the plowing continues...

The left a wall of trees up between the lot next door (being turned into row-houses) and us, and I (and my office mate) hoped and expected that it would stay that way.

nope.

they're coming in with larger equipment and tearing down even those, some of thich are 70+ feet tall (they're at eye-level with me and i'm on the 7th floor here) and obviously older than anybody down there tearing them down (or anybody who approved such needless destruction).

God only knows how many birds and squirrels just lost their homes (or their lives) when that sucker went down, given that it would have been their last retreat when the smaller trees went.

and people paid to be there?

John Cage's 4:33, full orchestral arrangement.

I'll say again, Cage was an artist when he "wrote" pieces like this, but it's not music.