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Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · 1h

A film crew has taken over a block of College St nearby and lined it with vintage cars. They’ve even erected a couple of phone booths. Any Torontonians around who know what’s going on?

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Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · 2h

A film crew has taken over a block nearby and lined it with vintage cars. They’ve even erected a couple of phone booths. Any Torontonians around who know what’s going on?

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Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · 3d

It’s getting to be that season! Full moon and spider, Toronto, Ontario.

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Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · 17d

Good morning from Toronto. The days are getting shorter, but for now at least they’re starting off well

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Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · 21d

The hotly contested Somerville bike path mayoral contest has been decided. The new mayor is Minerva, whose one-word platform apparently appealed to voters. I voted for mela, the scaredy cat.

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Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · Aug 28

The race for cat mayor of the Somerville (MA) bike path is heating up. There are even some non-cat interlopers

A row of posters for candidates for the cat mayor of the Somerville Community path

Poster for Ernie (Feel the Ern), candidate for mayor of the Somerville Community Path

Poster for Midnight, candidate for mayor of the Somerville Community Path

Poster for Mela, candidate for mayor of the Somerville Community Path

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Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · Aug 17

A galette to make the most of this summer’s excellent peaches!

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Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · Jul 30

Can this be comfortable? I suppose that’s a silly question for a cat. (An early or very late) Happy Caturday!

Mr Bean, a medium haired grey cat draped over his cardboard scratching pad. Head on the floor.

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Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · Jul 15

Celebrating the season! A redcurrant and raspberry fool, with fruit from the local farmers market.

Redcurrant and raspberry fool in a blue bowl

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Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · Jul 11

And here’s the finished product—just in time for the cocktail hour

Two mason jars with homemade Canada Day Gin. The label shows a Tom Thomson-esque pine on a rocky shoreline.

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Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · Jul 7

Should be okay as long as you wash it down with five gallons of polyethylene glycol. No seeds in the bread though

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Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · Jul 2

Oops. Should have said “I spent most of the afternoon watching gin drip from the still”

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Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · Jul 2

A gin for Canada Day! With spruce tips, Labrador tea, as well as the usual ingredients. Should have had a Saskatoon berry, too, but I had to settle for a Canadian cranberry instead. Of course this meant that I spent most of the afternoon gin drip from the still. It is as exciting as it sounds.

Ingredients to make a Canada Day gin: spruce tips, Labrador tea, birch bark, juniper berries and coriander seeds

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Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · Jul 1

Devastating news and a complete betrayal of the idea that IU was a place where students could learn about the world. Bloomington took area studies seriously long before most other US universities, and it still boasts that it teaches more languages than any university in the US.

Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · Jun 30

So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...

Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees

Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.

www.ipm.org

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · Jun 30

So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...

Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees

Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.

www.ipm.org

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Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · Jun 15

2013 was the 60th anniversary of the end of the War for the Liberation of the Fatherland (祖国解放戦争), a.k.a. The Korean War

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Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · Jun 15

I’m sure that something like this is what Trump really wanted. Coming soon to the Kennedy center? Pyongyang, 2013.

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Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · Jun 15

Here’s some similarly old tanks, from the guys who know how to put on a military parade. Pyongyang, 2013

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Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · Jun 7

From the York mystery plays being performed at the University of Toronto today (they’ll be on until midnight so there’s time to catch a play—or thirty). Gabriel telling Joseph to head to Bethlehem, and Herod ordering the slaughter of the innocents. The overly long red tie seems a nice touch.

The angel Gabriel tells Joseph to get to Bethlehem asap. From the York mystery plays 2025 at the university of Toronto

Herod, in a blue suit with an overly long red tie, orders the slaughter of the innocents. From the York mystery plays 2025 at the University of Toronto

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Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · May 30

A dinner for spring! An asparagus frittata with fiddleheads and rhubarb-strawberry galettes for dessert.

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Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · May 30

In the very very tiring month of may—Mr Bean doesn’t even notice that his head’s falling off

Very tired grey cat on cardboard scratch pads

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Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · Apr 8

How to warm up when it feels like -10 (Celsius) outside. All it takes is a glitter ball and a step stool.

A gray cat (medium hair) stares intently at a glitter ball hiding under a step stool

The same grey cat, pouncing on the glitter ball

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Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · Apr 2

Celebrating Spring in Toronto! By burying the crocuses, which have just begun to blossom, in icy mush.

Celebrating spring in Toronto with a couple of centimeters of snow and ice

Celebrating Spring in Toronto with snow and ice in front of Robarts Library on the university of
Toronto campus

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Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · Mar 11

Tom Conlan has an article about wet nurses in heian and kamakura. I think it was in HJAS around 2005ish.

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Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · Mar 9

Tonight’s dinner: nabeyaki udon, to break in my new donabe

A donabe, Japanese earthenware pot. Round, with lid, rather like a Dutch oven. Grey, chrysanthemum design

Nabeyaki udon: udon noodles cooked in a clay pot. Garnished with slices of fried tofu, kamaboko, shrimp tempura, shiitake, two eggs poached in the broth, and some dandelion greens

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