I know it's a terrible idea to allow those global warming denying Christianists to get under my skin, but in any event, I had to take off my Greenpeace jacket today to tell one of them to fuck himself. Enough people in this country/on this planet are living with their heads in the clouds... you assholes don't need to be out there recruiting more ( Read more... )

Was in Arizona for the week. Heard it had become something of a right wing fantasia, and I guess I had to investigate. There was all sorts of good luck and bad luck really all sorts of luck for everyone there and that's one of the funny things about this job. So much revolves around your ability to ride a good long wave of luck for as long as you ( Read more... )

Trying to convince myself I still know how to write. Surely by now I know how to get perfect strangers to drop a cool $50 monthly for the plight of the orangutan. And that feels good mostly daily, because I don't ever feel like I'm conning. Making tuna salad every day, selling it at outrageous profit margins, that all felt like a con. Turkey curry ( Read more... )

Man o man, what awkward times it's been the last few weeks. Get fired for the most bullshit reason of all time, democratic uprising in Egypt, hired by Greenpeace, dog goes into heat, has one botched surgery after another, very nearly dies, I go for a week to Salt Lake City with Greenpeace, the namesake-of-namesakes Wisconsin governor goes ( Read more... )

I accepted a job with Greenpeace, standing on street corners, talking to folks about environmental degradation, soliciting membership and money, and I'll have to make $150 a week or else it's back on the streets, but all in all I'm feeling positive about it because standing on street corners talking to folks about environmental degradation is way ( Read more... )