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Friday, August 25, 2023
Friday's parting porta potty shots
Team coverage of the porta potties arriving in Tompkins Square Park ahead of the Charlie Parker Jazz Fesitval (Sunday!) starts now... (top photo by Derek Berg; below via Steven) ...
Some extra trash containers would be useful. The morning following a "normal" Saturday night the park is strewn with pizza boxes, beer bottles, fast food containers et al. I can't imagine the trash from this event. I can imagine, sadly, the thoughtlessness & self-indulgent entitlement of all the people who can't walk to a trash container.
Ever see the guy who cleans out those shit boxes. He uses something that looks like a giant douche nozzle to suck out the crap water and then dumps in a 5 gal bucket of liquid disinfectant that smells like something lavender scented Mr Clean. I guess in the old days ladies went in the bushes and guy peed on trees.
From the original Woodstock movie. "Tom Taggart, the Port-O-San cleaner, later sued the makers of the Woodstock film for using the footage of his interview."
"In his simple, un-hippie-ish way, the Port-o-San cleaner offers a very decent response to the madness. There might be a little bit of heaven in a disaster area, as Wavy Gravy waxed ecstatically, but the toilets make clear that there’s a whole lot more hell. So, caught in the middle of it, the cleaning man admits that he can’t keep up with the crowds who need to use the facilities. All he can do is do his best to “make it a little more pleasanter.” He’s glad to help the kids, and his tone of voice suggests he loves both his sons unconditionally, the one at Woodstock and the one in Vietnam. His demeanor is less starry-eyed than Wavy Gravy, but, watching forty years later, it’s also more dignified. That a man makes cleaning up shit seem dignified is no small feat."
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When I walked thru the park yesterday the aroma of urine dominated the moment
Some extra trash containers would be useful. The morning following a "normal" Saturday night the park is strewn with pizza boxes, beer bottles, fast food containers et al. I can't imagine the trash from this event. I can imagine, sadly, the thoughtlessness & self-indulgent entitlement of all the people who can't walk to a trash container.
Can't wait!
So what are these “park view” apartments starting at?
Oh yea - it's ON!
Ever see the guy who cleans out those shit boxes. He uses something that looks like a giant douche nozzle to suck out the crap water and then dumps in a 5 gal bucket of liquid disinfectant that smells like something lavender scented Mr Clean. I guess in the old days ladies went in the bushes and guy peed on trees.
My cry was heard. There are people hanging LARGE black trash bags around the concert site. Please use them.
From the original Woodstock movie. "Tom Taggart, the Port-O-San cleaner, later sued the makers of the Woodstock film for using the footage of his interview."
"In his simple, un-hippie-ish way, the Port-o-San cleaner offers a very decent response to the madness. There might be a little bit of heaven in a disaster area, as Wavy Gravy waxed ecstatically, but the toilets make clear that there’s a whole lot more hell. So, caught in the middle of it, the cleaning man admits that he can’t keep up with the crowds who need to use the facilities. All he can do is do his best to “make it a little more pleasanter.” He’s glad to help the kids, and his tone of voice suggests he loves both his sons unconditionally, the one at Woodstock and the one in Vietnam. His demeanor is less starry-eyed than Wavy Gravy, but, watching forty years later, it’s also more dignified. That a man makes cleaning up shit seem dignified is no small feat."
https://noticeatrend.blogspot.com/2009/08/whatever-happened-to-port-o-san-cleaner.html
https://www.michaeljkramer.net/port-o-san-three-minutes-of-shit-sanitation/
ALREADY THERE!
PSA! Leave the lid closed after use always. The smell will be reduced, as the vents will then work as designed.
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