Adam DeVille

"Industrial bread" is an apt phrase. I had a friend whose mother, emigrating to Canada from Wales, called supermarket bread "UWR": Useless White Rubbish.

Same for therapy propagandists who ritually call their brand, and theirs alone, 'evidence based'.

Dear God does it ever. How about having to have a "committee on shared governance" just to co-ordinate all the administrative/procedural nonsense?

As an academic subjected to years of unbelievably wasteful meetings, I can totally confirm.

My Glaswegian grandfather was for a time a butcher so perhaps I come by my carnivorous bloodthirstiness honestly.

Boneless wings are just chicken nuggets.

Ooh, "tarring" has a venerable vintage if I remember my early American history.

You look so relaxed--that's great to see! I hope you're enjoying yourself.

"Justifiable political invective"? Bit wordy. What else would work?

Yes and certain clinicians can actually make psychopaths worse

Why does that not surprise me?!

My high-school French teacher, who openly smoked in the classroom in violation of all the rules, and fancied himself an unrepentant soixante-huitard (was he really in Paris for the protests?? he was always a bit evasive...), would say blood-curdling things knowing we'd never repeat them.

What Melanie Klein would have called guilt-induced "manic repair."

This puts me in mind of perhaps my favourite of Adam Phillips's books, *Missing Out*, where he asks us to imagine what it would be like to focus on living the life we have now with its quiet, unshowy quotidian duties & experiences, & without pining for a romanticized version of some other life.

Yeah same. So I've been asking myself this week about how and when to stay off my phone, or whether to delete social media.

I did a Bangladesh beef curry recently after a friend showed me how and it is so easy and delicious, especially if you serve it with parathas, which I'm now addicted to.

Carney--as radical as that Bay Street lawyer John Turner circa 1988.

Needs must!

I knew Kenney slightly in the late 90s when we were both in Ottawa and even then his disdain for separatists was very real.

Comté works equally well I think.

Recipe you can share?

Sherry, Marsala, or Madeira all work well.

I vote we import a couple of choirs composed of Welsh miners. There's something about Welsh male singing I find incredibly uplifting.

Yes. It's been nearly 13 months of witnessing relentless moral injury and I think mourning and melancholia (inter alia) are the daily results many of us feel.

Do you put booze in it? What cheese do you use?

My grandmother taught me at age 12 and like you I remain forever grateful. I am always astonished by people who can't cook or who find it intimidating.

Exactly! And Freud was publishing about trauma in 1895 ffs.

'Activate' is helpful because I now just refuse to use 'trigger' so thanks for this.

I'm also avoiding 'trauma' for the same reasons and so substitute the literal Greek translation of 'wound.'

Totally correct. SSB was one of the first things I learned to play on the piano and then I turned to other anthems and had a Sesame Street moment: 'one of these things is not like the other!'