• 19:26 f**king yahoo mail!!!!! grrrrr : ( i'm going to defect! yahoo customer service people - are you reading this?? #

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So I'm a fairly new vegan (about 8 months), and not a particularly strict one (I don't worry about things like the origin of "natural flavors" or "mono and di-glycerides,' and other un-obvious ingredients, especially in something I'm not eating everyday).   I've been a vegetarian for about 15 years, mostly due to environmentalism, though I'm swayed by the ethical side, too.

I live in Sacramento, CA, and try to eat as local and low-impact as I can. Because of local food supplies, I eat rice everyday, I don't buy imported out-of-season produce, eat a lot of tomatoes, eggplant and zucchini in the summer, and a lot of kale, butternut squash and sweet potatoes in the winter. I buy a little bit of tropical fruit, but mostly try to stick to what I can buy at the farmer's market. 

Northern California is great for local eating ... if you are an omnivore. Lots of sources for "ethical" * organic animal products, fruits and veggies, almonds, walnuts (which, for me, are absolutely not food, I'm allergic), rice, wines (even organic vegan ones!), and olive oil, no local sources worth mentioning for legumes (tofu!) and other oils and grains. 

I have acquaintances who claim my insistance on non-animal protein sources that are brought in from other places is less environmentally sound than their use of local, pastured animal foods, and sometimes I worry they might have a point. I try to stick to bulk grains and beans, organic pasta and other stuff that is dry and shelf stable, aseptic soymilk, locally made tofu (from non-local beans :( ). I mean, versus your standard American factory farmed conventional omnivore, vegans are the clear winner, no matter what they are eating, and I'll admit that local omnivore might have an edge on junk-food packaged vegan, but does anyone have any hard facts that I can throw out to prove mindful vegan beats local omnivore?


*see the quotes? I'm so not saying they are really ethical, just that they are claimed to be.

"Cioran, Eliade, Ionescu" was about all three of those Romanian intellectuals and their connection to the fascist intelligentsia back in the day. I've only glanced at it in French here and there and didn't get to the parts on Ionesco. Unfortunately it hasn't been translated as far as I know.

bcp007 - v/a - wake up: get out of my fucking house

released: may, 2008

this compilation wasn't really ever meant to be. i'm not even sure what's really going on. it's now 2:45 in the afternoon and everyone has finally fucking left my god damned house. we tossed it all together and despite it being put together in such a way, it sounds pretty fucking awesome, but that may be because i'm still really high. i'll probably just jerk off for another couple of hours and be asleep by 6.

wake up: get out of my fucking house is a collection of electronic tracks to ease or agitate the come down. 90% canadian*, 83.5% toronto based*, 25% powdery residue*, some beer, some scotch, some fuck pulled out 1/2 bottle of tequila, and someone thinks that black thing is actually hash**. some of it is totally exclusive, some of it you've never heard before and some you have.

you don't have to listen to it at home, but you can't listen to it here. get the fuck out.

track listing:
1. dino felipe - off U.P.S. & down guy
2. crystain - coke goths on acid
3. famine - chester drawers
4. it-clings vs pneumatic detach - i get ready for sleep and tomorrow I wake up and everything is the same
5. charnel lurker - squareone
6. tuo - the movers & shakers of the world
7. KNAR - pass the potatoes
8. diff.cult - paranormal activity
9. s.k.e.t. - no limits for heroes (famine remix)
10. worms of the earth - and i've become the demon
11. moonbass - pynkylove
12. czechoslovakian cock - rad vs czech cock
13. hinder - controlled burn
14. dead man's hill - sacrifice before harvest moon
15. traits - pick the bones clean
16. raxyor - power vs power
17. skeeter - metalocalypse (thrashbass rmx)
18. vaginal rippage - drinkin' in the trunk

* estimate. no math was actually capable of being done.
** it burned, but gave everyone a headache. we're still 50/50 on if it was hash or not.

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Retrograding 05.14.08

On Monday, I went to download my first game from the newly launched Wii Ware line of games. For those unaware, these are original downloadable titles for the Wii rather than the re-released retro titles on the virtual console.

Imagine my surprise when I received a notification that my entire Wii hard drive was full! It turns out I completely filled the game with virtual console games – 35 of them to be exact.

This was both amusing and frustrating to me. I never would have guessed that I would will up my Wii in a little over a year of owning it. My Xbox hard drive was pretty empty, and my 60 Gig PS3 has R-Types, Q-Bert and Puzzle Fighter. My Wii though? Chock full of over $200 of VC purchases. At the same time, how sad is that the Wii can hold that paltry amount of games? Even worse is the fact that you have to do some creative management with the SD card in a way that in both inconvienient and poorly thought out.

For example, in order to get Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King, I had to copy King of Fighters ‘94, which was my largest game memory-wise onto the SD card. Then I had to delete the game from the Wii’s internal memory. Both the copying and the deleting took some time. Then I had to download the new FFCC game, which again took some time. Now if I ever want to play KoF ‘94 again, and we all know I will, I have to do the following steps.

1. Copy a game from the Wii memory to the SD card.
2. Wait for copy to finish.
3. Delete original game from the Wii memory.
4. Wait to finish.
5. Repeat steps 1-4 until there is enough room with the Wii memory in order to move over KoF 94.
6. Copy KoF 94 from the SD card to the Wii Memory.
7. Play the game.

That is a pretty intensive and time consuming process. I am still flabbergasted that the Wii can’t play games directly from the SD card. You would think that the Wii system updates would have covered this by now, but of course they haven’t. The Virtual Console and Wii internal memory were great ideas on their own, but it’s obvious that no one in the design team thought about how they would work TOGETHER.

At the same time, this really won’t be a problem for the VAST majority of Wii owners. According to Nintendo (as of a press release marked 02/06/2008), there have been ten million VC games downloaded worldwide. Sounds impressive, right? Not really. There have been 24.5 million Wii’s sold worldwide. That’s a hair over 0.4 games per Wii. Obviously space constraints are not going to be an issue here.

As well, you can always delete previously purchased titles completely from your system and download them again at a later date for no charge. This is a nice little deal, but again it adds a lot more time to the equation than just sitting down and playing a damn game. I’d love to see this issue resolved in the future with either a Wii internal memory add on (there are those USB ports in the back after all), or a Wii system update to allow the SD card saves to be played by the Wii.
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The 20 labels from the "Der Fuehrer" line show Hitler raising the Nazi salute and his generals, including Hermann Goering, the Reich's economic minister, Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Gestapo, and Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy.

Last night, I did something I never expected to do.  Well, I shouldn't really say never, but I certainly didn't expect to do it any time soon.

Fear not, gentle reader, for I am not about to embark on a harrowing tale of my return to the goth world (thank you, but bouncing at Zero did plenty for me, in the long run).  And I'm not going to expound on the wonders of rigging up a slingshot to propel beer cans at Lake Street.

No, instead, last night, so that I could see my sis, her husband, and her baby son one more time before they head back to Texas, I went to a Twins game.  And, most personally surprising of all, I had fun.  And I think 

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Hello all! 
My omni husband has been begging me for days to make a good old fashioned pot pie, and I'm thinking of trying my hand at a seitan pie, but can't find a recipe to suit. Anyone have a favorite? Thx!

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