make wood, not war

tomorrow is earth day. and i havent heard from al gore. isnt that always the way? once they steal the recognition for all your hard work, they dont even know you. i bet if i ran into him on the street in front greens he would put his hand up and say no autographs. well im not bitter! much! but it would be nice to get a phone call once in awhile. tomorrow is also hadleys birthday. my darling monster of a daughter. she will be seven. going on thirty. she had a party on saturday ~ a small party ~ she didnt want any kids from school BECAUSE SHE SEES THEM ALL THE TIME. there was the requisite jumper. there was the requisite pinata. there was the requisite crying. everyone had a lovely day with a view of the ocean. yesterday i cleaned a small area of the front part of the garage and sold eleven boxes of great stuff to a junk dealer. and hauled about as much back into the house... i will take progress any way i can get it. at least when it comes to cleaning up my stuff. re-using is the best recycling. today i am paying bills, running errands, getting details out of the way so i can go forward into my week. onward ecological soldiers! make wood, not war! plant a tree, save the world.

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peace pot

it was announced this morning that al gore won the nobel prize for peace. i am sending him congratulations and best wishes... but a little begrudgingly. i have worked for peace. i put posters up on my house ~ did al do that? his house is probably presentable. i sell t-shirts ~ does al do that? he only wears old man shirts and we all know old men got us into this mess... sometimes i have nine people in my class and i always talk about peace... peace peace peace, im all about the peace. but i dont have leonardo di caprio to introduce me ~ he wont be seen in public with me anymore! but thats his issue... and i dont jet all over the world to talk about peace, well i was in ohio but that wasnt peaceful... but i do send out newsletters all the time encouraging people to buy my peace products ~ yesterday in fact ~ maybe aol didnt deliver it to the nobel committee... anyway al, congratulations on winning. ill get ya next time!

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on target

the live earth worldwide concert looked like a big target commercial. luckily, i like the target commericals. i watched for almost eleven hours, first at my mothers with dorothy and i being joined by my aunt mary, then at my daughters with little jean and jennifer. my daughter hadley wasnt interested in saving the world yesterday but has in the past made signs and posted them at the beach to encourage people to respect the planet and its life. thats daddys little girl!!! she watched moby dick in the back room while we enjoyed the broadcast. bravo and msn had different programming of the event and each was great. msn showed short films between bands which was a cool idea. al gore did give me a wave and a wink. this morning i finished my newsletter so hopefully it will go out tomorrow, depending on the weather in mexico... in it i announce that the peace posters are re-installed on my house and if people want to come and take pictures of themselves with the posters, they are welcome. email me for directions. hopefully you wear one of my peace shirts when you do it! (maybe some day they will be available at target!!!) the blogger software did let me write a title today so im sure the world is already healing... it still doesnt "remember me on this computer" but that could be because i shaved and showered. nobody recognizes me when i get cleaned up!

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viva la revolucion

beto has been my savior, handyman, and gardener for several years now. he used to work for me full time but now only comes one or two days a week. whatever hair-brained idea i come up with, either he or big jeanne or both have been there to work on it with me. beto came this morning and we installed the peace posters on the front, side, and (a small one on the) back of the house. i told him we were revolutionaries like che guevara, he said che was cool. we talked about how what we do today will survive us... some kid who sees my house and posters will soon be telling his grandkids about the extremely goodlooking and slightly quirky man who lived near him when he was little... im going to dorothys to watch al gores live earth concert this afternoon then on to my daughters... the torch is being passed!

free posters for peace: http://blesstheworld.com

give em a hand

before surgery on her hand, big jeanne was told it would take six weeks for her to recover. six months later, the doctors are saying it could take a year or more. obviously the doctors dont have a clue (have you seen michael moores sicko yet?)... but the bottom line is this: i am hard-pressed to get any work out of big jeanne! so after spending the day at kinkos to get peace posters made, they still arent hung because i need another body (with working hands) to help. (if you want to see what the posters look like hung, go to the website and click on photographs ~ what have you done today to save the world?) i did work on my button painting only burning my fingers a few times. and i had a good breakthrough on the text for body of water (film). so my hands have been busy while others remain idle. tomorrow is the big planet party, of course i havent heard a peep from al gore!

save the world

al gore invited me to a party. i only hear from him when he wants something ~this time its saving the world, a big party and concert on 07-07-07. i couldnt get anyone to participate in PEACE ON EARTH DAY / PEACE RADIO ~it was a grand failure~ so how does he think i can help? he will rock the world, i cant even give it a shake! i think inertia is the great disease of our time, the plague is especially strong in the usa... how is it that each and every american has not picked up a stone and hurled it at the white house? especially after electing someone not smart enough to hide fixing the election ~it was done in plain sight for a month... how is it that americans still believe we need to be in iraq? the lies have been in plain sight for years... but the news media are distracted by the plight of paris hilton and americans are plagued by inertia. and a.d.d. my newsletter goes out directly to a few thousand people but i might as well read it to myself! get off the couch, come to the party. you can save yourself from the disease!

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