Snobbin: Beautiful Trash in the Pop Culture Gutter

Those who know me are familiar with my obsessive list making. Every day I make lists that are long, unwieldy, and unlikely to be completed. It is part of my mania that I separate these lists into three categories: fun items, daily teaching/writing tasks, and ongoing writing projects. I listed the fun items first on purpose because these are the most likely to be completed. Sometimes I do actually finish the daily teaching/writing tasks. If not, they roll over to the next day. The ongoing writing projects are generally tasks that I have been working on since time immemorial, and I am not I will ever finish most of them. They too are moved from list to list obsessively until I finally remove them because I can no longer be so masochistic. Andrei Codrescu, in a 1989 collection of his "All Things Considered" essays, Raised By Puppets, Only To Be Killed By Research , writes about lists in a tellingly accurate, yet humorous essay, "Today We List, Tomorrow We Fail." He...

"There was studied obsolescence in how them roads were built." Each facet measured and remeasured by teams Surveyors and engineers planning enmasse for the future building on years of human experience and endeavor Utilitarian monuments of irrelevance, except for those who travel those roads year after year, searching for something A humanitarian, humanistic ideal, scorched earth policy This greying earth shaded by human hand until she will reclaim her own, withering vines across the map