Sebastian Junger's Toilet
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How have I managed to take a picture of a toilet belonging to prominent non-fiction writer Sebastian Junger? (And, according to my color coding, use the thing?)
Junger is half-owner of the Half-King Pub in New York. It's at 505 West 23rd Street, at 10th Avenue.
I went to that pub and photographed the toilet. Ergo, Sebastian Junger's toilet.
Or at least a toilet in which Sebastian Junger has 50% ownership.
Rose George's The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters is a fascinating description of sanitation conditions around the world. "2.6 billion people don't have sanitation. [....] Four in ten people have no access to any latrine, toilet, bucket, or box."
In September 2009, Morna Gregory and Sian James published a book titled Toilets of the World. It's pretty much the same theme that you find here — photographs and commentary on other people's plumbing.
| A Sani-Flush blue border indicates a toilet that I've used. |
How long have my Toilets of the World pages been around? I'm not exactly sure, although they started in the mid 1990s as a single page on a Purdue University server. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine lets you see what that looked like as far back as January 17, 1999.
My cromwell-intl.com domain appeared in September, 2001, although the Wayback Machine didn't notice its one enormous Toilet of the World page until January 17, 2002. Some time soon after that I split it into categories, and the collection has grown ever since.
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