The summer doldrums kicking in, Chris and I do what we do best: chip away at the boring old rocks of local government in our fair city, hunting for rich veins of silver and gold. We find it in Toomey’s narcissism and lack of institutional memory, in a cross reading of city hall bologna and Thomas Pynchon’s “Vineland” (1990), and how the Galleria never closed so much as spread out around the foundations of downtown, an invasive root network that is by now intractable as it continues its slow work, pulling the thing down into some ruin it can one day swallow.

Mark your calendars folks: Saturday, June 20 at Steel & Wire, celebrating the first SIX years of Worcester Sucks! Free and fun good time!! See you there.

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Outro: Warren Zevon “Down In The Mall”

Intro: Bill Shaner 6.2.26

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