Keep America Sniggering: The wags at Keep America
Beautiful have put together a zany new recycling awareness
campaign featuring a dorky-but-hip cartoon dude who goes by
the awkward superhero alias
KAB Man
(or occasionally, Recycling Boy).
That description doesnīt do the series justice, but trust
me, people, this is clever, edgy stuff, web-animationwise.
Itīs dry, itīs droll -- it almost made me think Matt
Groening or Mike Judge could have had a hand in writing it.
I hope the KAB folks decide to extend this series because
it ends with a cliffhanger, and I canīt wait to find out who
they choose to be KAB Manīs sidekick. Right now it looks
like itīs down to either the famous Crying Indian,
Iron Eyes Cody, or swimsuit model
Molly Sims. (Waste News is a
family newspaper, so I had to spend a good chunk of time
scouring the Internet to find a reasonably demure photo of
Ms. Sims to provide a link to. This job can be such drudgery
sometimes, but someone has to do it.)
You Go, Girl: Like daffodils, crocuses and hay
fever, it seems that humorous recycling-themed videos are
suddenly popping up everywhere. Thanks to the loyal
reader-slash-reliable tipster who sent me this YouTube
link of a short promotional clip titled
"Jerry and Amanda" created by filmmaker Michael Boylan for
RE3.org.
I would only add: Amanda, you are so right
to dump that stubble-faced creep. He is not in your league.
Walk away, girl, and donīt look back.
Canīt Make Me/Can Too/Cannot/Etc.: This just in -
the U.S. Supreme Court decided yesterday that local
governments
can too make private trash haulers dump their
loads at municipal facilities, regardless of whether it
costs those haulers more to do so.
That intermittent rumble you hear is the sound of the
waste industry shifting on its axis by a few degrees. Weīll
have more to follow on this topic. Lots more,
Iīd wager.
Pete Fehrenbach is assistant managing editor of
Waste News. Past installments of this column are collected
in
the Inbox archive.
