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		ciscoriordan on Oct 31, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The McMurdo Wastewater Treatment Plant If you like this, I recommend "Big Dead Place" (https://www.amazon.com/Big-Dead-Place-Menacing-Antarctica/dp...) by Nicholas Johnson, a garbageman at McMurdo.

thinkingemote on Nov 1, 2022 [–]

Very much recommended! It was going to be made into a TV show apparently.

I first came across Johnson's work in his Shark Fear: Shark Awareness, which is more of a zine mocking fear mongering post 9/11, and about those deadly deadly sharks.

He committed suicide almost 10 years ago.

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