A Slow, Painful Death Would Be Too Good for You (and other observations)
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Experiencing what lies beneath the new normal TODAY, MAY 26TH, 2020—AND I’M sorry to be insensitive, but, pandemic notwithstanding—today is a gorgeous summer day in Toronto, a day when the natural world, intoxicated, pushes itself to extremes of display. Heat vibrates over the sidewalks, tulips stand shriveled in their dried-out
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find ways to make fellow pandemic lock-down sufferers feel better about being human AND YOU THINK YOU’VE GOT IT BAD. SPARE a thought for the above widdle fishie, he said, anxiously using an embarrassing, childish locution to mask the horrors to come. I was thinking of calling this post, “I
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Wrestle with your idol on a clapped-out keyboard Spot the missing E-flat and win… absolutely nothing.
Continue readingbreak out the Night Fever nostalgia, but don’t forget: Cranky is where it’s at, baby I LOVE “SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER” (1977) AND NOT JUST because I’m a 65-year-old, gay, former disco bunny* (though that nostalgia certainly is a factor). I love it because it is one of the great movies
Continue readingPlay “Honey, I Mixed Up the Captions!” and Wait Until You See How Much Precious Weighs Now It’s Jaw-dropping I TRUST IT WILL NOT BE A HUGE surprise to you if I confess that—and, I beg you, please, stand another six feet away from your priceless collection of Blue Mountain
Continue readingreimagine the partnership of Hubert and Audrey in a time of plague IT’S NOT THAT AUDREY HEPBURN wasn’t talented. It’s just that her talents, at least, the talents that we first think of when we think of her at all, had nothing very much to do with acting. With the
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