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The cheeriest of Ottawa's famously cheerful local populace. I hope you like bad tweets. Cohost on The Rhetorizer, A Show About Books. Season 2, Noir: https://pca.st/episode/4a17f31a-2404-4b22-8674-e4f480cb5f26 ashowaboutbooks@gmail.com

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Tokyo Express (novel)
The Sweet Smell of Success (movie)
This Cadbury milk chocolate bar with the fuckin mini chocolate Easter eggs in it

13.03.2026 02:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Vibes with that team are awful. Your captain gets taken out on a knee on knee and nobody does anything? Yikes.

13.03.2026 00:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Our government is occupied by various Meat suits placed their by mostly one large grocer.

12.03.2026 23:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Accelerates by a lot. All those gadgets electricity plants just got more expensive to run, not to mention the materials for the data centres.

12.03.2026 23:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And debt gets more expensive.

12.03.2026 22:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oil sands boosters live in a bubble. The snowflakes will melt if they leav it!

12.03.2026 18:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Check for a trap door in the floor. Test all the books on the bookshelf.

12.03.2026 01:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Grand Moff Thurston Drankle

12.03.2026 00:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Gunt Baddly

12.03.2026 00:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh does it turn out that legal gun owners can in fact be responsible for gun violence?

11.03.2026 18:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The interrogation scene is pretty great. It's a very workmanlike movie, possibly necessitated by the elaborate source material. But it serves that material well!

11.03.2026 18:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wright is good, but L.A. Confidential is better than anything he's done.

11.03.2026 18:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

At worst the alleged director of that movie.

11.03.2026 18:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They didn't even list The Silent Partner. Must be some Canada haters over there on Blank Check.

11.03.2026 17:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

lol

11.03.2026 17:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You better mean Hanson...

11.03.2026 17:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Even by the low standards of how Liberals treat labour, this is pretty low!

11.03.2026 17:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Flip through a New Yorker magazine from the 80s compared to one now. You can tell the difference in what expectations the editors have of their audiences.

11.03.2026 17:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Watching that game last night as a Habs fan, can't say anyone on the Leafs looked that noticeable or engaged...

11.03.2026 12:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Goddamn it I'm the guy who had Bam Adebayo over 82.5 points and 10 rebounds on Darft kings tonight

11.03.2026 02:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If someone ever adapts Serenade by James M Cain, Chalamet would be a great actor for the failed opera singer main character hiding in Mexico.

11.03.2026 00:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think her argument isnt good because its over broad and presents a false choice between technology and progress, but she doesnt seem to be saying people who benefit from technology to survive should die.

10.03.2026 22:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Apparently he ran this by the feds beforehand... Carney seems like someone who loved convenient air travel and doesnt seem too minded about annoying his base.

10.03.2026 20:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ok. But would a park with 1 million users be a better use? And if the province only has so many resources for transit, is an airport expansion the best thing to focus on for Toronto, where traffic is out of control? I think these are fair questions to ask about whether this is a good project.

10.03.2026 20:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sure. But toronto also has pearson. And how many visits would a park there generate?

10.03.2026 19:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Doesn't mean we shouldn't have airports or ever do anything for them, but it's important to weighting how much to support something that is good for an airport compared to alternatives.

10.03.2026 19:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Something to consider with airport planning (comes up with decisions to locate trainstops next to them), is that the relatively small number of people who travel by air frequently vastly overestimate how many people benefit from things that make air travel convenient.

10.03.2026 19:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The TLDR is a much worse use of space to run a tiny, expensive to the public airport that a very small number of people use in that spot than to use the entire island as a giant park that would serve way more people.

10.03.2026 19:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's an over-broad argument but the two sentences before the highlighted part pretty specifically imply she's good with MRI machines and pharma, unless vaccines aren't considered part of that.

10.03.2026 17:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A group chat is a book you write with your friends

10.03.2026 01:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0