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It’s a painful but necessary duty. Part I || Part II It’s a week of Good Things in this pandemic world, which is, like Toronto, a soulless state of mind you can’t escape. Our crazed boredom makes us seek out what we previously might have ignored as trivial or bizarre.
Continue readingIt’s a painful but necessary duty. Part I || Part II I THINK I WAS AROUND EIGHT YEARS OLD WHEN I awoke one morning from a romantic dream about Robert Goulet—he was holding me in his arms and singing “If Ever I Would Leave You” while Julie Andrews, dressed as
Continue reading+PLUS+ MANY OF YOU MAY BE UNAWARE THAT I was the original choice for “Dorothy” in “The Wizard of Oz.” There, it’s finally out, and what a burden it’s been these— sixty? one hundred? I lose count—years. And I hesitated about telling you, knowing you’d never again be able to
Continue readingstop clutching your pearls and own up AS MY FREQUENT VISITORS ARE well aware, I like to solve the world’s problems, or at least point them out if there’s no financial incentive and I don’t feel like changing out of my bathrobe, by wielding the almost supernatural influence of this
Continue readingSo send in your questions! The collision starts now. WITH INAUGURATION DAY SETTING EVERYONE’S NERVES a-janglin’ down south, and its embarrassing, bargain-basement Canadian complement, the show-trial and ousting of tendentious, racist Derek Sloan from the Conservative Party of Canada drifting by unnoticed up here, birthplace of ice cubes and frozen
Continue readingLockdown lunacy, a challenge for Nicole—and Trump’s “come-as-dumb-as-you-are” farewell party, with sparklers. I’M PANDEMICKED, WHO ARE YOU? ARE you Pandemicked, too? Did you awaken this morning, as I did, with a stone for a heart, and emitting a groan that echoed through the inner city like twelve ambulances en route
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