Nathan Russel Dueck (1979- )

Cart waaay before the horse here, sure, but I'm already worried about how many of my beloved Blue Jays will voluntarily shake Trump's desiccated hand should they actually win this thing.

You just know that Trump wishes he could force enslaved people to build his ballroom.

John 11.35

It's already gotten to the point where I, a lifelong believer, feels sick when a baseball player has scribbled a Bible reference on his cap -- like, how much homophobia can I stomach at the ol' ball game?

I can't say whether the Land of Liberty will survive MAGA, but I will say with 100% confidence that Evangelical Christianity won't.

If I get the chance to launch my next book at McNally Robinson, it looks like I'll just have to acapella the entire Virtute the Cat trilogy for the poor people gathered there. Gah, I say, gah!

Last night, in the miraculous metropolis of Winnipeg, the brightest light in the dreary prairies, Miriam Toews launched her new book while accompanied by John Samson and Christine Fellows -- and I was here, 14 hours away, clearly NOT LIVING MY BEST LIFE! Gah! A thousand times gah!

Pledges for the Christmas Adventurers Club

I even want it more than sticking with Daylight Savings Time

I will not be taking questions at this time. 3/3

Now, it’s high time for 3) Hallowe’en at the end of September. You read that right: no more buying costumes big enough to accommodate a snowsuit, no more icy sidewalk treks, and no more frozen fingers thrusting frosted pillowcases at neighbours. 2/3

Canada’s made exactly two good decisions over the country’s history: 1) Pearson’s Auto Pact of 1965, and 2) Thanksgiving celebration on the second Monday of October. 1/3

Feels like I’ve lost the Game of Fatherhood when I have to turn on the heat in the fall.

HAPPY YANKEES ELIMINATION DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE!

Just reached for a cardigan when I realized I was already wearing a cardigan. If you need me, I'll be right here, preparing myself for the chill of the grave.

At 20:57 in today's WTF, an interview with Matt Groening, Marc Maron says the word "Mennonites?!" with such incredulity and possible revulsion that I want to clip it and use it as my ringtone.

Peacemaker Season Two features an alternate universe, but easily the least plausible aspect of the show is that the richest man in the world was imprisoned for trying to destroy the world.

Just became the biggest Blue Jays fanatic you’ve ever seen.

I don't know how to reconcile in my mind the fact that Canadians are reflecting on the tradition of genocide in our country while Americans are watching their president all but promise genocide in his country.

I fully ascribe to an ethos, grounded in my belief in a deity and love of humanity, that the American Secretary of War just impugned as "naive and dangerous." May God have mercy on our souls.

How kind of Jeff Tweedy to drop a 3hr album when I have to spend the day grading. (Why yes, I am wholly committed to my dad rock dotage.)

I'll see you in heaven
If we make the list.

I’m surrounded by all the fresh produceI could imagine at this market, and I’ve even shaken the hands of the farmers who plucked it…and I’m hankering for Chicken McNuggets like you wouldn’t believe.

The 8yo’s teacher asked him to list his priorities for the school year. Here they are:
1. Use appropriate language;
2. Cherish knowledge;
3. Be kind.
Words to live by.

“Penis de Millimetre”
Donald J. Trump
2003

No. [Sigh] I’m waiting, too.

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