It's kind of shock to see your bucolic hometown just a few miles from one of Sprol's featured shots on "our bleakest landscapes of overconsumption and decay". Ah well, at least they didn't mention Radium City or those pesky EPA Superfund sites.
"...there is a series of phenomena of great importance which cannot possibly be recorded by questioning or computing documents, but have to be observed in their full actuality. Let us call them the imponderabilia of actual life. Here belong such things as the routine of a man's working day, the details of his care of the body, of the manner of taking food and preparing it, and of passing sympathies and dislikes between people; the subtle yet unmistakable manner in which personal vanities and ambitions are reflected in the behaviour of the individual and in the emotional reactions of those who surround him" (from Argonauts of the Western Pacific, by Bronislaw Malinowski, pp. 18-19).
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Sandy, we will of course get to all of the Superfund sites over the next few years. Thanks for posting about Sprol!
I felt that independent media should focus on the places that the EPA doesn't have on a super list yet :)
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