Rebecca Brooks

Vegans are taking over, son! (not really)

So, Oprah looked into animal factory farming last month on her show.

Last year, a vegan baker won “Cupake Wars” on the Food Network.

Bill Clinton became a vegan (wtf?!, right?) and CNN did extensive coverage of it.

Ellen did a special on Gardein (one of my favorite foods ever) last week.

Martha Stewart just brought on Biz Stone (who started Twitter and is vegan) and this lady who wrote the bestselling book “Veganist” this week.

A non-partisan report by the UN found that meat-eating is the #1 cause of environmental problems/pollution, with things like car pollution trailing far, far, far (did I say, far?) behind. In short, they stated nothing can help the environment more than stopping meat consumption. In other words, vegetarianism and environmentalism are synonyms. Meat-eating and environmentalism are antonyms.

Mario Batali (non-vegetarian, famous chef) started to endorse “Meatless Mondays.”

UFC champs Danzig and Jake Shields are doing stuff for PETA and are vegan. Health celebrity, Bob Harper, made the switch too eradicating the notion that vegans are emaciated, protein deficient and unhealthy.

And PETA hasn’t been acting THAT crazy lately, allowing for more mainstream, positive press to be given to this issue w/o their outlandish shenanigans giving people a bad taste in their mouths.

A new show on Animal Planet is pretty exciting, featurin the lady who started the delectable line of sweets called “Vegan Treats.”

I’m happy for these strides, but know there is quite a ways to go. Let’s see if 2011 continues to be the year of the vegan.

A recent (and heavily Photoshopped) picture I took of Greg. He needs to record an album if only to put this picture to good use.

A recent (and heavily Photoshopped) picture I took of Greg. He needs to record an album if only to put this picture to good use.

life is like photography, you have to use the negative to develop

— who knows

robhuebel: This is a shitty picture made by someone that knows nothing about art.

robhuebel:

This is a shitty picture made by someone that knows nothing about art.

I need to stop…

  • Googling “the futility of life”
  • Eating cereal right before bed. 
  • Being so judgmental
  • Fixating
  • Pressing Snooze 5 times too many in the morning
  • Taking cabs - such a waste of $$$
  • Watching bad TV in lieu or reading good books
  • Putting myself before others
  • Hanging out with Greg all the time and my friends none of the time

… and a load of other things.

In the meantime, I did just pack for Vegas in 10 minutes (new record) and am about to shower, watch SATC, and sleep. Then tomorrow lies ahead a whole new day with brand new things I can renounce/swear I’ll change.

My new life motto.

This is just cool.

6 years of taking a picture of yourself everyday. This video shows his slow but steady metamorphosis into… an older version of himself.

Our new Director of Motion/Art at Animoto does the COOLEST graphics ever. He did most of Obama’s campaign. I’m slightly obsessed with this video.

The only people who believe in a consensual demarcation between what’s artistically good and what’s artistically bad are insecure, uncreative elitists who need to use somebody else’s art to validate their own limited worldview. It never matters what you like; what matters is why you like it.

Interview with my Fav Blogger

Michael K from Dlisted provides me with the daily LOLs.

And not in the fake sense of the acronym popularized by AIM-devotees circa 1999. Like he actually makes me laugh out loud.

I would love to run into him in NYC. I also think he’d be wonderful on Jackie Clarke and Julie Klausner’s UCB Show “Obsessed.” Hearing him talk about Phoebe Price, Rojo Caliente and Brit Brit with some of my fav improvisers? That would be a slice of heaven.