival as a cinema, including what ended up being a private viewing (me and spouse) of the great Turkish film Winter Sleep. Great to hear it's coming back to life as a music venue.

www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

How a new waterfront park in Toronto was dug into existence Inside the Don Mouth Naturalization Project — an engineering feat that re-routed a river and created a new shoreline park Torontonians can enjoy this summer

Thanks to @patrickcain.bsky.social for this great overview of the Don River naturalization project in Toronto Today - excited to learn some of the parkland will be open this summer: www.torontotoday.ca/local/enviro...

For no apparent reason when I slipped on ear buds on the way out the door for a frigid run early this morning they were streaming Renaissance polyphony off Apple Music. I was about to switch to a podcast when I realized it was, in fact, exactly what I needed to start this February day.

Free HBO!

Coming here to say that! Moose and Beaver!

He sounds like a local merchant rather than a cartoon character. Who knew there were Pillsbury scones? And what is “Easter bake”??

I had forgotten about a bunch of what is captured in here by the time I read it: www.dundurn.com/books_/t2211...