Walk Map for Savannah, GA -- Amtrak Station to Downtown

"Look..."

For Your Listening Pleasure - Kafka's THE CASTLE, tr Mark Harman

It was the best of times etc.

Two front-page headlines from today's Bridgeport paper:

• "DOWNTOWN REBIRTH:  City Officials, Developers Tout Plans for Economic Renaissance"
• "LOCAL NEWS: Bridgeport  Man Dies in a Hail of Gunfire"

Word to Jello Biafra:
Right Guard will not help you here.

Note

Throwing away all the scraps of paper in the apartment, ahead of a frenzied moving-out.

List of 'thematic angles' of something I scribbled down to try to begin writing about China:

• 18th PARTY CONGRESS
• POLLUTION
• TRADE WARS AND ELECTION
• CRACKDOWN ON LAOWEI
• FOOD SAFETY
• CROWDING + ALIENATION
• NOUVEAU RICHE + ENGINEERED CONSUMERISM
• URBAN TRANSFORMATION
• MIND CONTROL: LIVING UNDER AUTOCRACY
• CHEAP PAPER, FOOD

A woman in the elevator explained to me what a toothbrush was