“Petro-tainment”
I lie in bed in the mornings now and enjoy the sounds of Autumn. With the later rising sun, I hear the birds hollering their chaotic vespers. Gentle fall rains rattle the shingles, presaging harder rains to come. In quiet moments you can even hear the dry leaves shaking in the breezes, then lightly scratching the ground when they land.
Followed of course, by the high nasal wine of a two-stroke engine, as some neighbor straps on a leaf blower and shatters the morning silence.
According to Scott Huler of North Carolina, “somewhere along the line, Americans lost the ability to have fun without the help of Exxon.” I heard this commentary on NPR this afternoon on “Petro-tainment.” Says Scott, “Petro-tainment is what people get from any gas powered thing that is just like the manual thing in replaced, only noisier and smellier…” or something like that. I looked for the transcript for this, but could not find it. I won’t type the rest out for lack of time and fear of inaccuracy. You can listen to the NPR clip here.
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