no loitering or the "new" sign in kensington...

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I love the plethora of new signs outside CPU and the Roasterie in Kensington. Seriously, maybe if you write in really big letters "NO: loitering, congregating, littering, hanging around, causing a motherfuckinriot" and post it several places the misspent youth will gather their things, wash off their makeup, have a wash of their greasy "all-ages-show" mops and get real. Not likely. Especially when the space there, a little raised garden bed with small trees for shade, surrounded by benches, is perfect for passing-out on and for keeping the hackie-sack from reaching the ground.

I went there tonight and sure enough, there were the youths all standing around the sign, loitering now with an ever more fierce congregating, cause a motherfuckingriot agenda than ever before. This is a shining example of useful public policy that they no doubt came up with at a Council meeting at the West Hillhurst Sunnyside Community Centre.

Applause.

And Calgary Transit is striking, so I'm told, on Friday. I may just not go into work at all. Stay tuned.