Luke warm thanksgiving take: Stovetop brand boxed stuffing is better than any homemade recipe. Yes, even your grandmother's.

You know, the last time I did this on twitter I had to mute the post as I earned the ire of archivists everywhere for what was a clear jest. ("This record is not currently digitized") Anyway. "Love the Vimy Trap."

Keeping this & a bag of chips for right after the race next week.

Me, last October after limping across a finish line: "I'm going to register for this 25k trail race again and really train over the next 12 months" Me, this afternoon, one week prior to the 25k race, forgetting that I registered last year and having not run in 8 months: "Well, shit."

I'm only forty pages in and this is already knocking my socks off. I've read so little about queer spaces in mid 20th century Canada that were not Toronto/Montreal/Vancouver and this is a welcome addition. 🗃️

Tori Amos tour/album announcement time ✅ info leaked beforehand ✅ Endless debate about whether the title is a joke or not. ✅ Fake tracklist gags ✅ Typos or issues with website ✅ Launch graphics that will have nothing to do with the project ✅ Head tilting explanation of album We're so back, baby!

We are moving to weird new heights to soothe our ever-anxious Waffles by trying a Thunder Shirt. She didn't hate it - progress!

This is going to be a good one!

The funny thing for me is that even as a lifelong Extremely Online person™️, I never had the elder millennial dial up experience. We were in a trial zone for ~ Rogers Wave ~ cable internet in 1997.

BRB, going to find an early 20th century "group of moneyed men" so I can quit my day job and conduct research in Canadian history. 🗃️

So kind of @dropout.tv President @vicmmic.bsky.social to grace Toronto with their presence. (Micro celebrity Kurt Maloney was ok, I guess.) The real comedy was the ~ 7 hour~ round trip drive from London that usually takes 4.5 hours. Hats off to the Gardiner Expressway.

@karenbowness.bsky.social I am in anti-vaxxer protester hell on lakeshore blvd. We left London at 2:30 and google maps says we have 28 more mins to get 6 km. FML

Despite all the great music that came out this year I am fully bracing myself for spotify wrapped to tell me my top song was a Tori Amos one-off for the 1997 Great Expectations soundtrack.

Narrator voice: There was in fact, an inevitable crash.

Did a prohibition era escape room at Casa Loma and then went to this authentic historical experience. They call it the "Dark Ages" not because we have a lack of sources but because it was full of neon lights and $13 daiquiris.

SSHRC submitted before the inevitable weekend crash. Now the waiting begins.

Oh, to be a Pancakes in a sun patch.

About ready to fling this across the room, FYI. 🗃️ #cdnhist

Three drafts later, SSHRC proposal season is coming to a close.

Made a total fool of myself at London Comic Con with Maggie Robertson & Dave Jones (actors from Baldur's Gate 3.) Asked for some admonishment to stop playing the damn game and finish my comps readings and they delivered.

The more I read about the Spirit of St Louis, the more Ocean Gate vibes I get from it.

Opening an empty word doc and hoping things will magically improve is also a great tactic.

Time honoured tradition of "avoiding writing the SSHRC proposal by looking through primary sources again." This was a favourite find from TNA this summer - a shelter magazine I had never encountered before for Warren Street station. They made their own logo and I love the rabbit doodle. 🗃️

I will argue with anyone that doesn't agree that these are the most important plates. (Yes, my overhead press is absolute donkey crap but it's 5lb more than before!)

How did Anne steal this self portrait out of my kitchen for all the world to see?

Can somebody just make a bot equivalent of "it is Thursday yet?" that just posts yes or no every hour so I don't have to keep scrolling/reading cryptic posts about whether that petty dictator still draws breath?

It's the most wonderful time of the year

How are we feeling today on a scale of "fine" to "eating beef jerky in the bisexual car wash while listening to the BG3 soundtrack"? I'll let everyone decide whether the latter is the top or bottom.

A cautionary tale from the 🇨🇦 War Graves Detachment, 1919: "I found a Detonator in the afternoon. I retuned with it to my Tent. I took the brass screw from the top of the Detonator and the explosion occurred. This witness made the X his hands being in too bad condition for him to sign his name."

Of course I started an honour mode run of Baldur's Gate 3 this week just in time for the start of a new school term.

I still sometimes think about this guy I had a crush on in my teens who proudly showed me his self-insert Objectivism fanfic* with a thinly veiled version of me as a character, thinking it would win me over. *A phrase I never thought I'd write.

Curious to see our undergraduate course offerings for 2025-26? They're pretty amazing! #westernu history.uwo.ca/undergraduat...

I continue to be a little shit at times. There is a slightly higher than zero chance this might appear on the university's website for potential applicants.

We went to the Aberfoyle antique market today. Had to pass on the vendor that wanted $1200 (!) for a box of letters, two photos, and a trench-art knife from a CEF soldier from Hamilton but I did pick this up for a few dollars. 🗃️

Years ago I was in a particularly bad bout of depression & told a twitter pal the only thing I accomplished that summer was watching all 331 eps of E.R. She did the same & bought herself a cake to celebrate and I lamented I didn't do the same. Jay just finished the series so I knew what to do.

It's hard to explain to someone not from Sarnia that eating fries under a bridge is a formative childhood memory & the vinegar hose will change your life. If you're not fighting off seagulls while transport trucks rumble overhead, then you haven't had the proper Sarnia Bridge Fries™️ experience.

I believe E.M.and she was denied justice today. I am sad but not surprised.

I will admit, at our TA facilitator training this week, this was basically my through-line for most of the discussions and I very much felt like an outlier.

I think we were the only team tonight at quiz that answered a question correctly about Nils Olav III (Norway's highest ranking penguin in the King's Guard.)

Rough day.

I immediately need 19 more episodes of this.

I starting snorting/laughing in the middle of the antique market. This is advanced trolling. 🗃️

I..... did not realize I could apply for OSAP as a graduate student and assumed it was SSHRC, internal funding, or nada. Excuse me while I go lie down.

Occasional perk of working at a plant propagator: sometimes we grow monsters that end up flowering here. Volia: free mini cukes.

When the first house you bought 15 years ago has an open house, you're obligated to attend and realize subsequent owners did nothing to change the kitchen, bathroom, flooring, fireplace, or paint. (Also ditto the two stair railings that you shoved in the basement floor joists in 2014)

Words that I do not want to see come up in anymore of my comp readings: Inchoate Subaltern Pace Gloss Gestalt A priori Interlocutors Yes, I've hit a bramble filled theory patch.

I'm striking out trying to find digital archives of The Daily Worker that I'd have free access to. Can anyone help me out with some issues from late 1940?

@phronk.bsky.social YEARS ago on twitter I ranted about that "Pizza Round's" restaurant & you made a quip about its sister restaurant "Lasagna Rectangle's" being better. That phrase still holds sway in our house and I thought of it while making dinner & couldn't stop laughing. Enjoy my leftovers.

Had to stop in at our second greenhouse this morning and you know if I'm in a small town, I'm looking for a war memorial. (At the aptly named corner of Currie and McRae streets) Bonus ye olde train station content. 🗃️ #cdnhist