It’s one generation, apparently - so we get it (3/4 of our parents are British) but we don’t pass it along, at least not until the rules change again.

Here’s another fun wrinkle. My wife and I are both British citizens, but were we to have a kid, they wouldn’t be - so if we were travelling to the UK (which we do almost ever year), our kid would theoretically have to go in a different passport line.

This, but at Mother’s Dumplings for dinner.

More songs should start like Monkey Gone to Heaven. "There was a guy." Ok I'm listening, what's this guy up to

I have, on account of my former work, been to Dubai more times than I care to admit. It’s my least-favourite place by a considerable distance.

Something to ask John Tory if he runs for mayor again as he decided to dedicate a massive portion of Toronto's budget to this rebuild.

I’m currently reading The Power Broker. Are you impressed? You should be. I am big-boy writer who reads big-boy books. A thousand-page investigation into the life of a powerful bureaucrat is nothing to me. I’m gonna finish The Power Broker, and then you will regard me as one of the world’s elite readers, as you should. There’s just one problem. I’m also reading Paper, by Mark Kurlansky. And Island of the Blue Foxes, by Stephen Brown. And Coffeeland, by Augustine Sedegwick. And a dozen other books too, all at the same time. I also paused in the middle of reading all of those books to read, in its entirety, a history of The Cars, even though I was never that into The Cars. Reading that book led me to reading an entire oral history of MTV’s first decade on the air, which led me to reading an entire oral history of the Sunset Strip hair metal scene in the 1980s. Oh and after that, I finally started in on Mick Herron’s Slow Horses novels, which I’m definitely gonna finish before I return to all of those other books I’m reading, like the first one I mentioned. The Power Broker. I think that was the name of it.

"Clearly, I do not read like a normal person." defector.com/confessions-...

He's also spent the last year absolutely terrorizing people who live in the country that cares the most about hockey.

In the event, this almost exactly came to pass.

It's been a tough day for the "why is it always about the Leafs?" crowd.

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

I bought a quarter-season ticket in anticipation of these prices. 525 row 9 worked out to $37.30/ticket. Couldn’t believe some of the numbers I was seeing today.

All-time top movie cameo. Thanks, boss.

The Toronto Maple Leafs:

All four playoff winners come from blue states; all four losers come from red states.

On the lamb: 50 sheep break away from flock and storm German supermarket Woolly incursion occurred during seasonal migration of animals in the Bavarian municipality of Burgsinn About 50 wayward sheep have broken off from their flock and stormed a discount supermarket in German town, startling and delighting customers as they rushed to explore the aisles before being escorted from the premises. The woolly incursion occurred on Monday during a routine seasonal migration of the farm animals in the Bavarian municipality of Burgsinn. A few dozen of the sheep had other ideas about the route and made their way into a store of the Penny retail chain. Continue reading...

On the lamb: 50 sheep break away from flock and storm German supermarket

Goosebumps as the entire 2-minute warning timeout is being used to show Harrison Smith and C.J. Ham on the sideline, and Vikings fans displaying their signage to celebrate both guys

Standing ovation for Harrison Smith as he gets subbed out in what is probably his final game

AUSTON MATTHEWS 🚨🚨

HE IS THE GLOAT! 421 GOALS!

his name is Auston Matthews

poster for The Myddle Class at Summit High School, December 11, 1965

Rob Norris, I Was A Velveteen

Myddle Class Wins Raves at Premiere

response from column writer to early VU fans

60 years ago tonight, the velvet underground at summit high school in new jersey, opening for the myddle class, both acts' 1st proper shows. rob norris’s classic “i was a velveteen” (from kicks #1) suggests the VU had just been fired by cafe wha?, so maybe an earlier gig? great local coverage, too!

back in 2012 i self-published a very small book about three weeks on the European Springsteen tour

it sold exponentially more than American Canto

so has WHY PATTI SMITH MATTERS (still on sale for 40% off w/code UTXGIFTS: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477320112/)

To recap: Doug Ford destroyed parkland at Ontario Place for a private waterpark; closed Ontario Science Centre under false pretenses; and now is moving the OSC into Harbourfront.

Partial destruction of one public place; permanent destruction of another; longterm takeover of a third.

I made the conscious decision while leaving Game 7 to step back from the Leafs for a bit. Wouldn’t have regretted it even if they were undefeated. Might keep riding this till MLB Opening Day.

The Legend Lives On

Howard Lutnick is more Cantor Fitzgerald than Edmund Fitzgerald, but as the economic gales of November sweep the middle class, he's light footing it to Saudi Arabia to enrich himself and his sons. I'd curse him, but the Catholic in me fears the mother Superior.

by Maureen Dowd

The Callum Wilson Game comes but once every other year and is a sacred day on the sporting calendar.

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Don Mattingly, grand slams hit per year:
1982 - 0
1983 - 0
1984 - 0
1985 - 0
1986 - 0
1987 - 6 (set a single-season MLB record)
1988 - 0
1989 - 0
1990 - 0
1991 - 0
1992 - 0
1993 - 0
1994 - 0
1995 - 0