Better Things for Better Living...Through Chemistry

[Cagliostro_the_Impossible]

State-side again. Boston...not been here in almost 40 years... scary thought. Remember yo-yoing up and down the Downeaster... living in Exeter... in a refurbished attic of haunted house (I watched Tobe Hooper's Salem's Lot (1979) miniseries on the tube before arriving and scared out of my wits... btw Lifeforce (1985) & Invaders from Mars (1986) are great and remember seeing with some cute Philips Latin instructor in Portsmouth)... Shadow over Innsmouth... Cheers "Thanksgiving Orphans"... Larry Byrd & Magic Johnson... the Pixies at the Rathskeller...having taken the Hound from SF, the RoS chip, across the the country to Boston... Whoopie pies... always unexpectedly running into old semi-grown over colonial cemeteries on walks... dreaded New York tourists in the fall... I read Dhalgren (1975) on the way over... Middle West seemed bombed out, suffering a catastrophe that nobody really talked about though everyone had an awareness was going on... California yet to be the failed state that it has now become, but everyone knew, even then, was inevitable... Compare and contrast the SF of Vertigo (1958) (even film noir Woman on the Run (1950) or The Man who Cheated himself (1950), which has a fantastic chase scene at the climax for the cognoscente out there...) to the SF in 48 hrs.(1982)... Plastic, man... 60s O-Chem was LSD & tupperware parties... to the xenomorphic injection mold presses of the 80s & 90s...
"The origins of Imipolex G are traceable back to early research done at du Pont. Plasticity had its grand tradition and main stream, which happens to flow by way of du Pont and their famous employee Carothers, known as The Great Sythesist."
That benzene ring and Kekule's dream...
(https://www.angelo.edu/faculty/kboudrea/molecule_gallery/04_aromatics/00_aromatics.htm)

"Picture yourself on a train in a station/With plasticine porters with looking glass ties/ Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile/The girl with kaleidoscope eyes"

Indeed.

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