Page 36 RAIN Oct./Nov. 1983 ACCESS EXCESS: A Rain Parody Warning: what you are about to read is not to be taken seriously! We thought an anniversary issue would be a good place to kid our oxvn style a bit and have somefun with the foibles offriend and foe alike. Don't try to order any of these "books"-regardless of how worthy we may have made them sound! -]F Turning Your Solar Collector into an Old Refrigerator, Mother Dirt Blues' Starry- Eyed Homestead Do-It-Yer-Own-Self Plan No. 3,412, $18.00 plus tax from: Mother Dirt Blues P.O. Box 70 Hogheaven, NC 29998 A real practical project for you back-to- the-landers: lets you take a gadget that's been putting you at the mercy of a big, undependable, outside power source (i.e., the sun) and convert it into something really useful—a cold storage system for all that food you buy to replace your garden failures. Reofcling: Just a Bunch of Garbage?, a Report in the Public Interest from the Multiglobal Container Manufacturers' Association, 1979,16 pp., free in any quantity from: Multiglobal Outreach Division P.O. Box 130 Landfill, NJ 08949 Did you realize that those sticky, yucky. recyclable containers that must be returned to supermarkets in backward states like Oregon can draw rats, flies, children, and other disgusting pests? Have you ever considered that a recycled soda bottle may have last been used by someone of questionable social or ethnic tendencies? Doesn't the thought of carrying all those empties from the parking lot to the front of the store just make you tired? Here's a manual that shows how you and your community can help shake off the meddling of the radical bottle bill fanatics. The People's Yellowed Pages, by the No- Bell Co-Operative Network, 1981,4,395 pp., $6.95 from: Touchtone Press Wirecross, WY 89999 Here it is: a thoroughly exhaustive directory of all those flaky groups that either moved away or self-destructed years ago and you didn't even notice. Self-Reliance for Reluctant Communities, by the Neighborhood Interlopers' Citizen Irritation Project, 1979,473 pp., $12.50 from: Liberal Fervor Publications Box 1709 San Francisco, CA 94900 Examines a question that has often perplexed the middle-class community activist determined to build a better world: how to convince poverty-stricken inner-city people that solar collectors can actually be a better long-term investment than food or shelter. From: Hello to the 50-Gallon Flush The Aquarium Conspiracy; A Guide to Transformational Aquaculture, by Marlin Flounderfin, 1981,403 pp., $6.37 from: The Ichthys Press P.O. Box 300 Agua Caliente, NM 87503 In a flowing, almost stream-of-consdous- ness style, Ms. Flounderfin brings to the surface examples of a movement we at RAIN have been following for the past decade. The Age of Aquariums is indeed beginning to exert its influence on all areas of American life, and Marlin is the first to bring clarity to the turbulent currents of this movement. Lest the reader be tempted to condude that her conspiracy can't hold water, Ms. Flounderfin goes to great lengths to document the rising tide of change coming from the inlets and backwaters of America. The author herself comes with impressive credenfials, including membership in the Water-Bearers Institute of Water Hole, MA (one of the best think- tanks in New Wave politics) and a fish fl)dng pin from the YWCA. From: The Aquarium Conspiracy
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