then again...

*This brand of enthusiasm became notorious in 1970, when the songwriter Bob Dylan physically assaulted A. J. Weberman, an obsessive scholar of Dylan's lyrics, for going through Dylan's Greenwich Village trash can. Nearly thirty years later, Weberman is still stalking Dylan, now in cyberspace, where he asserts that he can get into Dylan's computer (if he has one) and read the latest form of Dylan's trash, deleted files. In California v. Greenwood (1988), the Supreme Court declared that the borders of the household do not encompass the contents of trash cans... Weberman may be found on the [web] at weberman.com, dylanology.com and garbology.com.)
- footnote in Susan Strasser's Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash

although this indicates that the practice began in 1970, it doesn't really tell us when said action was given a name.

[typos mine, copyrighted material]

edit: corrected dylanology.com typo (which site suggests Weberman may have coined the word "Dylanology")

Last edited by tsuwm; 04/25/06 03:52 PM.