• Portraits of two women, one with top hat.
Artist: André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri
(French, 1819-1890)
Date: ca. 1860-1865
Medium: Albumen print, carte de visite, from glass negative.
Apparently the one in the top hat lurks behind that pillar and just occasionally pops her head up like a gopher.
Robbo Mills writes, “Speaking at a press conference at the Provincial
Parliament in Queen’s Park on Monday, Toronto Councillor Giorgio
Mammoliti said Premier Doug Ford’s plan to gut Toronto City Council is a good move because it would silence ‘left-leaning’ voices on council.
“I live in Toronto. I live in Parkdale. I love this city. I hate these
fucking wannabe tyrant jerkweed asshat corporate puppet sausages. I also
hate that the for the next 4 years I’m going to be fighting a
relentless parade of these dipshitscicles. I hate it. I’m old. I’m
tired. But I ain’t gonna never back down on shenanigans like this. Fuck
them.”
Just thinking about how one of the ways a story can win my
affection is by an obscure throwaway reference that 1. I get, and 2. Is appropriate
to the setting of the story: “Hey,” it says, “this author has done their
research, but they’re not bashing the reader over the head with it!”
Mooncustafer 