I’m thinking about changing the name of this site to: Mark Maynard’s ‘What I’m Doing Tonight Instead of Blogging Blog.’
Tonight, the plan is to go to bed early and read today’s “New York Times Magazine.” It’s on cities. So far, I’ve just skimmed it, but it looks really good. I’m particularly looking forward to the articles on Dubai and urban guerrilla gardening. (I love that the “New York Times” is advocating for “seedbombs.”) The only part that I’ve read so far is the interview with Enrique Penalosa, the former mayor of Bogot
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I’m sure some greenies might object but, as an urban UBU I’ve made it a rule never to live anywhere without sidewalks or streetlights, which, thankfully, excludes many suburbs. I remember visting a friend in the D.C. suburb of Bethesda and staying in his house when he went to work. “So where can I walk to from here while you’re gone?” I asked. “Walk? You can’t walk ANYWHERE from here.” In fact there was a nice coffee shop in a strip mall not too far but he’d never even thought of hoofing it…
I’m up for some seed bombing. I’ve been thinking about it for awhile now, just haven’t gotten to the action part. My own yard could use a big ‘ol seed bomb, come to think of it.
Seed Bombs, back in my college days, were plastic baggies filled with semen. We’d throw them the pledges.
>some greenies
Those greenies would be confused then – if we all lived where services are, then we’d have LOTS more nature and more open farmland. (And lots of other ancillary benefits.) Sprawl is not cool.
After a lot of research, I’ve discovered the perfect plant for your seedbombs.
They’re nutritious, hardy, incredibly reproductive and even grow in sidewalks.
I was going to link to a photo of the giant radioactive vegetables from Gilligan’s Island (also seen is Sleeper) but I can’t find an image anywhere.
Fucking internet.
Where does one get cannabis seed? Then the next question is, where best to drop such a seedbomb: One’s friends or one’s enemies?
Ann Arbor, home to the hash bash comes to mind, of course. But then, is that too cliche’?
I have a recipe for seed balls (note the pacifist version of the concept). No one will be surprised.
I feed seeds to my dogs then walk them around town. Does that count as seed bombing?
I think the Yankee Air Museum rents out their B-17 at a pretty reasonable hourly rate.