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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My current read is The Unfinished Metropolis, Benjamin Schneider’s passionate plea for more/affordable housing, better transit/bike/pedestrian infrastructure, and “jobs of the future” in American cities.

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I heard Harry Chapin’s 1974 hit “The Cats in the Cradle” for the first time in years today at a cafe. Though I dislike the music, the lyrics really grabbed me and I cried a little when I left… 😔

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s a good day to have lunch in the food hall at Lonsdale Quay Market.

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Years ago I purchased numbered serigraph 4/12 of Canadian abstract artist Helen Piddington’s “Away and Beyond.” It was an unexpected purchase at a charity sale: I paid just $20 without knowing the artist and it turns out that her work is in the National Gallery of Canada.

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m reading Lady L, a 1958 novel by French writer Romain Gary that he originally wrote in English (and translated back to French). These Penguin Archive editions are beautiful…

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Well today I found out I don’t have prostate cancer; two weeks ago I found out I didn’t have colon cancer. So September is a good month.

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Though I’m not Jewish, my maternal grandmother was partially descended from Spanish Sephardic Jews who were forced to convert to Catholicism by Spain’s government (my other 3 grandparents were of English and Irish descent). #antisemitism was real back then and it’s real today.

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I accompanied a friend who wanted to look at a few properties today in the West End of downtown Vancouver today. I took some pictures from the viewing deck at one of the buildings we visited; despite some haze it was a beautiful afternoon.

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today my partner has an appointment at the Eye Care Centre, an unapologetically Brutalist building near Vancouver General Hospital.

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I like Leonard Bernstein, but I’m puzzled by his 1982 recording of Elgar’s Enigma Variations. The tempo is very slow: “Nimrod” exceeds 6 minutes whilst most other recordings/conductors finish it in 4 to 4 1/2 minutes…

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

$4 million in humanitarian aid - half of it coming from Robert Kraft, the stadium owner - will actually help people in Gaza more than Macklemore’s stage speeches.

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today I’ll finish reading The Typewriter and the Guillotine. Written by Vancouver-based Mark Braude, it’s the story of Janet Flanner- a 🏳️‍🌈 New Yorker magazine correspondent living in Paris in the 1930s- and a German serial killer she eventually wrote about.

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The new-ish EY Tower reminds me of a slightly askew Rubik’s Cube…

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Fast Iron Cleaners, located inside the Royal Centre in downtown Vancouver, wants its customers to be dirty!

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My grandmother was born on this day in 1927 and she died on this day (hear birthday) in 2015. She is not forgotten.

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Bears are my favourite animals, so I love the theme of this new cafe in Vancouver. Alas, I wish they had not used GenAI to advertise their food; the images look very unappetizing (note the Persian Herb Frittata at lower right).

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Finnish artist Tove Jansson was most famous for the Moomins but she did so much other art & wrote some great fiction too. She was also a 🏳️‍🌈 person who lived life on her own terms; the world is still catching up to her…

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

To anyone who says that GHP-1 drugs (Ozempic, Wegovy, etc) are “genociding fat people”: 1) You disrespect victims & survivors of real genocides in Rwanda, Europe (Shoah), etc. 2) You disrespect science just like RFK Jr & his ilk. 3) You don’t really care about bodily autonomy.

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’m reading Serena Kutchinsky’s *Kutchinsky’s Egg*, the story of how family built a successful London jewellery business only to lose it when her father built the world’s largest jewelled egg in 1990z. Serena is a journalist and this book is a great read so far…

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I read Arthur Schnitzler’s “A Confirmed Bachelor” cover-to-cover yesterday evening. It was my first book by the late Austrian writer and it was definitely a page-turner with a lot of “psychodrama”; Schnitzler regularly corresponded with Freud.

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Mahler never crossed into atonality, but there is enough dissonance in his Symphony #9 that it feels eerily prophetic in hindsight.

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The onset of a cold and accompanying runny nose has interrupted my long weekend plans (I surrendered my ticket to see Odyssey in 70mm IMAX tonight, and my Saturday activities are scuttled too). Hopefully rest & medicine will quickly restore me to a normal state.

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Here’s the 1965 Grade 12 reading list for Mater Christi HS (now St John’s Prep) in Astoria, Queens. It’s fascinating to think of the literary “canon” and its mutations/permutations over time…

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’m reading The Sunday Book, an erudite essay collection from 🇨🇦 writer Michael Trussler; it was published in 2022. The author has Nonverbal Learning Disability and I am learning about that condition (and much more).

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This curvy downtown building opened in 2017. The upper floors are condos and the lower floors were initially the Trump Hotel. The hotel operator licensed the Trump name, and the operator went into bankruptcy in 2020. The hotel eventually reopened as the Paradox Hotel.

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

RIP jazz singer Cassandra Wilson; she was only 70. I liked her reinterpretation of U2’s “Love is Blindness”; her body of work is worth checking out. youtu.be/m4n86NTraQg?...

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

David Lee Kwen, the owner of a grocery store on Main St in Vancouver, helped raise funds to allow Anita Roberts’ husband to stay home during her cancer treatment. Kwen definitely gets kudos, and Roberts is now cancer-free. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/sa...

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‘The world is good’: Grocer helps support customer during cancer battle

It began like an ordinary day, until one of David Lee Kwen’s long-time customers revealed it was anything but.

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

RIP Wendell Berry; he turned 92 earlier this month. He was a great essayist and a person who cared deeply for the environment.

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I was downtown today and I photographed a few more high-rises with curves…

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This weekend I’m reading a memoir by a Canadian former Mormon, Greg Hudson. I once had LDS missionaries come to my apartment way back in 1997.

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I’m excited about Nicholas Delbanco’s upcoming memoir of the Bennington Collarge writing seminars & his 9 summers there. The memoir, Afterword, will be published by Godine in May. @vmspod.bsky.social do you plan to read this?

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Butterfly- a downtown Vancouver condo tower built on land formerly owned by the church in the foreground- is visually striking and adds some needed housing. John and I live in a condo but would avoid this tower: we like right angles too much!

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I got to check out Breka Bakery & Cafe last weekend; this pic was taken inside their W Hastings St location. The lemon shortbread was awesome!

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My 2 favourite Dolly songs: “Here You Come Again” (1977) has sophisticated chord changes & became her first pop hit. “Travelin’ Thru” (2006) incorporates bluegrass elements and was featured in the soundtrack to the film Transamerica.

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Trump, Navarro, and Lutnick are trying to make 🇨🇦 sign a trade deal that is worse than CUSMA. When CUSMA was signed, Trump called it the “fairest” trade agreement ever. Now they want to rip it up, even though 🇺🇸 has a trade surplus with 🇨🇦. Credit to PM Carney for saying no.

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

John and I have spent a lot of time at St Paul’s Hospital in recent weeks; I took this pic just now. We’ll be back for his follow up and my colonoscopy in a few weeks. I imagine the new St Paul’s Hospital (opening in Feb) will be state-of-the-art.

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Throwback Thursday: me in 2003

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dolly Parton appears with Keith Haring in 1985. Parton was one of the only country artists speaking out on HIV/AIDS in the 1980s; she co-produced and financed a documentary on the AIDS Quilt. She was an amazing human being…

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I just discovered Will Pass, creator of the video series “Who Reads Books Anymore?” He asks people how many books they’ve read in the last month & solicits book recommendations; it’s a great find for us bookish ppl. This woman reads 30 books a month! 😎 bit.ly/4zFpeZp

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

RIP Dolly Parton: songwriter, musician, philanthropist, 🏳️‍🌈 ally. 🙁

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Trump’s accusation is false. Canada doesn’t want the “benefits of being a state”: 🇨🇦 wants a free trade agreement that is mutually beneficial & respects its sovereignty. Consider: 🇨🇦 has free trade agreements with 51 nations but doesn’t seek to become part of any of them!

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I’m reading Peter Ackroyd’s new biography of Wystan Hughes (W.H.) Auden.

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

15-year-old Finn Holland of Maces Bay, New Brunswick saved the life of a beached shark. He’s a true hero! www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/new...

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‘I felt like I did the right thing’: N.B. teenager saves shark washed ashore

A New Brunswick teenager saved a shark washed ashore in Maces Bay.

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Surprise perk of being middle age: friendships with ppl 20 years older *or* younger (& all points in between). This would have been impossible at age 18 and unlikely at age 30…

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I listened to Alex O’Connor’s interview of Catholic pundit Ross Douthat, who wrote a book about religion as an “obligation.” I was struck by Douthat’s framing of religion as dogma/belief as many traditions stress “correct actions” over “correct beliefs.” Agnostics can be in a religion…

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Paul Simon’s Graceland- made in collaboration with several notable South African musicians- came out 40 years ago this month! As a kid I liked the single “Boy in the Bubble” and I have listened to album many times in subsequent years.

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My second #WomenInTranslation month read is Anna Seghers’ The Seventh Cross, translated from German by Margot Dembo. Originally published in 1942, this novel tells the story of an escape from a Nazi concentration camp. I started the book yesterday; it reads like a thriller.

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