You all remember that picture fromt he last blog where I was below the Syracuse shirt? Well I must say that if you ever decide to go to Syracuse, you can skip eating at The Acropolis. Not the best eggplant Parmesan sub. In fact I am pretty sure that the chef was repainting the kitchen in between fixing up our food. Anyway, Syracuse was a bit disappointing, yet the drive their was something to remember.
Knuckles gripped to the steering wheel, white with desire, Senor Rosenbloom drove like a Canadian to a keg party full of free Molson and showroom snowmobiles. We made quick time to the border at Niagara Falls. Here we passed by a massive dump owned by Allied Waste (more pictures tomorrow of it as I have to shoot the video in the morning). This happens to only be about one "kilomile (that roughly translates as "super ultra mile" for you Americans that know nothing about the metric system)" from the Love Canal, a site of major hazardous waste dumping. When we got to the border, the woman inspecting our passports seemed to grin a bit when I told her our documentary was about garbage. With great comedic timing Aaron gave her this look...
...I diffused the situation by telling her that we were in the country to interview Professor Jennifer Clapp at The University of Waterloo, and that my friend would not harm her as long as she said the Cubs would win ... eventually. So on our way we went to Waterloo, flanked nearby by the great Canadian city of Guelph.
Our interview with Jennifer today was fantastic.
She covered a whole range of topics including globalization and waste distancing around the world. Jennifer also spoke about our ecological shadow, or the simply what is happening to the planet as a result of our economic progress when only measured in terms of GDP.
Very interesting footage that I will promise once again will be online by the weekend. And one interesting tid bit is that Toronto exports it's garbage into the United States, specifically eastern Michigan. We thought it interesting that America exports garbage to China, and Canada exports to the U.S. But then we realized we were talking about Eastern Michigan, and we forgot the whole thing and drove to Toronto.
Toronto is a beautiful city with a weather problem. Currently this is the way I am dealing with it...
Aaron and I have been doing this for a bit, and talking about how much we would love to be back in Brooklyn soon to edit all this awesome footage. Aaron also has declared that hostels are like FUBU for British people. All I know is that our room smells British, and I don't like it. Were back to America tomorrow, but not before I go get myself thrown out of another shopping mall, and Aaron tells some Canadians that he will eat their children. Peace, and God Bless Us All (in America).
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