August C. Bourré

Writer, critic, editor. Bylines: Brick, CNQ, Carousel, Dalhousie Review, Globe & Mail, National Post, Quill & Quire.

[August C. Bourré @FishSauce]

In the event we do all wind up at Mastodon, my username there is: @[email protected]

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@DannySpxp Briefly ending my Twitter boycott to say that it’s been fantastic to hear you two call the postseason, and I’d like to lobby for Buck to throw the first pitch if it goes to game 7.

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@PaulJRobichaud Every time I see a Pan post I’m like “oh damn, I wonder if Paul saw this” and 90% of the time it’s you.

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@HeerJeet @MazMHussain 💯I attended the University of Waterloo and this is true.

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@Ian__MacLeod @rebmasel What? It’s the second most popular ginger ale in the world.

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@dieworkwear @wdavidmarx That is an amazing book.

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One of my absolute favourite things when I was working construction was flying business class in my steel toes, muddy jeans, and a hoodie.

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Business tip;

Whenever you are flying commercial, especially in business/first class, always wear your best business suit & tie combo (business formal).

When someone walks on the plane in a great suit, white dress shirt & clean tie, I always think to myself, “I wonder what that guy/gal does for a living.” (Obviously no tie for the ladies ;))

It’s human nature.

When I was 22, and now that I am 42, I always find myself wanting ask him/her “hey, what do you do for a living?”

If you are in commercial real estate, especially brokerage, by dressing your absolute professional best, people will ask you “what do you do for a living?”, and that’s all you need to get the conversation started.

In business/first class, there is a real chance they are in the real estate business, but an even better chance they know someone in the real estate industry, someone who can be your client one day.

It is an easy way to network and meet new people, you just have to give a little more effort to dress up and eschew your “I don’t give a sh*t” sweat pants and F-U hoodie.

This also works in coach, just to a lesser degree.

Combine the professional clothes with a clean shave, combed hair, and I hate to admit, yes a nice watch helps, at minimum you will get looks, and in all likelihood the person sitting next to you will have to ask… “hey, what do you do for a living?”

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The sky above the port, etc.

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@alexbozikovic @ThermeCanada This Therme nonsense is exactly the opposite of the High Line. That project (sort of) re-greened a crappy unusable artificial space. This is making a usable green space into something artificial! What is dude thinking?

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@rebmasel I’m Canadian and I’m not sure I’ll sleep tonight. Your country has my best wishes for a blue morning.

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@3NNARD I also don’t get it. But my friend, you had Boris.

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LOL. Famously one of the most bitter, cruel, and selfish writers of the 20th century.

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

Perhaps the best definition of love I've ever read

[Tony Tost @tonytost]

Photographs from Wim Wenders' road trip while location scouting for PARIS, TEXAS.

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@hicksinferno @mr_e_motion @asongneversung True Widow. If ever there was an argument that doomgaze is real (and awesome), it’s True Widow.

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”

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@HeerJeet Good answer.

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@iGregGreene There is some species of terrible genius on every page.

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@SkylarEllenC Damn. If I’d known about @TBQuarterly earlier I’d have sent them my story about the guy whose anal tumour predicts the future when he farts.

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I say this because I have also experienced long, intense fallow periods in both reading and writing outside of work, and it’s always been a symptom of burnout—which I didn’t necessarily realize I was experiencing.

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I also read for a living (digital editor!), and this sounds an awful lot like burnout. I spend at least 10hrs a day online & have already read over 100 books this year, and have had an unprecedented period of creative joy & productivity in my own writing practice.

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@LindsayDunnTV Teoscar was my guy on the Jays. I’d like to bring him home, but I feel he was undervalued here and would be again.