January 2010
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American crazies, awesome people in other...
We didn’t have a link-o-rama for a couple of weeks, whoops. Good thing we saved up all those links, so you have tons of good reading for this weekend.
Let’s get some shoes! Vegan shoes, on sale through the end of the month. Ohhhh man, I wear a 7.5 U.S./37.5 EU if anyone wants to buy me a special present for being so great.
Can I kiss, like, everyone in Ghent? Last year, the city...
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Our Farm, a new children's book!
Coming soon to a bookstore near you (also available for pre-order on Amazon): Our Farm: By the Animals of Farm Sanctuary. The children’s book is a collection of poems written in the first person from various rescued farm animals that the poet, Maya Gottfried, actually met at the Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, NY. The poems are extremely sweet and full of personality, taking on very lively...
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Yoga, Veganism, and Complaining: I Love Them All...
I’m a yogi, in the American sense: a couple times a week, I go to a class to practice Hatha yoga, mostly for strength and flexibility. I try to meditate at the appropriate time, but it’s hardly the focus of my practice. There’s a big difference between what I do and what real yogis do: they are trying to reach a pinnacle of meditative ecstasy and therefore achieve...
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Gussie's Chicken and Waffles!
I won’t get into the whole long boring story, but I’ve been staying in a company apartment on Fillmore for what feels like forever due to delays in processing my visa so I can go move to Australia. ANYWAY. I’ve found myself in an unfamiliar neighborhood, having to eat out every meal and thought I’d exhausted my vegan options.
Last night it was late so I thought, oh...
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Taco Happy Hour oppression!
Chances are if you live in San Francisco and are an unemployed bum (“freelancer”), you’ve heard of El Toro’s and Pancho Villa’s Taco Happy Hours. Between the hours of 3 and 5 p.m., both venerable taquerias offer $1 tacos and $2 beers. While in the past I’ve had no troubles getting tofu tacos for the $1 advertised price, yesterday when my friend and I hit up the...
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Take a survey! Win vegan cinnamon rolls! EASY. →
I know this is a conflict of interest, but who cares? Not me and that’s all we have to worry about because really, if you’re so mad, close the page! Vegansaurus isn’t not the boss of you (unless you want us to be. If so, specify “sexually” or “not.” If sexually, it’s gonna cost you. A LOT. In both money and years of therapy, and possibly donuts).
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The new Weird Fish menu is whack and can go... →
Sorry, I’m all about fostering open communications and being awesome about local restaurants with vegan options but FUCK YOU, WEIRD FISH. You cannot giveth fried seitan and then taketh away. Oh and replace it with a shaved papaya salad. You can shaved papaya GO TO HELL-A. That doesn’t even make sense but I AM SO MAD RIGHT NOW.
Oh yes and no more lunch or brunch. I hate my life.
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Howard Zinn, historian and author, dies. →
American historian Howard Zinn died today.
Zinn was a champion of people-powered, bottom-up movements (including, though not focusing primarily on, environmentalism and animal rights movements).
His best-known and most important work, A People’s History of the United States: 1492-present, is a fantastic retelling of American history that focuses on popular movements, not politicians....
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Obama's State of the Union preview—for vegans!
Tonight President Obama will address the nation with his first State of the Union address. There are two things I’m hoping to hear, and if he says them, vegans will have cause to celebrate.
The first thing: a renewed, post-Copenhagen commitment to fix global warming. This means Obama will need to urge the Senate to pass a clean energy bill. The Senate is now the world’s most...
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Wednesday Giveaway: get $50 of FREE supplements...
Tune out the iTablet/iPad/iWhatever that Apple is sending everyone in a tizzy over today, and win $50 of free stuff from iHerb! And no, iHerb isn’t an online medical marijuana delivery service, you big stoner; it’s a discount supplements retailer that sells practically everything. Every brand you can think of, like Now Foods and Twinlabs, and even some of the more obscure items, like...
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Alicia Silverstone on Oprah today!
Set your VCRs, DVRs, and Bittorrent TV-stealy programs: Alicia Silverstone will be on Oprah today! She’ll be on with Michael Pollan (who I know most of you hate but I count anyone who goes around persuading Americans to eat more plants and less meat as an ally) with some footage from Food Inc. At this rate, the Oprahnator is going to need an entire show on her new TV network devoted to...
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The Economics of Streetfood, presented by SPUR
The San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) hosts a discussion on “The Economics of Streetfood” tonight, as part of its Young Urbanists program. It will feature speakers from the SF Department of Health, La Cocina, and Let’s Be Frank (a.k.a., Let’s Shut the Fuck Up About Grass-Fed Beef), and “delve into the motivations behind the streetfood...
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Recipe: Meave's ma's fresh mushroom soup!
It’s cold and rainy in the Bay Area! But I am neither whining nor complaining about it; when you are having a life crisis and more depressed than usual, you should not question a legitimate reason to stay the hell in bed all day, you know?
Luckily, in addition to sleeping your feelings away, you can eat them! That’s why I present to you today my mother’s recipe for fresh...
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Cheeposaurus: Your weekly deals!
Cheeposaurus here! Some good deals that even this penny-pinching, miserly immigrant can get on board with. Remember; please check your local ads for deals because stores tend to vary their sales from region to region. In other words, don’t blame me because you’re a lazy jerk. NOW ON WITH THE SHOW!
1) At assface Whole Foods: Nasoya Tofu is three for $5, or three for $6 depending on the...
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ABC Nightline tonight: Got Milk? Got Ethics?...
Mr. Shapiro (our fave!) let us know about this. Seems like a must-watch/must-tell-everyone-about SO MAKE IT HAPPEN, CAP’N.
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Owls Near You! →
Dude, find the closest owls to you. FRESH.
In worst news: I think these owls are mainly in zoos (boo! don’t go to those!). It would be rad if the site was like, “Dude, there’s an owl 5.43 miles from you who is just kickin’ it in a redwood tree.” I’d so be on my way to that redwood tree, you have no idea. Actually, you probably do. Did you know that there is an...
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“What was interesting was that most people actually preferred the vegan cupcakes...”
– Cupcake Blogger (I love/hate that such a category of blogger exists) Rite of Cake challenged a group of 50 women to try vegan and non-vegan cupcakes (A TRUE PEPSI CHALLENGE!) and report back on which one they preferred. Well, see above. BAM, BITCHES!
In even more awesome news, it was a Vegan...
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Gracias Madre opening party TONIGHT! FREE DRINKS!
Really, all you should care about there is: TONIGHT and FREE DRINKS. It’s from 5 to 7 p.m. Also, FULL DISCLOSURE, we have no confirmation on this and I’m not calling anyone. It’s near the end of the month and minutes are a valuable commodity that I’m sure as hell not wasting on your asses. Now, anyone in an office care to call and confirm? THANK YOU AHEAD OF TIME!
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WatchHBO presents Claire Danes with a mouthful of marbles as Temple Grandin: the lady who redesigned feedlots so as not to freak out the cows on their death march. Because she’s autistic and so she has a DEEP SPIRITUAL CONNECTION with animals that’s why she helped devise a better way to kill them, to quote a certain sarcastic Vegansaur.
This version of Ms. Grandin’s life story will air on...
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RBC NYC: Tribeca coffee, it's delicious!
If you’re really into being caffeinated (which I oh-so am) and good coffee (yeah, that’s me), and if you really like supporting small businesses that support fair trade (check), then I highly recommend our NYC viewership to haul ass to Tribeca to enjoy the roasted delights of RBC NYC, a new coffeehouse (it just opened a few days ago!!!) with a mysterious name whose initials I do not...
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Vegan bakesale for Haiti a great success!
Guess who went to the vegan bakesale this weekend: STALIN! Just kidding! It was me. A few pals and I headed over there Saturday afternoon. Let me tell you all about it!
Because of the rain, Mercury Cafe hosted the bakesale, and damn, was it poppin’! There were tons of people and tons of baked goods. We ended up buying kind of A LOT of stuff. The omnivores were OBSESSED with the purple...
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Another salmonella-related meat recall
What is this doing taking up an entire post? Bill Marler reported on an outbreak of salmonella montevideo on Marler Blog—which “provid[es] commentary on food poisoning outbreaks and litigation”—on Friday, an entire day before the USDA actually announced the recall of 1.24 million pounds of meat, is what. Obama Foodorama is rightly pissed about this, especially considering...
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Best macaroni and cheese in the whole world ever
I’m about to change your life.
Or maybe you already know this recipe by heart, BUT GO WITH IT. Got it straight from the best punk venue in the world: Che Cafe in San Diego. They photocopied it for me when I was down and out. Little did I know it would be the ultimate crowd pleaser for years to come, and without a doubt the best fucking macaroni and cheese in the world.
Ingredients 4 cups...
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NYC Vegan Bakesales for Haiti, Jan. 28 and 31!
Ladies and gentlevegans!! There will be two (2!) NYC vegan bake sales to support animals in Haiti next week. The first is at Vegan Drinks at Angels & Kings on Thursday, Jan. 28, 7 to 9 p.m., organized by SuperVegan. More than 20 generous vegans will be baking all sorts of scrumptious confections—cupcakes, cookies, cinnamon buns, even doggy treats—the proceeds of which are going to...
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Fundraiser for animals in Haiti! Humans welcome!
First thing really super fast. If you’re in San Francisco tomorrow (Sat Jan 23), stop by the SF Vegan Bakesale for Haiti and eat lots of deliciousness for two charities that need the money VERY BADLY RIGHT NOW! Moving on!
If you do not use twitter, you might not know that there are about a zillion “anipals” on there. These are twitter accounts people make for their pets (though...
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Movie review: Meat, the thinking person's...
This is a pretty obscure film, but I’ve LOVED Frederick Wiseman’s documentaries* ever since I saw Welfare in law school. So when I learned he once pointed his camera at the inner workings of a slaughterhouse and meatpacking facility in 1970s Massachusetts, I knew I had to watch it. Not only does Wiseman show cattle and lambs rounded up, fed, slaughtered, and turned into meat products, but we also...
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Willie Brown wants the SF 49ers to hire M-F'in... →
I wrote an op-ed for the fabulous SF Appeal on this disgusting development. It could have also been titled, “YOU’RE AN OLD CRAZY PERSON, WILLIE BROWN.” or, “COME THE FUCK ON, WILLIE BROWN.”
Ah, San Francisco politics!
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BEEF!: nicht für Frauen--unless your Mann gives it...
We’ve discussed this idiocy before, how eating meat should make you a real big man, with manly muscles and a manly penis and all those other attributes that make the ladies and lady-dudes just swoon. Worse, as painful as it is to consider our grandparents having to suffer that bullshit in the ’50s, it looks like we’re being subjected to it again. To wit: not only is everybody...
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Sprinkles Cupcakes Goes Vegan! Kinda!
National chain Sprinkles Cupcakes is launching a vegan red velvet flavor in all of their stores on January 25. Apparently they’re gonna have gluten-free ones too BUT WHO GIVES TWO CRAPS ABOUT THAT. I joke! But really!
Road trip to Palo Alto? I know, it’s Palo Alto but CUPCAKES!! God, I’m stuck in 1998 but I swear, I love a cupcake and there is nothing you bitches can say that...
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Japanese robotic seal will make sweet marine... →
Japan has a complex relationship with marine wildlife. While their most notable foray into marine “science,” the government-supported Institute of Cetacean Research, kills whales and then sells their meat(!), this little combo of seals plus science is super-adorable: a therapeutic robot in the form of a white, fuzzy baby seal designed to comfort the elderly. Don’t diss—if you were...
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Well, WHOOP DEE FUCKIN DOO: Zagat Names Best Veg... →
You won’t be surprised by a fucking one of them. In fact, I bet you could guess every single one without looking at the list. In fact, don’t even click through; go with your own top five, OK?
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Possibly your only shot at a Golden Globe!
Actor I’ve never heard of Ken Wahl is adding his Golden Globe to the reward pot for the capture of whatever psychos glued a poor kitty to a highway in Minnesota. Timothy, as the cat was named by Second Chance rescue center in Sioux Falls, was found actually glued to the fucking highway. He had been hit by a vehicle and had severe frostbite that eventually lead to his death. WTF? Another...
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"Beautifull!" open in the Inner Sunset
If you haven’t been acquainted, “Beautifull!” is a semi-recent addition to the Bay Area’s “fresh, healthy” prepared foods scene. I’d had their stuff before, since they’ve catered some work-related events and also sell to-go foods in the Capay Organic store in SF’s Ferry Building. It’s decent stuff for pre-packaged food; it’s clear...
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Animal Minds →
bstriddy:
When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved pets, can we ever really know what they might be thinking? Is it naive to assume they’re experiencing something close to human emotions? Or, on the contrary, is it ridiculous to assume that they AREN’T feeling something like that?
In this hour of WNYC’s excellent science program Radiolab, they take a look at the scientific thought on...
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Vegan boots here, get your vegan boots!
I almost kept this to myself because I’m a jerk…but I’m not scared of you! Go ahead and enter! We’ll see who’s the last woman standing!
Note that you can’t just leave any old comment, they are judging on creativity. Also note that these would totally look better on me.
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Maoz Vegetarian NYC
I could go for some vegan fast food almost any time of the day or night. Don’t get me wrong, sitting in a restaurant can be really pleasant. But sometimes you just really want to devour some scrumptious shit on the fly!! Lucky for me, Maoz Vegetarian has a handy dandy location less than a block away from me. On cold, blustery, rainy nights when I am dumb enough to wear flip-flops to yoga, I...
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