[URBAN NOTES] Two More Experiences

[rfmcdonald]

• This afternoon, as I took the Queen Street West streetcat east towards Osgoode, I checked my Yahoo!Mail account on my cellphone. A well-dressed and slim woman in her 40s standing next to me knelt over and began talking to my cellphone as if she was trying to leave a message. She then looked up to me, smiled, and introduced herself as Byron. She then said "Dana." I smiled and said I'm sorry; disgusted, she meandered on to the back of the streetcar.


• Several weeks ago, on the northwest corner of Yonge and Eglinton, some corporation or other was hosting a festival of some kind. One young woman, accompanied by synthesized piano and actual violin, sang some art songs quite beautifully. Her singing voice reminded me very strongly of nire_nagaf's speaking voice--the phrasing of both was quite similar.