The Family-Vineland

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Thu Apr 23 18:21:55 CDT 2009


On Apr 23, 2009, at 2:54 PM, Rob Jackson wrote:

> The environmental undercurrents of the text (e.g., anti-logging) and  
> those Yurok myth overlays didn't seem to get much of a look-in this  
> time around in the group read.

I did touch on Earth First ! and Judi Bari in the Green Triangle early  
on, but you are right. Maybe you know of some informative links?

On Apr 23, 2009, at 2:54 PM, Rob Jackson wrote:

> The Tube, drugs, anti-Raygun stuff is the most obvious (and least  
> interesting) component of this over-long and under-edited novel imo.

C'est la vie. I like the book's editing, all the moviola effects,  
process shots and dissolves. Can't please everybody. While the anti- 
Raygun stuff may be uninteresting and obvious to you, I suspect most  
people are unaware of Rex 84 and would find such info interesting.




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