People saw folks like my brother [Augusten Burroughs] and me as inspirational, not as figures of ridicule. And that, indeed, did give me the courage to tell my story.
Mongo is defined by the Cassell Dictionary of Slang as "any discarded object that is retrieved." That's a pretty tame definition that doesn't begin to describe the many variations of trash-foraging that goes on in big cities like New York. When Ted Botha moved to New York in the '90s he found most of the furniture for his apartment on the street. Now Botha takes us into the world of collectors, voyeurs, and treasure seekers.
People saw folks like my brother [Augusten Burroughs] and me as inspirational, not as figures of ridicule. And that, indeed, did give me the courage to tell my story.
