brain mulch

From the Leaf-O-Matic to La Corda dei Panni and ChatEau du Robinet, Peter Stock has some great gift ideas for the season.

Peter Stock is a freelance writer and radio broadcaster. He drinks tap water, would rake his lawn if warranted and fashions wire hangers into a makeshift clothesline.

Gareth Lind is a cartoonist and graphic designer whose carbon footprint is in Guelph, Ontario. He has illustrated for Alternatives since 1995. His weekly satirical comic strip, Weltschmerz, first appeared in 1994. Visit lindtoons.com for a fresh cartoon every Thursday. ...

Musician, artist, thinker David Byrne created drawings/diagrams (mostly) in the form of trees. The drawings were published by McSweeney’s as Arboretum in 2006 – straight from Byrne’s sketchbook, smudges and all, plus a four-foot foldout guide. It’s an eclectic blend of faux science, automatic writing, satire, and an attempt to find connections where none were thought to exist — a sort of self-therapy, allowing the hand to say what the voice cannot. Irrational logic, it’s sometimes called the application of logical scientific rigor and form to basically irrational premises.