COL49 - a cool coat of primer

Tue Jul 31 00:11:39 CDT 2001

Being a resident ("Are you from this country?" "No
we're from Milwaukee," to quote a Three Stooges film),
will keep an eye out.  Might be a logo of some sort,
might be some icon which resembles a bugle.  What
documentary was this?  If it's about Dahmer, should be
easy enouygh to find here.  Third time his name has
come up for me today.  In the meantime, I've learned
to keep a big black marker handly in case a bus with a
be-bugled ad for a local jazz station sidles up while
I'm on the street ...

--- John Bailey <johnbonbailey at hotmail.com> wrote:

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<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV>Imagine my
shock and surprise upon switching on the tube the
other night to see an unexplainable image right before
my eyes. The screen flickers into focus to reveal some
doco footage of some Milwaukee garbage men hauling
trash into the back of their truck - I'm rivetted! No
really, what catches my eye is the (fairly) close-up
shot of the back of the truck, which has a bronze
plate emblazoned next to the button which I'm assuming
starts the big rubbish muncher inside. On this plate
is the source of my amazement: a black line
inscription of...a bugle! Or, as some would have it, a
postal horn! On a....WASTE DISPOSAL TRUCK! What
the....?</DIV>
<DIV>When I realise what the (unrelated) subject of
the doco is (Jeffrey Dahmer) it only adds to my
Oedipa-like sense of bewilderment.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Now then, Statesiders, here's your chance to play
omniscient narrator and resolve this little Oedipa's
situation: Are you going to tell me that the postal
horn is a common symbol on dumptrucks in the US, thus
revealing my moment of paranoia as simply a lack of
understanding about real connections which create
imaginary networks of conspiracy in my own mind, or
are you going to offer me nothing and thus leave me
with little to do except await the crying of my
cat for some more breakfast (closest I could do,
foax)? Or do some research and discover a hitherto
unrealised source for some of Pynchon's
iconography?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Who knows, I may be treading old ground here, but
it's certainly news to me. Inquiring minds want to know.

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