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Vegan Meats Made From Beef: LightLife and ConAgra
This posting has been brewing for years. (Alternate name: Smart Patty My Ass.) You probably know of LightLife‘s packaged veggie meats, maybe picked some up at some point given their widespread availability. They’re everywhere! Of course they’re everywhere. They get delivered with the Chef Boyardee, the Eggos, Orville Redenbacher’s, the Slim-Jims and the Redi-Whips. Lightlife, [...]
Earth Day Is Why Vegan Day
I haven’t had to do this in awhile (not since November 2008) but it’s time again… I have to get on the soapbox… As a vegan of many, many years, I am the backboard to occasional commentary and inquisition from omnivores, many well-intentioned but backed in myth and misinformation, many defensive to the implicit righteousness [...]
The Path to Salvation: The Salvation Army
Denver, CO I am an avid thrifthunter. Apparently it was decided in the stars, as noted in Starsky and Cox’s Sextrology {Thee most spot-on description of the Libra woman I ever did read, including such accurate details as my shoe size}. I’ve traveled coast-to-coast collecting knick-knacks and thing-a-mybobs, often expeditioning solely for a thrift prospect. [...]
Goodbye W., Part III: I’m off to Inauguration
I requested off from work on January 20, 2009 the evening of November 4, 2008. Somewhere between then and a few hours ago I was resolved to celebrate inauguration activities here in New York City. I would wake up early to nab a seat for the screening at the Langston Hughes Auditorium at the Schomburg [...]
✩ ✩ Buy Nothing Day: Friday, 11/28/08 ✩ ✩
1. Break a comfort zone. For the most part, we exist safely in the parameters of our comfort zones. By design, they don’t challenge us. Year after passing year, growing boundaries can keep us comfortable– but should that be the goal of our time here? Today I’ll have a meaningful conversation with a stranger, parallel park a car until [...]
Belated World Vegan Day Post
Wok Man and I have been having some heated discussions about food ethics. The extent to which people disconnect themselves from their food choices, and the consequences of those food choices, disturbs us greatly. Food ignorance is wreaking havoc on our health, our ass size, the environment and the millions of sentient beings it enslaves [...]
These are not bad words.
liberal: \ˈli-b(ə-)rəl\ a political philosophy based on belief in progress, the essential goodness of the human race, and the autonomy of the individual and standing for the protection of political and civil liberties elite: \ā-ˈlēt, i-, ē-\the best of a class intellect: \ˈin-tə-ˌlekt\the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to [...]
Think Outside the Bottle
Link here. Aren’t goals much easier to accomplish when you announce your intentions to the world? When you have to submit your name, click buttons and see a confirmation page? Kidding aside, I’ve sworn off bottled water. Because its production is wasteful. Because its packaging is wasteful. Because NYC’s tap water comes from the Catskills [...]
Cuteness & the Weird Aunt
My nieces are often scared of my home-stitched gifts. Looking nothing like Dora or the Princesses, my plush crafts are often confusing to them, even scary. (Last Christmas my stuffed owl gift was thrown in sheer panic and fear!) With this in mind I began to stitch them up some colorful masks from my huge [...]
Vegan Mofo #13: The Good Fight
Living in New York City and surrounding myself with friends and loved ones who complement and support my being vegan, or at least have gotten over constantly challenging, simplifying, arguing against and calling attention to this choice, I have forgotten the conflicts of being vegan in a non-vegan world. I forget that I am, still, [...]
Viva Shea!
Today’s Mets vs. Marlins game may be the last game played in New York’s Shea Stadium. I say “may” because it is my hope that they’ll be playing the Milwaukee Brewers in sudden death as they’re both tied for the National League wildcard. This is exciting on many levels, mostly because I’ve cheered the Brewers [...]
Once you go Midwest, you never go back.
———————– Public Service Announcement:Like Alaska tries to reel in the ladies for its many eligible bachelors, New York City needs men. Not gay men (In Jerry‘s voice: not that there’s anything wrong with that). Not effeminate men. Men who worry about accessorizing, hair care products and ironic facial hair patterns need not apply. We already [...]
