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Vegan Cupcakes for All! (or Whatever)
Brewing Grounds for Change, a volunteer-run coffee shop that has been a staple for me ever since i moved to MKE, is teaming up with the amazing and talented Jess of Compassionate Cakes to bring gorgeous
vegan cupcakes to Milwaukee's Eastside!
Please donate to help them buy a commercial oven and help start up a new bakery! Backing can get
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And I wrote my name into the fresh painted yellow line...
Baking Badass Molasses Cookies to the sounds of Hostel.
in my new blue winter toque and new stripy orange and blue apron.
the picture is a funny one in my head.
The cookies are for the family I dog-sit for. They're coming home tomorrow from Texas, and I've meant to bake for them the last couple of times I've watched their dog, but never got around to ( Read more... ) -
The things that get me through the work day--
and
where the hell am i going to get a tripod for tonight? (sometimes stress about things that legitimately matter to me takes the edge off stressing about a job i despise)
mission accomplished! I have acquired a tripod for tonight. now i just need to keep calm and take shots. -
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two days off, and all i feel is very maudlin. two drinks does not a maudlin mood make! or does it?
...maudlin is a good word
dunhills it is then.
dunhills and weezer. christ, this couldn't get anymore high school. -
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I'm wracked with unfounded anxiety and giddiness (well, that's not entirely unfounded). I know it's just a mix of caffeine, the impending blood bath (aka PMDD), and just overall... uncertainty about everything going on in my life. Will I get the job at Captel? Will I get any job, period? (I'm ready to give up on that possibility) Will I have to ( Read more... ) -
Christmas in July!
I neglect to check updates on pinto_fic for one day, and suddenly, when I go on this afternoon(yesterday), there's a PILE of stories to read. Nay, not just any pile of stories, four of my favorite authors have posted little package of scrumtious smut--ALL AT THE SAME TIME!! oh sweet, sweet joy.
In other news, I have a date to watch a meteor shower in ( Read more... ) -
if it's magic... if it's magic..., or the :48 second
Addicted. to.
dance videos. can. not.
stop.
This the beautiful introduction from the show Love Stories, a collaborative piece from Judith Jamison, Rennie Harris, and Robert Battle for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre.
Set to Steve Wonder's "If it's Magic", choreographed by Jamison, and performed by Clifton Brown.The whole piece is captivating; ( Read more... ) -
Eden superimposed over Guernica -- an L.A. metaphor
I've been thinking about L.A. a lot lately. Not really 'due consideration' thinking, more like 'passing fancy' thinking. I've been thinking about L.A. and L.A. literature and L.A.'s purpose and zeitgeist and worth. I've been hankering for Ellis L.A., having recently read an article about him in Interview, and that hankering led to wanting to re- ( Read more... ) -
Waka waka (waka)
So, World Cup 2010 ends this weekend, and Germany won't be playing in the final-final game, but I do intend to watch both Saturday and Sunday; Sunday if only because a local pub is holding an eleven-hour block party.
On a mostly related note, I find myself completely captivated by the "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" music video, because
a) I'm a ( Read more... )
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