So the other day when we had the final Hella West Coast Report it was sort of the beginning of the end of my time in California. It is now the end of the end. I am in the San Francisco airport waiting for a plane to take me back to the East Coast, and I thought to myself, “Hey, you could put a little post on the blog, like a farewell.”

For the last few days, I was pretty much cooped up at the Long Haul Infoshop (in Berkeley) working with the amazing folks of the Slingshot Collective. Slingshot has been around for 16 or so years, and their “radical organizer” is pretty well known. We have them in NC, and they can be found in most parts of the US, and even internationally. Anyway, I met one of the guys from the collective a while back at a house show, and he told me that they needed some people to help with artwork for the calendar. Naturally, I volunteered, partly because I find it really hard to say no to any awesome anarcho project. So on Friday and Saturday I did two months of pages for the 2011 pocket-size calendar, plus one month-at-a-glance page, and on Sunday I did some editing and doodling for other things. Gonna be working on some possible cover art in the next few days, which is really exciting, as well as some features (for example, a “What’s Your Collective Personality Type” quiz)!

Once I get back to NC I’ll still be in touch with Slingshot, helping however I can from thousands of miles away. I’ll also be staying connected with Rock Paper Scissors, which is the art collective that I worked with for the majority of my time in the Bay. In fact, I’m really interested in doing some collective organizing of my own (well… it will be our own once it exists) in Chapel Hill / Carrboro when I get back. Gotta recruit some folks, but hopefully that will get going in the next few months!

It’s been so much fun doing HWCR for the past month and a half or so. Hope people enjoyed listening or thought it was at least marginally entertaining. I hope to be back on the WXYC airwaves in the Fall semester, so keep it locked to 89.3FM on your radio dial or streaming device of choice. ❤

Finally, I mentioned this in my last call, but there are pictures from the Pocahaunted / Peaking Lights show that I went to on my Picasa page. Link is on the right on the page. I’ll be posting the last of my pictures on there pretty soon, so check it out. :]