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four streetcars to get home

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2012.11.12

Due to a combination of short-turns, I used a total of four streetcars to get home tonight. Why in hell would a streetcar east bound from the downtown turn off its route, dumping its passengers, as close to the city core as Parliament? And why does this happen at least once a week?

Is it the mayor's football team...

rand()m quote

I feel fortunate that I enjoyed the blandishments of modernity. I had hip replacement and root canal. I was able to travel on airplanes. I was able to take cheap food for granted. I went to the movies. I enjoyed rock 'n' roll. And now I'm ready to move on.

—James Howard Kunstler