Craig Monk
@CGMonk
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Academic Admin. English Prof. “A monk who works is troubled by only one devil, while an idle monk is troubled by many.” St. John Cassian (Banner, Alex Norris)
Rossdale, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Joined July 2012
Walk past here on my way to and from work each day and reflect on lucky I am.
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RT @RobertMSterling: I don’t want to connect my coffee machine to the wifi network. I don’t want to share the file with OneDrive. I don’t w…
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To balance the outrageous Canadian Supreme Court position on sim/sub, here are some of the Super Bowl commercials you missed while Tim Hortons was taking Stompin’ Tom out behind the barn.
🧵 2025 Super Bowl commercials, a thread. "Matthew McConaughey investigates the origins of football and its suspicious link to a conspiracy spanning centuries."
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RT @KnightLegg: Nothing like booing a kid singing the US national anthem on their biggest day…. …. to show the American public and the sp…
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@CKuziemsky I can only imagine the terror trying to turn east at that intersection. Putting out a fire puts a lot of water on that road in -15.
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Watching The Order, a streamer, where they blow up a movie theatre, next to a record store. Can’t Jude Law do anything to save legacy media?
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In my four decades of professional academic life I've observed that Robert Conquest's First Law holds. Most of my colleagues are left-leaning. More than a few are far left-leaning. Some, though, hold conservative views in one or a few areas. Almost invariably, those are areas in which they have actual expertise.
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RT @sfmcguire79: University of Chicago President Paul Alivisatos on how universities, scientific journals, and scholarly associations damag…
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@FoodProfessor My preferred peanut butter—no palm oil!—is “assembled in Canada from imported ingredients.”
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RT @ExnerPirot: An overwhelming majority of Canadians, 79%, want to build pipelines across this country. https://…
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RT @_TimCartmell: How is it a foreign guest is able to see and draw such attention to this tragedy that the Mayor and his followers would h…
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RT @pdrobertson: One silver lining is that suddenly we’re not a post-national, genocidal, settler state.
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@bernardtjoy Calypso. That first glimpse inside Bloom’s mind and his navigation of the domestic. Students addled by the first chapters are always relieved to emerge from Proteus.
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I guess, with the Leafs in town, there is less interest in contemporary British cinema.
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