Long Beach leads California in water conservation. In October, I wrote about our town’s efforts to deal with deep cuts in its water supply and our own plans to do our part. This month, great news on both fronts! The Grunion Gazette reports that Long Beach won the Green California Leadership Award for Water Management […]

We just saw a piece on the news about Jeff Deck, a guy who’s traveling around the country correcting misspellings, including misplaced apostrophes, in storefront signs. His route is plotted on the Typo Eradication Action League site.
Here’s his post from New Orleans; he’s in LA right now!
I’m glad someone took up the challenge to […]

1) I did not win a date with Bill Clinton. Boo. But Hillary’s Campaign Manager, Patti Solis Doyle writes to say she’ll send me an e-mail reminder of the debate and that I can console myself with a live blog from the debate watching party. Sigh. [original post]
2) I am getting less junk mail. It […]

It didn’t take Val and me long to become water-conscious when we moved to California — we came from the swamplands to the desert, so it was a pretty obvious transition; you could actually see that water was scarce here. So it was natural to turn off the water while we brushed our teeth, hand-water […]

So the other day I went over to godaddy and bought declareyourdisbelief.com. [no link yet, it’s parked for now] When I get my zipity new machine, I’m going to design some new disbelief tees and I thought I might put up a little disbelievers blog where I could muse, ponder and carp about all the […]

It’s been a back-to-painting-basics summer. I haven’t been able to paint full-time for a while and I just couldn’t seem to get myself started again on a regular painting schedule. So this spring, I bought a couple of strong beginners’ books and just started all over.
Part of this exercise was going back to some […]

Stopjunkmail.org is a great resource. Built for people in the San Francisco Bay area, the site is useful for anyone with a US postal address. It is free and gives you what you need — including form letters and contact information — to reduce the amount of trash your letter carrier stuffs into your box […]

Grist points us to a Missouri recycler who is accepting wine corks! Yemm & Hart Green Materials is collecting corks for its prototype cork recycling program — and if the experiment proves successful — it will add wine cork recycling to its regular business. That’s great news for waste reduction in my foodie-home and it […]

The 10 plastic DVD cases I got with the The Garbo Signature Collection might be immortal for all I know. In any case, they constitute a big impervious-looking pile of junk that can’t stay in the little 960 squre-foot beach house. The city recycling won’t take them, but I can’t feel good about putting […]