Senior Reuters Opinion Editor Chadwick Matlin attended the monthly meeting of the Park Slope Food Coop Tuesday night. At 7:26PM, he tweeted, "I wasn't going to, but it's too good not to tweet. The park slop food coop meeting has begun."
Thus started two-plus hours of live-tweeting that reads like a script to Portlandia: a PSA about plastic bags based on "The Artist," talk of "fascist food," a lot of good intentions, and a lot of passive aggression.
Hopefully Matlin, who's a member of the Coop, will live tweet next month's meeting--sure to be a real barnburner-- when they will vote on whether to have a vote on an Israeli food ban.
Take a look at a sampling below and for a fuller account, head on over to The Awl.
The room is tense with passive aggression. Israeli food referendum dominates. Free Oreos given out, but not free hummus.
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
7:31 pm: First mention of "fascist food."
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
Goes on to say "everything is coconut these days." in related news, she went birding in Sri Lanka and had some great coconut water there.
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
Anti plastic bag PSA being played. Called "The Shopper". Spoof of "The Artist"
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
"but my collards won't fit!" -- one of the actresses in the silent film PSA.
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
"I've been a member for 37 years, and I've never taken a plastic bag from the coop. I use bags until they disintegrate in my house."
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
"My name is Robert Dow. No relation to Dow Chemical."
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
"In europe I have been using the biodegradable, and they degrade do fast by the time you're at checkout you don't know where the bag is"
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
"150 linear feet of vegetables. Most of which, organic. Just thrills me."
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
Final segment of meeting is time for questions about meeting. Man asks question about whthr discussion should be for comments...or questions
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
"Meeting is adjourned." See you all next month for the Israel vote. (Or, rather the vote on whether to allow a vote)
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
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