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This is a column you should read with the bass turned up as loud as you can and live in the shadow of a monster tent
This is a column you should read with the bass turned up as loud as you can and live in the shadow of a monster tent
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This is a column where you have to put yourself in somebody else’s boots.
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This is a column you should read with the bass turned up as loud as you can with the biggest speakers you can find and let that bass pound over and over and over again. Then try to turn it up some more.
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You should read this column with that bass turned up loud and that pounding over and over again and do that night after night after night until every night becomes morning.
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Do it for 11 nights. Yes, 11 nights.
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Do it while you have to show up for work in the morning. Do it when people ask you how your Stampede is going and you bite your lip and say: Just great.
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Do it knowing nobody gives a damn at city hall despite you wanting them to listen and despite knowing there is a problem and it is not going away.
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Do it when you’ve long ago thrown in the towel and stopped calling 311, a city hall brick wall masquerading as a complaint line.
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Yes, and finally do it when people will say you shouldn’t have moved into the inner city even though you moved there years before somebody came up with the bright idea of putting up the biggest tent you’ve ever seen, playing the loudest music you’ve ever heard and knowing those representing you on city council are useless.
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Yes, I’m talking about you, Terry Wong and you, Courtney Walcott. Among others.
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For the record. Mayor Jyoti Gondek and city hall bossman David Duckworth know all about this issue and you know how much that’s worth.
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Now let us be clear.
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Nobody is talking about shutting down the Badlands tent and the Cowboys tent.
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What people are talking about is a little mutual respect. You know, what a civil society is supposed to be based on.
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What people are talking about is what parents hopefully teach their kids. Don’t go and crap in somebody else’s neighbourhood. Or urinate on its streets for that matter.
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We are not talking about a one-off concert many Calgary communities would not tolerate.
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We are not talking about almost every single music festival in the world, an event lasting three or four days.
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We are talking about 11 nights with enormous tents not connected to the Stampede blaring out what is sometimes described by the promoters themselves as noise… please drive down 9th Avenue S. and see for yourself.