TODazed GORE-NATS
Dim bulbs, indeed
When, oh when will we get back to teaching basic science in this great land of ours?!?
DINNER was the usual affair ...[with] shredded cabbage with fruit-scrap vinegar; mashed parsnips and yellow carrots with local butter and fresh thyme; a terrific frittata; then homemade yogurt with honey and thyme tea, eaten under the greenish flickering light cast by two beeswax candles and a fluorescent bulb.
A sour odor hovered oh-so-slightly in the air, the faint tang, not wholly unpleasant, that is the mark of the home composter. Isabella Beavan, age 2, staggered around… her silhouette greatly amplified by her organic cotton diapers in their enormous boiled-wool, snap-front cover.
A visitor avoided the bathroom because she knew she would find no toilet paper there.
...[The] yearlong lifestyle experiment they call No Impact ...include[s] eating only food (organically) grown within a 250-mile radius ...[the longest distance a farmer can drive in one day] ...no shopping for anything except said food; producing no trash (except compost...); using no paper; and, most intriguingly, using no carbon-fueled transportation.
...Since November, Mr. Beavan and Isabella have been hewing closely, most particularly in a dietary way, to a 19th-century life.
The kicker? They’re doing this in a 9th floor pre-war apartment in Manhattan.
...Joseph, the liveried elevator man who works nights in the building, drove his wood-paneled, 1920s-era vehicle up and down its chute, unconcerned that the couple in 9F had not used his services in four months. [head aching at purpled prose] “I’ve noticed,” Joseph said later with a shrug and no further comment. (He declined to give his last name. “I’ve got enough problems,” he said.)
...Nothing is a substitute for toilet paper, by the way; think of bowls of water and lots of air drying.
...[They] saw “An Inconvenient Truth” in an air-conditioned movie theater last summer. “It was like, ‘J’accuse!’ “ she said. “I just felt like everything I did in my life was contributing to a system that was really problematic.”
... If Al Gore is their Rachel Carson...
can’t.... go. ... .. on..... *gah*
“J’accuse”. oy. . . Like Woody Allen on crack.
And Mister Beavis: how ya gonna make it work if everyone did the same?
[from the comments:]
I’d be willing to sacrifice;
your money
your freedom
your taxes
your pursuit of happiness
your economy
your education
your free will
your right to choose (anything)
your children….Sound familiar?
vote for Al Gore, Campaign 2008
No Toilet Paper Man Impact Man’s **paper-FREE** BLOG. ["server farm?!? uhhh… whassat?"]
And for your Refreshing KisP Chaser, it appears 6th graders can figure this out.
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