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...kind of petty foreman who always makes these jobs that much more intolerable, Derf and crew scrape up road kill, empty out rotted-meat-filled refrigerators, shake maggots out of their hair before lunch, and then watch in horror as they forget to set the parking brake and their truck barrels downhill without them. All the while, with smart storytelling skill Derf moves "Trashed" beyond the merely repulsive. Unlike so many anecdotal autobio comix it has a narrative arc. After a full year of sanitation service Derf and his pal realize that school wasn't so bad after all. "Trash...
Some of the work that painter-turned-conceptual-artist John Baldessari used in his talk included photos that he took while holding his camera out the window of his truck and not looking through the viewfinder...
...September evening in 1999, Dr. Richard Carmona was driving to a University of Arizona football game in Tucson when he came across a traffic accident. A pickup truck had rear-ended a car. Carmona, a trauma surgeon and deputy sheriff on the local SWAT team, started to approach the truck when bystanders shouted that the driver had a gun. Carmona, who was off duty but carrying a pistol, called for backup and moved in, asking the driver to put down his weapon. The man was a mentally ill ex-convict who had murdered his father that day. He looked...
...terrorist traffic flows both ways. Two weeks ago, U.S. special forces manning checkpoints on the Khost-Gardez road stopped a truck loaded with arms heading into Afghanistan. A week ago, Pakistani soldiers arrested five African men, suspected al-Qaeda members, who were trying to sneak into Afghanistan wearing burkas. In Khost local people speak of "night letters"--reportedly printed in the Pakistani border town of Peshawar--found scattered around the streets with the following warning: "All our Muslim brothers, our enemy is here. Join us now, or you will share their fate...
While Smith said she has no immediate plans for the baby cradle, the truck will soon be delivered to a car dealership near her home and she is looking forward to her trip to San Antonio...