Dishwasher Pete
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dishwasher Pete is the pen name for Pete Jordan, author of the popular Dishwasher zine as well as the forthcoming book of the same title and whose goal was to wash dishes in every state in America. For more than a decade, he moved from city to city, state to state, washing dishes in restaurants, hospitals, cafeterias, ski resorts, camps, communes, a fish cannery, an offshore oil rig, a dinner train and just about anywhere where dishes were dirty.
The fifteen issues of the Dishwasher zine are now out of print but a memoir by Dishwasher Pete of his years pearl diving will be published by HarperPerennial in 2007.
Dishwasher Pete has contributed to the following episodes of the radio program This American Life:
- Episode #56 "Name Change"
- Episode #74 "Conventions"
- Episode #102 "Roadtrip!"
- Episode #109 "Notes on Camp"
- Episode #115 "First Day"
His writing also appeared on the Open Letters website:
Dishwasher Pete also volunteered as a healthy human guinea pig in drug experiments, and he contributed short articles to the zine Guinea Pig Zero: A Journal for Human Research Subjects.
