Michael Winter

Lives in Toronto and, in the summer, a small place out east -- has published a few books. Upon reaching 10,000 tweets he will enter a capsule and depart earth.

[Michael Winter @michaelwinter34]

@GeoffBudden So true, Geoff!

[Michael Winter @michaelwinter34]

As is true of many of my projects, including washing the dishes (so hard to clean that last cup and fork), I didn't make it to the finish line of 10,000 tweets. I'm over at bluesky and instagram as @michaelwinternet

[Michael Winter @michaelwinter34]

are boxcars interchangeable, like propane tanks? do various companies borrow them from each other? I love, in Toronto, seeing the top of a train slowly chunking past the car wash on Dupont, and catching the faded cream script of a "Southern Pacific" on a dark brown boxcar

[Michael Winter @michaelwinter34]

a man at the egg fridge opened the lid on a dozen and lifted every egg to check its bottom; I couldn't believe he hadn't seen a more experienced customer reduce this inspection by simply running one's fingers over the tops of the eggs, making sure they all moved in their cradle

[Michael Winter @michaelwinter34]

@BeatlesEarth too much ELO

[Michael Winter @michaelwinter34]

tried to watch some conventional TV news about the US election and it was like following a drone flying through the newsroom studio, back to reading...

[Michael Winter @michaelwinter34]

@RonSexsmith you broken-hearted keel man

[Michael Winter @michaelwinter34]

Took my son to see a specialist, heard the doctor say "goodbye, my dear" to the patient before us. The rest of his intonation was central Canada. Before leaving I asked him about the "my dear". He paused, said he grew up in Ontario and then added, "My wife is from Cape Breton."

[Michael Winter @michaelwinter34]

neighbour's got zevon's "werewolves of london" on repeat while sitting in his front yard with a sack of candy and a huge air-driven spooky light display, so I'm getting in the same spirit and putting on zevon's "jesus mentioned" #Halloween

[Michael Winter @michaelwinter34]

sometimes it can take years, but when you finally hit upon the right voice, the right point-of-view, the right timeline and tense structure and pacing, then the story looks simple and easy, a novel that may have only taken you six weeks to write

[Michael Winter @michaelwinter34]

I enjoyed having lunch with Charles

[West End Phoenix @westendphoenix]

RIP to Charles the gorilla, who has passed away at Toronto Zoo aged 52.

@michaelwinter34 wrote about lunch with Charles last year for our Food Issue, we hope to have this article online as a tribute to Charles in the coming days.

[Michael Winter @michaelwinter34]

admiring the red mailbox that's in the post office that looks like an outdoor mailbox but is made of different materials and slightly a different size, like it's pretending to be a mailbox and thought it best to locate itself inside a post office to be more convinving

[Michael Winter @michaelwinter34]

@_ryanruby_ James Alley Blues:
"Sometimes I think that you're too sweet to die
And another time I think, you oughta be buried alive"

[Michael Winter @michaelwinter34]

@smokingsexxtion death is not the end

[Michael Winter @michaelwinter34]

in my dream of CBC radio I'd have one station where hyperbole is forbidden, the tone of the announcers is almost without a pulse, you could call it loperbole

[Michael Winter @michaelwinter34]

I don't particularly like cold coffee, but my grandmother did, so occasionally I'll take a sip from a leftover cup just to imagine what it might have been like to have been her

[Michael Winter @michaelwinter34]

noticed a public washroom and needed to use it but also thought it too bad they don't sell lettuce in the washroom as I needed lettuce too

[Michael Winter @michaelwinter34]

I put on a new pair of dark-blue jeans and immediately my impulse is to open up a big jug of Javex and start splashing it around

[Michael Winter @michaelwinter34]

am surprised to see how banal the Japanese cherry tree is and apparentlly ok with the Green Mountain sugar maple taking over the entire stage

[Michael Winter @michaelwinter34]

expecting to read how polling has narrowed down the US election to the decisions of a single household with three eligible voters in Clearfield, Pennsylvania