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Part two: Friends and their relationships
Chatting with Beryl* (name changed) before the Russell Smith book launch a couple of days ago.
Sep 21
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Four first dates that went nowhere
L’Espresso Bar Mercurio on Bloor at St George, early afternoon.
Sep 20
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Saying farewell to the critics
But first
Sep 16
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Joyce Wieland gets raunchy for king and country
plus, Jesse Mockrin's baroque intervention
Sep 13
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Road not taken
and three books to end the summer
Sep 8
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Random impressions upon reading Middlemarch
In order to be able to shut up the Anglos who have been lording it over me for years for never having read THE ESSENTIAL novel of English literature …
Sep 2
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August 2025
Stuff and malarkey
One of those bits, bobs, snark and indiscretions editions
Aug 26
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Victoria Memorial Square
There’s a small downtown park that I love but don’t visit very often because as well as being a quiet green space, it is a memento mori.
Aug 23
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Summer tips for the cottageless, gardenless classes
That in my 25+ years in Canada I haven’t fielded a single invitation to a cottage - I call that a failure of immigrant integration (my own).
Aug 18
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Rural Hours
In this edition of Long Play:
Aug 12
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They're the fire starters
Plus, I visit the manosphere
Aug 2
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July 2025
MeToo is over. MeToo goes on.
In less ambivalent news, one of my favourite plays of all time opens at Soulpepper
Jul 27
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