It is probably time to give the reader of this blog, if there ever are any readers of this blog, some clarification as to what A Total Solid Waste is about. It is, in the beginning at least, going to be a catalog of all my published work. I have been writing and publishing under another name for years. During all this time I have never managed to earn a living through my writing. I believe I finally broke the one hundred dollar mark in earnings in about nineteen ninety-two with a ten dollar check for a poem. This huge amount of earned income includes the question I sent to the Question Man column in the San Francisco Chronicle in the late sixties. The question was Would you be dishonest for ten thousand dollars?. I made fifty dollars for that one line. I have not had anything in print since about two thousand and one. I must just like the writing.
I will be writing under the new nom de guerre of John Smith, IIMXIII. With this new pen name I hope to be publishing in the world of the online via a website called Triond. The old work will be here for anybody to access if they are interested.
The title of this blog comes from how I have spent the last eighteen years earning a living. I have been helping to manage the solid waste flow of a small university in the Pacific Northwest. It really has not been a waste of time; I keep telling myself that. I have learned about the American education system from the bottom up. I hope to be finished with The Secret World of Garbage soon.
With a degree in English from another small university and fourteen years of information services in academic libraries, it is amazing what I have learned from the solid waste flow. Garbage is just another index of how our society works, an hands on example of how the trickle down theory really functions.
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