If you’re an app developer for MLB, or if you’re with Roku or AppleTV, skip down to the final paragraphs! Because Allan and I follow
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wmtc: google does it again: recent blogger updates are not user-friendly
Once again, Google has reduced the ease and functionality of Blogger. A while back, the layout of the Blogger dashboard changed. I used to be
Continue readingwmtc: listening to joni: #6: court and spark
Court and Spark, 1974 Writing about the music of Joni Mitchell has been a huge challenge. My love of music and my writing abilities seem
Continue readingwmtc: what i’m reading: collected (and amazing) nonfiction by saul bellow
When the author Saul Bellow died in 2005 at the age of 90, I was saddened and disappointed by the scant attention paid to his
Continue readingwmtc: what i’m re-reading: the ax by donald westlake and other literary thrillers
I’ve just re-read* one of my all-time favourites: The Ax by Donald Westlake. I’m agog with how much I love this book. But first, the requisite blather.
Continue readingwmtc: things i heard at the library: an occasional series: #29
It’s TIHATL, Summer Reading Club edition! Summer Reading Club is in full swing in Canadian libraries. In more than 2,100 libraries around Canada, kids are
Continue readingwmtc: in which we do something i thought i’d never do: say goodbye to our vinyl
Through all our years together, and all the different places we have lived, Allan and I have hung on to our large collection of vinyl
Continue readingwmtc: kevin baker in harpers: "the death of a once great city — the fall of new york and the urban crisis of affluence"
Everyone who cares about cities, about privatization, and frankly, about humans and our ability to live on our planet, should make time to read the July
Continue readingwmtc: happy canada day: a wish for a pledge
One unfortunate result of the current ascendancy of white supremacy in the US is the increase in Canadians’ nationalism and self-love — the strengthening of
Continue readingwmtc: from the archives: for millions of american women, roe is already history
With the resignation of US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, it is very likely that Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, will
Continue readingwmtc: what i’m reading: running the books: the adventures of an accidental prison librarian
I read this book many months ago. I’m still catching up from my involuntary blogging hiatus. Last year I read and wrote about The Maximum Security
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I was literally reading this article in The New York Times about Philip Roth when I heard he had died. It’s a wonderful story: an 85-year-old
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venn diagram courtesy of Lucidchart I just wanted to create a Venn diagram.
Continue readingwmtc: welcome to the allan and laura new york city history reading club
The theme of this year’s TD Summer Reading Club — a national program (developed by Toronto Public Library) that more than 2,000 Canadian libraries participate
Continue readingwmtc: congratulations to the people of ireland! #repealedthe8th
While this blog was offline, an amazing and incredibly important thing happened: the people of the Republic of Ireland affirmed the human right to control
Continue readingwmtc: how to get your website removed from the wayback machine
During my recent attack by wingnut trolls, I learned something new: how to request that the Internet Archive remove your site from the Wayback Machine.
Continue readingwmtc: how to help families separated at the u.s. border
As we all sit helplessly agog at the latest spectacle going on in the US, here are some organizations to which you can donate (or
Continue readingwmtc: vancouver island day eight: nanaimo, qualicum beach, parksville
Our final full day on the island, we did a little of everything. We drove through different areas of Nanaimo, went into more bookstores, went
Continue readingwmtc: vancouver island day seven: chemainus, ladysmith, nanaimo
Poor Allan, the only non-morning person in our little group, being faced with three high-octane coffee drinkers every morning! In Chemainus I let him sleep
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