When the Smog Cleared Thirty Years Later--Methland

[rich]

i'm just finishing Methland as we speak, Kevin

highly recommend reading it

Rich

On 8/18/09, Kevin Dunn <kevindunn27 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Did you happen to read the book _Methland_, about the decay of a working
> class town in Iowa? It's at least coincidental that you used the term
> "methland" and made references to what must be some of the themes of the
> aforementioned book.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methland:_The_Death_and_Life_of_an_American_Small_Town
>
> Plus there's the film "The Salton Sea," which is about a musician who seeks
> revenge for the death of his wife by diving headlong into the world of
> tweakers and meth production to find the man responsible. Probably one of
> the most accurate and vivid portrayals of tweakworld, as far as I
> understand
> it.
>
> Kevin
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:11 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all--
>>
>> IV ends on a somewhat anxious note, Doc wondering about what will be
>> revealed when the fog clears (or words to that effect)
>> Well, California (Salton Sea) being one of the homes of metamphetamine
>> one could safely say what was revealed 30 yrs down the road when the
>> fog finally cleared was Methland.  a perfect drug for the working
>> poor, stressed out to the max, gotta work double shifts to make ends
>> meet, meth made them feel good, one of the few good things in their
>> lives, as the small Midwestern towns shrunk and decayed, who offered
>> only shit jobs with no benefits, the perfect drug for those scuttling
>> under the heels of  BigAgra, the Pharmaceutical industry, the Mexican
>> drug cartels, the US government, law enforcement, and other disturbed
>> tweakers.
>>
>> This is surely great fodder for a great novel that can encompass so
>> much of what is wrong, tragic and downright evil about the forces of
>> control in post-cold war capitalism; corruption, violence (sexual and
>> otherwise) the drug wars and drugs, like meth.
>>
>> Hopefully, someone (Vollman's Imperial pbly covers some of this but we
>> need a better novel) will write it some day. In the interim I
>> recommend reading Nick Reding's book.
>>
>> No Doc Sportellos here folks...
>>
>> Rich
>>
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