It's creeping me out how every magazine is having it's "Green Issue" right now, and it's all marketed like some current trend that will soon be outdated. I know it's Earth Day time and all, but seriously, I don't remember this from past years. And the weirdest thing of all is that the articles tell the reader of all these "sustainable" and "green" products to buy. It doesn't really make sense to tell people to buy more stuff if you're trying to encourage them to live in a sustainable way, does it? And printing millions of paper magazines to tell you to tread more lightly on the earth is just even more ridiculous. The articles give you the impression that if you would just buy this one particular $40 lipstick, you would be taking a giant step toward saving the planet...as if the entire process of creating that tube of lipstick was just a way of blessing the earth and undoing all sorts of previous evils. Ridiculous.

Springtime babies have spring in their blood.
My mom said she felt in tune with nature when she had my brother and me.
I was born in a hospital in Hartford, CT with daffodils and flowering trees outside the room.

My favorite places in NYC this time of year
Sheep Meadow
the Japanese pond in the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
the turtle pond in the backyard of Cafe 1980 in Williamsburg
Fort Greene Park, especially the farmer's market on Saturday mornings

Soundtrack for spring
Thank You - Terrible Two (out soon on Thrill Jockey, buy it!)

Movies for springtime
Shaolin Soccer
Life in the Undergrowth (looks best projected real big)

My sister Laura has an article in the new issue of ANP Quarterly. It is about the store Golden Age in Chicago. ANP is free at many locations.

Iceland, Rob amongst redwoods, the triumph of life over death, Rob flies a kite next to my parents and brother and Lake Michigan, No War on Highway 1, Icelandic crater, my favorite photo of Robbie