Editor's Note: Believe it or not, I was way ahead of this guy in the video. When I was a graduate student at Penn State University in State College Pennsylvania, I had a "field" of sweet corn growing heartily in the back of my 1965 Chevy, long-bed pickup truck. I had my conventional garden at the back of my house out in the country but I just thought it'd be cool to make a garden on the back of my truck. So that sounds pretty kooky, right? Well the cops thought so too. One night when I parked my truck in front of Zenos, my fav bar that featured Rolling Rock beer (made from "mountain spring water" :-) and the very best off-beat music in State College, PA, the cops ordered me to remove it. "Why?" I asked, "What's the problem?". They told me that it looked "unsightly." Maybe it was the colors. Throwing the cops a bone, my pickup was a broken down old wreck, painted turquoise and white with plenty of rust, not the prettiest thing to be parked in their fair town, but to my eyes it was my "pretty", just as pretty as the neat rows of six feet tall corn rising behind with ears of sweet corn near ready to pluck. Now you have an idea about who you're dealing with at Axis of Logic: Paul Richard Harris who lovingly talks about his life in "rural Canada surrounded by corn, turnips, and unwise land management" and my loveable all-natural '65 pickup. Nevertheless, we still claim to be logical. (you might have to wait for a minute or so for this unique video).
- Les Blough, Co-Editor
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