In the Dining& Wine sections of The New York Times there's this great article
"I love you, but you love meat"
I am technically a pescatarian, but say vegetarian to avoid the explanation period. My husband is a meat lover and that is why I enjoyed this article so much. I wasn't a veggie when we met. I feel like it is just a part of my evolution. Starting a "interdietary" relationship might be a lot harder, then say, the way it has happened with us. Where we already had this foundation of love and understanding.
Some gems from the article...

The culinary camps have become so balkanized that some factions consider interdietary dating taboo....No-holds-barred carnivores, for example, may share the view of Anthony Bourdain, who wrote in his book “Kitchen Confidential” that “vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.”

One of the couples in the article had it all worked out.

“I’m not a vegangelical,” she said. “He’s an adult and I respect his choices just as he respects mine.”

and now I have a new word to add to my favorites list...vegangelical

Barry, my hubby, will be showing one of his pieces at the Cannibal Flower show on Saturday.
If you are in the LA area stop by. These shows are so much fun. Hundreds of artists, good music, and people dress up as living art, too.

"That's more of a supper club than a restaurant"

It's not everyday that I get a chance to be in a room full of Brits, but the other day I was just that lucky. My husband was photographing a band from the U.K.
Easily amused, and knowing that I do not get opportunities like this everyday, I decided to ask a favor.
ME-
"seeing as I don't get to hang out with Brits that often, could you do me a favor?"
HER-
"Sure Love"
{she called me love!}
ME-
"Would you say Aluminum for me?"
HER-
"Of course,....AL-YOU-Minn-ie-ummm"

and then I did a little dance, for I could not help myself.

Unfamiliar with the pleasure? Next time you see a Brit, ask. One word poetry.

Si Se Puede!!

Here is the article by Will.i.am. about why he chose to make this video.

I couldn't agree with him more. If the message from the two sides had to be narrowed down to only one word, the right would be FEAR, and the left would be HOPE.
I chose hope. Not to fear fear fear jihad, or the immigrant picking my lettuce. But to remember the power of the people to incite change.
Winona LaDuke is one of my heroes. Her is a quote from a speech she gave, and I think it can jog our collective memory of how powerful we the people can be.

"The fact is that the Nixon Administration proposed to have a thousand nuclear power plants in the United States by the year 2000.[2] What a nightmare that would have been. Instead now we have 109 aging nuclear reactors that are a total disaster. But the reason that we don't have a thousand nuclear power plants in this country is because people got out and organized. That is how that was defeated. The nuclear industry is very powerful. But the people are more powerful."