Clarissa's Blog

Finally, it’s not extremely embarrassing to be a Canadian any more. So that’s good.

I’m really in love with Joe Massey’s photography, especially the industrial section.

In case anybody is looking for a gift, khm khm, you can’t go wrong with one of these prints. Or two. Or. . . OK, I’ll stop now.

I’m really crazy about these pictures.

I don’t get Boris Johnson. I was a huge supporter when he won the election. Then he completely faded and became a more timid British Trudeau during COVID.

Now all of a sudden he woke up, retired much of the COVID lunacy, is doing great work on Ukraine. I’m glad, obviously, but this all feels very bipolar.

When I go on Facebook, it’s a sign of desperation because my article isn’t working out. I literally have two more sentences to write before I’ll send it back, and I’ve been on them for days with no results.

So I’m listlessly scrolling through FB. Maybe I should go do today’s Wordle.

P.S. Solved Wordle very fast. Back to Facebook.

Just as I started enjoying Wordle. . .

Let’s place bets on how they will wokeify and destroy the game.

Amazon sells Hitler’s Mein Kampf (as well it should) but it’s kind of weird that a finicky old musician would see Hitler as a more acceptable companion on an online sales platform than Joe Rogan.

I don’t think this particular virtue signal was thought through extremely well.

It’s -17°C in Anjou, Quebec. People are lining up in the cold to wait their turn to show proper documentation to enter the grocery store.

They will gain freedom only after they stop doing this kind of batty things.

I already received 6 text messages from different people (not Canadians) super excited about the trucker protest. And yay, cool, I guess.

The problem is, there have been mass protests in Canada for over a year. I was very excited about the first half dozen. Hundred thousand people! A great symbolic value! Dishonest media reporting! I shared photos and felt hopeful.

But nothing ever happened. People had a chance to vote for something different and they didn’t. They returned Trudeau with the same mandate.

It will be great if protest number five million turns out to be less impotent. I’m kind of jaded about symbolic gestures, so I’m not jumping up and down until it does.

Here’s yet another story about a criminal (a serial killer, no less) who posed as a woman to get early release. The criminal is up on charges of sexual assault and is likely to be incarcerated with female prisoners.

There’s an 800-page new history of Spanish feminism that I’ve been eyeing and then, bam!, and I get a request from a journal to review it. Which means I’ll get the book for free.

Only this morning I was thinking that I’m not working on any book reviews at this moment, and what’s up with that?

The universe heard me and sent exactly the book I wanted.