Thursday, September 9, 2010

The Bucolic Plague

The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites became gentlemen farmers/Josh Kilmer-Purcell 305 pg.

After reading Linda's review, I could not resist this book. I can certainly understand the desire to "get away" from the big city and go back to nature, I'm just not sure this is how I would go about it. Let's face it, farming is a huge physical undertaking and being weekend farmers means you don't have a lot of spare time to lay about which is more my speed. Economically, these guys traded high pressure corporate jobs for an even higher pressured corporation that they developed to make a living from their farm and mansion. No wonder the stress did not exactly bring them together. After toughing it out for a year and losing their jobs in the economic melt-down, the post script seems to show them doing better and even landing their own tv show. Maybe this is the natural next step for your average drag queen. - Christa

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