I have a friend in Brooklyn who participates in Improv Everywhere. He was kinda doing it on his own before IE got started. Out in the SF bay area, he'd go to a sidewalk cafe, where lots of superficially "green" PC types whiled away their days. After he was done drinking his coffee drink out of a paper cup, he'd just casually toss it on the sidewalk, while still sitting at the little green Parisian style folding table and reading his newspaper. He did it just to get reactions out of people. And did he ever! He never *really* littered though. He'd pick it up and add it to the landfill pile.
I'm growing roots, both figuratively and literally, in the suburbs of southern Maine with Deus Ex Machina, our great kids, a flock of suburban chickens, some whacky ducks, and a herd of rabbits.
In this eminently practical and thoughtful book, Wendy Brown takes on the challenge of exploring the options for surviving and thriving through hard times in the suburbs, and carries it off with aplomb. Highly recommended!
The Gutenberg Project has compiled a database of some 30,000 books with expired copyrights, digitized them, and entered them into the public domain. These books are available for free download from the website.
If you missed reading the classics when you were in school, this is a good opportunity to get a free copy to read.
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I have a friend in Brooklyn who participates in Improv Everywhere. He was kinda doing it on his own before IE got started. Out in the SF bay area, he'd go to a sidewalk cafe, where lots of superficially "green" PC types whiled away their days. After he was done drinking his coffee drink out of a paper cup, he'd just casually toss it on the sidewalk, while still sitting at the little green Parisian style folding table and reading his newspaper. He did it just to get reactions out of people. And did he ever! He never *really* littered though. He'd pick it up and add it to the landfill pile.
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