So says Vance, the man who once referred to Trump as "America's Hitler."

White Trash....

This is funniest possible headline for a song literally called "Song for Bob Dylan"

Over the last few months, some US tourists have revived a decades-old practice of masquerading as Canadians in order to avoid anti-American sentiment abroad under the Trump administration. https://cnn.it/4nuJ1Uw

A 58-year-old thriller about a secret organization intent on sabotaging Expo 67. Starring Agent 18-67! #canlit #cdnhist #expo67 #thrillers brianbusby.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-fa...

She’d be 42 today. Happy birthday, Amy ❤️

What we in the rest of the world know. theconversation.com/yes-this-is-...

Best birthday wishes to the heroine of 1813! #cdnhist #canlit brianbusby.blogspot.com/2025/09/laur...

Anyone who thinks that Trump is going to sign a deal with Canada or make nice needs to wake up. If he is willing to treat his own people with such reckless violence he won't hesitate to go after us. Stay strong. Stay focused. Keep the boycott strong.

Lines like this meant something different in 1922: "Every woman has an idea where a man ought to make love to her, and this open road certainly ain't the place." #canlit #cdnhist brianbusby.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-pu...

A short post in recognition of my father - Jack Busby - on what would've been his one hundredth birthday. brianbusby.blogspot.com/2025/08/four...

On the stage adaptation of the novel, the film adaptation of the stage play, and the short story adaptation of the film. All but unrecognisable by the end. Reminds me of that old parlour game telephone. #canlit #silentfilm #cdnhist brianbusby.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-ja...

Georgette Carneal's The Great Day (1932), based on Bernarr Macfadden's notorious New York Evening Graphic tabloid is a savage satire of mass media and the American notion of success. It's hard to read without thinking of the Faustian bargains being struck in Trump's America. neglectedbooks.com/?...

Born 150 years ago today, a Montrealer of Chinese-English parentage who became a bestselling novelist, was adapted by Broadway, wrote for Hollywood, and is now all but forgotten outside the halls of academia. #cdnhist #canlit #bookhistory brianbusby.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-ja...

Further to yesterday's Ziggy Stardust "star," "starman," "stardust" observation, word counts for the Psychedelic Furs' debut LP: Love - 47 Stupid - 17 Useless - 7 "Stupidly" features once. Love conquers all!

Remembering that lovable eccentric Amor De Cosmos (né William Alexander Smith), the second premier of British Columbia, born 200 hundred years ago today. . #cdnhist #bchist

Strolling through the market square, procrastinating, today I put together this count of words used in The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: Star - 9 Starman – 6 Stardust – 2 Superstar - 2 To my surprise, all feature in just one song & "Stardust" isn't in Ziggy Stardust.

I don't only read old books. This a new favourite from one of the best of Quebec's young novelists (and translated by one of the country's best translators). Highly recommended.

The man is a monster.

Hard lessons about Canadian publishing from 1948. Plus ça change. brianbusby.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-pu...

I threw the sandwich, but I did not throw the condiments I threw the sandwich, but I didn't throw the condiments All around Washington D.C. They're trying to track me down They say they want to bring me in guilty For the spilling of some mayonnaise For wasting all the dijon, but I say

Front page of this morning's Globe & Mail. Maybe don't take the kids to Disney World.

A man who told fellow protestor to kill capitol police has been hires to advise the Department of Justice. Why the fuck would this Canadian cross the border?

Jeffrey Epstein took the fifth about Donald Trump. What else do you need to know?

It's like Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class, only funny. #BookHistory #CanLit #CanadianHistory brianbusby.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

Damn those careless workmen! Montreal Gazette, 19 December 1914 #BookHistory

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The first novel by Nova Scotia's most unjustly neglected novelist. If you prefer grey humour over black this is the place to start. brianbusby.blogspot.com/2025/07/suns...

Graham Greene's favourite living writer, there was time in Canada when McClelland & Stewart and Knopf Canada were devoted. His fiction twice received the Governor General's Award, the second time for this novel. We Canadians and Irish owe a debt of gratitude to @valancourtbooks.bsky.social.

"In ten years I'll be dating her." The 45th and 47th President of the United States of America. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYxO...

I'm a Book Explorer. You can be one, too! And at little to no cost!

The world is watching.

Purchased Chris O'Leary's @bowiesongs.bsky.social, fully revised edition of Rebel Rebel today. At 587 pages, I'll be busy for a bit. In celebration, I also bought the first Bowie album I snubbed (and lone gap in my collection). Here it is, along with my very first Bowie LP. Guess which is which!

In all seriousness, if Mark Carney or any other G20 leader had posted anything remotely similar he or she would be under observation this evening. Not that I would feel much better with President Vance, but I'd take some comfort that in this case the U.S. Constitution is working as it should.

In Gloves Off, @stephenmarche.bsky.social explores the challenges posed by our increasingly unstable and threatening neighbour. You'd think it would be depressing and more than a little frightening, but I find it inspiring. Episode #3 was the most inspiring thus far. shows.acast.com/gloves-off

“Have you people not seen the fucking news? Does that look like a fucking good time to you?” asked a statement released by Global Affairs Canada this past Friday.

A first sentence only a sound poet could love: The windshield wipers were having a hard time battling the weight of wet snow driving against the glass; shh-klip ... sh-sh-klip ... shh-hh-kl-ip ... sh-shh-kl-i-p ... k ...kli ... i ...p ... brianbusby.blogspot.com/2025/07/all-...

Something small I love about this day, #CanadaDay, is watching our American cousins fight amongst themselves as we come together. This day, they're at each other more than ever as their democracy slips away. This day, more than any other, I feel fortunate to have been born in this country.

My most recent purchase: "Here is the heady story of a white-collar Torontonian successfully throwing off the yoke of a dull life aggravated by a colourless wife, a shrewish mother in-law, and the gossip of neighbours to achieve success beyond his wildest dreams as the author of a 'dirty' book."

Incompetence, ignorance or AI? Whatever the reason, this list of must-read Canadian authors is a fuckup from start to finish. The Inconvenient Indian is a novel, Rohinton Mistry won the Giller before it was established, and Alice Munro is still alive. brianbusby.blogspot.com/2025/06/on-a...

I don't understand why Don and his dad are so obsessed with the Nobel Peace Prize, but not the Nobel Prize for Literature. Have they forgotten Trump: The Art of the Deal, The Best Golf Advice I Ever Received, and Think Big and Kick Ass, and The God Bless the U.S.A. Bible?

I very much doubt Trump can play two-dimensional chess.

To be fair, one of them might've been carrying a sponge.

US Attorney Joseph H Thompson: "This was a political assassination, which is not a word we use very often in the United States." Really? Four of your presidents, fourteen member of congress, four governors, and fifteen state legislators have been assassinated.

Imagine receiving copies of your second novel only to find that the publisher got the title wrong. The only novel I've read to feature a character who speaks "banteringly." #canlit #cdnhist #booksky brianbusby.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-ma...

A song for the day. The most devastating version. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNww...

I'm so enjoying Donald Trump's birthday parade. The announcer has all the enthusiasm and historical knowledge of a DisneyWorld tour guide. As a Canadian, I was a touch disappointed that the War of 1812 was ignored. I'd also hoped that Sarah Palin would appear during the playing of "Barracuda." (1/2)

I'm always thinking of you When I hear your music play www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMPS...

Travel advisory for Canadians: Visiting American relatives could expose you to measles, tuberculosis, Covid-19, mumps, chicken pox, meningitis, and twenty-five or so other diseases.