Breasts, Not Animal Tests- PETA's new sexist game

PETA, honestly, what the fuck?



PETA never fails to objectify women someway, somehow. It's like PETA feeds off of sexism.

Anyway, judge for yourself:

http://www.peta2.com/BreastsNotAnimalTests/game.asp

Does this honestly help animals or make serious issues "comical" (granted, I don't find this game funny). Vivisection is no laughing matter. Also, you could say "by any means possible, lets save animals" but I don't see this helping animals. It does more harm than good. Fuck sexism and fuck PETA.

Herbivore Clothing

I'm back in Zillah, sadly. But I'm heading to Omak tomorrow- then back to Spokane for the day.

While I was in Portland, I stopped by Herbivore Clothing to get some shirts. I got three things, two shirts and one hoodie.



Yes, this is someone's chest...

Let Live Conference comes to an end

I didn't go to the closing event because I'm not big on closers.

I made it to two other talks today, both were great. I was most impressed with co-W.A.R's, the co-founder of WAR actually, Camilla Hankins, who spoke well and is someone I would be thrilled to work alongside with. She's from N.J.- at least I assume since she goes to weekly demos at the HLS over there. Also, the accent gives it away.

I tried finding her speech on YouTube but I've had no luck- granted I just left the talk about 30 minutes ago. This is an older speech I found from her:




I also learned about radical cheerleaders, which was something I didn't know about. Granted I don't see myself becoming a radical cheerleader, I still found it interesting. I don't think that Cheer leading at an event like in front of a vivisection lab is respectful but in certain cases, I think it could be great. In the case of the circus, since children are around, I can see this as being very effective.



Kind of odd and funny- not sure how I feel about it...not sure if I care about it.

Lunch Break at Let Live Conference in Portland

It's about time to head back to the conference.

I spent yesterday attending two different talks. One regarding HLS (SHAC activism) and the other talk was over the AETA (Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act).

I went to the first one because of Josh Harper mostly, as he worked with SHAC and he's become something of a friend over the past three years. He'll be getting out in about two weeks from his half way house in Seattle. I'm happy for him and wish I wrote to him one last time before he got out because I was sort of put in the corner by my parents after some people came over to question me over the letters and support. Pretty lame.

The AETA was actually what he was arrested under. I went to that talk because it was given by Peter Young, an ALF prisoner that I have a lot of respect for. He's a great speaker and I'm glad I got to be around him and listen to what he had to say.

Today I've only attended one talk so far. I learned about proxies. I'm still not sure what the fuck they are though. Here is a site he told us about: http://www.proxy4free.com/ I best get back!

California's Redwoods

The Redwood Forest! I wasn't exactly crazy about them cutting the bottom of the tree out so people could drive through it. I took a picture anyway...



The pictures I've taken do no justice to the Redwoods. You would have to see them for yourself. I did, however, find this tree interesting. Up top there are trees growing from the branches of this massive tree.



Here is the Bull (this picture is mainly for Sean). This place is like a "Redwood's gift stop". Anyway, this great giant blue bull was there with huge balls. Made me laugh a bit.

Oregon Day 2

Today we spent most of the day driving to California but we did get to see the sea lion cave in Oregon. The smell...well words cannot explain the smell.



Looks like slugs.



A beautiful view out of the cave.

Oregon Day 1

We drove into Oregon from Yakima. The drive took forever. It's surprising how different the Inland Northwest looks compared to the coast.



The Ocean: very cold.

Vegan Wine and Beer

Drinking is no longer off limits for me, we at least in two and a half weeks.

On Spokanevegans, someone was kind enough to post a list of vegan beers. I was saddened that not many Irish beers that I used to drink back in the day are not vegan. So once I get back to Germany I will know what I can and cannot drink.

I was happy to see that some of my favorites were on the "vegan friendly" list such as Pilsner, Heineken, and Smirnoff Ice (well, this isn't beer but whatever. I like it.)

If you want to check to see if your favorite drinks are vegan friendly, check out the site: www.barnivore.com

Jumpy

What a week. I have written in a few days because I haven’t really been in the right mood and a lot has been going on.

On Wednesday we (my mom and I) took Jumpy to a rabbit sanctuary because he can’t live on base anymore. Well Jumpy wasn’t feeling very good but apparently the stress was too much for him and he died the same day we dropped him off.

Kit tried rushing him to the emergency clinic in Idaho but Jumpy was too ill to make it.

Welcome to Hell

This is my backyard.

Really though, I will miss Spokane.

Acer Aspire

The laptop I bought yesterday.

Walkie Harassment

I’ve been hearing the maids on my brother’s walkie that he brought for who knows what reasons. Well they carry walkie talkies around, like I used to when I worked at the youth center.

At first I was thinking that I was being spied on (it sucks being paranoid all the time). Once I figured it out, it was pretty funny since the maids sometimes bark into their walkie or sing. Of course I said something back, I don’t want to be rude... I don’t think that they yet realize that they have a traitor amongst them.

I really feel as though I’ve made myself some new friends.

AK Press

I got my order in from AK Press yesterday before I headed off last night.

Three things came in, now I'm just waiting on the last item; "500 Years of Indigenous Resistance" which should be interesting.

Two of the things I ordered were in regards to birth control and abortion. I got them for my sociology presentation on population growth- but it got here a tad too late. Not their fault, I typed in something wrong on my order so they had to call me and sort it all out. I didn't actually make it to class that day anyway because after 2:00 I was needed elsewhere.

I was pretty taken aback when there was instructions in one of the pamphlets on how to preform an at home abortion- in fact you can buy your own abortion kit, believe it or not. The herbal one wasn't as shocking, not so much as it was interesting.

I suppose the message is that you can take care of yourself. Also, abortion may very well become illegal someday so you might as well learn how to do-it-yourself.

Granted, I only got the pamphlets for curiosities sake.

To read more about it you can check out www.akpress.com - just search "abortion".

OutSpokane

Spokane Pride events are taking place from June 4-13.

Today, Saturday, June 8th there will be a Gay Pageant: Leather and Lace. It’s 21 and over, sadly. Not that I’ll be able to make it since I’m babysitting (It’s an overnighter).

Not a big fan of pageants anyway.

What I’m really looking forward to is the Pride Parade on the 13th that starts at 11:00AM and begins at Dempsey’s Brass Rail, 909 W. 1st. Avenue. I’m not sure if you have to be 21+ to get in for the staging or maybe everything will be outside.

Too bad my rainbow flag is all packed up... Be there if you can to show your support for the Spokane GLBT community.

Seattle Pride Parade is on the 28th!

Wordpress.com

Damn it. I just checked out wordpress and it's beautiful! I am not creating another blog. I promised myself...

I'm now a part of two different blogs. This one is all my own though and the other one is shared by all vegans of Spokane. Well at least some vegans of Spokane who get an OK from Crystal.

http://spokanevegans.wordpress.com/ here is the site for the Spokane Vegans. Check it out!

My blog creation

I've tried making blogs in the past. I actually tried making a blog this morning, but decided to leave it behind because too many people know that e-mail address (and because I cannot figure out how to delete it). Well, actually, it's more than that. Too many ex-boyfriends know that e-mail address, thus the creation of this blog!

I always become more interested in blogging or journal keeping when something is changing in my life. As of right now, I'm getting ready to move. I'm staying in TLF (I'm not sure what that stands for but it's basically like a military hotel) and in a week and a half, I'll be done with my college classes. Then, in about four weeks, I'll be done with Washington and on my way to Germany. Even though I do plan on moving back to Washington to finish up my degree but I can't pass up Germany when there are so many other places I want to see in Germany.

And, yes, there is more to it than that as well. I cannot go to Evergreen State College until I have 45 credits...something to do with not taking the SAT while I was in High School. Now I can kick myself over that but at the time I didn't see the point in taking it. Oh well. So I really only need about 5-10 more credits- and in the mean time I'm going to be at home until I get those 5-10 more credits.

Today I need to repaint my room. I decided to paint it yellow three years ago, now I have to go over it with white. The yellow is so light, it could probably pass off as white but considering that I have candle wax stains and coffee stains on the wall (don't ask me how that happened because I wouldn't know) I have something to paint over now.

I'm not sure how often I'll be able to write on here but considering that I have nothing better to do (that's a lie, I should be doing homework) I'll be writing as often as I can. I wonder if Mr. Joal Lee would give out extra credit points for blog writing?