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Wednesday whining, or an invitation to laugh at my misfortunes. 10 September 2008 3:10 pm

Posted by Tracy in : kitchen mishaps, not even vegetarian, New York, tea, kitchen gear, school, baking, meta , 4 comments

Dear readers:

I promise not to make this a regular feature. But I hope you’ll be able to laugh at my more ridiculous complaints, and that in time I’ll be able to go back and reread these and see the humor in them, too. So, here’s what I’ve got today:

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Whine the First: I failed at making no-knead bread yesterday, for a variety of reasons. The trouble started when (more…)

Do me a favor, readers. 4 September 2008 4:52 pm

Posted by Tracy in : geekery, not even vegetarian, history, meat, politics, eating, vegetarian, people , 1 comment so far

I need your help.

Together, we can destroy the myth that Hitler was a vegetarian.

Seriously. I know it’s a funny thing to talk about and all — even Eddie Izzard gave it a go in the otherwise entirely brilliant Dress to Kill — but it’s not true. Hitler was no more vegetarian than I am, which is to say he was maybe a picky meat eater, but he definitely ate the flesh of dead animals. There is plenty of documentation of this fact (more on that in a bit). Please, everybody spread this idea far and wide, because I am entirely sick of hearing people snicker about the idea of a genocidal maniac who wouldn’t eat anything that involved killing animals.

I’m bringing this up now because (more…)

Monkey Monday: live from New York! 18 August 2008 12:38 pm

Posted by Tracy in : not even vegetarian, New York, tea, monkeys, eating, pictures, cooking , 3 comments

Ladies and gentlemonkeys, I am happy to report that New York is still the greatest city on Earth… and now I live here! I’m about to take the A train downtown to jump through some bureaucratic hoops at NYU, but I wanted to rave about my yesterday a bit first. Some of the highlights: (more…)

Fun facts! 6 August 2008 3:33 pm

Posted by Tracy in : not even vegetarian, work, Morning Glory, news, books , 2 comments

I started writing these on Friday, for extra bonus alliteration points, when I discovered that our toaster oven does not work unless it is plugged in (I know, I know, dur-hurrrrr, but in these exciting times I’m not exactly the swiftest). Then I got distracted (no big surprise). Whatever. The toaster oven was unplugged because Peter installed shiny new GFCI outlets in the kitchen, thus satisfying (more…)

A most intriguing discovery. 23 July 2008 7:23 am

Posted by Tracy in : not even vegetarian, pictures, eugene, restaurants , add a comment

So when I was leaving Morning Glory on Monday, I spotted something nifty:

9 PM is totally late-night for Eugene, and ribs are delicious… suffice it to say I’d be there tonight except for how I’m across the country hoping to find a place to live next month! But maybe next week….