The source comes from long nights in the candle factory. Trying to push out one more wave of candles. Gently tapping the edges of the frost cooled mold against my hand. Progressing to tapping the mold on the table. And finally shaking with unnecessary force and pulling with a pair of vice grips on the wick.
Sack would sing this little song. He heard it in his youth in the hills of South Dakota and we all know it’s a mantra he lives by. Secretly, I became slightly obsessed with it. Not enough to go out and really look for but everytime I’d hit the thrift stores, I’d look the records knowing that at some point in time, this record would pass in front of my eyes.
I think it took about seven years to find it and now it is yours to enjoy.
Today is a good day to vote. I was able to hit the polls before work today. Megan studiously filled out her absentee ballot last night.
Rule of thumb for this election – If you talked about killing the monorail, my vote will not be yours. I think this is now the fourth time I’ve had to vote on whether or not to build a monorail (I think the fifth time overall for the City). I think a big problem (and I may not have all the facts) is that it was set up as an independent agency. This sounds good in theory but not quite as good in practice. It’s a City transportation issue and project and should be treated as such. However, not being under direct control of the main City government provides easy shots for elected officials to pooh-pooh it and get in its way. It also doesn’t hurt that you have a lot of large property owners in the downtown area throwing a lot of money at it to try and derail it.
I can sense the impending doom in the future when they decide to replace the viaduct that runs along the waterfront. The traffic downtown sucks already with the buses from the tunnel moving up on the surface streets while they modify the tunnel for the light rail That is only adding hundreds of buses a day. What do you do when the 27,000 trips on the Viaduct have to be moved elsewhere? (I’m assuming the number of trips is much greater than this. The only number I could find was a 1983 vehicle count.) The monorail isn’t the only solution but without – mass transit above grade –we don’t even stand a chance.
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