Sandy Barron

@sbhist.bsky.social

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Historian of disability and Canadian politics. Researcher, Contract Instructor, PhD. Jazz, horror, and cli-fi guy.

Clipping of a CNN headline that says “Swift and Kelce donate $26 million to charities across America ahead of expected wedding celebration”
The jacket of Sonny Rollins’ 1965 classic “On Impulse” on my turntable
A fortune cookie insert that says ‘You will always live in interesting times.’
Cover of the 1973 Melodiya/Angel pressing of Rachmaninoff’s Vespers
A screenshot of my laptop on the title page of my manuscript. It reads “Organized: The Western Canadian Association of the Deaf, Western Politics, and Education in Western Canada, 1883-1974
Picture of a stuffed frog close up like a mugshot. The frog is green with greenish-black eyes and their expression is menacing but not in a menacing way
Zohran Mamdani campaign font that reads “solos for Jimmy Garrison.”
A Shi Tzu on the couch in a Pictou County dinner jacket (i.e a plaid lumberjack shirt)
The inside jacket of Springsteen’s Born to Run lp that I bought second hand. On the bottom left of the second pane is a signature that reads “Bruce Springsteen.”
A post from Donald Trump that simply says ‘Bela’
View at Rogers Centre for the Jays game
Chick-fil-A billboard in Ottawa tastefully defaced to read “Eat Mor Chikin (Israel is Starving Gaza/arms embargo now)”
The cover of the Dylan record on Sandy’s turntable
The cover of the Mitski record on Sandy’s turntable
Cover of the lp pictures on Sandy’s turntable
My list of the best films of the last 25 years as generated by the NY Times survey. Top 3 are There Will Be Blood, The Brutalist, and The Assistant. Also the Zone of Interest, His House, Ten, Waltz With Bashir, the Master, Parasite, and Children of Men.
Tweet from Elon Musk that suggests the latest model of Grok will be able to intake ‘the entire corpus of human knowledge’ and improve upon it.
My turntable set up with two large old floor speakers and two new smaller shelf speakers. The old ones are true beauts that sound like they are 60 years old.
Pierre Trudeau arrives at the 1975 Grey Cup in Calgary, looking preposterously stylish.
Cover image of Eric Vuillard’s novel The Order of the day with a black and white image of a wealthy man, hat in hand, representing the German industrialists who backed Hitler financially.
Unicorn dog toy after being mauled by a small dog - it is missing an eye and its horn is floppy