Just passed a bus with a Tina concert promo banner. For a ‘tribute’ show of course. I hope it does her justice.

That said, please request books from your local library because Public Lending Rights cheques are amazing and hugely appreciated / impactful

The narrative of 'private sector does it better' that rose to prominence starting way back in the Reagan era has had long-term negative consequences. Public services have been hollowed out, and public housing is one.

As an urbanist, I have long noticed that subsidized housing all dates to the 70s.

Clearly you misread your handwriting.
"It's not the houses, it's the horses."
A metaphor for what's important in life.

You're welcome.

Capable of winning every game they play with superstars and capable of losing every game with porous backend.

Public Hearing coming up likely Dec. 1/2- would be great to hear voices that are concerned about the process followed here to speak up. Addressing the false dichotomy between what the mayor proposed and “massive densification” is important. This is not an either/or, and the process is at issue.

Yes, so true, and hard.

From Kurt Vonnegut's Paris Review interview, 1977

INTERVIEWER
There were some bad reviews?

VONNEGUT
Only in The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, The New York Review of Books, The Village Voice & Rolling Stone. They loved me in Medicine Hat.

I'll believe it's priced out of people's diets when I walk into a supermarket and there's not a whole wall of meat products.