In case you can’t make out the image below, it was lesson number one in the importance of proper form in doing Turkish Get-Ups. In particular, it’s a dent in my floor in the shape of the bottom edge of one of my kettle bells. If you lose control of a kettle bell while doing a Turkish get-up, especially when you’re holding it high above your body and the floor,[…] Keep reading →

One day charging with solar in Washington Square Park, I saw a bunch of birds flapping around on the panels. I’m not sure if you can see them playing around in this picture. The video below partly captures their playfulness, but not as much as seeing them. They’d flap up onto the panel, then flap around up and down, solo, in pairs, and in groups. It was a warm day,[…] Keep reading →

Emissions of greenhouse gases are measured and reported as major indications of environmental problems. Emissions aren’t the relevant measure. They distract us from what is relevant to human well-being. They lead people to say, “I exhale and poop. Life requires pollution,” and conclude action won’t work. To be more precise, they feel like they conclude, they actually just rationalize and justify the preconception they wanted. They miss that fossil fuels’[…] Keep reading →

I’ve written and recorded a bunch lately on the peaches and heirloom tomatoes I’ve been eating tons of lately because people don’t take them. Here are those posts: I took a picture of the tomatoes so people could see how some are bruised and the skin broken. Maybe many people would find them unacceptable. In the picture below, the one in the upper left is pretty bruised, but didn’t lose[…] Keep reading →

Amazon: save pennies, ruin your community. My neighborhood is filled with delivery trucks taking up public space delivering tons of stuff daily, followed by sanitation trucks hauling tons of garbage. Meanwhile, there are no produce stores almost anywhere in the city. People shopping online wreck communities. First, they mostly buy less-than-useless things that will end up poisoning landfills. Click any result from a search on “most popular purchase on amazon”[…] Keep reading →

Many new restaurants have few to no tables. Single-use packaging costs less than rent for the space for tables, a dishwasher, people to wash dishes, etc. They don’t have to pay for cleaning anything. We taxpayers pay those costs. We suffer their pollution we didn’t consent to. Since the packaging takes resources to make, in polluting processes, and the waste poisons the rest of us, they destroy life, liberty, and[…] Keep reading →

I keep my working spaces clean, including clearing my desktop every evening before going to sleep. I try to keep files off my computer desktop too. Working on my next book has me referring to and learning from the Declaration of Independence and Constitution so often, I decided to put them on my computer desktop. Many sites online carry their full texts, but I couldn’t find any with a file[…] Keep reading →

I was walking home from the food coop past NYU and saw this truck. They’re all over Manhattan, basically limousines. Rich people travel by giant truck, I guess as some luxury. It was sitting there not moving. The passengers weren’t in it but it wasn’t empty. A guy in a suit—the driver—was sitting in it, engine idling, I presume with the air conditioning on because it was around 90 F[…] Keep reading →

Yesterday was the annual Pride March, which means a wrecked Washington Square Park. I make it an annual habit to take pictures of the state of the park after. As usual, to clarify, I’m selecting the event not to say anything about the march itself, its causes, or its people, but for the garbage. My mission is to change American and global culture and the pictures illustrate our culture. I[…] Keep reading →