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Jacobean Cacao Husk Chocolate Tea
My cashier at Riverview Country Market said “it’s exactly as amazing as you think it will be,” which I took to mean “like jumping into Wonka’s chocolate river.” And it’s pretty close.Made in...
View ArticleAnnals of Epidemics: Cochrane's 1923 Typhoid Outbreak
My great-grandfather, Edgar Caswell, wrote a brief history of the town of Cochrane, Ontario, where he lived for the balance of his life, in the program of the 1950 Cochrane Old Home Week:Looking Back...
View Article“I'm not here to make you comfortable”
I’m not here to make you comfortable. A helpful parable about parenting an autistic child. And about how to live in this world in general. Iz HarrisVideoAutism
View ArticleCovers Better than the Original
Phoebe Bridgers new album, Copycat Killer, dropped today: four tracks of Bridgers covering her own work, with an orchestral background. At least a couple of them are, to my ears, more satisfying than...
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Hair Splinters
Mandatory mask wearing in indoor public spaces kicked in at midnight here, and the evidence is clear, as walking downtown this afternoon, even though the requirement applies only to indoor spaces, near...
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Please Limit Touching
The Bookmark has this delightfully-lettered sign on the end of a shelf in their pen and pencil section:It’s hard to write this without appearing, well, pervy, but the world of human contact in my life...
View ArticleA Mile an Hour
Paul Capewell posted this in the comments, but it bears the stronger light of a bona fide post: A Mile an Hour is a film by and about Beau Miles:A different kind of marathon; running one lap an hour...
View ArticleIt’s gonna hurt because it matters.
Last night at Grief Club (the monthly drop-in on Zoom hosted by Hospice PEI), this quote from John Green was read at the end:Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to...
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Rush
The near-identical widgets for date and weather on my iPhone’s home screen are a constant source of confusion for me. Today, at least, they spell a Rush album.RushMusiciOS
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Water Consumption from Leaving the Tap On
Someone, let’s refer to him as “the other person who lives in this house,” left the tap running in the downstairs sink last night, something I’ve didn’t discover until this morning, meaning it was...
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The opposite sex finds you both appealing and enticing
I found this in a shoebox of things from my childhood. I’m fairly certain it came from a booth at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto in the early 1980s.Since that time I’ve dramatically...
View ArticleThe rugged ambiance of bugs, heat, tents, and cots...
Last week I wrote about the Cochrane, Ontario typhoid epidemic of 1923, after reading my great-grandfather Edgar Caswell’s reflections on it. Today, that’s to Dick Bourgeois-Doyle’s biography of...
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The Fifth Avenue Home
My mother grew up in a building on 5th Avenue in Cochrane, Ontario, a former bottling plant that was converted into apartments. You can see it in Google Street View, albeit from a distance:The building...
View ArticleWhat makes for good audio description?
Thanks to the generosity of our friends Oliver and Cheryl, Oliver and I had the pleasure of attending Superfest in October, on Zoom. One of my favourite parts of the weekend of films and panels were...
View ArticleIf We Make It Through December
If We Make It Through December, a new album from Phoebe Bridgers, a Christmas album of sorts. The title track is a cover of the original from Merle Haggard.If you like seasonally-themed Phoebe Bridgers...
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Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity
My plan to keep the outstanding bookstores of Earth alive through coronatimes continued with today’s arrival of Set Me On Fire: A Poem For Every Feeling, from Ella Risbridger, from Shakespeare and...
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The Dr. Heather Morrison Show Adds Sign Language Interpretation
Eight months in, the government adds simultaneous sign language interpretation to Dr. Heather Morrison’s COVID-19 updates. Let’s hope this becomes standard operating procedure for all government...
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You Are On Mute
New off the letterpress today (and on sale in the Queen Square Press shop), You Are On Mute printed on a № 6 shipping tag.I used a couple of fonts of battered old sans serif type: “Are On” is type from...
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The S
There’s a spot along the headwaters of the Hillsborough River known as The S. It’s an officially registered geographic name. It is shaped, not surprisingly, like an S. Prince Edward IslandGeographic Names
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