Notes from the Fields
I farm in revolt against the grocery store, where checkout clerks don't know what parsley is.
By Max Alexander
For several years I contributed regular articles to TV Guide from Maine without watching television, which entertained me greatly -- at least, considerably more than TV itself ever has. One day an editor from the magazine called with some breaking news: the Pets.com sock puppet (a TV commercial character, as I soon learned) was suing Triumph (an obscene sock dog on the Conan O'Brien show, I discovered) for slander and trade infringement. The editor needed a full report by Friday.
