tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893835583368920964.post5376872285766859051..comments2011-10-25T19:33:37.966-04:00Comments on Berneval: Occupy Richmond HillFrançois Lachancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09353487212119439114noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893835583368920964.post-10119260784008148372011-10-25T19:33:37.966-04:002011-10-25T19:33:37.966-04:00I sent an email to a friend pointing to the Occupy...I sent an email to a friend pointing to the Occupy Richmond Hill blog entry. She lives in Richmond Hill. In my message I wrote that the entry rifted on "a grassroots effort to salvage suburbia. It's some blue sky thinking." <br /><br />She kindly wrote back:<br /><br />quote><br />I like it. The more grass roots economic activity the better, especially in the burbs. I am soooo tired of commuting - some days .... and some days I love the "liminal" space.<br /> <br />Yeah yeah yeah<br /><quoteFrançois Lachancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353487212119439114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893835583368920964.post-49570649665118199522011-10-25T19:28:33.837-04:002011-10-25T19:28:33.837-04:00Another reader wrote an email with the subject lin...Another reader wrote an email with the subject line "Fuel producers in suburbia" and loved "the idea of suburbia becoming the next fuel corridor via pot grow ops." She also rifted on the human megaphone amplification noting that it worked through "chain reaction and unison. I thought that was an interesting McLuhanesque idea too." Me too.François Lachancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353487212119439114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893835583368920964.post-41706019609638856862011-10-25T19:18:54.354-04:002011-10-25T19:18:54.354-04:00One of the readers of the Occupy Richmond Hill ent...One of the readers of the Occupy Richmond Hill entry loved the image of community hemp councils. :) which upon reflection I now see. I think in the back of my mind was the anarchic bureacratism which I believe was the mode of government featured in <i>Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand</i> by Samuel R. Delany.François Lachancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353487212119439114noreply@blogger.com