When I first got my hands on chalkboard paint and started painting chalkboards everywhere, a part of me thought it was stupid because since I do all my officey work from home I would have to constantly be writing down the lists I made on the chalkboard. Then the magic of the iphone stepped in, and now I just take an easily scaled-up picture of the chalkboard every night – perfect! Better living through technology, indeed.
Naomi Klein on my job:
It’s the job of the left to move the center. Get out there and say some crazy stuff! And then, suddenly, it’ll seem more reasonable for politicians to take riskier positions.
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? /
The world would split open.
-Muriel Rukeyser
popular resistance
- So Much Woman: Mad Men's Betty and Joan
- New Paltz characters (and a picture of naked men)
- the soyfood with culture
- Highly subjective thoughts on the Natural Gourmet Cookery School
- "What you call 'love,' men like me invented to sell nylons": Don Draper and the Nihilistic Sensibility of Mad Men
- homemade chalkboard next to stove
- croissants. vegan croissants. perfect vegan croissants. perfect vegan croissants from scratch YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE!
- what's a lagusta?
- Kauai guidebook
- Mad Men randoms
shades of resistance
- cooking is vegan (of course) (320)
- chocolate (61)
- fermentation fervor forever! (10)
- recipe! (42)
- Restaurant rants and raves (30)
- Elsewhere (9)
- NYC (15)
- Upstate NY (9)
- truffles (29)
- culture and its discontents (268)
- i heart atheists (19)
- i heart feminists (125)
- meta: blogging about blogging (27)
- Monday Miscellany (48)
- new paltz (108)
- politics (138)
- self-titled (133)
- small (business) is all (70)
- stop consuming so fucking much (66)
recent resistance
- you say you wanna
- I thought it would be the way I’d feel if I ever visited Europe. I’d come home, and if I looked closely into the mirror I’d be able to make out a little white Alp at the back of my eye.
- A long and boring tour of my internal turmoil throughout the past few weeks.
- City of Lights
- March 20, 1997
- Why aren’t vegans talking about this place?
- pantyhose
- i’m just going to say that i’ve worked 55 hours in the past 4 days to start this off, ok?
fascinating friends and their fascinating projects
random resisters
upstate awesomeness
- 100 ideas for New Paltz
- Aboveground pool
- eat local food – a listing of Hudson Valley local food sources. Note that not all are organic or sustainable.
- Erin's cooking & farming & fermentation blog
- Hudson Valley Seed Library
- Legislative Barbie
- new york democracy project
- Rosendale Ramblings
- tree gap retreat in woodstock
- treeo design – all recycled paper!
old + notable
I'm an animal rights activist and vegan (17 years now!) who loathes PETA and Earth Balance, wears secondhand leather shoes (and owns way too many), feeds her cats meat and thinks you should be keeping bees. * Mad Men, yay! * My interview with Sandor Katz! * 101 AWESOME quickie meals! * The out-of-date New Paltz Dining Guide. And the beautiful, beautiful Kaua'i guidebook. *
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