I'm workshopping a "Comeback Special" joke here but I don't quite have it yet.

Alright you bums, let's win one of these.

John Coltrane was born 99 years ago today.

Thinking of John Coltrane on what would have been his 99th birthday.

Niche post: Ebbets Field Flannels sure achieving new levels of enshittification with that new cap collection, huh? Come back, Jerry!

Beautiful walk this morning overseen by a tight arrangement of three celestial bodies, looking like a sceptre hung in the eastern sky. I altered my route so I could keep looking at it.

“WKRP in Cincinnati” premiered on this date in 1978.

Me to my wife this morning, on the occasion of our wedding anniversary: What were we supposed to get each other for 21 years? Her: I hope it's pizza.

Very happy with this pickup, a 1993 Sports Specialties Pro model Florida Marlins in glorious teal. All wool, 100% awesome. When I look at this beauty, I think of Sheffield, Conine, Benny Santiago. When I wear it, I feel like Charlie goddamn Hough.

Some people like bungee jumping, others cling precariously to rock faces, while still others prefer skydiving, but my adrenaline fix comes from submitting large grant applications two minutes before their deadlines.

It's so utterly amazing that AI is stepping in to fill the great podcast shortage we've been suffering through lo these many months nay years

Any other authors on here suddenly flooded with these clearly AI-written emails promising to "get your books into the hands of thousands of book clubs!!" or "rack up hundreds of Amazon reviews in just days!" or whatever? I'd never seen one before but have received a half dozen in the last week.

Friday night done right: watching/scoring TOR-NYY, SEA-ATL on laptop, beer from Uxbridge, ON (Slabtown), rye from Ptbo (Black's), Bill Evans/Miles/ Archie Shepp/Monk/Herbie Hancock on the speakers. Feeling okay over here (Jays up 4-1), however temporarily.

These AI ghouls will eventually come for every single thing you love.

Having survived the Disney's Descendants, Hamilton, and K-pop phases, I am sure I'll find a way through my daughter's sudden and completely unexpected Midwest emo obsession, but I gotta be honest: things as they currently sit look awfully bleak.

Man, these Reds are pesky.

35 Years Ago Today: Toronto #BlueJays pitcher Dave Stieb hurls the first no-hitter in team history vs. the Cleveland Indians at Municipal Stadium! (September 2, 1990) #MLB #Baseball #History #LightsUpLetsGo

35 years ago today, after several near misses, Dave Stieb became the first - and still only - Toronto Blue Jays pitcher to toss a no-hitter. He completed the feat against Cleveland at Cleveland Stadium. He walked four and struck out nine in the contest.

Curt Flood, 1965 Topps #cardsky

There's NewPoetry today from Rob Winger. newpoetry.ca/2025/09/01/1...

Friday.

Okay so we waited in line for two hours and twenty minutes to ride this 80 second ride last night and if the park wasn't about to close I'd have gotten right back in line to do it again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5BY...

The countdown to school is on (plus T gets his wisdom teeth yanked tomorrow) so we're making the most of these waning days.

Stumbled across Hollinger Park in Timmins, Ontario. Beautiful wooden grandstand built circa 1939 by the Hollinger Mines company, owner of the enormous gold mine immediately adjacent to the park. Used for amateur ball for decades, but now slated to be converted into an event space. No more ball.

Hello from Gogama, Ontario.

We had a blast playing pinball and trivia, eating and drinking at the Tilted Turret in Thunder Bay. Great spot.

Kakabeka Falls, Ontario.

The divide between people who think AI looks amazing and those who thinks it's complete dogshit is so wide it's a chasm. It feels foundational, neurological. It's like there's finally accounting for taste: if you look at this and think it looks good, you have none.

Superior, they said, never gives up her dead

As if we call this a lake lol

Cubs lead the Jays 2-1 at the stretch, but we chased their starter and got 'em on the ropes. Att: @sandrapoetry.bsky.social

Ichiro, awaiting his number retirement ceremony 📸 Seattle Mariners official

They’ve flipped meaning on its head, so when they say that you (trans person, undocumented person, in a same-sex marriage, unhoused person...) aren’t human (which is the subtext of everything they’re saying/doing) that means you’re more than human. The apex. Superhuman. And they’re effluent.

Canadian writers, there are now a couple of AI class actions for Canadian authors. Please check out both links below. If you have found your books in the Books3 or LibGen DBs, you are likely to be included in the class(es). www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action... www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

Sal Bando & Cleon Jones, 1973 World Series. #OaklandA's #Mets #Baseball

With the #BlueJays on the west coast there’s no game to listen to in the hammock on this beautiful Saturday afternoon. No problem though, @utilityofboredom.bsky.social has me covered!

Congrats to Jen Pawol, who today becomes the first woman to umpire an MLB game

"cover some of the same ground" is a lovely and generous way to describe my verbose hero worship but I will absolutely take the recommendation with gratitude and happiness if not grace

Mbokooooo!

I don't play an instrument and I can't carry a tune, but I do know that being in a living room in PEI with a couple of guitar players and a dozen people singing along to Prine and Lightfoot and Cash and the Tysons and so forth is the surest way you'll find to conjure those you've lost.

Taking a timeout from a week in PEI to share this review of Field Work in the LRC. Grateful to the author and editors for the coverage. "Men at work. A capacious, capricious mind at keyboard play. The combination is dazzling and unpredictable." @pressassembly.bsky.social @reviewcanada.bsky.social

Probably nothing to worry about.

Oh, Ryno. Devastating news. Sandberg, Parker, Rickey... it's like my childhood is dying, my card collection disappearing. I know every generation experiences this, but that doesn't make it any easier. sabr.org/latest/in-me...

Drove all day yesterday, listened to the Hall of Fame speeches on satellite radio. (Ichiro remains amazing.) Fell asleep in a motel room in New Brunswick while watching a Jurassic Park marathon on the world's last working cathode ray tube TV. I've had worse days.

Welcome to baseball immortality, Ichiro Suzuki.

"Right until the end, you are only measured against yourself. As you do that, as you see your limits, you try over and over to surpass yourself a tiny bit. That’s how I eventually become who I am.

Ichiro, Toronto, September 23, 2010.

Ah-mazing

Yokoso, Ichiro. #YakyuBaseball

Yup. I don't get the sense from my US contacts/follows that they fully grasp how concerning all of this is to the rest of the world, especially those of us who share with them the world's largest "undefended" border.