STRAW WARS USA

Enjoy photos of 1,000+ friends with glass straws in FIFTY-NINE countries on SEVEN continents!

Gone but never forgotten, Grateful Dead Icon, Phil Lesh!
Living Legend, Booker T. Jones
Debbie Harry & John, December 2015, WTTW Soundstage Studio, Chicago, IL
Renowned Historian, Author, Editor, & College Professor Douglas Brinkley & Geoff Ladd

Darryl Jones! Official non-official Rolling Stone and Chicago native
New Wave Music Legend, Lene Lovich, September 21, 2025

Living Legend, Founding Father of the Blues, Buddy Guy, (still smiling and rocking @ a young 86 years!)

Founding Father of American Punk Rock - Chris Stein (with Debbie Harry)

 

Tom Parker Bowles, Stepson of King Charles III

You do yourself no favors by drinking bottled water, in fact, you probably do yourself quite a bit of harm:

Jim Peterik: Ides of March/Survivor/.38 Special

 
The inimitable Peter Buck of R.E.M. & The Baseball Project

Plastic recycling is a distraction promoted by petrochemical companies.

Don Was, Detroit's Greatest Champion and Export

Jakob Dylan - The Wallflowers

Humans ALL ingest

Beautiful, sweet, and what a voice! Cindy Wilson of The B-52s!

Mark Mothersbaugh, Legendary Artistic Genius of Devo and a Multitude of Other Projects

We are FAR beyond the tipping point of plastic pollution.

Jon King, Gang of Four, vocals, mesmerizing dancing and general onstage mayhem
Hugo Burnham, Gang of Four, drums and percussion
Ted Leo, Gang of Four's brilliant guitarist
Gail Greenwood, Gang of Four's Killer Bassist
Jerome Dupree, drummer of Morphine, w/Angie (photograph was lost in the shuffle for over a decade, returned to the public sphere 7/24/25)
 

The Glass Straw Guy's PLASTIC FREE solution to dining leftovers:

Sara Lee, former bassist of Gang of Four
Andy Gill, former Gang of Four, gone much too soon. R.I.P.

Plastic recycling is a fraud promoted by plastic producers - the Fossil Fuel Industry

Outstanding Blues Guitarist Sue Foley w/John
 

 

John & Adam Duritz of Counting Crows
Adam Duritz of Counting Crows rejects the proferred glass straw, my earliest celebrity straw pic, November 2012 outside the Wiltern Theater, Los Angeles
 

Glass Straw Guy in the News:

   

Godfather of British Blues, John Mayall

Guitar virtuoso Sonny Landreth

Remember, you TRIPLE your impact every time you reject single-use plastic:

NO EXTRACTION; NO PRODUCTION; NO PLASTIC

Please avoid single-use plastic proactively.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     

FRIENDS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

 
 
 
 
 
GLASS STRAW GUY'S BESTSELLERS

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Dodging Raindrops and Bullets

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