Has the role of the aircraft sick bag in popular culture been unjustly neglected by academia?
I returned this morning from the conference in Madeira of the Association of Independent Tour Operators. En route, I read an interview in El País with that great protest singer Pete Seeger, who talks of how Woody Guthrie, one of his heroes, wrote songs at all hours. One was on a sick bag on a plane to Pittsburgh — and when the plane landed he left it behind on the seat. “It didn’t matter, because composing came so easily to him.”
A few hours later, I saw a Tweet from the same conference from Steve Keenan, digital evangelist, reporting on how Lyn Hughes started the travel magazine Wanderlust. “She wrote the plan… on the back of a sick bag on a flight to Latin America 19 years ago.”
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