In the library, using a microfilm reader for the first time in 25 years.

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How many people could even CONCEIVE of doing this, let alone do it and so brilliantly on a primetime TV show. ORSON WELLES transforms himself (that’s full costume hair & make-up) into ‘Falstaff’ on THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW (1968)

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I took my students to the Fisher Rare Book Library at U of T to see some of their Toronto collection. Look at this beautiful artist book by Liz Menard of the Don River. She calls her press Skunkcabbage. Beautiful thing. (The Fisher is public. Anyone can access.)

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Jarvis street, before Ford the former ripped those lanes out, too. The bike lanes being there are one of the only interventions that have ever made that awkward half-highway half-residential corridor somewhat pleasant. I still haven't forgiven the Fords for that. And now this.

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Anne Carson, newly minted Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, once published the greatest ever author bio

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