Wishin' and a Washin'

Dishwasher Zine

Dishwasher Pete has a mission: Wash dishes in all 50 states. Issue No. 7 finds Pete at a cafe in Boulder, No. 8 at an Alaskan fish cannery, No. 9 at a seafood restaurant in New Hampshire, and No. 11 at restaurants in Montana, California and Ohio (No. 10 was a comics issue).

The reason you'll like Pete is that he has a good attitude, and a sense of humor. "Why is there this assumption that dishwashers are at the bottom rung of some sort of career-climbing ladder?" he asks. Writing in a tight, neat scrawl (with no water marks), he lists dishwashing references he finds in novels, describes the wacky people he meets (including a group of priests he stumbled upon as they watched a porn video) and details the mundane ways he kills time.

After reading Pete's adventures, I'm as convinced as ever that a clean plate is like a clean soul-you can see yourself in it.

Scanned page from an article from Issue #15: http://www.suite101.com/files/topics/399...

You can order direct by sending $1 to Dishwasher, P.O. Box 8213, Portland, OR 97207 or from Atomic Books on line at http://www.atomicbooks.com/.

Real Audio files from NPR's This American Life, to which Pete is a regular contributor:

http://play.rbn.com/?livecon/kcrw-cp/dem...

http://play.rbn.com/?livecon/kcrw-cp/dem...

Article about Dishwasher Pete from Out West #26, April 1994 - Dishwasher Pete: Washing His Way Across America:

http://www.outwestnewspaper.com/pete.html

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