The Jam Slam 2011: A Call To Preservationists Everywhere!
One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to make a different variety of jam every week for a year. As canning is one of those fake frugal hobbies like knitting or quilting, I’m going to offset my jam costs by sourcing free fruit by growing my own, collecting surplus produce from my neighbors, gleaning ingredients [...]
52 Letters, 52 Weeks Challenge–Letter #1
Check out this fabulous, enameled and bejeweled, bee-shaped pill box my friend Stephanie sent me for, oh, no good reason. She’s definitely tuned into my psychic radio station, because I know I’ve never mentioned to her that I’ve been looking for a pill box to replace the grubby little Tupperware container I’ve been carrying around [...]
The Lurid Details Of My Only Handmade Mandate for 2011
Because, you know, it’s never too early to set yourself up for crushing failure, here are my initial expectations/rules for my ONLY HANDMADE IN 2011 Mandate: Unless I can figure out how to get a full-ride scholarship to an Italian school for shoemakers this year, I will not be getting new shoes. Why? Because any [...]
New Year’s Resolutions! Now With Less Money And More 2011!
What? It’s the New Year already? But I’m still trying to finish up last year’s resolutions! Although I had many successes in 2010, such as getting beekeeping legalized in Santa Monica, California and driving fewer than 5000 miles in my car, most of my leftover chores mocking me from my half-done Master List have to [...]
We Got An Annenberg Foundation Grant For Our Beekeeping Film!
This is the best email I’ve gotten all year! from: annenbergfoundation.org to: my roman apartment date: Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 4:23 PM subject: Intended grant on behalf of the Metabolic Studio Dear Max, On behalf of the Metabolic Studio and Annenberg Foundation Director, I am delighted to advise you that the Foundation intends to [...]
Looking Haggard & Old in the New York Times
Today, for the first time ever, my image is gracing the pages of the New York Times! My sister collects unflattering photographs of me. This collection dates back to our childhood. In art school, she used her collection of unflattering photographs as the basis for all her work. (When I showed up at her graduation [...]
Homegrown Shrooms?
You know when you’ve gone over to the dark side of urban farming when you see a mushroom growing in the giant pile of horse shit in your driveway and your first thought is: “I wonder if that’s edible?”
