John Lazarus

Longtime Canadian playwright, retired from teaching at Queen's and Studio 58

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Bg for US friends: the Liberal party, now in power, has formed a coalition with the NDP, Sanders-style democratic socialists. Glad it didn’t happen & Putin didn’t invade Ukraine when Trump was Prez. I can see him announcing Canada’s fallen to the Commies & he’ll invade & save us.

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@andymckim I once read somewhere that the first strike was indeed in ancient Egypt, but it was by members of an orchestra. I’m not sure which version I like better.

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@JamesGibsonBray If you truly believe it will make the world a better place, then yes.

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@reachguest My daughter says she has the computer that Gutenberg used to design the printing press.

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Charlie McCarthy for Speaker of the House.

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@JamesGibsonBray Lin and I are coming to Toronto for a few days. She studied mask in Paris under Etienne deCroux. Will that help?

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A lovely moment of candour from our Prime Minister discussing the resurgence of Covid: “I understand this sucks.”

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@moscotweets Depends. Does he have a wife and kids? Oh, and mazel tov!

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If you’re gonna toke the toke, you better woke the woke.

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@YLbJo @Tsiehta @LetsFishSmarter @CPC_HQ @PierrePoilievre Thank you for posting this. I was feeling guilty for loathing this man so much merely because of his arrogant, supercilious, contemptuous manner.

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@mlazarusdean This was immediately preceded on my feed by a tweet from @sarahclazarus about revealing how much toast she eats. I feel like there is some mysterious significance in all this. PS: if I ever seem toxic to you, stick around and yell at me.❤️

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@sarahclazarus On my feed, this was immediately followed by @mlazarusdean’s tweet giving permission to walk away from toxic relatives. I’m wondering who is trying to tell something to whom, and if so, what.

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@woolf_atthedoor Oh, just go in there, stand on your head, and eat lunch.

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@healeytypes Mom would put out nuts for squirrels for winter. One day she was yelling at a squirrel. She said, “That one’s eating them, not storing them. He’ll starve later!” Dad said, “Give him the nuts or don’t give him the nuts, but don’t tell him how to run his business.”

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@ElenaJuatco @MichaelBuble @janncreators @CTV @CTV_PR Loved watching you pushing Buble around. He wouldn’t remember me, but we used to party together when he was just starting out, doing jukebox shows at the Arts Club in Vancouver. What a hoot to see the two of you together. And you in charge, of course.

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@fraser_brad To me, it’s Jared.

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@AislinnHunter “A piercing chill: / stepping on my dead wife’s comb / in our bedroom” - haiku by Buson, 18th century

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We’ve lost two leaders of the pack. Woolf and Fox are gone, leaving us cubs and puppies behind.

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@AOC “Woke” is the new “politically correct”: a term supposedly (and perhaps really) invented by liberals, but then taken over by the right wing to satirize, demean, and characterize as merely fashionable, the very idea of having moral values at all.

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@sarahclazarus Hey, check with your father. How ironic that you should be buying into this “six years old” crap when Mr. Big was putting food on your own family’s table in the 70s. 😎