PSA: There's a Burn Ban in Effect, Please Don't Light All This Paper on Fire

by Nathalie GrahamThe telephone poles around the city are cloaked in thick, matted layers of paper. It's like a geologic time scale of advertisements. There is a limit to what anything can withstand and the exceedingly bulbous stems of the telephone poles lining Pine Street near our office have about reached their maximum protuberance.The circle of life.The paper is being shorn away. At first glance, it seemed normal, just the cycle of life and decay—you know, day-to-day stuff. But, then I