My toddler’s blocks have all cute critters like crabs, pigs, and Lovecraftian horrors

ICYMI: MLB All-Star Yasiel Puig made his first appearance in a Toronto Maple Leafs uniform this Sunday at a practice with his new teammates. The Leafs' 2026 season starts this Sunday at Christie Pits at 2:00 pm. Click the link in my bio to see my season preview. #Toronto #MapleLeafs #baseball

Love to see the AL Central is a hot mess again. Look who’s half a game out of first place. 👀

Opera in Brief: Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss. Haushofmeister: Right, tonight's programme of a tragedy and a comedy is being compressed into a single opera. Sort yourselves out and be sure to finish before the fireworks show at 9. [They did the mash, they did the opera mash.] #OperaInBrief

The Buds of Spring - your Toronto Maple Leafs 2026 Season Preview. christiehillside.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-... #Toronto #MapleLeafs #baseball

Was hoping the Chicago White Sox were on the verge of a generational winning streak. Anyhoo.

Toronto is LIT. Sunrise view from the Chester Hill lookout. #Toronto

Here are your 2026 Toronto Maple Leafs Theme Days! Plenty of fun to be had at the ballpark this summer, starting with Opening Day on May 10th against the Kitchener Panthers! From returning events to new celebrations, tons of excitement to be had this season! #MapleLeafsBaseball #FillTheHill

Daybreak at Craigleigh Gardens. #Toronto

MY HANDS ARE SHAKING!

OHHHHHH!!! bsky.app/profile/boar...

Morning run rained out. Tomorrow looks more promising. In the meantime, let’s astound the neighbours with Bruckner’s scherzos. #Bruckner #Klemperer

RIP Michael Tilson Thomas. He appears with Stravinsky on one of my favourite album covers.

I’m starting to think this “signing actual free agents for actual money” thing might work.

BREAKING: The Toronto Maple Leafs (baseball edition) have signed former #Dodgers all-star Yasiel Puig to a one-year deal.

A Marxist reading of New York Mets history. Interesting!

Oh Mets. So Mets.

The Mets are so back.

Yo Mets, can’t anybody here play this game?

Morning run. The sun about to erupt over the Gardiner Expressway. #Toronto

Lying down after an exhausting week. I forgot that both of these quartets start off so lively. Arresting stuff from Sergei. #StringQuartets #Prokofiev #Aurora

Jackie Robinson once wore the Maple Leaf. In 1962, he joined other sporting luminaries at a Variety Club fundraising event at old Maple Leaf Stadium. #JackieRobinsonDay

White Sox Baseball.

Gord Canuck. 🇨🇦

What in the Lovecraft is going on here? 🧐

Nice morning run. And now for something completely Springy. #Stravinsky #Chailly

I want to join this bike club.

Interesting! #Hauntology #Toronto

Untitled - Toronto Dylan Cease 2026

I enjoy that the vibe is “What if House of Leaves took place in Sears”

Opera in Brief: Duke Bluebeard's Castle by Béla Bartók. Judith: Duke Bluebeard, your castle is a dump, it looks like some kind of psycho lives here. Duke Bluebeard: Err... #OperaInBrief

3-RUN HOMER FOR ROBERT JR. 💥

LUIS ROBERT JUNIOR! #LGM

The temps are back below freezing. 😮‍💨 Morning run is done, time to lie down with this avant garde set. Is it avant garde? I’m not even sure. Very listenable tho. #StringQuartets #Coates #Kreutzer

Spring Roster Kenneth Lochhead c. 1993

Baseball! Baseball!

Great news! The fundraising goal to erect a plaque in Toronto’s Liberty Village recognizing Diamond Park, home of the Maple Leafs from 1901 to 1907, has been reached! Details to come…. /

Meanwhile, at Massey Hall, it was a bittersweet night with William Prince singing his bittersweet songs. Very real. #Toronto

Finally, a morning run in temps above freezing. Nice! Mixing things up a little and lying down with a stack of Turkish psychedelia. 😊 Any fans of the Anatolian scene out there? #Turkiye #AnatolianRock

After a brutal week (month? year?), it’s time for an epic lie-down. I love Rubbra’s symphonies and his quartets are also ear candy. #StringQuartets #Rubbra #Maggini

Islanders AHL farm team moving to Hamilton

Morning run got snowed out. Lying down instead with Rued Langgaard's Music of the Spheres. If cosmic horror had a soundtrack, this could be it. Spine-tingling strings weave a course between thunderous drums and ominous silences. Voices emerge from an abyss. When The Horns of Doom kick in... 😲

The beautiful chaos of a used bookstore is unmatched.

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?...