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9-11-12: Cruelty Free Placenta
Featuring all the plastic I collect on the mile round trip walk to the dog park. Oregon realty co. sign Eric or Sherrill smashed purple cup fork HASK® PLACENTA No-rinse Instant Hair Repair Treatment...
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10-5-12: Ready to Eat, Already Sweet!®
All the plastic I collect on my daily walk. SWISHER SWEETS Finest Quality CIGARILLOS GRAPE SMOOTH SWEET SATISFYING JAPANESE COCKTAIL PEANUTS de la Rosa with laughing cartoon peanuts wearing purple geta...
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10-16-12 Hint: Use hand lotion
All the plastic I collect on my daily walk. GATORADE PERFORM 02 THIRST QUENCHER ORANGE bottle fountain soda lid packaging fragment cigar wrapper bottle lid 1 bottle lid 2 blue bottle ring 1 blue bottle...
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10-25-12: Savor and Share
Plastic I collect on my daily walk BURGERVILLE cup Fresh Local Sustainable SHOT BLOKS ENERGY CHEWS BLACK CHERRY 1 SHOT® America’s FAVORITE! String Frigo CheeseHeads cartoon muscleman string cheese hair...
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11-5-12 crisp and carry!
Plastic I pick up on my daily walk. HERSHEY®’S s’n'Creme purple cap MILK CHOCOLATE Reese’s® in two pieces straw wrapper orange balloon with black ribbon MADEirA FARMS Peanut butter Grape Candy white...
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1-13-13: use discretion
plastic inventory 1-13-13 It has been exactly one year since I started collecting all the plastic I find on my daily walk to the dog park, although technical difficulties, busy-ness and, frankly,...
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2/27 St. Mark’s Poetry Project, 8 p.m.
So yeah, I’m reading with Magdalena Zurawski on 2/27 at 8 p.m. at the St. Mark’s Poetry Project in New York. That’s a good idea, right?
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3/24, MIA Series, Fresh Cafe, Honolulu
Jen Coleman and Allison Cobb at the Mixing Innovative Arts series, voted best literary event by the Honolulu Weekly two years in a row, people! Sunday, March 24, 3 p.m. Fresh Cafe 831 Queen St...
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2-11-13: light blue cap or tiny cup?
All the plastic I collect on my daily walk to the dog park in Southeast Portland, OR. Finally got a working camera (thanks, family!) so I have a bit of a backlog: Kirkland Signature 2% REDUCED FAT MILK...
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foam ever with us
My internet presence seems to have been resurrected, thanks to the caring application by several people of time, skills and resources I lack, particularly Philip Barron. In gratitude, I thought I...
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While I was away
Here are a few things that happened while I was away on vacation. new bamboo shoots daffodils first blooms on baby apple tree hyacinths first blooms on camellia planted last spring the camellia sits...
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4/2/13: STAY IN CONTROL.®
All the plastic I collect on my daily walk. two leaves one shard of frisbee SINFIRE™ CINNAMON WHISKY WHISKY WITH NATURAL CINNAMON FLAVORING 50 ML 35% ALC/VOL (70 PROOF) AN EVIL SPIRIT PRODUCED &...
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Portrait of a storm drain
In reference to my post about the albatross puking up a toothbrush, in case anyone wondered how such a thing gets into the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
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Fleeting spring things
I learned that metabolism comes from the Greek word for change. Things must transform constantly in order to stay alive, which means “remain.” Here are some fleeting spring things whirled up from the...
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So easy to hate on
the turf grass that dominates the surburban ecosystem of North America. And I do, especially when it comes up where I don’t want. But, still, it’s hard not to respect the root I pulled up with this...
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Fungal drama
My neighbor Rob, a mycologist, strolls over to take polaroids of the mushrooms flourishing in my wood chips. The beautiful blond neighbor children run over to check on the mushrooms too on their way to...
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Drained Tabe
Goodbye to a perfectly good, one hundred year old water system delivering gravity fed Bull Run River water to Portland. Such a waste, and now I can no longer walk two blocks and look at the source of...
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The luxury of learning to die
I read Roy Scranton’s “Learning how to die in the anthropocene” this morning via Jonathan Skinner. I instantly responded to it. It seemed just right—it set the tone of our moment. I tweeted it. Then I...
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You have not seen anything like this
If you are anywhere near Houston between now and 10 May, you must go to the (free) Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston to experience the installation by Antena cofounders Jen Hofer and John...
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