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Lots of dismembered bird parts around here. Please stop letting your cats outside.

Dead bird. Someone might want to check it for West Nile.

This afternoon, my wife, walking with our dog, passed through a parking lot when she encountered an elderly woman. The woman seemed friendly and asked about our dog as people often do, but then became very confrontational and started talking about private property. Thankfully, my wife managed to get out of the situation without it escalating.

After my wife told me what happened, I looked up this "private property". Apparently it is a form of theft or extortion (http://books.google.com/books?id=xJ9SuCMEJWQC&lpg=PA1&dq=inauthor%3A%22P.%20J.%20Proudhon%22&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false). Anyway, just thought I would remind folks to keep their guard up and watch out for these sorts of scams.

Walking down St. John from Olive. Seemed to check out three buildings/houses. Left via Jefferson. Would provide a longer description but this app is a PITA.

I was walking my dog this morning and I noticed some chalk art in the middle of Wooster Square park. It got me thinking that chalk is an unappreciated medium, even a repressed one, going by this example: http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/04/kinberg_0410

So, I think it's time to do right by by water soluble graffiti. What do you all think about keeping Tupperwares of colored chalk in our park? On dry days, shop keepers should keep out cans of the stuff so passers by can partake. How about we designate a Sidewalk Chalk Day. Make it a mandatory school/work holiday so everyone can participate!

Hopefully, no one ever intended for so called Drug Free Zones to be ironic. Certainly, drugs exist within these zones even if such existence is illegal. Furthermore, the drugs that are illegal in Drug Free Zones, but still present, are illegal and ubiquitous everywhere else as well. Let's make these Drug Free Zones make more sense and help them achieve their eponymous goals by establishing Free Drug Zones. In these Free Drug Zones, the city, or an organization operating on its behalf, would provide a clean, safe environment to dispense otherwise illegal drugs freely or, at least, below market rates. The creation of such Free Drug Zones would alleviate some of the problems associated with the War on Drugs by obviating the violent enforcement of anti-drug laws and by putting local dealers out of business, thereby precluding them from having to resort to violence for their own protection. The loss of these businesses might harm the local economy in the short term, but I think it will help in the long run by keeping more community members out of prison.