politics

The 26th Annual Vegetarian Food Fair, Toronto, Ontario

September 22, 2010

Hegui and I recently returned from beautiful Toronto. Do you know the city? It is nestled along the northern coast of Lake Ontario only a short drive from Niagara Falls and the US Border. We planned our trip by committee: first we thought Seattle, though I’ve read that the weather gets dreary at this time [...]

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Slow Food Nation: Why our food should be good, clean, and fair by Carlo Petrini

November 18, 2009

Well, I’ve finally been able to finish this challenging book. To be honest, I skimmed the last quarter of it. Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair was a real struggle for me. Ostensibly the book is about exactly what the title says: the slow food movement and the philosophy [...]

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Percy Jackson rant: politics of the Underworld

September 19, 2009

I’ve always been ghoulishly fascinated by theories of the afterlife. I can never get enough stories about heaven and hell, the Greek/Roman underworld, etc. I wonder what the appeal might be? Maybe having an idea of what to expect after death is comforting? I’ve finally gotten through Dante’s The Divine Comedy. The Inferno was never [...]

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“Twilight” rant 11: the Cullens threaten us, Aro!

June 29, 2009

If you were a Volturi, what would you make of the Cullens? We know from “Twilight” that Carlisle stayed with the Italian vamps for a decade or two somewhat soon after he was transformed into a vampire. It sounds like he was Aro’s protégé. But the good doctor wouldn’t dine on humans, preferring to be [...]

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“Twilight” rant 6: beautiful, exotic Leah

May 24, 2009

I feel bad for Leah. Her father dies of a heart attack in “New Moon.” Her lover, Sam, spurns her for her cousin, Emily, in the same book. She is forced to become a werewolf and have all of her most intimate thoughts exposed to all of those rowdy, harebrained teenage boys. She finally leaves [...]

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“Twilight” rant 5: Bella versus Rosalie

May 18, 2009

What’s up with Bella and Rosalie? They are less than friendly in the first novel, “Twilight.” Yet by the close of “Breaking Dawn,” they’ve become the best of buds. For much of the series Bella is preoccupied with Rosalie’s beauty and seems very self-critical in comparison. We finally learn in “Eclipse” that Rosalie is completely [...]

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