I’d heard of hybrid vehicles before, but tribrids? On the path towards a fuel-efficient SUV, I suppose, but ABC News last night reported the large tax break for businesses who buy 6,000 lb SUVs or trucks.
Naked Sushi, polka, bowling and kielbasa
Bonzai, a restaurant in Seattle’s Pioneer Square, is now serving naked sushi, where nigiri and sashimi are placed on top of a naked woman covered in only flower petals and a sheet of plastic wrap… passionate arguments from both sides of this sales pitch.
Dennis Kucinich’s website has a link devoted exclusively to polka, bowling and kielbasa.
Raw Foods
Slate offers a seven day diary of a woman who recently switched to a raw foods diet. As someone who has done this before (only for a couple of weeks as part of a cleanse), it was heartening to read about someone who could keep this up for months, and she meets folks who have done this for years. I don’t mind cleansing once in awhile, but a full-time escapade really isolates one from society… I mean, you’re healthy, but is it worth it if you can’t commune with friends and family in a social setting?
Zed
The CBC’s best show, Zed, is back on the air. Check out the site, and if you’re lucky enough to get CBC, watch it weeknights at 11:30pm PST.
Happy Mortieween!
Happy Mortieween after-a-hard-day’s-rockin’ department! My first Halloween in San Francisco, with an obligatory trip to the Castro and a gaggle of friends from Seattle.
Mortie and unidentified Skynyrd fan.
From left to right: Magnum PI, Nancy Sinatra, Annie Oakley, Green Lantern, Mortie; in the front row, Clara as the Death of Disco.
Kimmay, Carrie Anne, Mortie, Digo and Aliah.
Mayor, or replicant?
Is your mayoral candidate a replicant? Certainly they’re on the NRA blacklist.
Appoint this!
Two months in Berkeley haven’t been disappointing. Why, just across the Bay, acting-mayor-for-a-day Chris Daly appointed two people to prominent positions at the Public Utilities Commission while Mayor Willie Brown was out of town. Brown said Daly acted like a stalker, but Daly’s appointments, including a former Sierra Club president, are probably better than what a-little-too-pro business Brown would have opted for.
Bioneers
A weekend at Bioneers.
On movement building: Roundtable breakfasts for the left, to resolve differences so that the movement emerges with a united front (this method has been very successful for the right), and build base and reach out to the middle, not the other way around.
On media and democracy: Corporations are trying to get Non-Governmental Organiations viewed as terrorist organizations. Yow.
On the founding of our country: The US was born against corporations (specifically, The East India Trading Company)
My favorite line from Tom Hayden: “Intelligence doesn’t mean something is true.”
Most disturbing moment: Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser is being sued because Monsanto found GMO seeds on his property. Schmeiser has never grown GMO seeds, but because GMO material had contaminated the property, the Canadian federal court ruled that the farm is Monsanto’s property. The case goes to the Canadian Supreme Court on January 20, 2004. Visit Percy’s website.
World (Sigh)ries
Dammit, the Cubs and the Red Sox continue their respective curses, while the New York Yankees and the Florida Marlins try again. Ho hum.
Next year *isn’t* now. :(
Man, oh man. I wished next year was now. I hoped. Ah, crap.
Why don’t the Feds arrest Pat Robertson, after he said the State Department should be nuked? And why not take Jerry Falwell, too?
And meanwhile, let’s get a paper trail for those faulty electronic voting machines, shall we?