Category Archives: Mild-mannered opinion

The hole

With autumn rains coming, I wonder when Pitt Street or Fourth Street (or both) will slide into here. Work on the site seems to have stopped. That’s Pitt Street in the background, across from City Hall.

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Doctor Whizbang’s Elixir!

Here’s an idea I am playing with, in draft form. I’m going to revise it over the next few days. There’s a story about The Great Carouso that someone once cornered him while he was on a cross-country tour, and … Continue reading

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beige

Uncomfortable Listen to a joke in Czech or Serb and wonder if you should laugh at the end or ruin the mood Walk alone into a party of couples and stay alone semi drunk all night Sit in a loud … Continue reading

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