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roofers at 08:00 on a Sunday

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2014.03.09

Good lord, guys. I admire your dedication, but it's a tad early for that roof-surface-removing machine and the yelling from roof to street, don't you think. Though I have to hand it to whoever got all four of you shifted to get going this early!

rand()m quote

In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.

—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009