Felt like doing something nice for people. So I grilled some beef cuts (liver, kidney) sliced it thin and put it in a pita with onion, lettuce, tomato, sauce. Guess you can call me an organ doner.

"But even through my twenties, even when I had the chance, I would plunk myself down wherever two roads diverged in a yellow wood. Plunk myself down and wait for Later." Gift link:

Here's a thing I wrote for @thestar.com:

Made a salad for the neighbourhood party that was a real hit. Used goat cheese, pecans and a brightly coloured vegetable. Folks loved my block rocking beets.

There are screens in the newsroom playing a slideshow of shots from the World Series in what I assume is a subtle act of torture

My car asked my kids a shocking and inappropriate question. That’s how I realized there are few safe spaces anymore www.therecord.com/thestar/opin...

having to fake an American/Canadian accent and lean into the the Rs to get Alexa to play songs by YaRD Act or Sarah HaRmer is a hate crime against me personally

Important thread

There's a 24/7 corner store in Regent Park with trays of food from fried chicken and beef patties to chicken tikka and biryani The best shawarma in the city is in a 24/7 Hasty Market in Davisville. From food trucks and corner store foods to more 24/7 stuff we need to actually act like a big city.

I've seen dozens of videos of Zohran Mamdani being asked for his favourite bodega food. In Toronto, that question would be "what do you buy at the Metro to eat at your desk?"

Go celebrate Zohran’s win by watching Mississippi Masala on @criterion.bsky.social

So when do we find out about the NY Mayoral race?

*voice of george constanza after hearing elaine talk about how important a man's hair is* I KNEW IT

...why?

Have mixed feelings about this. 1) on Twitter there'd be this draining psychological drag from seeing takes that would infuriate me. That happens much less on Bsky. I'm not sure what benefit that had to me, to always be seeing the worst version of an opposing view.

*counting on my fingers* Hm, it's only... 1, 2, 3... huh, 5 months of dark evenings? That's not so bad. We're going to make it out the other side of this! (is this me coping well or badly, I don't know)

How many times would you say Baudrillard has completed a rotation in his grave? My money is on 27

*looks outside* We have no choice but to face the long dark of winter

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Heh

I am never watching sportsball again

Ah. Feel really bad for the Jays. Incredible stuff.

call it game Se7en bc everyone keeping score wants to know what's in the box

This is my fault

Just put us out of our misery

A fitting ending here would be an inside the park home run

This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball

The baseball torment nexus

Welp

World Series, game 7, bottom of the ninth, bases loaded…. BUT ACTUALLY

World Series, Game 7, bottom of the ninth… but actually

Work just adding to my stress

PSA: if your feed is out, go to www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/...

Hitting the pitcher who was just warned about hitting a batter

He’s right you know

OK SEE YOU TOMORROW SOMEONE GET DRAKE TO STAY HOME

I cannot believe what just happened

World Series, bottom of the ninth… but actually??? Phew!

Given everything, a game 7 would at least be thematically appropriate

This is too tense

never mind

people talk about Toronto being a cold unfriendly city and I dare them to walk around my neighbourhood on Halloween and come to that conclusion. There are people hanging out EVERYWHERE. On the patio, chatting with neighbours. One house had dog treats because they know there's lots of dogs round here

Oh there's LSD in the candy? And what? You don't want your children to open their mind?

Watching the Blue Jays from the Banff Centre, epic backdrop for a hopefully epic win

Haha I’m on the subway at 8pm on a Friday night and it is *dead*

Posit: there are only 3 types of Canadians: -those who go to Tim Hortons and bristle at the mere idea of a Starbucks -those who go to Starbucks and would never dream of setting foot in a Tim Hortons -those who would die of embarrassment if they were ever seen in either a Tim Hortons or a Starbucks

Idle thought: immigrating at 12/13 occasionally feels like it gives you a weird window into the things you became invested in before you became 'fully conscious.' Halloween, e.g., was never really a thing in the UK and I therefore have paid it no mind. Other things - xmas, football - quite different