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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • My in-laws retired after a lifetime of union work - carpenter and nurse. It’s given them a retirement that has let them, among other things, go to Venice 4 times.

    But they’re model Canadians and I think they’d be the least likely to block a through-way or make a spectacle of themselves. But they realize that just walking through the city has impact just from their mere presence.

    It’s too late for them but I get why they’d go back. Venezians (Venetians?) are cursed with a beautiful city and it makes their existence a struggle because tourists are dinks. I grew up in a tourist town and I hate tourists even when I am one, and even though to try to represent my polite country reputation as well as I can.

    Can we consider going in the off-season? How can we preserve the city for future citizens and visitors?

    Can we please drastically raise the price for everything and then award the residents a monthly stipend to completely offset it as well as using the rest for maintenance and restoration of the exteriors while we improve the infrastructure? I don’t mean to sound posh, because it’s more a value proposition: I’d pay extra to be able to go, if it means that extra revenue will allow that to happen. I’m willing to wait until I can foot the bigger bill, even if that means I never get to go.

    Is there a better idea that allows the activity of selfish people like me who want to one day see it, preserve it for people like me; but most importantly for the residents who have to suffer my gawking and smiling for a week?











  • There’s an album for Simon and Garfunkel live at Madison square garden.

    They did a benefit concert of some kind in Central Park, and it was all the TV picked up a few years later as my mom held me when I was sick as hell and we stayed up on the couch, in the dark, no picture but the sound on. It was hours, and I hated their music then as it wasn’t Tony Basil and had neither Huey nor any News. But It’s grown on me since I associate the two. I love the Disturbed cover of TSoS.