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VeganMoFo #20: The KZ Vegan NYC-77
I began the Melissa Bastian‘s Vegan New York 100 a few days back. After making it nearly to the end I decided I’d make my own! Of course there is some overlap. Here it is, the KZ Vegan NYC 77, in no particular order. 1. Slice‘s Simpleton, subbed with Daiya2. The Seitan Picatta at Candle [...]
Welcoming the Autumnal Equinox
Autumn is my favorite season. For so many reasons: many discernible, others crackling lightly in the cool air, in the shifts of the Earth’s axis, my stars up at bat. What I love: 1. Sweater weather 2. Long nights 3. The Harvest Moon (October 4) 4. Butternut squash 5. New England foliage 6. Halloween 7. [...]
Perhaps Labor Day doesn’t come from a store. Perhaps Labor Day means a little bit more.
As the Industrial Revolution took hold of the nation, the average American in the late 1800s worked 12-hour days, seven days a week in order to make a basic living. Children were also working, as they provided cheap labor to employers and laws against child labor were not strongly enforced. With the long hours and [...]
Life Recap: 10 Best Shows So Far (I.N.P.O.)
Bon Jovi/Tesla, Nassau Coliseum, Long Island, 1987: I was 9. Let’s keep this in perspective. Faith No More, Roseland Ballroom, NYC, 1992: Ozzy Osbourne, Paramount Theater at MSG, NYC, 1993 Built To Spill, Tramps, NYC, 1997 Unwound/Blonde Redhead, Kill Rock Stars/CMJ Festival, NYC, 1997 Elliott Smith, Time Cafe, NYC, 1998 Modest Mouse, Knitting Factory, NYC, [...]
The Seven Deadly Sins
1.) Lust Lust (Latin, Cupidita), or lechery, is usually thought of as excessive thoughts or desires of a sexual nature. Dante’s criterion was excessive love of others, which therefore rendered love and devotion to God as secondary. Mega-D.I.L.F. Panda Bear, Terminal 5, NYC (photo: Joseph “Whoa Whoa Whoa” Roth c/o Eat My Shots.) 2.) Gluttony Derived from the Latin gluttire, meaning [...]
Thriftshopping… In My Closet, Part II
8. Buttons to Push Buttons. When I was a kid there was one phone in the in the house and it was in the kitchen. This phone had a ring so powerful you’d hear it from the basement, the attic and in any of the 4 top floor bedrooms. With four youngins in the household, [...]
Thriftshopping… In My Closet, Part I
Yesterday I cleaned out my storage closet. Re-discovering my lost treasures was so exciting. It was like I was at an estate sale of a woman with my exact taste and penchant for kitsch. Below is a list of some of my favorite unearthed treasures and the chain of thoughts they provoke. 1. Sunday gloves [...]
Spring Cleaning Tidbits
I feel a bit scatterbrain these days. I need to purge some half-baked thoughts out of my noodle to focus on the impending final projects of this spring semester and the larger goals I need to set in motion this year. After all, 2009 is already nearly its first quarter’s end! Here are some things [...]
NY Resolution #1: Without music life would be a mistake. (Nietzsche)
2009 Resolution #1: Hear more new music. Fresh songs for fresh memories. I miss buying music. Music you can delicately pull from an lp sleeve, lay gently on a record player, wait the 2 seconds of cracklin’. I miss spending long hours in record shops. Those priorities, those discretionary funds. Today, without Joe giving me music, I’d [...]
Little Things List of Love, Part II
There is no remedy for love but to love more. In the spirit of this quotation from Henry David Thoreau I offer, finally, the second installment of my little things list of love. (See the Little Things List of Love, Part One here.) 51.) Etsy 52.) Lists 53.) Ada Jones 54.) October 55.) Blurb 56.) [...]
Crossing Things Off the To-Do List
_________________________________________ Book II of my Thailand travels is now published on Blurb! This second installment of my words and photographs was a long time in the making. Sorting through 586 MB of photos and proofing 17,559 words was a huge task. The book, showing all of my March 2008 travels in Northern, Northeastern and Southern [...]
How To Waste Time
After an extended weekend of working on the semester’s final projects, I’ve experienced a plethora of ways to procrastinate their completion. 1) Make extravagant breakfasts and swear they are communicating good will through their blackberry eyes.2) Start prepping fabric for holiday crafting. Allow yourself the luxury of making a mess because cleaning up can waste [...]
