Grace Pritchard Burson

Get a tour of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise.

Flee the destruction of Troy and found Rome.

Become Dean of St. Paul's.

Put on a play for Duke Theseus.

Move to the Forest of Arden.

Go on pilgrimage to Canterbury.

gavin newsom: p-p-please consider this gerry-mander b-bill

The Khan: GET ME THE STATE POLICE

Be an Englishman adopted by an Indian servant and end up as a spy in Afghanistan.

Become the leader of the revolution.

Detect crimes.

Involve yourself in a multigenerational lawsuit.

Sell your watch to buy your wife hair combs.

Pride & Patriarchy

Chapter 1

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a good therapist.

I can write mediocre sonnets on damn near any subject in about 20 minutes. Is there a poetry equivalent of blitz chess?

[Yes, I did try putting in more time. Did not seem to help.]

What the actual fuck is an "ibreanian"

Um ... while I would be delighted if my eventual (God willing) Canadian citizenship came with an EU passport, isn't this a bit geographically problematic? Or, put another way, would turn the EU into something completely other than what it currently is?

"The ones who think the Civil War was about the slaves"

Honestly when my mom went looking for a laptop for my kid a couple years ago she was hard pressed to find one that cost *more* than $500. The one she eventually got was a HP.

WTF

We're #2 and #3! (sobs)

Sir.

I know you've never seen or touched a vagina that you remember, but you did actually pass through one on your way into this world.

Can your mother still routinely tuck cantaloupes into her crotch? No?

Please try using the brain cells God gave you.

Also why does everything having to be coded? Why can't people of all genders just do and enjoy things?

Unfortunately the "extinction" part requires someone to set and hold boundaries and I'm not super thrilled about the extent to which that's not happening

Alison Etter (brown hair, black trousers, grey sweater) and me (blonde hair, green dress with tree motif) on the cliff over the Atlantic in Chéticamp, Cape Breton Island, at sunset, August 2021.

RIP Alison. (She was just barely pregnant with Oliver in this photo.) You were a real human being and deserved every bit of the thoughtful, heartfelt tributes you were eventually given by the real people who loved you.

Trying to share her story with the world, I encountered *multiple* iterations of a bullshit predictive text "obituary" (that incidentally also seemed primed to infect my computer with malware).

It was revolting and infuriating, and a profound insult to her memory and our grief.

A couple of years ago, a brilliant, compassionate friend and colleague of mine died: tragically, as a result of complications of chronic illness, far too young, leaving a grieving husband and a desperately wanted child who was not yet two years old.

Meh. As David Foster Wallace said, people are going to worship something, consciously or unconsciously.

And some of the greatest genocides in history have been led by avowed atheists.

The white "Christian" nationalism of the US is an abomination, obviously (and increasingly has nothing in common even theologically with traditional creedal Christianity, let alone structurally and liturgically).

Me in Peru at least twice a day: una limonada por favor

Also I need to find a source of tequeños in Montreal

Cats in Parque Kennedy, July 2025

Miraflores Cliffs looking north, July 2025

And when you watch the sunset from the Miraflores cliffs, make sure to look NORTH, which is most counterintuitive for us Northern hemisphere types.