A belated happy birthday to 
lydy and other citizens of the Invisible Republic.
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If you have the Dylan taste gene and a computer that can listen to streaming music, you may be interested in tuning in to KPFA radio's live stream this Wednesday evening from 7PM to Midnight PDT. [[Updated link 10/5/05]] It's their annual (also belated) Bob Dylan birthday celebration -- always artfully programmed by Derk Richardson and Larry Kelp; two dj survivors from the time when the light of the Two Trees shown upon Counter-Earth.
the references to cafes and revolution in the air make it very likely to be Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, New York City. Dylan did live in NY for a while, and the writer / musician/ actor population, as well as communists and socialists and anarchists, make this a likely location.