Bookis

A couple people have inquired about my lack of push-up doing. I have been slacking but I fully intend to keep up on them. Weeks ago I was sick for 2 weeks and that is what got me started on this hiatus. Just days ago I decided that I was going to start doing them again full force. But 3 days ago playing bball I rolled my ankle and my foot swelled up like a blueberry. But it’s almost better now so I will def be pushing up like crazy soon.

Wednesday: Bouldered at Pioneer Park.

Thursday: Climbing at Green Valley Gap and bouldering at Moe’s

Friday: Racquetball at the Rec center.

Saturday: Mountain biking at the 3 fingers of death (fall) and small hike to look for desert tortoises

Sunday: Wicked game of Ultimate and more bouldering at Moe’s.

Monday: Slack lining and more racquetball. Maybe Mystic Hot Springs on the drive home.

I am pretty seriously toying with the idea of giving up plastic for good. Well at least new plastic. Because it’s everywhere and will never go away. Companies produce it but we are the demand, so if people just stopped buying products in plastic and it became a common practice, companies would hear of it and really begin to come up with other means of packaging, only for their own greedy reasons but at least it would happen.

I would really love to see the same process for being plastic-free as for veganism during the last decade.  When I went vegan 10 years ago the vegan  foods available were ‘rice’ cream, veggie dogs, and veggie burgers (ok, maybe a couple more, but still it sucked) only in large or specialty stores. Now, any product can be found in a faux version. Even in small convenient stores vegan products are not a rare sight. Plastic-free could be even more successful because using plastic is not an inherent instinct like consuming animals is. And as far as I know there are no plastic advocacy groups, and everyone knows that plastics are terrible for the environment.

I found a blog of a girl who is on year 3 of a plastic-free lifestyle (Envirowomen), who has established great rules for living this way.

Basic Rules:

Cannot purchase anything  new that has any amount of plastic  (lids, linings, stickers, etc…)
Can Rent, buy used, borrow, find, re-use any plastic.
Cannot throw away any  rented, used, borrowed, found plastic.
Cannot ask someone else to buy plastic for you or for themselves.
Can accept gifts from unknowing givers.

I just now decided I am going to do it. The only thing it needs now is a catchy label so other can feel like part of the community if they jump on the bandwagon. Sans Plastique? ideas? The girl who has done it for 3 years calls it NoNewPlastic Pledge but pledges aren’t lifestyles and are easy to break.

Hi my name is bookis, I’ve been Sans Plastique for 2 days.

It’s 3:20 A.M:

Hna sleep talks all the time. This is the first time I’ve succesfully captured it. It’s hilarious. At one point she says “in my dream…” which would make you think she is awake, she is probably 95% asleep.

We’re gonna try out some online/print advertising for The Resistance Army Shirts.

This is an ad that we’re running in Seattle based Dirt Magazine (Young Local Art and Music). It is quarter page.

This shirt (”Beneath The Paving Stones… The Forest“) is available for $15 (USD) from The Resistance Army.

This is an ad that we’re running online in a few places (Global Guerillas to begin with).

This shirt (”The Revolution Is Just A T-Shirt Away“) is available for $15 (USD) from The Resistance Army.

I’m super stoked about these painting I did over the last couple of years. I just finished the Jeff one. They are for Mothra. If Anyone wants this style of painting done of them or someone let me know