I’ve had several new ideas for the video blog, some of which I’m working on. I’m hoping to bring some humor and other vegan voices to my channel. I had the idea of interviewing my friends who are vegan or vegetarian since I think it’s important to show the diversity of opinions even among us.
Quite tired right now but have posted in a while. The kitties are lazing around, a moment of silence before they begin their next round of chaos! last night was a veritable orgy of fur covered purring as they decided to descend upon me in my gentle sleep, wakening me with the squirming, pawing, tickling, and suckling (one of the babies likes to suckle my fleece). I’m debating keeping them out of the bedroom tonight, which I only recently reclaimed, mostly to reclaim my sense of sanity and appropriate use of space – I had been sleeping on a futon mattress in the middle of my living room until last week since the kitty-babies came home to stay with me in May.
That said, they have brought so much joy into my life I don’t know what I was doing before! Even still I am having some mood issues, and seem to have grown some tolerance to my meds. Having generalized anxiety and sour moods for no known reason … anyway I don’t want to complain about that now, here.
EMAIL to my (vegan) [half-Japanese] friend who got married in a fairy tale style wedding last weekend and is in hawaii this week. She ordered some Tupperware at the Waffle Party. This note just made me laugh, I hope it makes you laugh too. This is just how we talk to each other … lolz.
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Hey gangsta
Yer BANANA GUNS are here. Yeah, that’s right, those obnoxious yellow weird shaped pieces of crap you bought for some dumbass charity.
What d’ya want me to do with them??
Hope your honeymoon was scrumptious and that you are fat, happy and preggers by now.
Love,
ARISA
P.S. ANGERA – YOU were the most radiant bride I’ve ever seen!! It made me puke with giddiness *xoxoxo*
Ever wonder what vegans eat? Well, we eat A LOT of things 🙂 Here’s just a sample of what my wonderful vegan BF made for dinner last night …
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In other random thoughts, we were talking about the oil spill again last night and about the moratorium on deep water drilling, which can be debated whether that is a good thing or not, but … Why hasn’t anyone suggested a MORATORIUM ON FISHING???!!! Let the species recover for g-d’s sake.. why has this not occurred to anyone? We don’t dare rob people of their precious seafood dinner, but we’ll gladly rob the life of innocents for our palate. Talk about addiction (as in, addiction to fossil fuels), this one is so deep under wraps that no one dare speak of it. Wake up people. Fish are going to be gone from your waters in a few decades at this rate and then you will HAVE TO give up eating them.
*** from a review by Eve Spencer, Vegan Voice Magazine **
“The World Peace Diet is not a diet in the sense of a fad diet to lose weight, but the author illustrates clearly how the social, psychological and spiritual consequences of our meals “ripple through all aspects of our lives.”
“The book is systematically developed to reveal the connection between what we daily put on our plates, and peace in the world and in our lives. Some of the chapters covered include the power of food, the herding culture, the nature of intelligence, domination of the feminine, the metaphysics of food, science and religion, profiting from destruction, the journey of transformation, and in the final chapter—living the revolution—is ‘the last days of eating animal.'” …
Vegans in the kitchen, making awesome green juice and acting silly with companion kitties. What more could you ask for?
My first attempt at editing the clips. Please comment, rate and sub if you like!! more to come!
** Recipe **
1 granny smith apple
several handfuls of spinach
handful of parsley
3 small carrots
3 stalks celery
lemon wedge
The Juicer used in this video is an auger type Samson GB 900-1 All-in-One juicer. **
I feel sort of bad about bashing the oilspill coverage. but I feel worse about all the sea life that people seem to think is just there for their dinner …
In this post I talk about some of my vlogging goals, deconstructing stereotypes of vegans and dairy farmers, and about the difference between animal welfare and animal rights. We must all have compassion and listening for each other …
I’m officially too lazy to write and have started vlogging on youtube …
I’ll try not to get too bogged down with learning all the technical stuff and thus discouraging myself, so please excuse if the first few are a little less than stellar [in terms of editing!] Thanks!!
Julia at Real Detroit Weekly interviewed me about the Waffle Party this weekend in Pontiac … coincidentally this weekend is also the Movement Electronic Music Festival in Detroit. So, who knows, we may have a lot of people just show up! We have to be ready.
Also, the Press Release was printed last weekend in the Oakland Press & it’s been posted on several community boards.
Got your irons ready? Get set … GO !!!
MENU:
Waffles
Sweet Toppings:
Choclate Sauce, agave & maple syrup, vegan whipped topping, strawberries, blueberrie, and black berries, chocolate chips, coconut flakes, Earth Balance, flax ….
Savory Toppings:
We’re going Mexican themed here: Local guacamole & salsas, black beans, lettuce, cilantro, soy sour cream, hot sauce, Daiyva Cheeze
Plus more …
Here is an excerpt from the interview:
How’d the idea come to be?
There’s this group of people in Pittsburgh who have been doing waffle parties since the ’90s. It sounded like a lot of fun. … I’m vegan, and I’ve only lived [in Michigan] for about a year and a half.
From my friend over at thereafterish – she challenged readers to compose a poem from a random rhyme generator.
This is what I got from the words ‘vegan,’ yogi’ and ‘reject’ and 5 minutes of writing. I actually like it; it was fun!
Once upon a time I aspired to be vegan
Just one PETA video and I was ready to begin
Daily I gorged myself on gourmet char-grilled seitan
and freshly made salads topped with candied pecans
But one day my Yoga master, a respected old fogey
told me I had to have dairy if I wanted to be a strong yogi
Laughing in his face I continued to select
the very best rice cheeses & soymilks I could detect
He told me I was bordering on disrespect
And threatened to toss me out of this exclusive sect
So now I practice at home, a veganic yoga reject.
new world dawn 