it's been a remarkable week in a multitude of ways...the post-modern era is profoundly psychotic...reality evasion and magical thinking are emanating from the professioanl bureaucrats and pundits, and wall street is growing more disconnected from the real economy every day...the recession grinds on despite claims to the contrary...impacting everyone...(i saw an article in the n y times about the plight of the "mega rich" and how they might not ever get back to their former levels of income...imagine my distress).... i live in a mincipality that has seen better days...my water & sewage bill is laden with surcharges, and it goes up exponentially relative to the state of decay of the infrastructure...yet i got my new city garbage can and recycling bin ( ironically the garbage can is emblazoned with the seal of the city and the mayor's name...you just can't buy exposure and name recognition like that)along with detailed instructions for their use...the recycling bin is too much...i recycle privately anyway...i insist on keeping the cash for myself...but the main point of all this is that garbage pick-up will now be curbside, rendering the system of alleys obsolete...i'm thinking this is partly due to the scavengers who troll the alleys before collection day picking the recycling bins clean before the city gets to them...moving it out front will make an anti-pilfering ordinance more easily enforced...(how long, i wonder, before the city demands that i give them my valuable aluminum cans? revenue is revenue in a downturn...property rights be damned)but what about all those broken and discarded washer and driers and water heaters and vaccuums? what will the people at code enforcement say when people start dumping them in the street...or will the alleys become junkyards? i am curious to see, and will be monitoring the state of the alley...as well as thinking of the mayor whenever i chuck out the trash,
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