Peter Janes

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The program for a Stratford Festival reading of the first two episodes of "The Amateurs", a prequel to "Slings and Arrows", written by Susan Coyne, Bob Martin, and Mark McKinney. The cast of 17 includes all of the original series' regulars as well as current Stratford company members.
A graph of the air quality index for fine particulate matter (PM2.5) forecast showing the level rapidly increasing this afternoon toward a line labelled "Unhealthy".
Community care is possible May 20, 2026 Noon - 1 PM EST Free webinar on bystander intervention to mark sexual assault awareness month
A dark-haired woman stroking the hair of her husband. The closed captioning reads "[spouse] Mm-hmm."
A box of Tim Horton's "moonbits", featuring two spacesuited doughnut holes ("Timbits") floating above the moon with Earth in the distance. The text on one side reads: Artemis II Mission Canada will make history when Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, born and raised in the London, Ontario, area, flies around the Moon as part of Artemis II, the first crewed mission to the Moon since the Apollo missions over 50 years ago. Canada will be only the second country to ever send an astronaut around the Moon.
Al Yankovic dressed in a red leopard-skin suit over a zebra-striped shirt with a skinny tie. He's wearing dark sunglasses and his shoulder-length hair is in tight curls.
An extract from my online order summary showing a partial order number starting with "FHQW".
An iridescent sci-fi spider-like ship hovering over the surface of Mars. (It's actually a Shadow vessel, from Babylon 5.)
"Taking Rocks for Granite "Famously, the rocks used to make curling stones (for international competition) come from only two places in the world: Ailsa Craig, Scotland and Trefor, North Wales."
Text referring to an "online website".
The word "Pattison" in white capital letters on dark blue.
Description for a Bluesky label called "Unfollowed 100+ yesterday": "In a 24-hour period, account both unfollowed at least 25% as many accounts as it newly followed, and unfollowed at least 100 other accounts."
Dialog box reading "In the last 24 hours this account made more than 100 posts or replies."
Panel 1 Hobbes: "What's this?" Calvin: "A generic snowman." Panel 2 Calvin: I used to make original snowmen, but it was time-consuming, hard work, so I said, heck, this is crazy! Panel 3 Calvin: Now I crank out crude imitations of what's already popular! It takes no time or thought, and most people don't care about the difference anyway! Panel 4 Hobbes: So cynical, yet so practical. Calvin: And what good is originality if you can't crank it out?
The structure of a hypothetical email interface using custom elements: <outer-frame> <left-panel> <custom-folders></custom-folders> </left-panel> <message-viewer> <tool-bar></tool-bar> <email-previews></email-previews> </message-viewer> </outer-frame>
Williams Studio's leather replica of Batman's cowl from the 1970s-era comics. It's made of shiny navy blue leather and covers the entire head and neck, with arched eyebrows over the eye cutouts, a pointed nose above the cutout for the lower half of the face, and pointed bat ears protruding above the top.
Cloudflare outage takes down ChatGPT, X,
X post from @CBCLondon reading "Meet Ruby, a rescue pup in London who has learned to 'talk' and 'text' using an interactive board." and linking to a YouTube video.
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CBC London headline: "Port Elgin runner wins women's title at Toronto marathon as Ben Flanagan victorious in men's race"
Stats panel from a Bluesky user who recently followed me, showing they've followed over 380,000 other accounts (and are followed by about 75,000).
A monochrome image of Emm Gryner, a young Filipina-Irish Canadian woman, playing bass guitar. She's got an appropriately rocking facial expression and pose.
Bluesky post from Elizabeth Bear: "Make sure presenters are rehearsed in the pronunciation of names and works. This is a lifetime event for the nominees who deserve respect and celebration."
Closeup of tears coming from Doctor Doom's eye, from _The Amazing Spider-Man_ issue #36, used to illustrate the linked article.
A large room inside a spaceship, decorated in earth tones with a decanter of alcohol on a table in the foreground. Two humanoid characters are visible in an alcove lit in blue-green at the right of the middle background. The captioned dialogue reads "Fuck ice."
A guitar player and a banjo player standing side by side on a stage. Both are dressed in "space-y" red and black uniforms and are wearing red buckets on their heads (with holes cut out for their faces).
Google Maps' calculation of a 210km route from my location in London, Ontario to a house in Owen Sound. It claims to be the fastest route with the usual traffic, and saves 3% energy over two slightly shorter routes that would take more time.
"13 years ago at 3:16 pm"
Ned Flanders' hippie parents explaining that "We've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas."
"Nutrition Facts" from a package of Certo pectin claiming that each 1/6 tsp (0.6 g) contains 4 calories, 0g of fat, 1g of carbohydrates (of which 1g is sugar), and 0g of protein.
Nighttime shot of bright yellow and white flashing lights mounted near the top of a car's windshield.
Screenshot from the Retrontario YouTube channel's "Spadina Bus" video showing four men dressed in stereotypical beatnik outfits, variously wearing crazy sunglasses, long goatees, and berets. The second man is wearing a T-shirt reading "Save the stubby" [a uniquely Canadian beer bottle shape]. The tallest man, on the right, is holding two loaves of bread.
Current temperature and three-day forecast showing highs in the 20°C range and a low tonight of -273°C.
A screenshot of former prime minister Stephen Harper giving a dead-eyed smile to the camera, from the Canadian Conservative Party's current ad campaign.
From "Star Wars": R2-D2 projects an blue-tinged video of Princess Leia saying "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope."
Three jars filled with a light-brown paste. The two on the right are labelled "SPACE MISO 001" and "SPACE MISO 002".
Americans are, of course, the most thoroughly and passively indoctrinated people on earth. They know next to nothing as a rule about their own history, or the histories of other nations, or the histories of the various social movements that have risen and fallen in the past, and they certainly know little or nothing of the complexities and contradictions comprised within words like "socialism" and "capitalism." Chiefly, what they have been trained not to know or even suspect is that, in many ways, they enjoy far fewer freedoms, and suffer under a more intrusive centralized state, than do the citizens of countries with more vigorous social-democratic institutions. This is at once the most comic and most tragic aspect of the excitable alarm that talk of social democracy or democratic socialism can elicit on these shores. An enormous number of Americans have been persuaded to believe that they are freer in the abstract than, say, Germans or Danes precisely because they possess far fewer freedoms in the concrete. They are far more vulnerable to medical and financial crisis, far more likely to receive inadequate health coverage, far more prone to irreparable insolvency, far more unprotected against predatory creditors, far more subject to income inequality, and so forth, while effectively paying more in tax (when one figures in federal, state, local, and sales taxes, and then compounds those by all the expenditures that in this country, as almost nowhere else [cont'd]
Calvin: "If I had a computer, I'm sure I'd get better grades on my book reports." Dad: "You'd still have to read the book and tell the computer what you want to say, you know." Calvin (reading the book): "Man, what's all the fuss about computers?!"
First panel: Hammy, a squirrel, and Verne, a turtle, observe a yellow arc in a starry sky. Hammy asks "What was that?" Verne replies "One of Elon's Starlink satellites." Second panel: hundreds of crisscrossing yellow arcs flood the image, with only a tiny bit of black sky visible. Third panel: Hammy asks "What was *that*??" Verne, walking away, replies "*All* of Elon's satellites."
Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin, to a prostrate snowman: "As I have created you, so can I destroy you! Therefore, in recognition of my supreme power, you must worship me! Yes, bow before mighty Calvin and tremble, for I am the eternal, all knowing...". And Suzie, previously unseen, knocks him head over heels with a well-aimed snowball.
Colour copy of handwritten lyrics, including phrases like "When I'm up in the mountains / When I'm down at the beach / I'm a back-seat driver, and I like to watch / And I don't wanna go to bed", "I wish I was a cam'ra", "Big Ben Rocks", and "Travelling is standing still".