Linwood Barclay @linwood_barclay Twitter profile

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Linwood Barclay

@linwood_barclay

2 years

That looks fantastic!

Kate Mills

@Kate7Mills

2 years

Well look at you @linwood_barclay - looking very sharp at Chancery Lane tube station ahead of tomorrow’s publication of #LookBothWays 👀 👀 @HQstories @helenheller @HarperCollinsUK

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@linwood_barclay

4 years

BREAKING: Trump says Biden will kill the Easter Bunny, molest the Tooth Fairy, and sentence Santa to a chain gang.

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2 years

What Ontario needs is a province-wide strike by EVERYONE.

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2 years

As of 12:50 a.m. today, we are officially grandparents. World, say hello to the amazing Ellis. Daughter Paige and son-in-law Nick also doing well. I need coffee.

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4 years

BREAKING. Trump says he only went down to the bunker to change the furnace filter.

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5 years

Trump wants his signature on all the stimulus checks. Fine, so long as it’s also on all the death certificates.

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3 years

People, it’s been almost two years. I know we’re tired but the nose! The mask goes over your fucking nose!

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2 years

Shoppers self-checkout voice asks: “Tell us how we did today.” Well, you did fuck all. I did it myself

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8 years

I spent 30 years in newspapers with folks who devoted their lives to truth and justice. Enemies my ass. They were heroes.

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3 years

Hadn’t bought @Chapmans_Canada ice cream in a while. Thank you, anti-vaxxers, for reminding me to get some.

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3 years

A day and a half. Fastest I ever read a 500-page book. Have a crick in my neck to prove it. Well done @StephenKing

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4 years

Trump finally putting on a mask is like Lassie coming to the well on the third anniversary of Timmy’s death.

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5 years

Rewatching IT, occurs to me real horror in so many @StephenKing stories is not clowns, but bullying. The theme repeats in Carrie, Christine, The Body and more.

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2 years

Jurassic World Dominion has the distinction of being the first movie I’ve walked out on in years.

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4 years

BREAKING: In a landmark decision, the US Supreme Court rules that Trump is being a total douche.

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3 years

It’s been nearly 50 years since my dad died. This is his wallet. It’s always been in my desk drawer.

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2 years

@chelseabwrites Once sat out front of mall bookshop for a signing. No one stopped, until the very end, when an old guy paused, looked at me, looked at the books, looked at me, approached and asked, "Do they sell flags here?"

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4 years

This is what happens when you let hares watch Godzilla vs Kong.

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I stopped up the lane on the way home today and caught the most magical moment with hares boxing right in front of the car! #hares #thebrecks

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4 years

Hawley's canceled book contract is not a "freedom of speech" issue. It's an "asshole" issue.

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4 years

“Hey, I have a highly contagious, potentially fatal disease, but can you take me for a ride in the car?”

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3 years

I acknowledge this is not a great sacrifice, and will have no more effect than a fart in a windstorm, but I am not renewing my Russian book contracts.

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@linwood_barclay

4 years

Just touching up script for new series, “Donald Trump: Bunker Inspector.”

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4 years

Trump polling at 40 per cent convinces me that if Ford Pintos were still around and blowing up, 40 per cent of new car buyers would be thinking, "I gotta get me one of those."

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8 years

Every night, VP Mike Pence gets home and his wife asks, "Well?" And he says, "Soon."

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2 years

I know you were all thinking, will he post another pic of their new grandson? Say hi to Ellis Patrick Barclay Whelan.

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6 years

So, Trump says raiding Cohen’s office is an attack on America. But Putin meddling with an election? Uh, not so much.

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2 years

BREAKING: Doug Ford calls for probe to find out just how long Ottawa has been in Ontario.

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5 years

Dear Fox News: This is the guy you backed. This is the virus your putrid pundits mocked. The level of shame you should feel, but undoubtedly do not, is immeasurable.

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3 years

I could be tweeting “You can’t make this shit up” all day long and never refer to the same thing twice.

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6 years

New GOP definitions: Two women protesting at an elevator door = angry mob. White supremacists with torches = good people.

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5 years

Trump could say "blow me" on the transcript and Rick Santorum would say he was just trying to interest Ukraine in wind power technology.

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6 years

They say Trump doesn’t drink, but he’s willing to make an exception when it comes to the tears of children.

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5 years

Even with CNN muted, I can usually tell if it's a GOPer talking. As my late, best friend Bob used to say, "They all look like the guys who fired my dad."

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2 years

GOP on guns: No point in gun control because if you want a gun, you’ll find one. GOP on abortion: Yeah well that’s different.

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5 years

#GoT World War Z meets Saving Private Ryan. The most ambitious ep of TV ever. Some are already complaining it was hard to see. Shut up.

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4 years

If you do this at your house, we can't be friends.

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7 years

So the GOP could now end up killing more people in the US than terrorists do, but a travel ban won't work. They're already here.

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5 years

Dear Sony TV on My Wall: Stop asking me to fucking update you. Last time I did this, you take way longer to turn on. You want an update? Here's an update. You're just a TV. Deal with it.

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6 years

The one who really reached out and grabbed a pussy is Putin.

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2 years

I’m no political expert, but I wonder whether Kevin McCarthy would be doing better if he weren’t a dick.

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7 years

I really don't mind the odd chuckle from #Alexa , but I am troubled when, late at night, she whispers, "I will kill you."

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4 years

Spotted during yesterday’s walk by Trinity-Bellwoods.

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7 years

You could drop, totally cold, a gas station attendant from Duluth into the WH press secretary job, and not get any less real info.

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4 years

And Mitch managed to suck and blow at the same time.

Stephen King

@StephenKing

4 years

Expected, but still dispiriting. You Republican Senators who voted to acquit: YOU SUCK.

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3 years

Think I see at least five ⁦ @StephenKing ⁩ books on the shelf in episode one of Midnight Mass.

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2 years

Happy Birthday to this guy.

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7 years

GOP healthcare strategy: We're going to give you a bowl of shit and tell you it's chocolate ice cream. And you better eat every spoonful.

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7 years

I wonder if Trump would use the same criteria for choosing a pilot for Air Force One. "Never flown a plane, but a high quality guy!"

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5 years

Mazda ad shows woman floating through the air by holding onto a little balloon. Bottom of screen: “Dramatization Do Not Attempt.” Read that JUST as I was blowing up the balloon. Whew.

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6 years

BREAKING: The Doug Ford government, in a bid to prepare students for a world that will fuck them over on a daily basis, will start fucking them over while they're still in high school.

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2 years

It’s 8:20 a.m. and I’m having a cookie. Who says I don’t live on the edge.

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4 years

I feel better.

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6 years

It's not too late for Trump to help OJ find the real killer.

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6 years

I really, really don’t understand the NYT’s men’s style magazine.

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2 months

Musk interviewing Trump is like Dr. Evil having a chat with Biff Tannen.

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5 years

Boy did I need this.

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Didn’t know I needed this until I saw it. Maybe you need it too.

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2 years

A tour de force. ⁦ @StephenKing ⁩ brings back Holly Gibney to battle two real life monsters. Creepy as hell but full of heart, too. Out in September.

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4 years

BREAKING: Elmo may be antifa activist, Trump says.

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3 years

Gotta be tough being a Gaetz or a Gosar or a Guiliani and knowing your balls are minuscule next to Liz Cheney's.

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3 months

It’s like watching the Hindenburg crash into the Titanic.

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7 years

Neetha and I with @OwenKingwriter and @StephenKing before their Toronto event.

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3 years

I don't think one person, on his own, could come up with something this stupid. It has to be a team effort.

Rep. Jim Jordan

@Jim_Jordan

3 years

Real America is done with #COVID19 . The only people who don’t understand that are Fauci and Biden.

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2 years

45 years later, still livin’ the dream. Happy Anniversary, Neetha.

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2 years

Doug Ford's picture is on my milk carton this morning.

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6 years

At Our Home and Miniature Land, an exhibit being built in Toronto where our son works. a small nod to @StephenKing in a hotel window.

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7 years

Our daughter Paige and partner Nick dressed their puppy Banks as Georgie from IT for Halloween. Apologies to @StephenKing .

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1 year

Detective: The CIA knows where she is. Can you get into their database? Hacker Pal: I’m good but not that good. Detective: There must be a back door into the mainf— taptaptaptap Hacker Pal: Got it. Every crime show now on TV.

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3 years

Charming, funny, and ultimately, surprisingly, very moving. I live in Canada so I don’t know much about this @richardosman guy, but he’s good.

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2 years

Just a shoutout to the entire overworked staff of Toronto General Hospital for their kindness, patience, and dedication in looking after my brother in his final days.

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4 years

Over to you @StephenKing .

NBC News

@NBCNews

4 years

NYC woman discovers a secret unoccupied apartment behind her bathroom mirror, shares it with millions on TikTok.

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5 years

Loved Doctor Sleep. The scenes at The Overlook Hotel, beautifully recreated, gave me chills.

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1 year

Out celebrating anniversary #46 with Neetha. Looks like it’s going to work out.

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8 months

You ever notice the layoffs come AFTER the Bell Let's Talk campaign?

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10 months

I’m 68 and sometimes I still eat the vegetables first just to get it over with.

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2 years

Rewatched “Home,” the freakiest, scariest X Files episode ever. Still remember the night it first aired. Was stunned by it.

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2 years

BREAKING: In hopes of winning over judge tomorrow, Trump legal team dots all “i”s with little hearts.

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2 years

Closing in on 25,000 followers. If you are the 25,000th follower, you could win an Oldsmobile. Not from me, but you never know. You coild win one someday.

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1 month

Trump’s reposting of a sexual slur against Kamala Harris has brought my simmering rage for this despicable human being to a full boil.

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4 years

via @NYTimes Oddly, this piece does not even mention 11/22/63, which I think is one of the best ⁦ @StephenKing ⁩ TV adaptations.

Stephen King Has Thoughts About Stephen King TV Shows (Published 2020)

With a new adaptation of “The Stand” arriving Thursday on CBS All Access, the best-selling author looked back at the best and worst adaptations of his stories for television.

www.nytimes.com

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4 years

We have luncheon meat that’s smarter than Ron DeSantis.

David Frum

@davidfrum

4 years

DeSantis says here that he will endeavor to forbid *private sector* from requiring proof of vaccination from customers. He specifically mentions movie theaters, sports, and theme parks as venues he would wish to prohibit from protecting the safety of employees and other customers

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3 years

Unlikely.

Vicki Campbell🇨🇦

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3 years

Who’d like to spend time with this guy?

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2 years

Happy now, Tucker?

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3 years

Is it just me or is everything fucking unraveling?

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3 years

The Ford government seems to have adopted “Don’t Look Up” as a kind of policy manual.

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5 years

Castle Rock S2E5, The Laughing Place, is a brilliant imagining of an Annie Wilkes backstory. First season was good but second is outstanding.

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@linwood_barclay

5 years

Great finale. But I don’t think this is the last of The Outsider.

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@linwood_barclay

7 years

NYTimes: Whatever Trump Is Hiding Is Hurting All of Us Now

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@linwood_barclay

2 years

Netflix movie Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, based on the @StephenKing story, is very good.

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@linwood_barclay

5 years

Growing up, I believed any contact with water within an hour of eating -- not just swimming, but splashing puddles, hand washing, showering -- was fatal.

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@linwood_barclay

4 months

Finally seeing Godzilla Minus One. It’s like being 10 again.

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@linwood_barclay

9 months

BREAKING: Doug Ford government steps up plans to close ERs across Ontario and shift them to Shoppers Drug Mart cosmetic counters.

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2 months

Out for anniversary dinner #47 !

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@linwood_barclay

4 years

Is this @StephenKing classic still as scary as I remember after 37 years? Turns out, yes. (And that’s my treasured @TheOxfordBar1 bookmark after my visit there last year with @Beathhigh .)

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@linwood_barclay

4 years

This is one year of a pandemic. Also, I wrote a book.

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@linwood_barclay

2 years

BREAKING: Doug Ford unveils province’s new do-it-yourself vasectomy kit.

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4 years

Finished last round of heavy edits on the 2021 book today. And we have a tentative title: Find You First.

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@linwood_barclay

4 years

Cruz is the lawyer in Jurassic Park who runs to the outhouse when the kids in the SUV are being attacked by the T-Rex.

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4 years

When Texas was hurting and Texans were freezing and dying and needed @SenTedCruz , he went to Mexico to stay at a resort.

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@linwood_barclay

5 years

The Outsider, episode 3. Whoa.

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@linwood_barclay

3 years

Two weeks till my chat with @StephenKing at the @BloodyScotland crime fiction festival, which has a fantastic lineup of writers. Check out the program here: