Professor, historian, peregrino. Best-selling author of Arrival: The Story of CanLit, currently writing the first history of #vandalism. Believes in naps.
University of Toronto
Joined May 2013
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What I've been up to since 2017 in 1m49s:
Vandals: A History of Destruction from Antiquity to Tomorrow (official t... youtu.be/Rb98_aSKfhU?si=g30U… @McClellandBooks @simonschuster @LGRLiterary
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a nobel prize is cool i guess but Anne Carson also received a Sappho finger puppet from yours truly and just look at that smile
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𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 [𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑛]: the alarming growth of private cars in height, width, length and weight at the expense of public space, the environment and overall safety.
Thanks to @coachhousebooks for another great Wayzgoose, this year with photobooth. (Me with CHP founder Stan Bevington, aka the Battle of the Beards)
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Someone has left this note - and this lighter! - at the Halifax grave of Maj.-Gen. Robert Ross, the British military man who burned down the White House.
My draft syllabus statement on AI use: "Let’s keep this human while we still can: I promise I won’t use AI to grade your essays; you promise you won’t use it to write them."
Naive, I know. But the only other solution I can come up with is to retire.
First day of privatization of recycling in East Toronto. Every bin on the block left like this. No city employees have ever done this.
So when America becomes a nation of squirrel-eating cave dwellers, can we finally get rid of imperial measures?
"A walk in the street counts more for me than a visit to the MoMA. It isn't arrogance; it is a question of method"
-- Spanish artist Santiago Sierra, 2005
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Just a reminder my Canadian friends. Many spring projects.
Home Depot is 100% American owned. The owner is Bernard Marcus is a huge Trump supporter.
Home hardware is 100% Canadian owned.
Pass the word repost.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Bernard Marcus is dead.
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HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT?
Maybe literally one fucking American newspaper could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
For Americans who have stopped reading newspapers:
The amount of fentanyl that comes into the US from Canada is literally too small to chart.
90% of handguns recovered after violent crimes in Ontario come from the US. bbc.com/news/world-us-canada…
Who's killing who again?
I asked every author to visit #eng140 ten questions modified from Inside the Actors Studio. These are Andrew Pyper's answers, from March 18, 2011. For context, his friend Paul Quarrington had recently died, at 56, from cancer. My love to the families.
Gutted by this, struggling to believe it. Andrew is a great writer and more rarely a good man. – at Toronto, Ontario
I’m so very sorry to hear today of the loss of Andrew Pyper. Sending sympathy to his friends in the writing community across Canada, especially to his family and close friends…and with special thoughts to those of you who are his Toronto writer friends.
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Capitalism's holiday seems a good time to share a socialist version of the Ten Commandments, from Mexican anarchosyndicalist Elfego Lugo's Catecismo de las Doctrinas Socialistas (1928). I think #7 translates as "Do not allow someone who has produced nothing to enjoy your work"
