Yoko Ono's Garbage Volcano
According to Wikipedia , the popular term “dumpster fire” refers to “a catastrophically bad situation. It has appeared in metaphorical form as early as 2003, and picked up traction in 2010 in the world of sports. The term was heavily used in 2016 to describe the United States presidential election that year.” [1] “The earliest known [non-literal] use of the term dates back to a 2003 review of a remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , in which The Arizona Republic ’s Bill Muller said that the film was ‘the cinematic equivalent of a dumpster fire – stinky but insignificant’,” the entry relates [2] – although the impetus for the term’s leap from the literal into the figurative remains open to speculation. Recent years had witnessed more than one spate of such fires in Arizona cities, which plausibly inspired Muller’s usage. In March of 1997, a Flagstaff resident, James Newbury, was arrested in connection with a series of arson incidents. “Police bel...