A sluggish morning run (maybe don’t go mad on wine the day before, fool!). A long lie down next. Been listening to this box for a couple of weeks. All 18 of Milhaud’s string quartets, spanning the first half of the 20th century. #StringQuartets #Milhaud #Parisii

Next week! Free Toronto baseball history! "The Strange Story of Our City's First Championship" kicks off my free online lunchtime lecture series with the Toronto Public Library. "Toronto Baseball Tales" is four monthly talks, Fridays at noon over Zoom. Learn more: tinyurl.com/TObaseballta...

"The Babe Ruth Story" ~ Classic SCTV sketch starring John Candy, Joe Flaherty & Catherine O'Hara! #MLB #Baseball #Comedy #Legends

Did the author Ernest Hemingway attend a baseball game while he lived in Toronto? The Hemingway Society has just posted a blog with my thoughts on that (go @torontobluejays.bsky.social!): www.hemingwaysociety.org/hemingway-an...

From the Annex Gleaner: Maple Leafs Moving Up to the Pros christiehillside.blogspot.com/2026/02/from... #Toronto #MapleLeafs #baseball

For fans of Toronto Maple Leafs baseball, the first Bush Banter of the year from the legendary Bushmen of Christie Pits. youtu.be/6rYfnNbyNeg?...

I am ready for baseball. ⚾️

The outrage of winter.

A Sunday morning run, followed by a blissful lie down. #StringQuartets #Elgar #Maggini

Back to Qawwali. A night of Sufi poetry, Indian dance and epic music. Meridian Hall, Toronto. Orchestral Qawwali Project: 10/10 Audience: 11/10 😄

What the hell, let's go to The Well. Toronto's multi-level Escheresque shopping centre. #Toronto #Shoppes #Concourses

Great reco. Just watched Tumbbad and it was brilliant. Gross and engrossing.

This winter is getting on my nerves. Hate being cooped up, but don’t mind lying down with the Juilliards again. #StringQuartets #Mendelssohn #Juilliard

Vacation day, and I set aside a nice block of time for lying down with this epic set. ROCK ME AMADEUS. #StringQuartets #Mozart #Juilliard

Coldest day of the year. Best day to visit the cacti at Allan Gardens. #Toronto

It's too damn cold to do anything but lie down. #StringQuartets #Monza #EuropaGalante

Maybe a new thing for Sundays? An early morning run followed by luxurious lie down. Borodin Quartet with some rollicking renditions. #StringQuartets #Tchaikovsky #Borodin

It's...Wednesday? Still kind of coping with the return to work this week. At some point, days ago now, I had an epic lie-down with Rued Langgaard's complete string quartets. Spread over three discs by the Nightingale Quartet, they are epic. #StringQuartets #Langgaard #Nightingale

The first sunrise of 2026 at Christie Pits. The offseason is halfway over. Opening Day is May 10. Here’s toasting the season to come. #Toronto #MapleLeafs #baseball @leftfieldbrewery.bsky.social

University College at dusk. Warm inviting lights within. #Toronto #UofT

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Time for The Great Black Friday lie-down. Yes, yes! #StringQuartets #Glass #Smith

I’d love a new Boards of Canada album.

The IBL is dead, long live the CBL. A recap of a momentous day for fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs of Christie Pits. christiehillside.blogspot.com/2025/11/past... #Toronto #MapleLeafs #Baseball

🤔How many times can I blast this one at full volume before the neighbours launch a petition against me? #M83 youtu.be/UrHR0-dMGdM?...

A wild day of running around to meetings. Finally home and ready to lie down. Bring on the complete Maconchy quartets. #StringQuartets #Maconchy #Hanson #Bingham #Mistry

Noon is an eternity away but already exhausted. Time to lie down with this timely recommendation. #StringQuartets #Janáček #Panocha @geshtin.bsky.social 👍

Every year on #Halloween we carve a #Pumpkin from our collection of Penguin Books. 🎃 We're up to our elbows here in juicy plots and seedy characters. Luckily there's not much pulp fiction. 🎃

🎃Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash. The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash! Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast - Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!🎃

In a nice coincidence with the Jays, the new issue of Spacing opens with a mini-section on sports - with a feature on Toronto's other baseball team (the other Maple Leafs), whose games, by contrast with the Jays, are free, and @jbcurio.bsky.social on the major league baseball teams we almost had.

Interesting display outside the Lillian Smith library today. Got to assume this was a clever idea borne of actual window damage? #TorontoPublicLibrary #Toronto #Library #LillianSmith

Just dug this out of a dusty pile of old papers. Remember when Rogers used to mail you free magazines?? 😃 This one with the provocative cover is from July 2014. #Toronto #Montreal #baseball #Expos #BryceHarper #Rogers

Bush Gala Lights Up Liberty Village christiehillside.blogspot.com/2025/10/bush... #Toronto #MapleLeafs #baseball

Opera in Brief: Così Fan Tutte by W.A. Mozart. Don Alfonso: "My young friends, no woman can resist an Albanian. Wanna bet?" Young Men: "You're on!" Young Women: *immediately fail* #OperaInBrief

Time for a nice lie-down. Something new-ish but with classic sounds. #StringQuartets #Ferrero #Cremona

It's the most pumpkiny time of the year. 🎃

OOF, what a day / week / year. Time to lie down with another onslaught of Onslow. #StringQuartets #Onslow #Diotima

Castaldo Tops Leafs' MVP Poll christiehillside.blogspot.com/2025/10/cast... #Toronto #MapleLeafs #baseball

Misty morning view from the Leslie Spit lighthouse. #Toronto #cycling

Q: Which string quartet would you most like to hang out with? A: The Cleveland Quartet. They look so fun and casual. Their 1973 recording of the complete Brahms quartets is perfect for a Friday lie-down. #StringQuartets #Brahms #Cleveland

Meanwhile, at Massey Hall, Elvis Costello rocked the house with all his popular faves. #radioradio

From the Annex Gleaner: Maple Leafs Wrap Up Historic Season christiehillside.blogspot.com/2025/09/from... #Toronto #MapleLeafs #baseball

A stunning new design by Mike Blackbird aka www.instagram.com/bignishbrand/ Brilliant little details emerge if you zoom in. #Tkaronto #Indigenous #Design #BlueJays

A surprise find at a book sale today. A CD of music by Canadian Srul Irving Glick, including his String Quartet No. 2 which I’d never heard before. WHAT A MELODRAMA. Three movements heavy with anxious tension. 😬 Not one for lying down and relaxing with. #StringQuartets #Glick #StLawrence

Sato's Farewell #Toronto #MapleLeafs #baseball #Japan christiehillside.blogspot.com/2025/09/sato...

This new album by Dead Can Dance absolutely slaps. 😉 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

In her short lifetime, Dora Pejačević composed one string quartet. It is a powerful one. The Croatian Sensation (Hrvatska Senzacija) wrote many more chamber works, enough to fill an afternoon lie-down. #StringQuartets #Pejačević #SineNomine #Roverde

Last night I finished 4th in the men’s world championship road race. It was a ferocious battle.

Done with this week, so done. Time to lie down with one of the big beasts. #StringQuartets #Schubert #Italiano