tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526258348124329445.post7039227797271912976..comments2023-11-05T01:29:16.676-07:00Comments on Boehmcke's Human Condition: The DumpUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526258348124329445.post-77515246256644609282011-05-29T06:10:54.521-07:002011-05-29T06:10:54.521-07:00Great thoughts on The Dump! I think one of the mai...Great thoughts on The Dump! I think one of the main functions of the dump, in whatever form it takes, is to leave something for posterity. When archeologists are excavating a place they learn just as much from the dump as they do from a temple. Dumps are a way of ensuring that whoever comes after us will have a good sense of who we were and what was or wasn't important to us and their size corresponds with our egos. Waste Management Facilities are a way of institutionalizing our monumental perceptions of ourselves; you gotta have an institution charged with protecting all that valuable crap. What we're saying to future civilizations is "Here are shit tons of waste, see if you can figure us out or do better". The crazy guy down the street is just making this more of a personal endeavor. It might even be that he's trying to preserve some kind of alternative story so that when future archeologist think they have us all figured out by our massive dumps but they'll find this guys house and be like, "Holy Crap! This changes our theory entirely!" He's a professor so that is my bet; is he a history professor? (by the way, we met at Rhiannon's wedding party last weekend.) I'm looking forward to reading more of your posts!amtru23https://www.blogger.com/profile/06709610468654410046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526258348124329445.post-84984162574444190162011-05-29T01:32:13.290-07:002011-05-29T01:32:13.290-07:00Hi, I took the link from Pat's blog to get her...Hi, I took the link from Pat's blog to get here. Enjoyed your dump (?) article. I shall view dumps with new eyes now and will probably move house to get away from the local one.Valeriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12099030819314552958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526258348124329445.post-43013067454120792012011-05-28T11:29:59.291-07:002011-05-28T11:29:59.291-07:00The crazy guy who lived in the large hedges with a...The crazy guy who lived in the large hedges with a door on it (hysterical) probably identified his house as the one down the block from those crazy Boehmcke's!<br /><br />And hey, our truck is a total mess and in no way does it reflect our trailer. It reflects that my husband is a slob and I refuse to clean HIS TRUCK!! LOL!<br /><br />Don't know if you accept awards or not, but I left you one on my blog.Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17756564685282866773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526258348124329445.post-44474694347042916062011-05-26T20:22:47.106-07:002011-05-26T20:22:47.106-07:00Yes people should really be careful with their ter...Yes people should really be careful with their terms.J.Paschalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14015681341968007708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526258348124329445.post-45026965452859730312011-05-23T14:18:38.707-07:002011-05-23T14:18:38.707-07:00"Classes," not "clsses". Here ..."Classes," not "clsses". Here I am, working as a writing teacher, and I just made a spelling error. Bad, very bad.Neurotic Workaholichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06775298184138766683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526258348124329445.post-31100547330399798622011-05-23T14:17:30.676-07:002011-05-23T14:17:30.676-07:00It's not unusual for professors to hold on to ...It's not unusual for professors to hold on to stuff they don't need anymore; I'm a professor-in-training, and I still have stacks of students' papers from five years ago. I just keep thinking that I might use one of the students' papers as a writing sample for my clsses someday. I should really throw them out at some point. I also have stacks of articles and essays that my professors are always telling me to read, but I've only read about half of them because it takes, like, an hour to read a page of each article. (Just kidding. Well, not really.) I don't have any newspapers, though. :)Neurotic Workaholichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06775298184138766683noreply@blogger.com