Green !!

I had Fruit Flies.   I must have brought them home in a bunch of bananas and in two days they had taken over the place.  They are little and don’t make noise.  They sometimes try to get into your eyes or your nose.  I never saw them in any foodstuffs but they are so small I wouldn’t have known the difference.

in little circles they fly and then plunge dramatically into things that are not good for them.  Like hot coffee.  Or butter, where they get stuck and soaked.  Fortunately they LOVE flypaper.  Yes, that old-fashioned, sticky stuff, kind of brown.  Smells like 1950 vintage Watkins Beef Iron and Wine tonic.  I put some out one night knowing they would laugh at me in the small hours of the morning.  And by sunrise there were probably about 300 on the flypaper and almost none airborne.  It is just hard to find the flypaper, it is not Modern!  I got mine in a bazaar run by a couple Arabs and a Mexican girl.

Green?  But of course.  If you don’t know that word and the definition, you flunk high school and your SAT’s.  Sorry to be a Grinch but we’ve had green since Reagan was president.  And we had it before that in California and the Mother Earth News.  Back then it was called Ecologically Sound.  Then it was called Eco-friendly.  Like the Italian opera of the same sound.  Green is about creating new hierarchies of jobs for your relatives and friends, and new hierarchies of money for all those people to spend, including in their paychecks. 

Hell, we even have Green busses now racing all over the City spreading their very limited pollution in the streets.  We also have electric trolleys and have had for years and they are greener than green.  But painted yellow.  I always thought Green was about St. Patrick’s Day but I must have been mistaken.  Ta!