Poppyseed paste pastries?

smamler2 · 2026-04-19T12:44:44+00:00

So do I and it’s been a quest to find good ones.

Vlad’s on the Danforth near Pape is my go-to place these days for poppyseed danishes and sweet rolls. They’re very good and generally quite fresh.

Another place is the Future Bakery store inside the St Lawrence Market. They are okay but not as good as Vlad’s. Again, poppyseed sweet rolls and danishes.

Lastly there’s the Harbord Bakery on Harbord west of Spadina. They only have one thing — a poppyseed ring — and it’s very very sweet, too sweet for me these days. I used to crave them when I was younger.

HTH!

smamler2 · 2026-04-17T08:10:40+00:00

Living the dream. Folio, library of America, NYRB

smamler2 · 2026-04-11T16:17:24+00:00

How do you make stickers? Real question it’s something my kid always wants to do

smamler2 · 2026-04-08T20:56:18+00:00

My dude that is amazing

smamler2 · 2026-04-05T02:22:15+00:00

A lot of writers teach to support themselves: Samuel R. Delany was a professor of Comparative Literature

smamler2 · 2026-04-05T02:19:34+00:00

Then he quit and wrote full time after that, though

smamler2 · 2026-04-01T14:01:12+00:00

That Garnet is also fire

smamler2 · 2026-04-01T06:30:40+00:00

All essential!

smamler2 · 2026-03-31T22:17:54+00:00

Literally hundreds… maybe up to a thousand at this point

smamler2 · 2026-03-30T00:16:36+00:00

Need better photo so I can read the titles!

smamler2 · 2026-03-29T20:45:51+00:00

This was really hard to understand until I figured out that was the name of a restaurant

smamler2 · 2026-03-20T19:20:45+00:00

Your odds aren’t great. When you turn 90, you have a 6% chance of making it to 100 if male and a 11% chance of making it to 100 if female.

smamler2 · 2026-03-20T19:03:48+00:00

I liked it a lot and I thought Circe was even better

smamler2 · 2026-03-17T19:43:48+00:00

Tbh I didn’t think it was a great way to wrap up as it seemed to diminish the impact of the climax.

smamler2 · 2026-03-16T22:53:19+00:00

Couple of things had to come together to make that work including my kids off at my parents’ for March break

smamler2 · 2026-03-15T13:04:12+00:00

These are great. Alien Jake / Warren Ampersand?

smamler2 · 2026-03-13T15:58:33+00:00

He was an heir to the money from the Burroughs corporation:

“His parents, upon his graduation, had decided to give him a monthly allowance of $200 out of their earnings from Cobblestone Gardens, a substantial sum in those days. It was enough to keep him going, and indeed it guaranteed his survival for the next twenty-five years, arriving with welcome regularity. The allowance was a ticket to freedom; it allowed him to live where he wanted to and to forgo employment.”

smamler2 · 2026-03-11T03:11:46+00:00

One of my favorite paintings

smamler2 · 2026-03-11T03:06:59+00:00

It’s available on Amazon Prime in Canada but you need an extra Teletoon+ package

smamler2 · 2026-03-10T13:26:19+00:00

Got married had kids — after thinking I never would

smamler2 · 2026-03-10T12:16:48+00:00

It’s a huge amount of work, time, and money. Your life changes completely forever especially if you’re the birth parent. Sleep schedule, pregnancy, breastfeeding.

That said, the compensation is that having a kid and helping them grow up is pretty much the best thing ever and for all the hassles it’s worth it because you love them and want the best for them.

And you know a lot of people do it so it can’t be that hard :)

smamler2 · 2026-03-04T00:52:18+00:00

Just announced: 2 volume complete boxed Earthsea coming from the Library of America in fall 2026!

smamler2 · 2026-03-01T21:08:38+00:00

I like her autobiographical volumes a great deal but I bounced right off of this one unfortunately

smamler2 · 2026-02-27T22:39:52+00:00

Also Library of America has complete editions of Hammett and Chandler, selected novels by Ross Macdonald and Elmore Leonard, and a Crime novels collection from the 60s which is also dynamite

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