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Nathan Russel Dueck (1979- ) @nathandueck.bsky.social · 2d

HAPPY YANKEES ELIMINATION DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE!

Nathan Russel Dueck (1979- ) @nathandueck.bsky.social · 2d

Just reached for a cardigan when I realized I was already wearing a cardigan. If you need me, I'll be right here, preparing myself for the chill of the grave.

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Nathan Russel Dueck (1979- ) @nathandueck.bsky.social · 4d

At 20:57 in today's WTF, an interview with Matt Groening, Marc Maron says the word "Mennonites?!" with such incredulity and possible revulsion that I want to clip it and use it as my ringtone.

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Nathan Russel Dueck (1979- ) @nathandueck.bsky.social · 5d

Peacemaker Season Two features an alternate universe, but easily the least plausible aspect of the show is that the richest man in the world was imprisoned for trying to destroy the world.

Nathan Russel Dueck (1979- ) @nathandueck.bsky.social · 8d

Just became the biggest Blue Jays fanatic you’ve ever seen.

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Nathan Russel Dueck (1979- ) @nathandueck.bsky.social · 10d

I don't know how to reconcile in my mind the fact that Canadians are reflecting on the tradition of genocide in our country while Americans are watching their president all but promise genocide in his country.

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Nathan Russel Dueck (1979- ) @nathandueck.bsky.social · 10d

I fully ascribe to an ethos, grounded in my belief in a deity and love of humanity, that the American Secretary of War just impugned as "naive and dangerous." May God have mercy on our souls.

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Nathan Russel Dueck (1979- ) @nathandueck.bsky.social · 13d

How kind of Jeff Tweedy to drop a 3hr album when I have to spend the day grading. (Why yes, I am wholly committed to my dad rock dotage.)

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Nathan Russel Dueck (1979- ) @nathandueck.bsky.social · 17d

I'll see you in heaven
If we make the list.

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Nathan Russel Dueck (1979- ) @nathandueck.bsky.social · 27d

I’m surrounded by all the fresh produceI could imagine at this market, and I’ve even shaken the hands of the farmers who plucked it…and I’m hankering for Chicken McNuggets like you wouldn’t believe.

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Nathan Russel Dueck (1979- ) @nathandueck.bsky.social · Sep 9

The 8yo’s teacher asked him to list his priorities for the school year. Here they are:
1. Use appropriate language;
2. Cherish knowledge;
3. Be kind.
Words to live by.

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Nathan Russel Dueck (1979- ) @nathandueck.bsky.social · Sep 9

“Penis de Millimetre”
Donald J. Trump
2003

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Nathan Russel Dueck (1979- ) @nathandueck.bsky.social · Sep 7

No. [Sigh] I’m waiting, too.

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Nathan Russel Dueck (1979- ) @nathandueck.bsky.social · Sep 7

Can't thank the good folks at All Lit Up enough for letting me share about where I kick back with a good book in the summertime. alllitup.ca/hot-days-coo...

Hot Days, Cool Spots: Where (and What) Authors Read this Summer – Alllitup.ca

alllitup.ca

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Nathan Russel Dueck (1979- ) @nathandueck.bsky.social · Sep 5

Here's the segment! You'll have to listen for me because I cannot stand the way I sound: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

www.cbc.ca

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Nathan Russel Dueck (1979- ) @nathandueck.bsky.social · Sep 5

Barring a meteor hitting the earth in the next 12 hours, I'll be joining the CBC Daybreak South crew tomorrow morning to chat about my upcoming public lecture, "Jesus v. Superman."

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Nathan Russel Dueck (1979- ) @nathandueck.bsky.social · Sep 4

Now, to be fair, my career has been, um, modest in achievement ... but still, helping make this book has been an extraordinary honour and a no-doubt career highlight.

You'll know why I feel this way when you get to read Patrick Friesen's new book. Coming soon!

CMU Press @cmupress-ca.bsky.social · Sep 3

We are delighted to announce our next book of poetry, *Sightings
by Patrick Friesen*

With an afterword by Nathan Dueck. @nathandueck.bsky.social
Cover by Marijke Friesen. @marijkefriesen.bsky.social
Coming soon. #booksky

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Nathan Russel Dueck (1979- ) @nathandueck.bsky.social · Sep 1

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was persuading us that it's possible for a dress shirt to be "non-iron."

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Nathan Russel Dueck (1979- ) @nathandueck.bsky.social · Aug 31

A reading list of Atwood, Chariandy, Munro, Laurence, and Van Camp would go pretty hard. It'd probably be a lot of fun to teach a course titled something like "CanLit Banned in Edmonton Public Schools (Or, Alberta's Yearning for an Ol' Fashioned Book Burning)."

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Nathan Russel Dueck (1979- ) @nathandueck.bsky.social · Aug 31

So, Fully Completely got a 9.4 from Pitchfork, eh? My 12-year-old self is wholly, entirely outraged that it didn't earn a perfect 10 for "Wheat Kings" alone.