Listened to 26 chapters of Don Quixote on my solo road trip. Learned so many good insults! My favourite is "Straighten the Chamber Pot that you're wearing as a hat." Still so many chapters left for the next road trip!

Fresh hot vending machine coffee with real milk at Quebec provincially-funded highway rest stop! Clean, quiet. Forget about AWFUL Tim Hortons and its inexplicable lineups. You can even microwave your own lunch here

Staying at a cheap roadside chain hotel in New Brunswick. The free breakfast buffet: scrambled eggs, sausage, beans, chips, fruit, yogurt, waffles, cereal, and oatmeal. Fresh coffee. Hard to beat NB for reasonably priced, hot meals found at gas stations and motels along highways. And baked goods!

Happy Easter to all who celebrate!

I'm having Roast Turkey dinner at the Irving Big Stop! On the way home from Halifax with several huge boxes of my son's clothes and his guitar. How many hoodies does a 20-something athlete need? Answer: approx. 10,000. And then there's POOL SANDALS

Philosophical question: why stop at IHOP in Moncton when you can go to the Irving Big Stop and get a much better meal? And the chocolate cake with the traditional boiled icing? You can even get a half-portion now of the big-ass turkey dinner with gravy. Thank you for your attention to this matter

Lol! My husband, who just wants to make sure I'm OK on my long drive, is tracking my progress (with my consent obv). He texted me with concern, because the app was showing the car parked at a casino 🤣 I was actually at a gas station nearby

Driving on the Trans-Canada highway to Nova Scotia listening to Cervantes' Don Quixote on audiobook. Recommend! I especially appreciate the narrator's use of Irish, Scottish and Cockney accents for particular characters' voices

It's still winter in northern New Brunswick Also, in northern New Brunswick, people actually know how to drive in winter This is very refreshing. It can be done

Things I learned today: gas stations along Highway 30 sell HUGE chocolate Easter bunnies this time of year. I mean like four feet high! I'm going to get one for my passenger seat so I have someone to talk to on the way home

If autocorrect would stop correcting my name to Andrew, that would be nice. Also, FOR FUCK'S SAKE

Just heard from a neighbour. She saw an orange cat running around outside with no collar. Could that be Morris? Is the Pope Catholic? That striped bastard ditched his collar again yesterday. Spring's here and he's longing for the open road

My spouse has already muted the Blue Jays game, which hasn't started yet but seems to be a commercial for something, idk what. I was a baseball mom, and a swim mom, and I was so happy when my son had to choose, and he chose swimming Baseball is a great sport, but -oof. The "manosphere" starts there.

I'm writing something now where I refer to anti-democratic leaders as "former" leaders, for example Victor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary, 2010-2026. Of course I might have to change it later if he wins again in April, but for now it's very satisfying and boosts morale. Recommend

I wrote a letter to the Mayor about this, with a stamp and everything! My spouse read it, said it was reasonable and I wasn't shooting my mouth off like I usually do I also wrote the City Councillor.

Meanwhile, bylaw is aggressively looking to ticket people who have parked safely on the street. How about somebody is tasked with moving the gridlock out of the way, like at airports? Oh sorry, I forgot what city I live in for a second there.

Another shitshow today at the Civic Hospital/Heart Institute, where AGAIN people are blocking the road on both sides, waiting for a space to open in the full parking lots. This is getting dangerous, as it is difficult for me to get to the entrance to drop off my passenger, a heart patient.

I really don't like to use the word "stupid," because it's ablist. But the Premier of Nova Scotia? My God. I see his unbelievably tone-deaf Facebook posts sometimes, and -- oof. Worth reading for the comments alone. I'm born/raised in NS. Very intelligent people, very dimwitted politicians. Sad!

My son just asked me to explain a Soviet cartoon that showed a man spraying a woman with a fire hose, while the startled woman held a broom. It was a public health message to tell the masses to wet-mop their floors for proper hygiene. Ah, Russia.

🎶"There's something happening here /what it is, isn't completely clear🎵

I am feeling like a very empowered woman, drinking coffee in a coffee shop and ostentatiously parking my new dremel on the table, which I just purchased for $3 after using up reward points. I have no idea how to use this thing. I'm sure there are AI instructions to help me use it safely! 🙄

A motorist rolled down her window to tell me I should be wearing high-viz while 🚲 Sure, Karen. A spring late morning, cloudless sky, and I have tons of reflectors, but, sure, I'll wear high-viz next time even though it + 4 lights didn't stop a bus from almost hitting me, twice. I thanked her sweetly

Oh hi

Very dumb headline. The content of the article is more nuanced than what it seems.

To quote my favourite Seth Rogen movie, "you mean take him out for drinks?"

Good morning, Ottawa. Bonjour, Ottawa.

Me: I wrote 2000 words today, wow! I think I'll keep going until dinnertime Phil: Not happening

OK, that was weird

Ahem

Sheer pretentious nonsense... Karl Popper on Jürgen Haberman (and the Frankfurt school)

"Psychoanalysis is a lot like the Russian Revolution: we don't know when it started going bad." (p. 55) You lost me there, pardner: we actually know a lot about when it started going bad. Thanks to HISTORIANS who read RUSSIAN and WRITE BOOKS. What makes people write this💩?

Shoutout to the IR dude I just read who, in a fall 2025 article, referred to the "emerging literature on democratic backsliding"🙄 It's so cute how they suddenly discover comparative politics, political theory, and history, and then reinvent the wheel.

Hear me out: a book idea, "When Politicians Jog." Has it been done?

I asked my 21-year-old son what he predicted Timothee Chalamet would be wearing tonight, and he seemed really confused by the question, like why would anyone give a damn The kids are alright

Morris' top Oscar picks are "Sinners" and "Blue Jays with Shy Fox on Sunset Cove." Also "Flow." Don't tell him the last two aren't nominated, he'll be really mad

I pity my grown sons, who have never watched the Oscars and have never seen the point of them. I thought that reading "The Good Soldier Svejk" to them when they were kids would have given them an appreciation for absurd, overblown spectacles featuring conceited but dimwitted people, but no.

Steps in Trump war rhetoric: 1. We don’t have to play by the rules in war 2. We won the war 3. If you go by the rules I just made up we won 4. No fair

Guardians of the flooring materials

I wrote 1000 words today on what government is and what it's supposed to be, and it gave me a lot of insight into people who write fiction in order to stay sane

If Donald tries to give me a pair of shoes I'll release the files.

After watching this shit show in Iran can we now agree that maybe having academics isn’t a bad thing?

It's so cute how some of you dudes still mansplain, like it's 2021 or something. I mean, women can have "doctor" in their handles, and published books/grants in their profiles, and it's still like "Well actually, have you considered going to a library? It's a place where you can go read books."

Can anybody recommend a good book about the politics/history of labour unions? Everything I've read is boring as dirt, a lot of blah blah blah about capital and post-Fordism. I'd like to read something that has a few people in it, like some workers for example

Oh ffs. Am I going to have to rescue him already? It's still winter. Jerk

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March in Canada is seriously underrated Every day is like a different Tarkovsky film Троко єтого мало IYKYK

Suburban boomers: There are too many intoxicated people downtown, more police needed as I am uncomfortable with substance abuse occurring outside the golf club setting Also suburban boomers: Drinking and driving? That could happen to anyone! Judge not lest ye be judged. Give the poor guy a break!

.... and it's on. The annual watch for Dave the Groundhog to come out of hibernation

Suburban boomers on suburban City Councillor: Drinking and driving? Oopsie! What bad luck! All is forgiven! Suburban boomers on downtown City Councillors: This year's heavy snow was the inevitable result of leftist Councillors' woke-ism