Beerandscifi.com now has a twitter account at twitter.com/beerandscifi. I’ll be updating twitter as a supplement to the larger stories here.
I’ll be reading through 2 books and posting my thoughts on Twitter. Please follow me and forward me to your friends.
The books are:
1. (Science Fiction) The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard
2. (Beer) Fermenting Revolution: How [...]

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John Steinbeck wrote that redwoods, once seen, “leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always – from them comes silence and awe.” As we walked among them in several groves along the 31-mile long “Avenue of the Giants”, we could only echo Steinbeck’s emotion. It ‘s one thing to walk among the ruins of civilizations gone millennia ago amidst noisy shutterbugs and souvenir hawking vendors – it is another to touch the tallest and oldest living things in creation in a peaceful green gallery and feel time itself.

This is exactly what I feel when I visit these forests. My times in the Redwood Forest are some of the most memorable and inspiring I’ve ever had. When I am there I become quiet, realizing that my busy-ness and my striving to become important is not as important as I perceive it. My place in this world is not the center, and I am much less important than I have thought. But this is not a bad thing, it brings me to become less selfish, more caring, and more compassionate of a person. The joys of Friluftsliv.

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My brother gave me a humorous card about my reliance on beer to make it through graduate school. It’s true though, drinking beer saved my education!

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You may be wondering why I’ve not been posting lately. I’ve got some good news for you all…I’ve just graduated with my masters degree in fine art. So, the last couple months have been really fast-paced and I haven’t been able to keep up this blog as I’ve wanted to. BUT! I’ve got a lot [...]

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Hello everyone,
I’m graduating in about two weeks and if you are a Portlander reading my blog I would like to invite you to my final graduate lecture on May 31st. I will be giving a presentation about alternative education and beer as they relate to my artwork. I would love to have some of my [...]

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At Powell’s Bookstore Peter Ward renowned paleontologist Peter Ward proposes a revolutionary and provocative vision of life’s relationship with Earth’s biosphere, one that has frightening implications for our future — yet also offers hope. Mass extinctions, hydrogen sulfide, and carbon dioxide, and what it all has to do with each other.

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As part of my exhibition, Building in the Post-Apocalypse, I will have a series of events that range from sci-fi movie screenings to building tours to alternative education workshops. This is my “final MFA Graduate exhibition” and I believe it is a very strong show. Please come see it if you are in Portland. Here [...]

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And we’re back! Over the last few weeks I have been posting what I find to be the top five most interesting micronations. This post contains #2 of 5. The others, so far, are #5, #4, and #3.

Name: Republic of Molossia
Location: There are currently three provinces included in the Republic of Molossia: one in Nevada, [...]

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A new blog called The Greenwashing blog showcases pictures and videos of greenwashing advertisements, or advertisements that use “green” and environment subject matter to trick you into buying products.

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Image of Edgar Arceneaux’s Tupca, Tuvoc, and Spock drawing compared with three beers from Deschutes Brewery in Portland, Oregon: Black Butte Porter, Obsidian Stout and the limited Black Pearl Dark Ale

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A couple days ago one of the leading sci fi blogs , io9, made an entire blog post about beerandscifi. I am very flattered and say thank you to io9. Since then I have had an overwhelming amount of traffic and a very large amount of new subscribers.
To all the new people, this post is [...]

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Below is an amazing video about the plastic garbage dump in the Pacific Ocean. The video was made by some of the researchers from the marine research group Algalita. Earlier this year I accumulated some information about this “North Pacific Gyre” and I wrote about it here. Basically there is a spot in the Pacific [...]

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A handful of links about outerspace, art, beer, utopia, dystopia, and the mix of it all together.

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The motivation for utopian projects is the wonderful and enlivening stance that we are an active part of creating the world, that our actions can shape our life according to our most precious beliefs. But somehow following the path of creating utopia doesn’t work out the way people envision. Why have people’s attempts to make the world over in the image of their ideals not produced ideal places to live?

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Beer coaster that says “Life After Doomsday.”

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