Yeah, you doubling up on plastic bags at the grocery store. And you who bought that cute little canvas tote to take to the mall, but you never seem to remember to bring it. And you stock piling an arsenal of plastic bags for some unforeseen apocalyptic waste basket liner drought. 

And me.

I'm lazy. I take a bag when I don't have one handy (even if I know I have one of those eco-friendly reusable ones in the back of my car outside 100 feet away.

But if I have three items or less, I won't take a bag no matter what -- unless one of my items is ice cream. I have some restraint.

Anyway, about the Bag Monster, otherwise known as activist Andy Keller. 

He's coming to town to set up a 45,000 plastic bag installation at the Tremayne Shelter at Creve Coeur Park, 41 South Central Avenue today from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

The 45,000 bag display represents how many plastics bags a typical individual uses during their lifetime. Keller's signature Bag Monster costume is made out of 500 plastic bags, the amount one person uses in a single year.

Keller started this grassroots campaign in California. And pending a historic vote this month, his state could become the first to implement a statewide plastic bag ban (San Francisco and Oakland have already instituted plastic bag bans).

Now, the Bag Monster is riding across country on a three-wheeled bike (with carbon offsets, of course) to 15 cities in states considering plastic bag legislation. St. Louis is the next stop on his tour set to end mid-September in New York.

It's sobering and the costume is just as silly as the wasteful consumption.

Yes, we need to carry things but geez. Five hundred plastic bags a year seems excessive.

I can't promise I'll stop all my evil plastic bag consumption ways, but I'll try.

Keller makes for a convincing visual. Don't feed the Bag Monster!