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I grew up in montreal. I love canada.
but the best decision I ever made was leaving for nyc
I always had an immense amount of ambition, and got constantly clowned for it
“why are you working so hard?”
“you’re not taking 4-6 weeks vacation a year?”
when I worked at a canadian bank downtown, people would line up for after-work club at 4pm on a thursday in finance bro attire on a 70k salary.
I’d show up later to hang with friends and still get questioned.
those same people grind for an extra 10k raise, or pray for an end-of-year bonus, just to afford extracurriculars
montreal is beautiful to visit!
if you want quality of life on a budget, it’s also great
but Canadian work culture caps your ambition, and in turn your potential
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Another East German classic for dinner last night: Karlsbader Schnitte.
Toast with tomato paste, ham, sliced gherkins and cheese. Then Worcester Sauce (versions of which were produced in the GDR) on top. Washed down with "Grüne Wiese" (Green Meadow): Blue Curacao & orange juice.
I love the way Romance language speakers say "good [noun]!" Like when French people say "bon cinéma!" When I was at the beach in Italy I heard someone tell a friend, "buon mare!"
A meteorite fell in that same Australian town, and was named after the town and the geologist. It contained the first ever known samples of extraterrestrial amino acids
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LOVE the association btw Thomas Mann and Lu Xun here. Totally agree that there are similar problems in modernist thinking and aesthetics in play.
I’ve been reading The Magic Mountain (pilled by @adam_tooze’s newsletter).
It feels like a fever dream, entering the mind of a young bourgeois engineer in pre-WWI Europe, where history is suspended and everything is slippery, symbolic, and feverish.
I was thinking: “wow this is what a Freudian turn feels like from inside the European elite. And they have no idea what’s coming!”
It also reminds me of Lu Xun’s “In the Wine Shop” (在酒楼上) which is written around the same time, there’s a same feeling of historical suspension, of people caught in confusion when the old China was clashing with modernization.
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New Amato and Gregg Turkington are back for Season 17 of On Cinema at the Cinema!
Come over to the cantina, have an NA IPA and learn a thing or two about movies, life, bankruptcy, boating accidents, and more.
Stream exclusively at heinetwork.tv
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I have looked in
the bag
that was stolen
by Jagmeet
and which
you had probably
seen just
minutes after yesterday's release
forgive me
it's full of secrets
so mysterious
and so bold