Here I Go Again...

...um, so...ridiculously, I am headed to Cartagena, Colombia in order for to sail a yacht for a friend of a friend who happens to be a boat captain. Sound random? It is. Even to me, it is random. Mind you, I'm not arguing with the way of the universe and all that...I mean, who am I to blow against the wind? I'm just saying, it is random. I leave tonight, I'll be back (with stories and some well meaning rants, I'm sure) by the 10th of April as long as all goes well and I don't get hacked to pieces by pirates (just kidding Mom!) Anybody who wishes to do so should call my sweet Sarah Jean and get her to hang out with you as she's on her spring break and I'm abandoning her yet again. What a douchebag, you say? Yeah, but there's no denying I'm a lucky douchebag...

I am a god!

So yesterday I posed for this local painter who is doing a series of "visionary realist" paintings based on mythological sources. In one painting I am going to be one of a couple of centaurs carrying the dead Christ and in another I am going to be Bacchus mid-debauch, surrounded by men I just turned into animals...or something. Kind of appropriate, I think. I'll post a link to his site when the paintings are done.

PS: Here's a painting that has nothing to do with anything mythological, but stands as proof that I am godlike...or maybe not, but I can make a pretty picture. Happy spring is almost here!

Fresh, sustainable fast food?

Hell yes!

Burgerville is a Northwest institution that combines locally grown hormone free meat, locally harvested organic vegetables, sustainable wind power, and a killer special sauce and then serves it up fast food style right into your hungry face. The ice cream used in the shakes is locally produced...what? And the employees all have health care? In a fast food joint? Fuck yeah, Great Northwest, you truly are Great!

Check it out: http://burgerville.com

In related news, I spent Friday night in the best drinking city in these United States: Portland, Oregon. Hello again, Brian and Andrea, I have missed you both...

Care About The Environment? Eat Less Meat

While the above image is part of my oeuvre, the following is copied almost in its entirety from a post in a blog written by Jordan Stratford; ordained Gnostic priest, author, and all-around badass. Check out other posts by clicking the link titled "Ecclesia Gnostica in Nova Albion."

Last week, Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the United Nation's Nobel Prize-winning scientific panel on climate change, asked the world to "please eat less meat." Speaking at a press conference in Paris, he said meat was a very carbon-intensive commodity, a fact established by UN research showing that livestock production creates more greenhouse gases than all forms of transport combined.

It's interesting to note that he followed his statement by saying: "This is something that the IPCC was afraid to say earlier, but now we have said it."

Then there are the dreaded V-words: vegetarian and vegan. Few politicians or environmentalists want to face the jokes, media backlash and libertarian "consumer freedom" zealots who will accuse them of forcing Canadians to eat only salad and lentils. The same sort of people who fought against mandatory seatbelts and restrictions on tobacco would shift their public relations and spin machines into high gear.

Global demand for meat is projected to double between 2001 and 2050, meaning billions more animals will be raised in intensive, inhumane conditions.

Encouraging the public to cut back on meat would also have major health benefits. The World Cancer Research Fund recently urged consumers to limit consumption of red meat to 500 grams per week and to avoid processed meats completely. (Vegetarians and vegans figured out the health advantages of a meatless diet long ago. That's why they have lower rates of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer, hypertension and other diseases.)

Cutting down or cutting out meat is a win-win-win policy. Not only does it help the fight against global warming, but it saves countless animals from factory-farm suffering and it's good for you.

It's just too bad so many people are afraid to talk about it.

How long before the spin on this story is blamed on;

The Gay Agenda

Islamofascists

Zionists

"liberals"

Al Gore

Xenu

The Magnificence of Printmaking

Yes, they are printing with a steamroller...and how awesome is that?