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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.

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

That’s a valid theory. There’s some overlap with the song and my own history, though (to my dad’s credit) he has tried really hard since 1999…

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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…

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.

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

I have listened to part of this episode; Matthews must have been quite the “New Orleans Character” (I know from reading newly-reissued Nancy Lehmann works that there are definitely some “characters” there!).

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 · 22/09/2026

Remembered… yizkor… unintended BlueSky pun? 😉

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This looks like a great read. I’m going to download the episode !

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A few of the recordings on Apple Classical have Nimrod at just 3:30, and that almost seems *too fast* for a score marked Adagio…

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

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Well there’s the irony following his comments about Glenn Gould’s slow tempo on the Brahms D Minor Concerto back in 1962! I do agree that an unorthodox interpretation can be a good (or great) one.

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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Jewish orgs raised concerned about his comments; given their concerns about antisemitism I take them seriously. I think simply telling his audience he’d donate a portion of his earnings to Gaza war aid groups & encouraging fans to donate too might have been more effective (& raised more?).

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I don’t know any of Méhul’s oeuvre; where to start?

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

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

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How was the rest of your time in Markham? I imagine you weren’t there long enough to record with Toronto-area pod-guests like Seth or Maurice Vellekoop…

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

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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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It was not just the phrase “Free Palestine.” Macklemore has a long history of controversy over Jewish issues as he dressed up as a Hasidic man (with an oversized “hook nose”) several years ago. And they called out the Met Life Stadium performance as one-sided and biased.

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

Mainstream Jewish groups like Anti Defamation League have called out Macklemore for antisemitism. It’s hard to have much sympathy for someone engaging in bigotry. I do hope for long-term peace for Palestinians and Israelis but Macklemore isn’t bringing it. 😔

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It’s actually a fairly large suburb of Toronto but I haven’t spent much time there.

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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).

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

@stuckinabook.bsky.social You might enjoy this, and it’s available in the Penguin Archive series (shown in my photo)!

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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 · 07/09/2026

That’s my favourite bookshop to visit when I head down to Seattle.

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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.

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

Where do the Vancouver Liberals fit on the x/y axis?

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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.

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

You were very open/candid… any b-roll footage would feel utterly superfluous.

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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Love Is Blindness

YouTube video by Cassandra Wilson - Topic

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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…