@paulinraincity.bsky.social
Stage lV colorectal cancer guy. Failed academic. Comics, illustration, old books, old music. www.readingdoonesbury.com
The latter in the latter case is Canadian and probably unknown away from these shores.
12.11.2025 06:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0All this time l've been thinking that Jonathan Haidt and Jonathan Chait were the same guy.
(...many years ago, l did similar with the Dave Matthews Band and the Matthew Good Band...)
"Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable."
Kurt Vonnegut (... allegedly.)
"Back Home in Derry" is an Irish rebel song written by Bobby Sands while imprisoned in HM Prison Maze.
Sung to the tune of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
youtube.com/watch?v=vMu6...
A John Cusak - Gordon Lightfoot mash-up.
@ladyhistorian.bsky.social
11.11.2025 09:36 — 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0They got played by a man who's clearly suffering from dementia.
Well done.
Related: There is no such thing as a movie titled "A New Hope."
08.11.2025 21:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Sir, phrenology was dismissed as quackery 160 years ago." "Of course you'd say that, you have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter."
06.11.2025 19:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I always tell my writing students: Tell me the important stuff first.
06.11.2025 02:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
My loathing for that band runs so deep.
04.11.2025 21:04 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0She was a Grateful Dead, and an important one.
03.11.2025 17:01 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It was the most Toronto way to lose a championship
02.11.2025 05:33 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Yeah.
It's actually much worse.
No real need for the question mark -- these often life-saving medications are in the sights of the same people coming for vaccines and stuff like Tylenol.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
The jays having one good inning and then spending three hours holding everyone hostage while they waste any and all goodwill is the energy Toronto brings to this nation, I just want Americans to know this
02.11.2025 04:08 — 👍 642 🔁 92 💬 18 📌 13Heartbreaking
02.11.2025 04:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Vladdy first out of the dugout.
02.11.2025 01:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0mlbwebcast dot com
02.11.2025 01:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I rooted for Vladdy Sr. when l was a much younger man.
It's cool to see the kid now that I'm entering my dotage.
New on my Doonesbury blog:
"What a Breath of Fresh Air!": Doonesbury on Iran and the Veil.
readingdoonesbury.com/2025/10/29/w...
Kinda like the doctor telling you to go see the great clown Pagliacci.
www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
New on my Doonesbury blog:
"What a Breath of Fresh Air!": Doonesbury on Iran and the Veil.
readingdoonesbury.com/2025/10/29/w...
Something called Grateful Shred.
Should I?
29.10.2025 05:04 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Watching "Shifty," the newish Adam Curtis doc about Britain in the 1980s.
Really love this guy's style.
Shit like this is why I'll never give up on the internet. This is real love.
29.10.2025 01:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Here we all are, watching baseball again
29.10.2025 01:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Looking forward to listening. One of my favorite pods!
28.10.2025 20:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This is starting to feel like a cricket match.
28.10.2025 06:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
