Who says Gandhi is dead? His spirit keeps popping up in the unlikeliest places -- most recently in the pages of Smith and Hawken, the high-toned gardening catalogue for yuppies who want to pretend they enjoy getting their hands dirty. This spring, Smith and Hawken is offering an electronic mosquito catcher called Insectivoro. At $ 130, it's a steal. And of course this bug catcher has, so to speak, a catch. "A powerful fan," says the catalogue, " sucks [the bugs] into a filter drawer, where they desiccate over time -- or they may be released back outside at the end of the day." Catch the bugs and release them? This is a bug-catcher as designed by the U.N. -- and if it catches on, watch for an outbreak of malaria in Scarsdale.
Magazine
GANDHI IN THE GARDEN
Who says Gandhi is dead? His spirit keeps popping up in the unlikeliest places -- most recently in the pages of Smith and Hawken, the high-toned gardening catalogue for yuppies who want to pretend they enjoy getting their hands dirty. This spring, Smith and Hawken is offering an electronic mosquito…
The Scrapbook · May 4, 1998
More from The Scrapbook
Who Are These People? Dec 14, 2018
Nice Work . . . Dec 14, 2018
The Point of It All Dec 14, 2018
Make America Manly Again Dec 14, 2018