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60,000 Chopsticks

Melissa Hung - June 4, 2005

Two interesting stories in the SF Chronicle today.

First, Bench, a Philippines-based clothing store, is following Jollibee's lead and opened a store (complete with Filipino mannequins) in Daly City. [1] They'll probably do brisk business.

In the Datebook section is a story about artist Donna Keiko Ozawa who has made a sculpture out of 60,000 pairs of chopsticks [2] to call attention to how wasteful we are with the disposable utentsils. (She collected them over a month at several Japantown restuarants.) I couldn't agree more. I've always felt bad about using them and try to take them with me when I leave (but often, I forget, just as I often forget to take the doggie bag.) Recently, someone gave me a plastic set in a cute little carrying case, so I try to carry those with me everywhere.

OK, back to my lazy Saturday afternoon. You know it's a lazy day when I'm just getting around to the paper at 4 pm.


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Links
[1] http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/06/04/BUGB0D3D0F1.DTL&type=business [2] http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/04/DDGR5D2GHQ1.DTL