friend of the built environment

Good ole Al Gore. He’s back in the spotlight - now as a film producer rather than a smarmy politico. He’s making us quake in our boots about the horrible things we are doing to this floating wet rock we call home. He’s assuring us that all we have to do to stop it is [...]

Ikea is going to start charging for plastic bags and San Francisco has been trying for years to tax the use of bags or otherwise control their use in the city.
The goal is ostensibly to ‘help the environment’ but that’s utter and complete bull. Aldi and Costco and Sam’s Club have had a no-bags-provided policy [...]

Years before Poppy wrote her Lennon-McCartney slashfic novella, I was in 12-grade English class as an 11th-grader set to graduate a year early.
I don’t think I would have made it through that class without having had a smooshy granola teacher whom Andrea and I referred to as “Bitch Taylor”. She was a totally annoying teacher, [...]

I hate funerals. As I’ve said before, I find death totally wrong and unnecessary, and I hate the fact that our culture tends to ‘celebrate’ it with various rituals. A good quote I came across recently sums up the practice quite well:
“I do not find it respectful or dignified to allow someone to rot and [...]

In 10th grade, Andrea had a foreign exchange student staying with her from England. She came to school with Andrea and was in the classes we had together for quite some time. We developed this passive-aggressive juvenile exchange while she was in town, because we were young, I had a thing for British anything and [...]