Dada Be Rusting Tipi

…and this is downtown But it’s less than the whole truth. It’s a scrap of waiting-to-be-developed land just east of the commercial core. It sets up a great contrast between the aspirational pretension of the Masshouse apartment block and the commercial glitz of Selfridge’s. It represents a different kind of space set into the urban fabric.

I’m listening to the fabulous recording of The Sidewinder by Lee Morgan, on my phone, as I walk down the street. I’m trying to figure out the tempo. Is it 7/8? A car goes by, drowning out the high hat. I look up at the leaves of a Tilia cordata under the streetlamp. Autumn can be the best time of year, because it reveals the character of things as they’ve…