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Blackbird Singing In The Dead Of Night

By Jonathan Goldsbie

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Take these sunken eyes and learn to see.

all your life you have waited for this moment
to be free…

Streets are for People—in conjunction with Newmindspace and nine other groups of urban merrymakers—is holding a number of events this Thursday night: a parade that starts from Central Tech, a Critical Mass ride that kicks off at the usual location of the southeast corner of Bloor and Spadina, and a “silent street rave” that starts at 666 Spadina Avenue (at Sussex). All three mobile festivities will commence simultaneously at 8:00 and then converge at 9:30 for a “Secret Grand Finale,” a moment which we are only waiting for to arise.
Photo taken by Jonathan Goldsbie on the south side of Dundas, just west of Lisgar.

Comments

  • Gloria

    Speaking of community murals, I’m so glad to see that the graffiti on robot mural near Queen and Carlaw has been painted over. Looks better than ever!

  • torontothegreat

    it’s kinda humorous that they got the lyric wrong…
    “All your life, you were only waiting for this moment to be free”

  • rek

    Speaking of the blackout, this month’s Pedestrian Sunday Kensington is on the 17th instead of the 31st.

  • bigdaddyhame

    Aside from rioting and looting what does street reclamation have to do with a blackout? Or with not using your car? I do recall seeing hipsters/street people directing traffic during the blackout, it wasn’t as if the blackout drained the gas out of people’s cars.

  • antiboy

    They should really, really make Critical Mass illegal and arrest anyone that takes part.

  • rek

    Why?

  • Amanda Buckiewicz

    Great, now I’m going to have that song stuck in my head all day.

  • Robin Hatch

    Sure, the blackout was a great chance for community, unless you live in the suburbs, which I did at the time, and all there was to do was NOTHING, and it fucking sucked. Like, does anyone remember not being able to put milk or cream in your coffee the next morning because it had all gone bad? Because this lady does.

  • wardnikoff

    Don’t even get me STARTED on how awesome a day I had during the blackout….We had an amazing “eat everything out of the fridge” BBQ then piled over to Trinity Bellwoods for a bonfire…
    And I suppose the day has become symbolic of of no power in general as opposed to no electricty…

  • Ben

    The police gave Critical Mass an escort two months ago. They were very nice and didn’t try to cause problems with any of the cyclists.
    If there were any police last month, I didn’t notice them.
    What people do at critical mass is already illegal (probably), but I don’t think that the police are going to start arresting us.

  • torontothegreat

    Blackbird was written by Paul McCartney, who was inspired to write this while in Scotland as a reaction to racial tensions escalating in America in the spring of 1968