I’ve been reading about trash and this book delves in deep. I learned about the Italian mafia’s control over New York trash and the corporate mafia’s take over. I learned about big business’s reframing of waste so that it’s the public’s problem of littering or not recycling rather than their problem for creating wasteful packaging.
And I can’t wait to get through my books set aside for Hawaii:
- John Henry Day he's supposed to be the next Ralph Ellison
- American Born Chinese catching up on graphic novels
- American Woman recommended by Mahru
- On Writing Well recommended by a former NPR trainer
- Making Time because it's about LA
- Dope recommended by Claire
- Finding George Orwell on loan from Pacific Time
- No Nonsense Guide to Free Trade on loan from Alex
- Paradise in Ashes to prepare for Guatemala!
In 1974 I borrowed, from my local post office's bulletin board, Patty Hearst's FBI wanted poster. Maybe I should return it; it's the only document in my safety box that's not a birth or marriage certificate.
I clearly recall a re-painting in Rolling Stone of Wyeth's "Christina's World" but Christina on the hillock was Patty and she had a rifle in her hands.
"American Woman" re-captured that time for me. Choi especially got the struggle many of us felt day-to-day between fighting the foolishness of society and facing our own foolishness of being human. That's what it really felt like at the time. 1974 was also so accurately reflected in the non-political movie "Almost Famous."
That was a moment when the bursting energy of the '60s had left us. I've read that when the sun goes down the stars shed what light they can. In 1974 we remained muddling through the day, dissipated, holding on, facing Nixon's meltdown, the end of great music and the developing industry of cool.
Posted by: Andy | February 28, 2007 at 07:44 PM