The Interviewer, the Inquisitor, & the QuestionBox went to the interrogation workshop. The Interviewer’s audiofiles went overboard durin the wrapup lake cruise, so she retained no memory of the weekend. The Inquisitor got thrown out the first day for unsanctioned torture-methods. The QuestionBox heard the story of the doorman’s escape from Afghanistan, was entrusted with the location of a housekeeper’s favorite troutfishin stream, learned how to sharpen mowerblades from the groundskeeper, & caught a ride home with a workshop presenter inna Cessna. Well, ya pays yr money & ya takes yr chances.
EcoNazis
Here’s the sitch: We are all eyeroll about EcoNazis & we are all EcoNazis our own durned selves — on specific issues. Jeckle ferinstance is on about recycled toiletpaper. Mebbe is irk on creek-pollution. Snakey is grrr that folks toss plastic bags instead of washin & reusin them. Pokey is picky about order & neatness of recycle corner. Lolly is adamant about cuttin live trees (especially when electric company crew does it). Dagda has lost a coupla lawnmowin jobs due to refusal to mow ferinstance fleabane dandelions burdock & others of the weedy ilk. What’s yours?
The PhoenixBird is lollin about doin hospital tests. “Er, look out;” the nurses are always whisperin, “she could immolate at any moment.” “Poo-pah,” says Dr.Asbestos, “I am not concerned.” Yeah that is kinda the doctor attitude, aint it.
June 24, 2008 at 4:02 pm |
Was it synchronicity or did you happen to hear the word Econazi in my presentation at Podcasters Across Borders? (http://youtube.com/watch?v=MQ-hkCEWf0Q)
I’m a transport econazi. Or rather a ground transport econazi. Somehow I reconciled myself to flying back/forth between Toronto and Quebec City three times in the last month and taking a train one of those. But then parentingnazi trumps econazi and I want to be home more often to be present in Paul’s life as much as possible. Of course if being a workingnazi weren’t such a priority I’d just grab another job but then we’d have to uproot ourselves yet again and head back to a country with far too many nazis of the neoconservative ilk for my liking.
June 25, 2008 at 1:15 am |
Posted EcoNazi before we went to town, then watched the vid at cybercafe this afternoon — hey also listened to the Mr. Responsible Biker interview after listenin to Sagey’s recent podcast wherein she does a Click rhapsodizin about ridin bike no-hands, oh chuckle….
June 26, 2008 at 10:58 pm |
I’m in the midst of Midwest flood clean-up, and I know that it’s all contaminated with sheep shit and such and not at all the life-giving floods of the ancient Nile, or so we are told of Egypt.
But it still is my instinct to recycle and save little artifacts and then I have to tell my heart that it just isn’t safe. All must go. but I make photos.
My town has dumped away as much garbage in one week as the town usually generates in two years. Where is it all to go?
So I take home all the plastic bottles from water and put them in my recycle bin there. Boxes, too.
June 30, 2008 at 7:41 pm |
Wow keep the faith, thanks for reminder that recycling always matters, eh?
(though of course we all like to pretend it doesnt — arggggh did you read that total copout in michael moores book when he whines about the recycle truck workers in his neighborhood tellin him they just dump the recycles in with all the other garbage, and THEREFORE michael fucking moore makes his grand pronouncement to america that therefore recyling is a fraud!?!?!? oh, yeah, on account of in our town, recycle is not a fraud so — umm, that kinda irked me…
July 1, 2008 at 4:00 am |
I forgot about that bit in the Michael Moore book. It seemed so out of character but then like I think you implied, many of us have our things we’re passionate about and the other things that seem related that we somehow ignore.
Thanks, by the way for pointing that out – that’ll be a new Talking Stick episode in a few weeks…
What he *should* have pointed out was that “Recycle” is the last of the three R’s and it’s the reducing and reusing that make a bigger difference. I know Kite is familiar with the book “Cradle to Cradle” (http://www.amazon.com/Cradle-Remaking-Way-Make-Things/dp/0865475873) but others might be interested – good read.