Come buy a book? Glad Day on Queen West is opening TODAY(!) at 5pm at 32 Lisgar Street. Author readings, button making, social events. Weekend hours: Thursday 5pm-9pm, Friday 1pm-9pm, Saturday 12pm-8pm, Sunday 12pm-8pm Or donate at www.gladdaylit.ca/nextchapter

What a dream! Go if you can

Hey I wrote a little piece about musical education for hopelessly unmusical people like me, and what I learned from the experience in high school (25 years ago) marcusmccann.medium.com/music-for-no...

The world needs more Lynn Crosbie

"If you hear any noise it's just me and the boys boppin" ~ Happy 74th Birthday to Pittsburgh #Pirates legend Dave Parker! "The Cobra" was born in Grenada, Mississippi on this day in 1951. #MLB #Baseball #History

What are we doing to mark the 150th anniversary of Robert’s Rules of Order next year?

🖤💙 Shoutout to Leatherfolk Book Club: A Group for Kinky Folks Who Like Books, who will be discussing Park Cruising next weekend, on May 10 💙🖤 leatherfolkbookclub.com/books/

“Why is almost everyone on the internet so vindictive?”

“Moving too fast or focusing on perfection and self-critique doesn’t build organizations with resilience: it builds ego and self-righteousness. Both urgency and purity are acidic. They are toxic to trust and corrosive to community-building.” convergencemag.com/articles/a-c...

I am so pleased to share that my little firm, Marcus McCann Law, is growing. Lawyer Nicole Dinn has joined the team (necessitating new photos). Contact us for all your workplace needs at www.marcusmccannlaw.ca

If anyone wants to know what I looked like 19 years ago 👇👇

Life affirming!

If you're in Ontario, then spend your Family Day lunch break with me learning effective bystander intervention! It's open to anyone, anywhere aged 12 and up, so a perfect little lunch and learn opportunity for you and your kids. Cameras/mics muted, so ideal for group viewing or multi-tasking!

I watch this 10-year-old clip of Jeremy Jordan singing Losing My Mind from Sondheim’s Follies basically every day now youtu.be/CoZVxPTvGp4?...

George Michael alert 🚨 The Father Figure montage in Babygirl truly goes on and on www.instagram.com/reel/DEfNzSn...

Watch this space 👇

I attended this workshop a few years ago and I still think about it. Get on the list 👇

Growing my hair out and seeking advice for products/styling 🙈

What do we want in any body but the world? And if the lover’s inimitable form was nowhere, then he would find it everywhere —Mark Doty, “The Death of Antinoüs”

I can easily say this was the best book I read this year.

An archive of Richard Avedon’s photos, prints, and even film negatives has been digitized and is available on the National Museum of American History website, including this one in which the photographer absolutely does writer Dorothy Parker dirty americanhistory.si.edu/collections/...

Omg, what? Ugh. Having a meltdown over this (lack of) rhythm

Is this right? The lamp is burning low upon my tabletop [pause] the snow is soft [pause] ly falling

The lamp [pause] is burning low [pause] upon my tabletop [line break] the snow is softly falling

Update: Santa will not cross the picket line youtu.be/URuaI8tQ2LU

The You’re Wrong About Extended Universe Starter Pack (let me know if I’ve missed anyone) go.bsky.app/5GFwwXq

“We can break through the marriage into marriage.”

It’s amaryllis *season*, Bill!

The amount of targeted advertising we have to wade through is wild. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The first paragraph of Desmond Morris’s The Naked Ape (first published in 1967)

RFK Jr. doesn’t think that HIV causes AIDS; thinks poppers addiction(?) was part of 100 percent of early cases; and he thinks HIV was identifed as a virus for political reasons. Yikes. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I woke up thinking about Karen Solie’s Prayers for the Sick, which is a long description folks in a hospital waiting room. This line always gets me. “He’s settled into his pain like a house on poor land. / He looks out at us from the middle of it.”

Pinterest is trolling me so hard

Media is capable of covering union strikes in a fair and meaningf— vancouversun.com/news/canada-...

I have been carrying a cotton handkerchief in my back pocket for more than 10 years, and honestly, they have more uses than a Swiss Army knife 🌈

Is this song … cursed? open.spotify.com/track/4xISUr...

Sorry also these delightfully weird wall sconces(?) Everything is FINE okay?

This relief above the bar in the basement of the Lyric Opera is totally unhinged

About to watch Tesori’s Blue at the Lyric Opera, so pumped www.lyricopera.org/shows/upcomi...

About my book Park Cruising, here is an excerpt, some interviews, my IG handle and some other stuff linktr.ee/marcusmccann Photo by Jason Lee

Putting away my bike for the season — I am too much of a wimp when it gets cold around my ears

There is a one word note on my phone from September 17 that just says, “Sodomy”