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Genre-related references related to a larger cultural discussion? It’s not too late. Fold these into the batter, bake, and serve: Panic in the Year Zero, Soylent Green, Mad Max III: Beyond Thunderdome, Pale Rider, The Bed-Sitting Room, Welcome to Blood City, No Blade of Grass.
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David G. Whiteis
Finally, I don’t recall any obituarists tidying up Burroughs’s curriculum vitae when he died. It’s a fun assignment to think about, though: One could write about his “early, unsuccessful marriage,” his “intellectual openness to challenging ideas,” his “lifelong advocacy and practice of consumer independence from pharmaceutical regulation,” the “richly idiosyncratic explorations of human sexuality” in his writings, and so on.
At present, the new parking meters seem so stupid and abusive to me that I think 45 members of the City Council were robotized to pass this. My letter of September 11 explained how exorbitant the secret $50 fine is, and how the dashboard receipt system is unnecessary with numbered parking spaces. Did the Reader find out if the new landlord of the parking spaces controls the size of the fine, or does the City Council control this? What are all the other parking fines? Are they $50 for all offenses even blocking a fire station door?
