The Bedsheet Sufficiency Formula

The following is the first in a series of attempts at solving the world's problems using math that I'm developing on my whiteboard. Enjoy!


The Bedsheet Sufficiency Formula

Formula

B = 1.25[(lw) + Σ(πr²h)ⁿ]

Variables

B is the size of the blanket or sheet required to cover all people in the bed.

lw is the standard area formula for a quadrangle, in this case, the sheet.

πr2h is the formula for the area of a cylinder, in this case, a crude approximation of a person.

n is the fact that this formula works for any number of persons in the bed, to be added in sum.


Basis

I am often victimized by the nefarious sheet-stealers who have ruined countless nights of my sleep. In an attempt to remedy frigid nights in the future, I have developed this formula to ensure the warmth of generations of sleepers to come. Huzzah!

10 things that irritate me to no end

1 Bigotry
2 Don Henley & The Eagles
3 Forrest Gump
4 Thoughtlessness
5 Pay subscription services online
6 Broccoli
7 Inability to accept responsibility
8 the leaky faucet
9 willful ignorance
10 Coldplay and anyone who likes them.

Top 10 R.E.M. +ballad sandwich

As a longtime fan, it seemed like a good time as any to do a list. Trying to rank these would be just too much.

1) Begin the Begin

2) Wendell Gee/Find The River/Perfect Circle

3) Get Up

4) The One I Love

5) Fall On Me

6) Sitting Still

7) Pretty Persuasion

8) Wolves, Lower

9) Texarkana

10) Leave

Silent Sunday's 10

1) The Smiths were essentially a joke band aping on 60's girl groups and hyperbolizing misery for amusement. Got it?

2) My copy of Minor Threat's Complete Discography has a scratch. I'm not happy about this.

3) Some times are completely incapable of satisfaction.

4) Coldplay fails as a band because they lack soul... and they're plagiarists.

5) Fleet Foxes are interesting for about 90 seconds then it just gets boring. It was easily one of the most boring shows ever.

6) If the Eagles tour in 2012, you know the apocalypse is nigh.

7) Cat Stevens is better than Yusef Islam.

8) I know all the cool kids love The Doors, but I kind of think they were trying to be cool for coolness sake. (file under: Velvet Underground, U2, etc.)

9) Matthew Sweet and Tori Amos have records coming out. Is it 1993?

10) Although I like Bjork, really, I only love Medulla. Of course I'll still check out Biophilia.

10 Rainy Thursday Edition vol 2

1) Seriously, another rainy thursday?

2) Gearing up for a quiet weekend.

3) Sitting.

4) What can a person do with a pint of tomatoes and more on the way?

5) Time to bring the dwarf plants inside.

6) I guess winter is coming up fast.

7) Chores, anyone?

8) Feels kind of sorry for Boston.

9) Baked Coconut soon.

10)A life of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches wouldn't be so bad.

10 x 2

What was
1) Always constantly building, but never finished.
2) Cat Stevens
3) Frustration
4) Static Friction
5) Joy Division/New Order
6) Potatoes
7) Time
8) 2
9) Hidden
10)Tragedy

What will be
1) Getting the job done
2) Yusef Islam
3) Acceptance
4) Kinetic Friction
5) Nothing
6) Potato Skins
7) Energy
8) 1 (I dunno about you, but I blame the economy for this!)
9) Revealed
10)Comedy.

Everything Must Go

Everything Must Go is Will Ferrell's attempt at understated drama. It reminds me of Steve Carell in 'Dan in Real Life' or Jim Carrey in 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' or Steve Martin in 'Shopgirl'. Like it's compatriots, Everything Must Go take Will Ferrell out of straight comedy into an exploration of sadness. What we find in EMG is what we find in the other films--these comedy actors can act outside their medium and should probably spend more time exploring other genres. If it doesn't work out, there's always 'Elf 3:scrapping the bottom of Santa's bag' Perhaps, these actors are taking a page from Tom Hanks' playbook by transitioning from trivial comedy to heavier films. Fortunately, Ferrell, Carell, and Carrey all have far more range than Hanks' 'everyman persona'.

So, needless to say, Ferrell is refreshing in this role. It reminds me somewhat of Bill Murray's turn in 'Broken Flowers' where a man of a certain age finds his life has turned on its ear and he is left with the choice to continue the journey or lay passed out on the front lawn forever. Eventually, Ferrell makes the choice that Hollywood demands, but like any good understated film it doesn't give us a happy ending with a bow, but a glimmer of hope that life must go on.

What I do not entirely like about the film is the complete ruthlessness of the unseen estranged wife. Ferrell is taken by surprise at every turn. If I came home drunk as can be and found the locks changed, I'm breaking in. Ferrell has to stay on the lawn or there is no film.

In the end, this film is much more enjoyable if you've had a couple drinks beforehand.

My Score 3/5

Sunday's Spiritual 10

I'd be sorely amiss not to do a theme 10, and what better one for a sunday?

1) Confession: More than anything else, I really enjoy translating Hebrew Bible texts. More than going to church, even. I know that's nuts.

2) I do miss being in a worship band. It was always spontaneous.

3) Although I prefer to keep quiet, I sure do like a good religion debate.

4) It is easier to get it wrong than it is to get it right. It is even easier to think we have it right than it is to realize we have it wrong.

5) Issue-oriented theology is tiresome because it isn't really focusing on the business of God so much as trying to massage the hot button issue of the day.

6) I suspect that God might really want every day to be like Sunday. Religion has been so compartmentalized that sometimes the routine seems like a rut. Shake it up, please.

7) At my core I'm an extreme liberation theologian with prelapsarian tendencies. What this means is that I see God as our liberator, as depicted in Exodus. It also means that I think the world would be a better place if we spent a bit more time communing with nature in the prelapse sense of being naked and vegetarian.

8) I don't think anything is too taboo for God.

9) I fear that an overly tedious doctrine structure only complicates the chief role of the church.

10) Size does matter in church. How can people in the cheap seats hear? I think smaller is better because everyone in the room can get the attention they deserve.

Saturday's early 10

1) I realized earlier today that I am a Marmitist!

2) Furthermore, I made a connection between Marmite and sexual discovery at http://searchforme.wordpress.com/ in the 'Love Revolution' comments

3) Brian Wilson--funny. Nyjer Morgan--not so much. aaaaaaah!

4) Why do I love the Smiths so much, seriously?

5) When Pandora gets it right, they get it so right, then 4 songs later it's terrible again.

6) Sometimes I think I'm just someone's macguffin.

7) Will I obtain vegan dessert today? hmm...

8) You maybe first realize you're aging when you don't get carded anymore.

9) Suspects the church's main role is to encourage man's relationship to God and everything else just gets in the way.

10) I bleed vegan cheese, dude.

Friday's Funky five pairs

1) I dream of vegan green bean fries!
2) Beets and Bok Choy sprouting!

3) People get old fast.
4) Haiku, I love you!

5) Score!
6) A lose lose situation

7) Soon
8) Zebras!

9) Spamboni needs to make me a gadget!
10) Pay pal, no way pal, I'm gonna let you play in my game.

10 Rainy Thursday Edition

1) Apparently, all you have to do for a free meal is show up to 1st grade.

2) Watched Inglourious Basterds and thought about the parallels between Tarantino and Hitchcock in relation to the Macguffin.

3) Can't go wrong with General Tso's seitan.

4) America, where you at?

5) Marr gets better with each listen.

6) Cherry Lemonade and Pinnacle vodka go together because, well, pinnacle is the apex of vodkas. I don't think she got the joke.

7) Not sleeping again rules.

8) Beets and Bok are now in the box.

9) All this rain should be stored and used after everything dries up.

10)Xiu Xiu is the lyrical extension of Morrissey, taking the suicidal depression joke to new heights and adding graphic sexuality to the mix. Morrissey, it's your move, dude.

10 is an arbitrary number

Every day I'm going to start a 10 list. They might be connected, or not.

1) Made vegan potato skins.

2) I'm interested in raw foods, but I suspect there is far too heavy a reliance on gadgets.

3) I am growing wary of animation in live action films. I'm talking to you Super. (btw, ... )

4) I can't decide if I like 'The Queen is Dead' or 'Strangeways, Here we come' more/less/equal

5) I like it when I check out upcoming Criterion titles and see that I have already seen several of them.

6) Finally finishing Judges 5 translation, albeit sloppily, is quite a step in the right direction.

7) He knows I'd love to see him. He better know who he is.

8) The struggle to keep a routine when there is no overt force pushing me one of the finest challenges of my life.

9) Garden ambitions seem to get out of control at times, but with each success it's hard not to become increasingly optimistic.

10) Pandora gets the playlist wrong more often than right.

dork fu

Dork Fu is the dark art of dorkery practiced by clandestine clans in Perry County, Pennsylvania. Thwart practitioners of dork fu at all costs.

Criterion top 10

After reading list after list of top 10 criterion films on their website, I've decided to create my own. In no particular order:

1) Salo: This film made me fall in love with cinema again. It is uncompromising in its view. It reminds us that the sad reality is that if we are forced to eat crap long enough we'll start to enjoy it, even insist upon it.

2) Seventh Seal/Wild Strawberries: Although any Bergman film could easily make this list, these two really strike a chord with me. They're both lamentations on death one fearful, the other wistful.

3) Viridiana: Bunuel really captures the absurd. He begs the question--why do we look at things in a particular way? It is a theme in even his most rudimentary films.

4)The Orphic Trilogy: Cocteau is just a master of the image. Even when he's working with nothing in the first part of the trilogy, he makes a snowball fight seem earth-shatteringly important.

5) Ordet: I had no expectation for this movie, but Dreyer surprised me with a character who comes in and ruins every scene. It makes me wonder if he is insane or the voice of reason.

6) Juliet of the Spirits: There is something about this film, and all of Fellini's works, that touches me in a profound way. It has nothing to do with the words of the characters, but the impression they leave on me. This one in particular is so carnal with its frolicking trysts of desire just feels like I have finally been understood.

7)The Human Condition: This film really does deal with the struggle of ethics in human existence. When is it right to kill? What are our loyalties? Can we ever escape the inevitable suffering that has been dealt to us?

8) Dodes'Ka-den: Kurosawa is the great philosopher of film. Any of his films could have made this list, and Ikiru or Rashomon were probably the strongest competition. This film best combines images with ideas to make a compelling story about the human condition. It's his first color film and for the nothing budget it had, he more than makes up for it. It is the only film that I didn't have to pause for a break. I couldn't.

9)Elevator to the Gallows: This film reminds me of Tarantino to some extent in that it is supposed to be an action suspense film, but then there are moments of pure comedy that remind me to enjoy film for what it is supposed to be--entertainment.

10) The Last Temptation of Christ: This film best depicts Jesus as how I see him. The sermon on the plain is so modest, I suspect this is probably what is was really like. Best of all, is the point that is made--who cares if the story is even partly true, it gives people hope and that is powerful in itself. Anyone who dares to steal another person's hope should be ashamed.

Films I wanted to include but didn't have room
1 Woman in the Dunes
2 Jeanne Dielman
3 Sweet Movie
4 Antichrist
5 If...
6 Head/Last Picture Show
7 By Brakhage
8 Silence of the Lambs
9 The Naked Kiss
10 Three Colors Trilogy
11 Delirious Fictions of William Klein
12 The Red Balloon
13 Brand Upon the Brain
14 Make Way for Tomorrow
15 When a woman ascends the stairs
16 Blood for Dracula
17 Jigoku
18 Onibaba
19 House
20 Good Morning
21 Last Year at Marienbad
22 The Third Man
23 Umberto D.
24 Ornamental Hairpin
25 All that Heaven Allows


Films that have no business in the Criterion Collection
1 Anything by Wes Anderson.
2 Anything by Michael Bay.
3 Anything by Kevin Smith, who I actually really like.
4 Anything by Jane Campion
5 Anything by Pedro Costa
6 A Christmas Tale
7 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
8 Grey Gardens
9 Downhill Racer
10 Cria Cuervos
11 The Mikado
12 The Tin Drum
13 The Killers
14 Traffic
15 Anything by Whit Stillman
16 Solaris
17 Anything with Jacques Tati
18 Everlasting Moments
19 Mala Noche
20 Robocop
21 Senso
22 Yi Yi
23 Cronos

Nature wins again, but lesson learned.

So, we've been working on our garden and so far everything has grown beyond our expectations--until today. We were hit with an extended storm that was too much for our babies. Our stakes and string could not support the 6foot-plus tomato plants, and so most of them fell over. Now, being an optimist let me state:

1) The plants grew way taller than expected.
In this regard we did it right.
2) Since the plants fell over, we harvested an impressive early crop.
We left a lot more on the plants until we decide what to do.

At the same time, all is not well in the garden.

1)I have to figure out what to do with
these nearly crippled tomato plants and fast.
2)Trapped under the tomatoes are a couple pepper plants and some herbs.
Hopefully they will be salvageable.
3)This happened because I underestimated the plants.
If they had been caged or
fenced we'd be in good shape and all the plants
probably would have grown like crazy from the rain.

So, what did we learn from all this?

1)When it comes to gardening--plan plan plan. We actually did a lot of this but we did not
2)Expect big things. Because I was sheepish in this regard, I wasn't prepared. We should always be ready for the best possible scenario.



Now as a theologian, I would be remiss not to connect this garden catastrophe to the spiritual life.

What is true in the garden is true with God. Those who are spiritually inclined know all about planting seeds and tending and waiting for growth. A lot of times, people start out fast and then as soon as the storm comes they wither because the appropriate support isn't in place. This is my first connection. Sounds like thttp://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=5109135718941244358he parable of the sower, eh? (Matt 13:3-23; Mk 4:2-20; Lk 8:4-15 ish)

Secondly, my expectations with the garden were low and then I was taken by surprise and then I wasn't prepared for the abundant growth. As a result, I'll probably lose the bulk of the tomatoes and possibly several other plants. Today, the thought of miracles seems quaint. I've seen so many awful things in my life that the idea of a massive religious encounter seems impossible. It may be that those miracles do exist, but they begin as seeds. We plant them-maybe. We tend them-sometimes. We see our expectations exceeded-rarely. So, miracles may be happening all the time, but we don't let them grow.

So, if you take nothing else, expect and be ready for great things.

How Harold Camping & Family Radio Got it Wrong

One of the key passages that influence the estimated end times date of May 21, 2011 is taken from 2 Peter 3:8 "But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day."

However, what is faulty is the interpretation of this verse. The thousand years must be taken literally for the prediction to hold true in conjunction with this verse from the story of Noah:

For in seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground." Gn 7:4

The premise for the prediction is that the Noah story prefigures the end time story. So, 7 days for Noah = 7,000 years for us because of the verse in 2 Peter.

HOWEVER, there is a problem. If you look at the context of the thousand years in 2 Peter 3. It is not meant to be taken literally, but as a figure of speech warning against trying to judge God's time table based on our time table. Below, I've highlighted the key points in context.

2 Peter 3
1. This is now, beloved, the second letter I am writing to you; in them I am trying to arouse your sincere intention by reminding you
2. that you should remember the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets, and the commandment of the Lord and Savior spoken through your apostles.
3. First of all you must understand this, that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and indulging their own lusts
4. and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since our ancestors died, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation!"
5. They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water,
6. through which the world of that time was deluged with water and perished.
7. But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the godless.
8. But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day.
9. The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some think of slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish, but all to come to repentance.
10. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and everything that is done on it will be disclosed.
11. Since all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what sort of persons ought you to be in leading lives of holiness and godliness,
12. waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set ablaze and dissolved, and the elements will melt with fire?
13. But, in accordance with his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.
14. Therefore, beloved, while you are waiting for these things, strive to be found by him at peace, without spot or blemish;
15. and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation. So also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,
16. speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.
17. You therefore, beloved, since you are forewarned, beware that you are not carried away with the error of the lawless and lose your own stability.
18. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

As with most things up for interpretation, it would be easy to see the idea that we won't know the end until it is revealed, and that may be so. However, to take 1,000 years literally in this passage is quite a stretch.

Such a literal interpretation of the scriptures can be dangerous and in some cases, even silly. Does anyone really take seriously the visions of Ezekiel or Daniel? No, they are purely symbolic. Harold Camping would say the same thing. The same is true in 2 Peter 3. Only Camping & Co. would disagree.

Sunburn and the Spiritual Journey

For months we've been planning our outdoor garden.  We started tons of plants inside in March and have been waiting for the day.  Yesterday was that day.  With the raised bed filled with soil and broken up, we were ready to go, but we got off to a late start, and for all our plans we weren't quite ready when we stood in front of the plot. 

So, we grabbed a corner and started planting.  After a couple hours, the job was finished and all those tiny plants that sat in our windows looking impressive, now looking like tepid weeds waiting to be pulled up for their annoyance. 

Within hours of finishing a couple things were clear:
Carrots and peas don't transplant well.
Even on a cool day, the bright sun is hot.
That sun will, in fact, burn you.

I had forgotten sunblock, and so at the end of the day I was sore and tired and red.  So, skin burned and lesson learned.

In a sense, the same is true in the spiritual journey.   In my life, I have had the joys of a spontaneous conga line in church.  I've been part of worship teams, drama groups, prayer teams, bible studies, and a Sunday school teacher.  It is a part of my life that I really do love.  At the same time, I've felt betrayed by church leaders, disappointed with sermons, misled by church friends, and the odd person out of retreat four square.

Through it all, I need to remain hopeful.  The church is imperfect because people are imperfect.  To expect more is asking too much of the church and of ourselves.  I can't remember the last time I was perfect. The spiritual journey winds as maddeningly as pea vines planted too close together. At the end of the day the plants in the yard and the people in the pews are on a journey.  We don't know what will happen next.  Will there be frost this week?  Will there be rain?  Will we grow or wilt?  It all remains to be seen.

In terms of the garden, we know that it's May outside and the season is just beginning.  We have hope that the sun will shine and the rain will be steady, but not too windy.  It isn't the same with the spiritual journey.  What is our season?  We may be long-time members of the church, but stuck in February.  We could be young, but look ahead with August eyes.  It's not for us to understand.  All we can do is start the seeds, prepare the soil and remember our sunblock.     
 

Film Review: The Human Condition

The Human Condition
dir. Masaki Kobayashi, 1959,  574 min, B/W, Japan

Preface:  In general, I hate war films.  In terms of battle scenes, if you've seen one, you've seen them all.  


The Human Condition is an epic.  It originally appeared in 6 parts.  All things considered, it could have been longer.  The main character, Kaji, is a war objector who is assigned to supervise a prison camp.  It is here that we see ethics played out.  Do war prisoners deserve to be treated as humans?  How do we treat our enemies? For Kaji, the answer is we treat all people as humans.  His superiors tend to disagree.  Their viewpoint is more along the lines of 'we are the guards--they are the prisoners, prisoners deserve what we feel like giving them.' Quickly Kaji is at odds with management, and finds himself in the middle.  For management it is easier to remove him than to deal with him.  This ends the first disc.

Disc 2 begins with Kaji sent to the military and he is now stuck in a different paradox--Is it just to kill?  In wartime, the answer is usually yes, but Kaji isn't so sure.  Is it better to take prisoners?  That solution just moves back to the dilemma in disc 1.  Through struggles, fleeting hopes, camaraderie, and rivalry, the 2nd disc ends with a battle, finding Kaji alone on the battlefield.  


Disc 3 finds him a prisoner of war, now on the other side of the issue from the first part.  His voice is consistent here, because his sympathy in the former has been replaced with cruel experience in the latter.  He escapes and leads a group of strays toward a vague and fleeting home.  Kaji is in search of his wife who he left behind when sent to the front.  As the film trudges on, Kaji finds himself alone in the Siberian wilderness, struggling to his last step.  


The Human Condition is a must for anyone.  It's length may be a deterrent to some, but consider it a 3-6 night festival, and I think you'll be fine.   The film grapples with real issues in a way that involves the audience, with penetrating close-ups, scenes of intimacy, and sprawling grandeurs.  It attempts to remind us that for all our largeness, we are in fact, quite small.  It is hard not to relate the marching scenes to ants streaming to their hill.  


In a sense, the film may be considered myopic in that there is no happy ending.  The hero doesn't win, even if he does get his revenge, escape from prison, and save helpless people along the way.  The human condition is one of neverending toil.  It is painted with grays, instead of blacks and whites.  The human condition is littered with small victories and colossal defeats.  


So, what positives can be said about the human condition?  First, Kaji embodies the human spirit with his relentlessness.  Who really cares if he succeeds?  The film would be meaningless if he didn't keep struggling to his death.  Our ethics, morals, ideas, and goals are all stomping on shaky ground.  Our only true capability is to struggle--to journey.  At the film's end all is stripped away and we are truly alone.  There is no end in sight.  There is no hope.  There is only the struggle.  If we take anything away from this film it is that we have only one choice in a situation--act within it.  Our lives will end someday and it may all seem meaningless, but we'll never know unless we try.  

As a theologian, this film can act as a type of spiritual journey.  Ultimately, the worldview of the film is Godless, but even that is a de facto theology.  At the beginning, Kaji is clear in his views.  He stands for them in every situation.  However, as he encounters injustices and confronts them he is continually beaten back.  Eventually, he does grudgingly change some of his ideals--he does kill; he does leave people behind.  At the end, his steadfastness is met with icy solitude.  The same is true about the spiritual journey, it is ultimately a solitary pursuit.  We can try to explain our steps, but we're inarticulate, and besides, who can really listen?  No matter what our situation in life, as long as we can struggle we can take part in the Human Condition.     

Veg: 10 years, no looking back, April Fools is no joke.

On April 1, 2001 I awoke with a strange idea--I would give up eating meat.  This was about as far left-field of a notion as I could have had at the time.  My grandfather was a butcher.  My father was raised on steak and potatoes and salt.  Who was I to buck such a ferocious tradition? 
    
At the time, I was a 4th year student in college, with I would later realize, a pretty fantastic cafeteria with regular decent options for vegetarians (and vegans mtc) beyond the salad bar.  Honestly, I hate salad because lettuce tastes like grass. 

Before that day, I was the guy who could eat a half dozen fish sandwiches during lent, and kind of preferred eating popcorn shrimp because I could kill more animals per sitting.  Those were some messed up times, I admit.

What exactly changed my mind?  I'm not sure.  It was a strange gut feeling, and as I've learned over the years, the gut knows what the mind can't comprehend.  So, feeling how strong this impulse was, I played along. 

At first, I was a bit timid.  I'd eat bananas and nuts and a side of corn and peas.  Growing up I only ate 3 vegetables.  But, quickly my tastes moved on to risotto, bean stew, and of course tofu.

Looking back on those first days without meat, and how I begged my friend to go get me a burger (which I didn't really want except in my mind), I realize that they were truly revolutionary times.  Also, fortunately,  she didn't go for it.  My will power returned and I lived to fight another day.  That's how the early days transitioning away from meat went.  So, here are some tips from my own experience to help people transition away from meat.

1) Find a good source for vegetarian foods.  Back then, I didn't know how to cook, and was limited by the cafeteria.  I was lucky that the cafeteria had a pretty good selection.  If your cafeteria doesn't, then you should let them know.  Get friends to make comments also. 

2) Don't be afraid to try new things or else you'll eat pasta and salad every day for a week and give up.

3) Find friends who are already vegetarians.  My best friend is a vegan so I always had someone to eat with me.

4)  Learn how to cook, or do some research to find places with veg-friendly options, like Happy Cow. 

5) Learn about the issues.  I was very late to the game on this front.  But, once I learned about factory farms and the ecological impact a vegetarian diet can have, I became an even more vocal advocate.

So, that being said, I am proof that a meat loving person can make the switch and make a real difference for me and my planet.  If I can do it, you can too!

Finally!

Manifesto, oh no!

I've given a lot of thought as to what I wanted this blog to be about.  Veganism?  Yeah, duh.  But I do a lot of things as most people do and I was beginning to suffer from 'paralysis by analysis' when really, I knew what I should put here all along--worthwhile things in my life.   That may include:  Film reviews, CD reviews, photos, videos, rants, raves, shoutouts, tasty links, theology, politics, art and intrigue.  So, yeah, that's what I'll do.  Now, time for a haiku

Party waits for none
In the cells of everyone
will you heed the call?