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best friends

Posted in general, tagged on March 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

 Hi, all. My friend Jackie is walking for Best Friends no-kill animal sanctuary, as part of Oprah’s Live Your Best Life Walk.  Please contribute what you can here. Thanks from me and the puppies and kitties and bunnies and the burros (!) and all the rest of ‘em.

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fall food

Posted in recipes, tagged , , , on October 7, 2009 | 5 Comments »

I’m going to apologize for this once and once only: It is autumn. I live way north. The sun goes down very early now and will soon go down disgustingly early, so my dinnertime photos for the next several (that sounds like a lot—we’ll see) months will be artificially lit. I will do my best. [...]

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takin’ cruelty news mainstream

Posted in general, tagged on September 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »

So that I’m not completely trapped in my Lefty news bubble, I make sure I check out at least Yahoo! News every day. Today something caught my eye—yes, something besides the L.A./Valley fires and Swine Flu(!). In among the “most e-mailed” stories was this headline: Video shows chicks ground up alive at egg hatchery Oh, [...]

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chicago, part 3: the food!

Posted in eatin' out/in, tagged , , , , on August 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Just a word before I get into my dinin’ out over a week in Cheese-n-bratland. I visited a friend’s place on the North Side and saw this on the front door of his building. (OK, it was the wrong building—he lived next door—but we thought it was his building so while we waited for him [...]

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are you kidding me?

Posted in general, tagged on April 29, 2009 | 8 Comments »

Apparently living under the belief that the human-swine-bird flu strain that’s sweepin’ the globe travels by collective unconscious or some other such crap, Egypt has decided to slaughter all its pigs. Some farmers have refused to cooperate, and Health Ministry workers have thus far left without carrying out orders in those cases. By the way, there [...]

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