the Voice of Steely

[George Haberberger]

You have to admit this cuts both ways. Not only do I have a Japanese car in
my garage (it was the most reliable used car I could afford), but I have two
Japanese cassette decks, two Japanese CD players, a Japanese VCR, Swiss
chocolate bars and even a few albums by British rock stars. It appears I've
done quite a number on the indigenous American home electronics and American
chocolate industry. Oh yeah, I also sing the Macarena when I'm feeling
particularly annoying.

George

At 08:48 AM 12/11/96 -0600, LBernier at tribune.com wrote:
>     Craig opines
>     
>     > Reminds me of a photograph way back in a 1970s _National 
>     > Geographic_, showing an Inuit hunkered down in his igloo for the 
>     > night, playing with a battery-operated motor-racing track. One of 
>     > the strangest and saddest photos I have seen.
>     
>     
>     Why was this sad, Craig? - would you rather see the Inuit eating 
>     chewing on some dried seal meat while his fat pregnant barefoot wife 
>     sits next to him repairing his mugluks with a bone needle and polar 
>     bear sinews?  Damn those third worlders (although Alaska was part of 
>     the US last time I checked - or was this a Canadian Inuit?) who just 
>     won't stay quaint and backwards!
>     
>     Jean.
>
>
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>Subject: Re: the Voice of Steely
>Author:  "Craig Clark" <CLARK at SHEPFS2.UND.AC.ZA> at Internet_tco
>Date:    12/11/96 8:56 AM
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>
>David Casseres <casseres at apple.com> writes:
>     
>> One of the most heartbreaking examples I've read about is the 
>> passage in Paul Theroux's _Happy Isles of Oceania_ about Cook Islanders, 
>> who once had a particularly appealing version of Polynesian culture, 
>> vegging out on the sofa and watching imported porno videos....
>     
>     
>"Living inside the system is like driving across
> the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent 
> on suicide."
>   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"
>
>