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Man, Gordon Ramsey, what a toppish chef. And if there's one thing in this world I love, it's toppish chefs.

Today I went to an anarchist bookfair. I'm excited that Dublin has enough of an anarchist community or presence or whatever to hold one. This kid Dara who's friends with Sef met me at Christchurch to help me find my way, what a mensch. As soon as we walked in to the hall Dara tells me it's evidently Vegetarianism Day or something like that. So, caught up in my own personal excitement at transgressing my own purist vegetarianism, I told him "oh man I ate lamb last night for the first time in like seven years." He's appalled, goes, "Why?!" And I heard those carnivorous blame-shifting words I've always despised come out of my own damn mouth: "Man, I just really wanted to eat some fucken lamb. It was delicious!" Haha. I felt a little ashamed though, honestly. Plus I was wearing leather, shocker of shockers. I actually said, while some of us were sitting outside eating stolen vegan food, that I am entirely unapologetic about my love for leather. Clearly I was feeling a bit defensive, whatever. I just get snarky in radical spaces where veganism is exalted. I should probably examine this reactive tendency of mine a little bit, honestly.

Ooh and then I drank a pint in a bar filled with middle-aged men at 2pm ("Got started a bit late did you?" one of them asked me) watching horseraces, and then I walked to the open-air market and ate stuff made with chickpea flour and delicious, and bought a loaf of olive bread and feta mixed with pickled peppers and olives. And then, and then, I wandered into this bookstore fully intending just to browse, but well, as soon as I walked in I was greeted by the "gay and lesbian" section, and Trane was on the stereo, and there was this bespectacled older dyke working the register, and a winding staircase which I scaled only to be greeted by the poetry and critical theory sections...*Cum,* as RK once said. How could I resist a 3 euro used copy of doc and fluff? Or, for that matter, a beautiful anthology of shit that Semiotext(e) has published?

Iggy on a stick. And I'm going to hear jazz tonight. Decadence isn't entirely unsustainable, right? I mean, as long as it's only like this once in a while.

Okay, I'm going to go read porn now.

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I just get snarky in radical spaces where veganism is exalted. I should probably examine this reactive tendency of mine a little bit, honestly.

I do too. Probably it's because I've heard so often that vegetarianism or veganism is something everyone can and should do to help the planet, and that's just not true. I keep bringing up my medical history, despite the fact that even if I didn't have this weird deficiency I still wouldn't be vegetarian or vegan.

Word. I guess I think of it as one way to eat more consciously and withdraw yr complicity from various inefficient/inhumane means of food production. But that doesn't mean that I think veganism/vegetarianism=Ethical, and eating meat=unethical. Also I am bothered by the idea, which I used to hold when I became vegetarian when I was 14, that it's a really effective way of disrupting/redirecting an entirely fucked up distribution of resources (the whole, '40 acres of grain that's used to feed oxen that produce x pounds of meat that gets into the mouths of y people who can afford to eat meat'thing). It is one very small way of attempting that, yeah. But the structural inequalities around food are a lot more complicated.

I also think veganism sometimes (not always) rests on these weird concepts of nature and human animals' place in it. But I digress.

Also, I hope that whatever yr "weird deficiency" is, that you've been healthy and happy to boot.

You're letting me borrow Doc'n'Fluff when you get back, right??

Also, I'm always snarky, mostly when I agree with people but don't want to admit it.

And you're teaching me all you know about bootblacking, right?

In other words, of course ;)

It's actually a really hot book. I say 'actually' because a lot of Califia's writing just doesn't do it for me. But there were parts in here where I started laughing with glee.

That's the word . . . you're so good at being decadent, though. Sometimes I think I'm being decadent but I'm just not as good at it as you are.

I love my vegan friends because they are in all ways the most moral and virtuous people I know. And I can kiss their cruelty-free feet and feel humble, but I'm not gonna try to live up to their standards.

Thanks; I am rather good at it, aren't I?

I do think veganism can be great and challenging and not sanctimonious. My favorite cookbook is vegan! But, you know, even this equation of them as being "virtuous"---

Clearly my decadent ass bristles. Haha.

Six days!!

this was the best entry ever. well, maybe not quite ever, but close. It was really fun to read it aloud in my head (if that makes sense) adding different voices for the different paragraphs. the last voice, for the "Okay, I'm going to go read porn now." was my own.

anyway. it's good to read your updates. i woud write more about this except that have a sushi band-aid on my finger and can't type well. the band-aid has pictures of sushi on it, i mean, not that o have sushi acting as a band-aid. it's pretty rockin', though. i got a splinter under my fingernail and other than hurting a bunch, i don't care because it's an excuse to use these band-aids.

that's all. take care.

and that, Zach, was a fabulous comment.

Sushi bandaids? Clearly I'm not as decadent as Ren thinks I am if I've been going through life thinking the clear or sheer plastic kinds were the height of luxury.

Man, if you're going to be around the east coast next year, come visit me at Vassar, okay?

Sure thing. I have absolutely no clue where I'll be, but yes!

and the sushi band-aids. http://www.stupid.com/stat/SSHB.html I guess this is where my sister got them--they were a gift. the toy inside the box sucked, though. some crappy little plastic thing. seriously, if they're goign to make such awesome band-aids, why couldn't they think up a better toy?

focusing on inane things such as that makes hard stuff go away. right?
right.

anyway, i wish you were in the states and at wes, because it would be fun to hang out, and that's a pretty long plane flight.

i think the fact that some vegans are stuck-up competitive assholes shouldn't ruin the concept of veganism, or turn it into something to be rebelled against in order to not be going with the current elitist flow. you can be vegan and be doing other things that are destructive to the planet or killing animals. i think not killing/torturing animals for food is just one in many steps, though definitely a big one.

one in many steps towards ending the oppression of all beings on the planet, that is.

I think yr analysis is right on target. I guess what gets to me is the notion of veganism as the Be All and End All, Of Course You Would Eat Like This If You Were A Moral Person way of eating, which I've encountered in folks who are amazing and inspiring and not at all elitist assholes. Hm. I just woke up and I don't think I'm giving a very good response. xo

Well Im a carnivore so.. yeah.. I usually get snarky. I can't believe I forgot about the book fair though. I so shoulda gone.

I need to get so much shit done, and then we need to hang out. The end.

ps I had a dream where we were drinking tequila.

That was a perty story. You iz de best Inglish student evar.

Ps. when you're finished with the poo we should so drink tequilla.

Aw, yr even more scatological than me. But yeah, tequila would be good. I've got a bunch of limes in my fridge.

Trust you to have men in your fridge.
I mean.. limes..

Dude, I'm so just awake! Bad Jack! Come to the coffee morning in the student centre at 1-2pm. rooms 3+4.

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