What's On My Desktop?...Audioblog for March 26, 2023.

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Once again, things started piling up on my desktop and, instead of writing all about it, I just sat down and babbled on awhile...

Here's the source material for most of said babbling:

Dan Fumano's Vancouver Sun piece from last October on the transition team behind the new regime at Vancouver city hall.

Evan Scrimshaw on 'Treason's Tragically Flawed Logic'.

David Moscrop, writing in Jacobin, explaining why Canada needs more public housing not more renting.

Christopher Patterson and Lance Barrie in The Tyee/The Conversation making the case for the 15 minute city...Oxford, in the UK, explains its 'traffic filters' here.

More on the former guy's 'catch and kill'  grand master/mobsterish flash strategy to deal with potentially damaging stories, based on a 2018 piece in Vox by Andrew Prokop and Dylan Matthews.

You get a peerage!...And you get a peerage!...And you get a peerage!...Explained by Rowena Mason in The Guardian.

Uncle Neil tries to do what Pearl Jam couldn't when it comes to the ripping off of patrons when it comes to concert tickets...Ben Beaumont-Thomas, also in the Guardian, has that story....And, yes, that's Neil in Victoria a few weeks ago, singing for old growth forests, above.

Joyce Johnson, in Vanity Fair from 2007, on the night Jack Kerouac first read the New York Times review of the just published (and highly edited) version of 'On the Road' that changed his life for good (and bad?). 

Scott Simon speaking to the soon to retire Sylvia Poggioli on NPR's 'Weekend Edition Saturday'.

And a couple of new (to me at least) musical picks...Katy Kirby and The Beths.

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Front and back, old guys reminiscing song snippets are from a cover of M. Ward's 'O'Brien's Nocturne'.

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