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four streetcars to get home

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one 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

Society is indeed a contract... [the state] is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

—Edmund Burke