The world is both incredibly limited — how many times must we repeat mistakes, replay history, watch reruns? — but also incredibly unlimited. Every time I get dragged down by the muck of ignorance (e.g. abstinence-only education), pettiness (e.g. bodysnarking, via Feministing), or hostility (e.g. the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act), I then find something really [...]
Arguing about fantastical politics is more satisfying than arguing about real ones. The situation is timeless, an object to played with as long or as little as you like, and the philosophical gains are applicable as far as you care to extend analogy. Take the Prime Directive, for instance. Though I’ve never attended a sci-fi [...]
I am in Altea, Spain. In fact, this is my second full day in Altea. And guess what? No stress, thanks to the mere presence of my friend Becki and my wonderful parents! Even though the transportation systems seemed hell-bent on keeping us from getting here, we persevered.
Becki and I flew to Barcelona through Rome, [...]
I have struggling with veganism, but not in the way you might think. It has been so simple to give up meat, then eggs and milk, and even being at the mercy of the CYA cafeteria I have found it more difficult to eat conveniently than to stick to my guns.
Much more problematic is how [...]
I keep running into this “aquatic ape” theory. First from one of my dad’s ham-radio friends, then in Real Food, and now from Seth Roberts. I just finished Freakonomics (which, by the way, was rather lackluster compared to Malcolm Gladwell’s works of similar style) and decided to investigate this guy up in a fit of [...]
I’ve been partaking of a lot of cooking shows recently. Well, mostly just Good Eats. I skip most of the meat-heavy episodes, and then spend the rest automatically making substitutions and thinking of ways to veganize, designing my kitchen and making a list of cooking supplies (did you know a burr-style coffee grinder can also [...]
Sleepy afternoon eyes Legs still from moving Thinking slow like light diffusion Alone in the breeze And wanting nothing else.
So much to say, so little internet! Here I’ve been off having adventures, and leaving all my anxious readers (if I have any) in the dark. Well, no more.
About two weekends ago, I went to Mistra on my last CYA excursion. Little did I know that Mistra is actually right next to Sparta, so I [...]