Monorail! Monorail! Monoraaail!
Monday, October 22nd, 2007In last Thursday’s Letters section of the Marietta Daily Journal, a fellow by the name of William Owen of the Georgia Monorail Consortium wrote in and espoused the virtues of his organization’s technology — cost-efficient! creates jobs! snazzy! I couldn’t help but wonder why all this talk of newfangled super-slick rail systems sounded so familiar. And then I remembered…
Don’t get snookered, Marietta! Hugely successful cartoon sitcoms are the foretellers of the suburban doom that will befall you!
(Full disclosure: I was raised in Marietta and once worked for one of the MDJ’s weeklies. My folks still live there. I harbor no ill will toward monorails or Mr. Owens and don’t believe him to be the huckster excellently portrayed by the late Phil Hartman in the above video.)
