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I like my sugar with coffee and cream

Hamilton
Joined March 2007
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@quartermass
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2 years
The uncritical way the "Loblaws is freezing prices!" story has been handled by Canadian media is a bit troubling, no?
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3 months
hell yes
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20 days
Just finished Satantango, prob top 5 all time for me. Loved the scene where the bureaucrats had to go through each character and give them a pithy description, laugh out loud funny.
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5 years
@AppalachianSoc1 @RevistaMigala @LenniBug @DavidKaib @lil_yenta Love to do identical content with my friends, for free.
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1 month
50 pages into War & War and I can’t really believe how good it is.
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6 months
No one single Canadian artist benefitted from CanCon more than Sam Roberts. If you turn on Canadian radio and scan around, you are 100% guaranteed to hear “Brother Down” or “Don’t Walk Away Eileen”, two singles that came out over 20 years ago.
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7 months
Cindy Lee is the #1 rated album of 2024 on RateYourMusic, which is nuts considering that it was released with no budget on YouTube and geocities. No album run-up with a string of singles and bad TikTok videos. Love to see it.
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2 years
@normalbitch96 I feel like you just scratched an itch I didn’t know I had wow
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3 years
@KateBDoll This felt like 20 years ago lol
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@quartermass
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7 years
@WatchStadium @Raptors Guy on the right for sure voted Trump
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@quartermass
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19 days
I literally ran into Mike Bullard in Hamilton this summer at my local butcher. I said "hey, remember when you guys had Guided By Voices on, that was pretty cool Mike" and then he said "please leave me alone"
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𝚂𝚎á𝚗 𝙾’𝚂𝚑𝚎𝚊 Global News
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Comedian Mike Bullard has died at age 67 of a suspected heart attack, his family confirms. Bullard had a talk show on CTV for several years and briefly on Global. Via @am640
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How does Toronto not have a music fest that is as remotely good/interesting as Sled Island?
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@quartermass
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1 month
Went to my favs Printed Word and @TheCitytheCity1
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@quartermass
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4 years
The day I moved to Toronto, I got cut off on the Gardiner by Ben Mulroney. Today, as I’m leaving Toronto, I just got cut off on the Gardiner by Drake in a crisp white Bentley.
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@quartermass
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6 months
Cale went off on this art holy
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@quartermass
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5 years
come up with a less appealing sentence I dare you
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Heinz made a ketchup bottle adorned with Ed Sheeran's tattoo
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4 months
So many Ontario areas have just negative amounts of Rizz. Real “where dreams go to die” vibes Brantford Ancaster Milton Midland (“it’s in the name”) Trenton Wawa Oshawa
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For Canada Day I went to popeyes and starbucks in the ottawa (?) suburbs (?). Ontario has a flat dull ugly energy like nowhere else
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@quartermass
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2 years
Novi was just found thank god, quite a dramatic day
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4 months
So excited to announce my next project! I lucked into a once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity on Roncy and will be opening the areas FIRST CLIMBING GYM! The landlord says he’s just gotta get rid of the current tenant and the place is ours! See you in 2025!!
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@quartermass
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3 years
Hi friends— I’ve left Broken Social Scene
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@quartermass
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2 years
Promoter: “hey guys, more than welcome to crash at my crib after the show, I have a shower and wifi and there is a good pizza place around the corner” The crib:
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The bluecheck swarm on this thread is exactly how and why Twitter is a sinking ship; a cesspool of hate and mountains of conspiracy theories and misinformation. Makes me fucking sick to my stomach.
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It's all a big joke to them.
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2 years
Still sitting with the irony that one of the bands with the largest total accumulation of Canadian music grant system IN THE HISTORY OF THAT SYSTEM is complaining on the timeline that they, quote, “lost $20,000” on a six date tour.
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@quartermass
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3 years
I need you idiots to get the vaccine so that I can fucking see Judas Priest in December come on
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@quartermass
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4 years
I just signed a contract to teach at McMaster University in January!!
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@quartermass
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10 months
Why am I being hounded by these cursed/libellous Mary Berg ads?
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5 years
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5 years
This Raptors playoff run has been singularly soundtracked by Toronto’s other great underdog success story, @puptheband . Forever linked in my brain. Morbid Stuff!!!
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@brianjoralvarez Welt, it was only a matter of the time
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@eagleman42069
chill n relaxed homie
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fuck a twitter account that follows you that’s a flex! whats an account that has you BLOCKED that’s a flex ⁉️
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@quartermass
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6 years
@i_zzzzzz I showed this to my wife, who is from NS and she was like “yeah, I was an Original Classic” very matter-of-factly and my mind is completely blown
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@quartermass
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6 years
Can’t wait to get to the “thought leader” phase of my career where I can post some bullshit insight on LinkedIn like “self automated checkouts are a missed opportunity for customer engagement” and get like 3,000 likes and comments like “great post”
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When my stuff critiquing FACTOR went wild in 2013, I had the same message over and over again: stop throwing money into building a Canadian, radio-friendly star system and start funding the music support structure - practice spaces, studios, live venues and DIY spaces…
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@quartermass
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6 years
Who would have thought that Doug Ford would have been a total fucking nightmare?
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@quartermass
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6 years
No piece of 90s ephemera has held up as well as the bass tone in “Sabotage.” It has ruled for 25 years.
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@quartermass
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2 years
@GenelJumalon Goldeneye cut scene
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2 years
A grey whale encounter, life highlight 😭🐋
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@quartermass
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2 years
5 years ago @TheJUNOAwards nom sex pest Hedley, exactly 5 years later they nom Arcade Fire. Who the hell ARE these people? What music industry does this body represent? Fuck the Junos, an absolute fucking disgrace. Anyone who shows up is complicit, no more excuses
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@quartermass
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2 years
… but we are saying hello to something worse but that we are making a bigger profit from
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@quartermass
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4 years
@Gilchy_Andrew Sax is a cool instrument tho
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@quartermass
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5 years
We have been saying for years: use public arts funding to support arts infrastructure, not Canadian star systems. But here we are.
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Clinton's has closed on Bloor West after 83 years: "We’ve been fighting a tireless battle to keep our doors open."
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@quartermass
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3 years
Thrift Score just now: some goth dumped their CD collection and I got a big stack of Bauhaus, Fields of Nephilim, Sisters of Mercy, Depeche Mode, Ministry, Revolting Cocks and a bunch of Sonic Youth 🤯
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@quartermass
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6 years
@timheidecker ... what does FATHER really want?
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@quartermass
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4 years
@HudsonILikeIt Love the attempt at making it look like more than one person
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@quartermass
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2 years
Little Noosh passed away this morning peacefully at home. He will be missed, he was a gentle old soul.
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@quartermass
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4 years
so many people I know gradually losing their jobs one by one because of the pandemic, and there is an entire class of (moneyed) people partying like nothing is happening and it literally is making me crazy
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@quartermass
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3 years
I was smoking a joint outside and there was a huge gust of wind and then I heard a crazy explosion and here is what I found 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
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@quartermass
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5 years
Drives me crazy seeing “progressives” measuring NDP and Greens as equals. The Green Party are conservatives who bring their own bag to the grocery store.
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@quartermass
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2 years
Ten years later: we’ve lost 2/3 of the active rehearsal spaces, studios, clubs, record labels and, importantly, working musicians. But ya, sorry you “lost $20k”
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@quartermass
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4 years
Collecting books and records is an amazing hobby until you have to move and then you question your own sanity
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@quartermass
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2 years
Have you ever had @AirCanada just straight-up steal $1000 from you. Their people are like, “yes, this is happening, you are out of luck and no one will be able to help you.” We going to the mats over this, trust me.
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@quartermass
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5 years
Let us never forget that @fordnation advised your neighbours to “go on their holidays” 3 DAYS BEFORE DECLARING A STATE OF EMERGENCY when we get to the tribunal stage of this.
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@quartermass
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3 years
“Oh why did you move to Hamilton?”
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2 years
@CP24 Doug is lying
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@quartermass
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5 years
bands today never had a full Eric’s Trip phase and it shows
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4 years
this is so sick
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@quartermass
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3 years
Insane thrift score at a Burlington Value Village: Teenage Head S/T SIGNED by Gord Lewis and the late great Frankie Venom in 2006, two years before he died. $1.99 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
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@quartermass
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4 years
It’s official we moving to the Hammer in October ⚒️
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@quartermass
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18 days
Currently reading The Twilight Zone (La Dimensión Desconocida) by Nona Fernández. A heavy, haunting novel examining Chile’s past under the dictatorship of Pinochet, focusing on the regime’s brutal repression, disappearances, and acts of torture.
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@quartermass
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4 years
New office who this
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Built some CD shelving and it turned out real nice!
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@quartermass
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2 years
Been saying for over a decade that throwing money at developing a “Canadian star system” was being done at the expense of a healthy Canadian music ecosystem.
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@quartermass
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4 years
Wooowwwww I actually know the awful woman from when I lived in Lethbridge.... Her first name is actually Karen ffs
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@quartermass
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6 years
Having a father j misty album in your year-end best-of list is an automatic disqualification.
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To all my Cancon friends: let me join your touring outfit. I'll even buy one of these Cancon band guy hats. I'm good at: bass, driving a crazy amount of hours in a row; I have access to an endless supply of weed and I'm never a bad vibe (past bandmates keep it quiet)
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There is no current replacement for what Bandcamp was doing, great job venture capital!
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@quartermass
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9 months
I once had the priveledge to sit in on bass guitar for an improv set with Damo Suzuki. This isn’t necessarily a rare experience, he liked to travel and play sets with local musicians. I still feel so grateful for that day, Damo was magic and such a beautiful human. RIP 💔
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2 years
@paynushater @westcoastwinter He’s pretending the doll has terminal heart disease, and apparently this doll is a “juggalette”
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@quartermass
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4 years
Suddenly getting a dozen Eric Alper PR blasts a day in the inbox as if 2020 couldn’t get worse
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2 years
On my way back to Canada, completely whale-pilled. I locked eyes with this guy for a solid 5 minutes, we just like… looked at each other.
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6 months
The feedback on this tweet is that I’m wrong; that since Canadian Content policies started 53 years ago, actually there are actually 6-8 other musicians to benefitted from these rules, notably dudes-rock type projects like “THE TRAGICALLY HIP” or “ARKELLS” and I stand corrected.
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No one single Canadian artist benefitted from CanCon more than Sam Roberts. If you turn on Canadian radio and scan around, you are 100% guaranteed to hear “Brother Down” or “Don’t Walk Away Eileen”, two singles that came out over 20 years ago.
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3 years
My 5th birthday party in the NO SMOKING section of some ratchet Saskatoon McDonalds in 1983. I'm wearing the shirt with 5 on it. QUESTION: what is this character standing right behind me that looks KINDA like Warf from Star Trek??
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@quartermass
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2 years
Hamilton, ON
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@quartermass
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3 years
Had COVID just over a month ago and I still don’t feel right. I’m still exhausted all the time, I’m still dealing with digestive issues that emerged as a symptom and I still can’t think straight. Feeling quite low about it.
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Ten years later, it seems like this whole ecosystem is just GONE, and as a result, the small ancillary groups - labels, music publications, writers etc etc are going and or gone. Campus / Community radio is struggling. Dark times ahead
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4 years
“Musicians against woke ideology” - this is one very upset guy from Southern Alberta who used to play in a Turbonegro cover band who now puts up drywall for a living
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5 years
the true cancon music career: $35k/yr in grant money, a non-headlining album release at Lees Palace (but play Broken City in Calgary like everyone else), #13 on the R330, a 7.5 exclaim review, a mid afternoon slot at Sappy, Polaris longlist and absolutely no-one has heard of you
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@quartermass
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3 years
Always think of a former manager telling me she was voting for Doug Ford because she "couldn't imagine any other Ontario leader properly managing Ontario's budget" and how that caused me to seek another job lol
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5 years
The anthem of our times from @timheidecker
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3 years
Dallas Good was clearly respected and beloved by every scene in Camada. Those guys really toured their asses of!
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3 years
They should have a mandate that if you want FACTOR grant, you need to show proof of vaccination. Bet you’d see a measurable spike in vaccine appointments lol
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5 years
The nerdiest thing I’ve ever done in my life is plan my day so I’m an hour early for a live taping of my fav basketball podcast @NoDunksInc
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3 years
As someone who typically checks out new and popular music, I’m reading year end lists right now and I guess I’m finally at the age where I don’t know what any of this shit is anymore
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3 years
Day 5 of Covid symptoms, feeling quite sick and exhausted. I barely remember this weekend happening like at all. Izzy hasn’t left my side
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@quartermass
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10 months
Sorry to add to the P4K discourse three days in but ⁦ @evanminsker ⁩’s review of the first Ketamines LP in 2012 opened more doors for us than you could imagine - booking agent, US tour, festivals, our song in a Target ad ($$$). Fun times!
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2 years
Capital just absolutely despises creative
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2 years
When there is scene drama but you already muted everyone on both sides 👀
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3 years
Spent a bit of time redoing my work space this weekend 👌
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@quartermass
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4 years
Going through my cassettes now... talk about “depressed middle aged adult starter pack” yeesh
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@quartermass
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3 months
In the 90s, a Lethbridge promoter sold tickets to a fake NOFX show, then skipped town. The punk scene was pissed so someone plastered his mom's phone number all over downtown. Sean had to come back & put up posters begging ppl to "STOP CALLING MY MOM" Still haven't seen NOFX
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2 years
Hamilton, Ontario represented as a bumper sticker
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5 years
In High School I worked at Toys R Us in Lethbridge. My boss, a banger that gave himself the nickname “Diamond Darrel” bought a Corvette, and painted it a custom “Toys R Us Blue.”
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@quartermass
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6 years
This is the most shameful sentence in @blogto history. #boycottCNE
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3 years
Erin O'Toole campaign is already at "I Think You Should Leave" levels
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6 months
These same radio conglomerates put in millions of dollars propping up Arts &Crafts records in hopes of making “home grown superstars,” but apparently no song has been better than “Don’t Walk Away Eileen” in 22 years.
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5 years
I fear that, by following almost exclusively people on the Canadian left, I may be setting myself up for disappointment again tonight.
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@quartermass
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3 years
@BrianHartPR It really sucks that Embiid is hurt (on top of his thumb). (1) It wasn’t intentional (2) it was reviewed (3) Siakam apologized. Get that it sucks.
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@quartermass
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3 years
Why did the Barenaked Ladies block me?? Then I searched my own tweets and: fair enough
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11 months
Saw a LinkedIN post about "living with depression", which started with the line "My first week living with Depression... handle with care" First week? My lord. I can't remember what it feels like to NOT be depressed.
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