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So, I’m sitting here staring at my brand-new copy of Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer. In case you couldn’t guess, he’s not in favor of it.
There’s a long quotation on the inside flap from author J.M. Coetzee, author of The Lives of Animals that ends like this:
… anyone who, after reading Foer’s book, continues [...]

Everyday I walk by this mural, which reminds me of Ezra Jack Keats.

We capped a week of extremely busy and occasionally frustrating work by driving around the city for an hour, with a video camera pointing out of the passenger-side window. Does that sound un-safe? Well, we wanted a varied and unvarnished look at the city (which we would later edit into a montage for the climax [...]

I’m working on some AVLT stuff and I’ve got some old Anthony Bourdain playing (courtesy of Netflix streaming service). He’s teaching a class and he decides to play an old chefs’ game with the students. (I’m no chef, but I’ve been in enough kitchens to have played the game several times.) It goes like this.
Tomorrow [...]

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Man, this makes me so happy!I know, I’m totally ridiculous.
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We left Columbus on early Saturday morning with a bag-ful of goodies: granola, bananas, apples, organic lime & chili chips, raisins, peanuts, etc. The bananas were gone before the end of our 160-minute drive to Indianapolis. At that point, we had 4 more days ahead of us in a rental car, visiting family and big [...]

I’m about to publish this on Indie Columbus, but here’s a draft for the record.
So how’s your sane eatin going? Did you get the book yet?
I’ve been following Mark Bittman’s Twitter feed and there are all sorts of similar, concurrent movements afoot. I call it sane eating, some call it “lessmeatarianism”,  some folks are “vegan [...]

I’m reading The Omnivore’s Dillema, and it’s bringing up all kinds of sadness.  Is it evolutionarily appropriate and therefore normal for us to eat other animals? Or is if something we’re meant to get past? Cows make sad noises and look pretty pathetic. Is that me anthropomorphizing them? Or did they evolve those traits to [...]