industrialization and Ossi Oswalda the cat*http://www.alansondheim.org/ossisnoring.mp3Ossi is a West Virginia feral cat, who has lived with us for fouror five years now. Her haunches are odd, and I have the feelingshe was the runt of the litter; she used to be defensive andfierce, striking out if we got too close. Now she's somewhat morerelaxed. She snores, which I think is a combination of what wasprobably a hard life, and the air around us in New York. For welive next to a 20,000 seat stadium going up, and asthma's on theincrease in the area - I've started using two inhalers myself. Wefought the good fight (platitude) but you can't fight City Hall(platitude), and the it won. The stadium's owned largely now by'a Russian' since the US owners were going broke; we have oursuspicions about this. In any case, the air is foul with dust