May 25, 2011

The more things change in Springfield...

I acquired a copy of "The Golden Book of Springfield" by Vachel Lindsay. The back jacket describes it thusly:

In The Golden Book, the coffee houses, movie theaters, streets and parks of Springfield in the "Mystic Year" 2018 are the setting of a valiant struggle to transform a village dominated by shady politicians, lynch-mobs, commercialism and cocaine into a new paradise.


Well...at least we haven't had any lynch-mobs in a while.