Leslie Smith
@magnacartasmith.bsky.social
Shakespeare/Theatre History Ph.D. Academic. Will interpret literary texts for food. Alternatively, will eat books. Lives for literature, art, music, film, and the Oxford comma.
Started reading Irvine Welsh’s Skagboys and I have to confess I’m struggling with it. Not sure how I’m going to make it through all six books of the Trainspotting series if they’re all like this…
February 8, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Started reading Irvine Welsh’s Skagboys and I have to confess I’m struggling with it. Not sure how I’m going to make it through all six books of the Trainspotting series if they’re all like this…
I can’t shake the feeling that the focus on is naive, that he is a shadow puppet (evil as he is) manipulated by an even more evil invisible Project 2025 cabal. Rid yourselves of T***p & you’re left with more of the same. He’s too stupid for me to see him as more than an ego-driven figurehead.
January 25, 2026 at 10:08 AM
I can’t shake the feeling that the focus on is naive, that he is a shadow puppet (evil as he is) manipulated by an even more evil invisible Project 2025 cabal. Rid yourselves of T***p & you’re left with more of the same. He’s too stupid for me to see him as more than an ego-driven figurehead.
Sad to hear of the passing of Lyn Goldman of Regina — a lovely woman, and a legend in Regina.
January 25, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Sad to hear of the passing of Lyn Goldman of Regina — a lovely woman, and a legend in Regina.
My office view. Periodically, some snow falls down the grate and frightens the life out of me.
January 19, 2026 at 3:13 PM
My office view. Periodically, some snow falls down the grate and frightens the life out of me.
I don’t see myself watching any Sydney Sweeney films. I have a thing about watching actors who look permanently bored.
January 18, 2026 at 11:41 PM
I don’t see myself watching any Sydney Sweeney films. I have a thing about watching actors who look permanently bored.
Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments; love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
1/2
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments; love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
1/2
January 16, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments; love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
1/2
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments; love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
1/2
Saint John River, Fredericton.
January 15, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Saint John River, Fredericton.
Thanks, Tubi. It’s not the real thing, but it’s nice. 😊
January 15, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Thanks, Tubi. It’s not the real thing, but it’s nice. 😊
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The guy in the White House just posted that he's the acting president of Venezuela. Insane.
January 12, 2026 at 6:31 PM
The guy in the White House just posted that he's the acting president of Venezuela. Insane.
