comb my hair with a pork chop for clean air day


.: scott, tony and chris at cbc vancouver in '02 :.

cbc radio had a great bit about a recent report on the "air in airplanes" this morning. i've always wondered after a plane ride why my skin felt like it was caked in bacon grease and my hair was combed with a pork chop. (thanks tony and scott...that expression still makes me chuckle). did you know that the degradation of oxygen on an airplane at 30,000 ft is akin to sitting on top of a mountain 8000 ft above sea level? and that the air pumped into the pressurized cabins actually comes from the engines and that there is now concern over what else is seeping in with that fabricated air? eew.

but here on the ground, as i whizzed by non-car-poolies sitting at lights on my bike to work this morning, i wondered how many actually contemplate something like clean air day...regardless of their chosen mode of transpo.

as my mom used to say, tongue in cheek, 'shouldn't every day be mother's day'?