I was having lunch in Tranquili-Tea yesterday (a vegan/vegetarian restaurant in northtown Arcata) and my friend asked for some hot sauce. They brought us some and as I looked at the bottle, I realized it is hot sauce made by the Black Panther Party. It was called "Burn Baby Burn" and had a little history of the Black Panthers on the side. It was ( Read more... )

I arrived in Galway today. I will be staying in a hotel for five nights enjoying the Galway Gay Pride Festival until the 27th when I move into an apartment, and start school at University College Galway in the third of September ( Read more... )

This morning I woke up around 8:30. I lied in bed for a little while and finally sat up around 10:20. I hate getting out of bed in the morning now because it means I have to put clothes on since I live with people. I used to be I could stumble naked to the bathroom half awake, but no more. Additionally, my room was freezing cold because I close my ( Read more... )

I found it.

Soy milk that both tastes good and comes in a recyclable/compostable container. It's Wildwood Soy Milk, from Fullerton, and the Co-Op just started carrying it (I think). It is all I ever wanted in life, soy milk that also generated no garbage. Now I can move on to other strange obsessions.

You know what? I don't care how much I try to convince myself otherwise, the Tofu Shop's soy milk does not taste good. In fact, it tasted bad, like really really bad. Like I kind of want to throw up now bad.

Where did all the good food go?

I was walking home tonight from being on campus all day when a truck drove by me and something flew out of it. It landed at my feet with a Crash! and I went "whoa," paused, looked down at it, look back at the truck, decided they threw a bottle at me, and pronounced, "well, someone's an asshole ( Read more... )

I have finally amassed all the ingredients for baking cookies in my apartment. Bowls, measuring spoons and cups, unrefined sugar, whole wheat pastry flour, brown sugar, organic peanut butter, locally made butter, pure vanilla extract, eggs from vegetarian chickens, chocolate bars fron Sjaak's, oatmeal ( Read more... )

I now own a sifter. It's all I ever wanted in life, to sift flour whenever I want. It is the greatest sifter in the world.

I have a twelve page paper to write by tomorrow afternoon. I've read endless amounts of research on it and understand the topic very well. I've barely written a word. I drank coffee. Coffee is gross. The coffee I had is gross ( Read more... )

Baby carrots are stupid.