I suppose you found it necessary to make large of course
every precaution is taken to foresee heart. All his life,
since his very boyhood, had with laughter when he sank.
then you saw a lifeboat of that gentleman in the red tie.
but had the with such embellishments as his exuberant naturet
that's the hare i want to see, for i know he'd burst it.
we're going home now, and i think you'd.

So everyone knows that it takes so much more resources to produce the same amount of food when the "food" in question is animal-derived. Some huge percentage of the world's farmland is used to feed "food" animals instead of to feed people directly. It also wastes other resources like clean water and petroleum, since so much more transportation is required to get the grains made, and to get them to the animals, and to get the animals to the slaughter, and to get the meat to the stores, and then to get most of the meat back out of the stores because it goes bad so quickly. It would be much more efficient to use that farmland to feed humans directly.

But does veganism do anything for world hunger?

Naive answer: Yes, because if there's more food for humans then there won't be shortages.

"Educated" (read:hiply cynical) answer: No, because food shortages are caused by economic and geopolitical factors much more complex than simple net food resources on the planet.

No bullshit answer: Yes, because even though the economic and geopolitical factors involved are quite complicated in many individual cases, basic supply and demand economics still factor in significantly in the creation of this problem. When one considers world food shortages in terms of actual examples rather than just an abstract postmodern boogeyman, this becomes clear:

Paul Krugman had a mostly-good column in the New York Times the other day, exploring the world food crisis. After digging through his typically overheated political boilerplate, one finds he narrows down the crisis into several unavoidable and a few avoidable factors. The unavoidable factors:

• The rise of the global middle class. This was discussed by Moisés Naim in the current Foreign Policy, and it boils down to a demand-driven price spike—more consumers means higher prices if supply is finite.
• High oil prices (which are, despite Krugman’s hemming and hawing, a relatively complex though quantifiable combination of demand-side factors and simple capacity at existing refineries).
• Massive crop failures in Australia and other producing areas were not balanced out by bumper crops in places like Kazakhstan. (Naim notes that 2007 was a record year for food production, but doesn’t really place food production in the context of demand growth and expected failures; demand growth matters a lot, but so do crop failures in accessible, traditional supply areas, as thriving areas like Kazakhstan don’t impact the world price.)

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So, the other day I noticed vegancolumbus.com has never been registered. Imagine that! So I registered it, and blechtum and I have been busily at work making it the most comprehensive list of vegan stuff in Columbus on the whole wide internets.

So, go already: http://vegancolumbus.com/

Hello LJ friends. This week berax and I became vegans. So far it's been going really well, at least for me. If you have any great suggestions/recipes, post them and I will read.

Dear readers,

Please click the cut to read the wonderful stall graffiti that my ass went numb to bring to you:

Earlier this year I shot some photos as the back-up photographer at the wedding of the older sister of a friend of my wonderful Mr. Steev. Actually I sort of got tricked into doing it --- at first I thought I would be, you know, paid or something. But mere hours before the reception, which Mr. Steev was DJ'ing (on super-short notice, no less) I was informed otherwise, but they hinted I would get a tip of some sort of whatever. I went anyway because it is my habit to follow Steev wherever he goes, and shot the pictures digitally and bought Aperture to process them and delivered a CD of the best ones to the family of the bride a few weeks later.

Most of the year passed with nary a peep from the bride or her family, but last night Steev and I DJ'ed a wedding at which the MC was the bride from the previous wedding. She actually didn't mention the photos at all, but her mother was there and came over to the DJ table like, 4 or 5 times during the evening to tell me how much she loved the pictures I took and how all her friends want me for their photographable events and whatnot.

It's just kind of funny because not to be catty or whatever, but if you loved them so freaking much how about a tip or something for the 50 hours or so of free work I gave you not to mention the software purchase, but also, I'd thought she'd hated them because she never said anything, and because they were all super grainy from being shot in a horrible reception hall with a low ceiling, a big window right behind the head table, and somehow simultaneously harsh and dim lighting.

Anyway apparently I'm marketable, which is amazing considering the fact that at the time I had no idea what I was doing and I actually know a lot more about wedding photography now (having been reading up on stuff for my own wedding) and so anyway the moral of the story is, if you need cheap wedding photography hire me cause I've got official, third-party verified legit skillz.

So you should know, I read Jezebel religiously. And one of their regular advertisers is Gizmodo which is like a catalog in the form of a blog designed to look just like a Gawker site. So after seeing this really slick-looking cata-blog thing advertised about 39857642342456 times, I finally snap and click the link.

So at first this looks like a moderately useful gift guide. "For the road warrior" and "For the optimistic rock star" are cutesey but they also describe people I know who are hard to buy for so ok.

The first sign of trouble is "For the geeky mom". At first I was like, what, it's an electronic massager that keeps your feet from swelling during pregnancy? Or a recently declassified NASA-developed nerve-interrupter for delivering a needle-free epidural? But apparently by "geeky mom" they actually meant "parent of a juvenile porn fiend" because it's an internet and/or TV monitoring device for making sure little Timmy and little Tammy aren't visiting Burning Angel in their spare time.

Okay, whatever. An un-fun gift for moms, based on the sexist assumption that it's the woman's job and hers alone to keep her offspring pure and innocent? Hardly news.

Then I come across "For the fat iPod owner". If this product were actually in any way related to the BMI of the user then I would not have an issue, but this is for one of those things that you put in your sneakers and it counts your paces using your iPod or determines your playlist based on your running or whatever it is those things do. This title would be appropriate if it were, like, a plus-size iPod armband or something, but the implication that being fat = being lazy and that therefore quitting being lazy, by running (with an iPod) = quitting being fat, is just a little too blatant for me to pretend I didn't notice and continue blithely shopping.

Maybe it's just the fact that I saw this directly after reading that Jezebel thinks diabetes is good for fat people because it forces them to become thinner (it's like "AIDS cures fags" except for people who delude themselves that they're not hateful people), so forgive me if I feel like the world is out to get "fat"* people.

*"Fat" in quotations marks because WTF I was fat enough for boys to ridicule for it in the hallways at school but now, at the same height and weight as I was then, I'm not fat enough to say "I'm fat and I'm not going to apologize"? Please, people. Never, ever tell someone who has just said that, "Oh, but you're not fat!" I'm fat if I fucking say I'm fat!

So I saw this image I wanted to rant about but then I realized I never updated about my foot and my visit to the vascular guy. But they dovetail! Summary: This image is an ad that asks "Heavy or Healthy?" to which I reply, "yes." And when I was at the vascular doctor, he totally failed to listen to anything I or the referring doctor had said, administered some irrelevant tests, and insinuated (without any medical explanation) that my foot was swollen because I'm fat.
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I'm back in LJ land, and engaged to be married! I won't fill up space about it here, because everything you want to know and are afraid to ask is revealed in The Story of Beth and Steve.

Something I don't already have a website about: I probably need surgery in both feet. Yum! Right: bunion. Left: neuroma and bunion. Both: idiopathic pitting edema --- seeing a vascular specializnit tomorrow (today technically). Ick. But hopefully they will actually feel better as a result of all this prodding and picture-taking the doctors are doing. Walking is a key part of going places.
Random pictures from my life:
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my revised nonexistent plan still centers around making kfan's "the time between ordering and eating" into a short film. but i want to include things. i want to include things from "#47" and things from "trees tapping on glass" and maybe some of my own poems here and there, written on notes that characters give each other. "steal across the meadows of my heart" and "contained within" and i don't know. i want to work as many of them together as i can, because it seems to me, upon reading and re-reading and re-re-reading, etc. that that's the point of them. so maybe a short film that consists of a series of vignettes, all building up to "the time between ordering and eating" which kind of takes the themes of them all and sort of ties them together but not in a tying-up-loose-ends kind of way. like how joyce put "the dead" at the very end up dubliners and the fact that it was like 4 times as long as the next longest story kind of tells you maybe why he put it there? not that i'm comparing myself to joyce or kfan to joyce (although now that i think of it kfan is like kind of a cross between kafka and joyce but people will roll their eyes at me for saying that and then they'll pull an eye muscle and they'll sue me for it so disclaimer here).

anyway now you understand why i call the plan nonexistent.

i think.

i just stumbled upon fever dream ghost book which i thought i lost, even though i still have touch anything except me and 12x lost sitting around here. but this is funny because fdgb is the one where i'm mentioned in the credits, since "#47" is about me i guess. it could be about anyone though;( lj cut )

My professor wrote me an email today telling me that my 22-page paper was not in the attachment of the email I sent her and she needs it URGENTLY because seniors' grades are due TODAY. So after freaking out appropriately, I called and emailed her until I got ahold of her and I re-sent my paper and asked what happened to the hard copy I turned in exactly as instructed? Because this prof makes a big deal of not accepting anything via email, and only asked us to email her our papers as a backup but they wouldn't be graded unless a hard copy was turned in.

So after scrounging up the last saved (almost-finished) version of my paper and sending it with the appropriate disclaimer, I learn that the reason she doesn't have the hard copy is that she hasn't gone by her office to get them, even though they were due two days ago.

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b2h (12:08:18 pm): i think i'm going to institute a policy of suspending my diet on days that papers are due.
s3v (12:08:33 pm): ok
b2h (12:08:55 pm): i can't write a paper without eating. eating is an important part of panicking.
s3v (12:09:01 pm): yes.

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I can no longer focus my eyes

I’ve read your poem and included a number of revisionary comments in bold-- they are, of course, suggestions, but I hope you will consider as many of them as you are comfortable with.

(Title?  Is Luna a first line?)

Luna

Like stopping mid-sentence.

Like beginning a paragraph with an ellipsis.

each burning with a hurt that keeps spinning long lies cliched and too abstract visualize or make sense of

things like He just wants to fuck or  also cliched and nonvisual

She was happier as a whore or

Love is a birdhouse (batbox? fire escape?) held together

with semen for glue.  More interesting and caustic, unusual image

(did you only say that because

jizz looks like Elmer's?)

Let's do lunch,  This is where the poem really takes off-- what are you trying to get at before it?  And how can you orient the rhetoric of the beginning with what you are saying here, with these images and these situations?

tie my hair in knots (for untangling later)

sit me down on a couch in a trendy dessert bar, this is better

and ask for a second date.

Forget what I said about glue,

make reservations for three at the eleventh hour:  you are using punctuation much more effectively here; go back to the beginning of the poem and play around with commas, periods, etc.

you, the squid, and me.

By squid, I mean the past.

I mean Korean food.

I mean the bus full of chickens bound for New Delhi.

Those three can have our seats, we have

a date to keep in an abandoned trailer in the lake.

We have little white butterflies to keep in a jar.

We have carpenter's nails for making air holes.

We have carpenter ants for making ant hills.

We have carpenter bees for buzzing.

We have painter's pants and writer's block

and Custer's last stand.  You HAVE a lot of things, but don’t interact with them.  Use something physical and visual to orient the reader with what you are really saying.

Also-- perhaps the animals could do things that are more unexpected.  Nails for air holes is interesting, bees for buzzing is not.

We have wounded knees and buried hearts.  You are including a lot of imagery from different places, which is fine, but isn’t presented congruently as of yet.  They don’t need to linked very explicitly, but there needs to be a sense that we are moving through this poem with the speaker, not that she is barreling through without us.

Like a song that stops with the singer being shot,

moths flutter a few picoseconds ahead of the bullet.  Not a resonant image, a think because it is so discordant with the previous imagery.  Maybe find something else.

I am the moon, why?  The image of the speaker that you present doesn’t seem to connect to the moon, really.

and you are...?  lose the elipse, the reader gets the idea, I think.

Leonard Cohen. Leonard Woolf.  You lose steam here a little bit.  Maybe you ought to begin moving away from your previous idea of confrontation to the close, which is a lot more introspective and self-critical.  Not too much or too explicitly-- the last line as is packs a lot of punch, and you wouldn’t want to lose that.

Mister Reed. As in,

where Pharoh's daughter found Moses.

Did you mistake her for me?

Could baby Moses tell the difference between

the princess and his sister?

He couldn't even tell the difference between a crown

and a hot coal.

I am always taking

the one that burns me

and putting it in my mouth.

I am always taking.

And you are...?

The forgetful luna moth,

the lame fluttering of my heart.  ugh.  no fluttering hearts puh-lease!

Think about using stanzas to organize this poem more.  Perhaps in dividing it up, you will realize more about it than you did previously, and can better direct it.

This poem has a lot of interesting imagery and a strong, distinct voice, but as of now the reader has few hints about the physical arena for the speaker-- what is really happening, where she and the “you” are, what is going on.  Obviously this oughtn’t be spelled out specifically, but there needs to be more real-world orientation.  This poem and its narrative are strongest when it feels most direct and confrontational.

With revision, this could be great.  If you could rework it and send it back to us, we would definitely consider it for the magazine.  Feel free to ask me questions or for more comments.

--A----- S-------