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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

it's past midnight so it's time for this insomniac nutbar to fire up her credit card and order a bunch of stuff from the interwebs that will arrive in 3 weeks and fuel general bafflement

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

posting two vampires that aren't Dracula

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Mobland has been in standard Guy Ritchie territory, elevated by showrunner Jez Butterworth's literary cred & an A-list cast. But with tonight's episode, S2 Ep 3, the head-to-head of smart, softspoken players of extraordinarily dangerous villains - Johnny Flynn & Tom Hardy - this story ignites.

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Today's Top Typo: for the jazz lover who simultaneously wants to keep up with the crosswords. "____ Lounge has some of the best acrostics for live music events in Wpg no matter where you sit."

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What a great 7 x 7 event at the Winnipeg Book Festival this afternoon. SO MANY people at the Forks to hear about writing, editing, bookselling, publishing. Here I am, hosting: listening to award-winning author (and singer and lawyer and...!) Zilla Jones.

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wonderful crowd at The Forks as we head into the 7 x 7 writing & publishing industry session at the Winnipeg Book Fest today!

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Did I just see an ad for Lord of the Flies Season 2? I mean, I read this novel. Because I had to. Anyway, I don't remember any hope of continuation or basically anything resembling a future.

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sometimes after a tough day, you just need to watch a western. The Long Riders is better than I remember. I fondly recalled the long dusters. But there's more here than romantic coats. Good attention to female roles, great cinematography, excellent horses & serious brotherly love in the casting.

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

drank two cups of strong coffee this morning and went back to sleep so I think I'm turning into a cop or a bus driver

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

am holding out for the Lee Child novel where Reacher makes cookies or homemade soup for one of those incredibly tough, smart, beautiful woman cops or soldiers he accidentally ends up solving everything with, instead of just stealing a car with her and going to a diner and snapping a bunch of necks

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Students in film class want to know unusual things. Like: Which Winnipeg hotel did Charlie Chaplin stay in? 🤨 (In 1914, it was the Windsor Hotel--called another name at the time--which burned down 109 years later.)

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

being a parent is like this: you start in on an excellent anecdote about your hilarious past and instantly your kid says, I've heard this before, Mom

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

my beloved ancient weirdo, Sophie, is communing with her verandah shadow on this beautiful autumn Sunday

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yup. Now I just need to teach him apostrophe use. (Wonderful song from a shortlived Cartoon Network sketch show called Incredible Crew.)

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Saturday vibe: ❤️ thinking about how my kid and I separately (but together, somehow!) managed to stumble into the delights of The Spinners doing "Rubberband Man" fifty years apart. youtube.com/watch?v=rx00...

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The Rubberband Man - The Spinners | The Midnight Special

YouTube video by The Midnight Special

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Intricately detailed rock journalism in @exclaimdotca.bsky.social by @danielsylvester.bsky.social on Nirvana's 1991 Canadian dates: promoters, venues, opening acts, interviews. It's all here. Highly recommended if you're into the not-written-about-enough Cdn music scene. exclaim.ca/music/articl...

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"They Trashed Everything": Inside Nirvana's Seismic 1991 Canadian Tour │ Exclaim!

To mark the 35th anniversary of 'Nevermind,' we spoke to the fans, promoters and bands who witnessed it firsthand

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

guys, unpopular opinion, maybe, but is Mark Carney actually better looking than Justin Trudeau?

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

my certified ethical, organic, handmade Canadian dress that I had hoped to wear to the Manitoba Book Awards just arrived so, hey world, please nominate me for more stuff because my OUTFIT IS READY

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

nothing says "get a grip, woman" like the tone of my youngest when he sends this rarely used word in my direction: "Mother"

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Coming up at the revamped Winnipeg Book Fest. At The Forks! Join us.

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Join the Writers' Union of Canada in petitioning for new laws that protect everyone from fraudulent images and information, requiring companies to be transparent about Generative AI outputs, marking them as the product of AI. Read more here: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Petition e-7774 - Petitions

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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind." Virginia Woolf

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

one of my over-80 sisters managed to send a phone message to my email this week & it was so mysteriously transcribed I wasn't sure what it was or who had sent it -- she manages to use the normal means of communication nearly all of the time & really had to go some to invent this more obscure method🤔

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Mobland season 2: "Strong language and violence" advisory. 😂 Favourite line so far: "It's called Organized Crime, isn't it. The clue's in the title." Also: Tom Hardy & Johnny Flynn in the same show. 😮

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

help I need this 1955 dress worn by Debbie Reynolds

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

didn't win the poetry prize at this year's Manitoba Book Awards, but I got to hang with my sons AND meet Canadian cultural treasure Shelagh Rogers so yay 💙📚

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Clock question: do we stay the same as Saskatchewan forever? Fargo? Toronto? Which time zone is the cool one? I want to be in the cool one.

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

on the Red River this evening for a literary reading just because

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I believe that I alone am keeping Maggie O'Farrell, her agent, and her publisher in soup and chocolate

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

oooh, she said, humbly abashed 😎

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I wish I lived in England so I could say, "I can't be arsed" and "down the pub" and "here's me new jumper" and "it's rubbish!" We have nothing fun to say in Canada.

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sophie loves Bob Mould and welcomes the comforting, beautiful noise of Sugar on #caturday.

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I suspect this is the last time I drive hours to a nation ruled by a madman for a punk gig. But Sugar at First Avenue was beyond special, Minneapolis is close to my heart & my youngest grew up listening to @bobmouldmusic.bsky.social but had never seen him. Long Live Love 💙 📷 Theo Sorensen-Kurtz

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Baby's first punk show (have clearly been remiss !) at First Avenue in Minneapolis: Sugar last night. We smiled like idiots through the whole show. His first might be mama's last: am not good at standing for a couple of hours anymore! @bobmouldmusic.bsky.social

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Acutely Life in a nice display of shortlisted poetry books at @mcnallyrobinson.com 📚💙

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Coming up...and anyone and everyone are welcome to attend!

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bugs the hell out of me that a far-right party is using the term "alternative." When my student council slate at URegina campaigned in 1984 we were "The Positive Alternative" & it meant something. I'm sick of the right stealing words like freedom. Alternative isn't for fascists. It's for Radiohead.

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I was just listening to the Talking Heads song "Radiohead" and I know that's where Radiohead got their name, but I can't imagine a less Radiohead song than "Radiohead." youtu.be/QSlvxx5xpj4?...

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Radio Head

YouTube video by Talking Heads - Topic

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Reviewers are being awfully hard on Ridley Scott's The Dog Stars and I think it's the usual oppression of Mennonites! Because... Who are the movie's heroes? Post-apocalyptic Colorado(?) Mennonites! It's a good movie! My review, with at least one excellent Mennonite joke, coming soon! boxd.it/RfZI

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The Dog Stars (2026)

After the world's population has been ravaged by a pandemic, a man lives a lonesome existence in a Colorado airplane hangar with his dog and a dour gunman he has befriended. When a mysterious transmis...

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It's real. My novel is real. Hey #booksky did you know that placing advance orders for an upcoming book at your local bookstore makes it really really real? So very real? Do it for Buster! No, not Buster. Do it for my protagonist who's negotiating life AFTER BUSTER. www.dundurn.com/books_/t2211...

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After Buster - Dundurn

With over 2,300 books in print, Dundurn Press is recognized for producing high quality, award-winning books across multiple genres.

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I've been avoiding blanching a ton of green beans from my friend's yard (they're away and asked me to do it) but then I recalled that Ridley Scott has directed five movies since he turned 80 so I figured I ought to be able to get the job done. I did it, no big deal, & now I'm ready to make a movie.

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Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

my favourite 2026 movies so far (yes one wasn't in theatres but @letterboxd.social lists it) and you can't tell me I'm not eclectic

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