Les vacances de la construction
Starting the second-last Sunday of July the construction industry in Quebec goes on vacation for two weeks.QuebecTraditionHolidays
View ArticleSchools of Psychology
From The Guardian, How you attach to people may explain a lot about your inner life:Things get even more puzzling if you consider the sheer number of therapies on offer and the conflicting methods that...
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Kiosque laverie Revolution: an outdoor laundrette in France. LaundryFrance
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Through the Baudlands from Parity to Beeperton
I’m sure I must have seen the cover of the July 1983 issue of 80 Micro at the time, but its whimsy was likely lost on my 17 year old self.I especially appreciate that at the heart of the whimsical map...
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Rubber Stamps
For years I’ve been carting around an old cookie tin filled with rubber stamps I’ve been collecting for more than 30 years, and I finally took it off the shelf today to see what was inside,...
View ArticlePenn Jillette on Donald Trump
Penn Jillette on Donald Trump, last August, on the The Joe Rogan Experience:More than most things I’ve read and watched about Donald Trump, I found Pillette’s insights useful.Speaking about Trump’s...
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Chaste Shopping Only
The similarity between Puritan signage and COVID signage has never been as obvious as at Canadian Tire. Canadian TireCoronavirus
View ArticleHard Times Come Again No More
Four of Canada’s preeminent folk musicians—Stephen Fearing, Connie Kaldor, James Keelaghan and Shari Ulrich—sing Hard Times Come Again No More in support of Unison Benevolent Fund.Brilliant.Stephen...
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Summer Sketchbook
I started a new sketchbook on May 26, 2020, on the 3rd day of the “pandemic reopening” at The Bookmark; it’s a paper-oh Circulo Orange on Grey A6, an old favourite.I try to carry the sketchbook with me...
View ArticleTweaking my YouTube Ad Preferences
I watch a lot of YouTube: the “Screen Time” setting on my iPhone tells me 90 minutes this week, and that’s only on my phone; I watch as much or more YouTube on Apple TV.This means that I “Skip Ad”...
View ArticleMore Hard Times
What’s most remarkable about the extended Wainwright-McGarrigle musical family is not so much the talent that lives in each of them as individuals, but how well it works in harmony when they sing...
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Curious Fox, Lovely Beach, Moonlit Harbour
It all started with a letter in the Eastern Graphic.I subscribe to the Graphic again, after a year break: I love the new extended tab format, and I am happy that my friend Allan Rankin is back in its...
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"A human lives three lives..."
The German Netflix series Dark, which I’ve now watched through, and loved all three seasons of, returns to a parable several times:A human lives three lives. The first ends with the loss of naiveté,...
View Article"While I can't really imagine myself, personally, stumbling into a 150 person...
Alec Baldwin talks to writers Kaitlyn Tiffany and Ashley Fetters about contemporary dating. Baldwin is his usual naturally curious self; Tiffany and Fetters rise to the challenge, and what follows is a...
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How to export posts from Tinyletter
From 2014 to 2020 I used the free Tinyletter web app to manage a small mailing list that I used to update Catherine’s family and friends on the progress of her cancer. I made 121 posts in all, starting...
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David’s Tea Abandoned
On our walk last night after supper, Oliver and I noticed that David’s Tea on Great George Street was stripped of stock and fixtures, a victim of the company’s plan to close hundreds of stores. On hot...
View ArticleRefrigocalypse
One morning early last October I went to the fridge to get milk for my coffee, and what I poured into the steaming cup emerged as a glop glop glop of milk gone bad. I checked the refrigerator: it was...
View ArticleDoug Boylan, 1936-2020
Doug Boylan died on Saturday.My first encounter with Doug was an indirect one: on the evening of the Provincial General Election of 1996, before the phones started to ring with results, I was in...
View ArticleThe End of the Story
Author Lisa Halliday, with Tonny Vorm for a Louisiana Channel interview:Halliday: I begin with a character in the sense that I begin with someone I want to spend a lot of time with, with someone who...
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Prince County in Google Earth Timelapse
If you’re going to look at a part of Prince Edward Island in Google Earth Timelapse, the area of Prince County from Birch Hill to Northport is a good one to start with, as much has happened over the...
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