When I read this article, I thought about, with great disgust, all the meat-eaters I dated before I found my one true love, who also happened to be a vegan. Thank god! Food is for sharing. It makes life that much sweeter.
However, one of the women featured in the article is celiac, and by the end she's eating offal and foie gras. We all know how terrible foie gras is, but what is offal? Offal is the entrails and internal organs of a butchered animal. Awful is more like it. Read it here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/dining/13incompatible.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5087&em&en=a41dd0de79221f23&ex=1203051600
I love this article double because it uses the word "vegangelical". I will be stealing that, though I have to add that this habit Americans have of running words together to create a new mega-word is becoming tiresome, and we have no one to blame for that but Rachel Ray.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
The Demise of Pop Culture
OK, let's talk about the Grammy Awards. Last night I flipped through and ended up watching Fergie's performance with John Legend. How do these duets, these match-ups occur? Legend has talent, actually, but he was overshadowed by that drag queen Fergie and her horrible voice. Let's talk about Fergie. She started out, like Britney, on a dance show for kids, in Canada. Fergie quickly went from child star to meth addict. She was later picked up by the Black-Eyed Peas, who needed a girl to increase album sales, and was known for booty dancing and an occasional "hoot hoot" or back-up refrain. Suddenly, a la Gwen Stefani, Fergie also has a solo album that is aimed at 12 year old girls. Where did we make that jump, where in her career did Fergie think she was able to make a solo album with that croaking voice and her inane lyrics? What lemmings actually thought it was good? Good enough to merit a spot on the Grammy stage? That's the problem folks. Americans eat whatever is thrown at them, whether it tastes good or not. You get my point? Fergie should not have been on that stage last night, in a gown, trying to sing, and with John Legend no less. And to top it all off, she's not hot. She's just not.
In other embarassing Grammy news, Amy Winehouse won a bunch of awards. why? Dunno, couldn't tell you. She has the voice of a dying cow, her eyes were glazed over like a feelingless soul and her music, well...is it really music? My cat could have done a better job. There is nothing there, no talent, nothing new. No reason as to why she should have won awards. Who makes these decisions anyways.
Hip Hop died last night on that stage when Will I. Am came out wearing a Liberace suit and started singing Frank Sinatra. I could literally see Tupac, Biggie, Old Dirty Bastard and Eazy E rolling over in their graves, clutching their eyes and holding their ears.
What a grand ole disappointment, as usual.
In other embarassing Grammy news, Amy Winehouse won a bunch of awards. why? Dunno, couldn't tell you. She has the voice of a dying cow, her eyes were glazed over like a feelingless soul and her music, well...is it really music? My cat could have done a better job. There is nothing there, no talent, nothing new. No reason as to why she should have won awards. Who makes these decisions anyways.
Hip Hop died last night on that stage when Will I. Am came out wearing a Liberace suit and started singing Frank Sinatra. I could literally see Tupac, Biggie, Old Dirty Bastard and Eazy E rolling over in their graves, clutching their eyes and holding their ears.
What a grand ole disappointment, as usual.
London loves cats!
Demolition crews at the site of the 2012 Olympics in London have rescued over 160 feral cats from the site. They have placed them all in a shelter. Something nice in the news, for a change.
http://http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080208/od_nm/london_cats_dc_1
http://http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080208/od_nm/london_cats_dc_1
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Censorship and the media
Those who followed my blog on Myspace are familiar with my fond alliance with the First Amendment. Also a librarian and voracious reader, I wonder what my life would be like if I where never to have been allowed to read Henry Miller or Catcher in the Rye. Censorship still goes on today and it is very real. Not too long ago, shock jocks Opie and Anthony were suspended off Free FM (what??) and Imus was temporarily fired for his "racial slur" over the summer. We are a hyper-senstive society ready to sue and attack at the slighest ruffling of feathers.
This week in censorship: David Shuster from MSNBC gets suspended after making a comment that the Clintons "pimped out" their daughter Chelsea to campaign for Hilary. Two little words...First of all, I believe he was well within his right to speak his opinion; the Clintons should have just acted duck-like and let that wash right off their backs. Second of all, the powers that be at MSNBC are spineless tools for suspending Shuster. I'm having a hard time accepting this. We live in a mediatocracy where real opinions and real events are shadowed by the FCC and whether we might hurt someone feelings. Come on. Get spines people, (er...clintons) and show we can rise above insults, not be hampered by them.
Insulted or not, the point is that we are a species of varied opinions. We are humans trying to fight against a uni-lateral society of one thought one idea one mind.
This week in censorship: David Shuster from MSNBC gets suspended after making a comment that the Clintons "pimped out" their daughter Chelsea to campaign for Hilary. Two little words...First of all, I believe he was well within his right to speak his opinion; the Clintons should have just acted duck-like and let that wash right off their backs. Second of all, the powers that be at MSNBC are spineless tools for suspending Shuster. I'm having a hard time accepting this. We live in a mediatocracy where real opinions and real events are shadowed by the FCC and whether we might hurt someone feelings. Come on. Get spines people, (er...clintons) and show we can rise above insults, not be hampered by them.
Insulted or not, the point is that we are a species of varied opinions. We are humans trying to fight against a uni-lateral society of one thought one idea one mind.
healthy eating and guilt on Top TV shows
Anthony Bourdain, who is famous for his self-professed dislike of vegetarians, had a moment last week on his trip to the Greek Islands. Having to take part in a sacrificial ceremony of the senseless slaughter of an adorable sheep for food even had Anthony wishing for a veggie burger. See, he had befriended the little lamb unbeknownst that it would soon be slaughtered. I had a hard time watching most of it, but he had an even more difficult time chewing, swallowing and digesting. I know I'm not alone in the theory, if you can't kill it you shouldn't be eating it. Anthony, maybe it's time to change your evil ways...
One of my new favorite shows, "Breaking Bad" on AMC, stars the father from Malcolm in the Middle, as a high-school chemistry teacher who discovers he has terminal lung cancer and as a source of a second income to save his family, unbeknownst to them, starts up a mobile Meth-lab in an RV with a former pupil and high-school drop-out. I know, what a premise! One of the first scenes, the family eats and has a discussion about vegetarian bacon for breakfast because it has no cholesteral. Of course it is met with the typical negative fanfare from the carnivoric cast, but hey, we are making waves with this whole vegetarian diet thing. One day at a time, but progress is progress.
One of my new favorite shows, "Breaking Bad" on AMC, stars the father from Malcolm in the Middle, as a high-school chemistry teacher who discovers he has terminal lung cancer and as a source of a second income to save his family, unbeknownst to them, starts up a mobile Meth-lab in an RV with a former pupil and high-school drop-out. I know, what a premise! One of the first scenes, the family eats and has a discussion about vegetarian bacon for breakfast because it has no cholesteral. Of course it is met with the typical negative fanfare from the carnivoric cast, but hey, we are making waves with this whole vegetarian diet thing. One day at a time, but progress is progress.
Please Don't Eat Me
Yesterday I had a little extra time and a lot of imagination. Vegetables have feelings too.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
vegans on tv
I'm excited about the increased presence of vegans in the media. Marilu Henner has been making the rounds this week, promoting her stint on Donald Trump' "Celebrity Apprentice". Last night she was on Jimmy Kimmel and also on Jay Leno earlier in the month. Henner is probably best known for her role in the sitcom, Taxi, but most recently she has been working the health food circuit, publishing more than 7 books on healthy living. What I like most about Henner, is that she hardly ever uses the word "vegan." Instead she concentrates on health, which opens more ears ( and pocketbooks!). The word health is a welcome one, while the word vegan, indicates a strict lifestyle most people don't even want to begin to understand.
Henner publicly embarrassed Jimmy Kimmel last night, explaining his puffiness around his eyes is due to too much cheese and dairy and that the fat gullet around his mouth and chin was evidence of too much meat.
Keep your eyes peeled for more appearances on television by Marilu Henner. She's a fireball, must be pushing 60 and looks fantastic. If women need further impetus to become vegan, take a look at Henner for inspiration.
Henner publicly embarrassed Jimmy Kimmel last night, explaining his puffiness around his eyes is due to too much cheese and dairy and that the fat gullet around his mouth and chin was evidence of too much meat.
Keep your eyes peeled for more appearances on television by Marilu Henner. She's a fireball, must be pushing 60 and looks fantastic. If women need further impetus to become vegan, take a look at Henner for inspiration.
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