O, O, O, To-tus flore-o!

[Ian Livingston]

Yep.  Lots of Aquarian type stuff happening in there.  As there was
Piscean in M&D.

And I see you do what any good anarchist does.  Plus you offer some
excellent insights into OBA's opus.

-i

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Mar 22, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Ian Livingston wrote:
>
>> Yes, Happy birthday, Robin.  Thanks for what you do.
>
> Thank You too.
>
>  [what the hell do I do anyway?]
>
> Today I'm making beans, rice & cookies [under the agesis of Food Not Bombs]
> for a "Rally in the Valley" celebrating [and featuring] Cindy Sheehan.  [I
> ask Robin & Jason what's going to happen there—"Lots of preaching to the
> choir ", "A lot of 'Right On's' will be shouted."] Some how the counterpoint
> of our local soiree, played over 24fps' main theme with an ostinato of war,
> war, war as realized by real humans turned real monsters produces a fugue
> state, just on the fine edge of the whole thing falling apart—as expressed
> in our ongoing Chomsky firefight.
>
> I guess that's what I do. Make cookies, not war.
>
> But we'll probably get into some small skirmishes over the non-PC nature of
> the cookies. There's the blood, sin and waste of eggs [de-beaking, mass
> chicken slaughter, tiny cage torture, Sarah Palin belching into a microphone
> with an abattoir as a backdrop], similar carnage in the butter [veal
> marscapone, Upton Sinclair, that whole Treyf thing] walnuts [food
> allergies]. The beans & rice ought to be safe: they're 100% vegan.
>
> Anyone else notice the high degree of vegetarian consciousness in Against
> the Day?
>