| The US state of Maine, where I went to junior high and high school, started a pottery business with my mom, and lived a few years thereafter, occupies an odd place in the American psyche, due in no small part to the stereotype-amplifying contributions of MSW, and Steven King, a vacationland of rough but honest and good-hearted lobstermen and other, assorted rustics. Ayuh. "Globe-trotting botanists beaten to death and fed to crocodiles" |