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I have a weird blog layout. I mean, I like the background — miniature takeout menus. get it? Takeout?” And the font and randomized tagline have something to do with the takeout food industry — aside from the few taglines which don’t. (By the way — if you have a tagline to suggest for the [...]

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Chapter III: The Celery Stalk This is part three in my series about the origins of my vegetarianism nineteen years ago — and my thoughts about the events which led to it. Feel free to read part one and part two first. You’ve read about the “legend.”  The story I like to tell everyone about [...]

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Just a few tidbits on the “State of the Shiny…” * I’m still quite new to blogging on my own site — I’ve been at it for just about a month now. I know that some of you are getting thousands of page-views per day, but I’m proud that yesterday I hit my all-time record [...]

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I’m continuing a new tradition: on every calendar day which has the number 3 in it (such as, for example, April 13), I’ll be producing some kind of original list as a blog entry. I chose the number 3 because it appears anywhere between 3 to 5 times a month, which will hopefully keep this [...]

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Chapter II: Acquired Memories So — you’ve read the first part of this little series: Why I became a vegetarian. It was the short version. The proverbial “quick and dirty.” A compact anecdote which has been told numerous times to many, many people throughout the past two decades. When I become a famous movie / [...]

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Freewrite Friday is kind of like Borat. His premise, for a time, was brilliant yet simple. And there was nothing funnier in the world than the folks who would smile and say, with his Kazakh inflection, Very Nice!! And spout out references to “making toilet.” But one day it just stopped being funny and cool. [...]

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(If you’re an avid reader of the blog of my wife, socKs, you may have seen her most recent blog post about our experiences  this evening at a specific restaurant.  Here’s a letter I’m writing to them, although, due to my fear of a litigious online world, I’m going to mask their real name and [...]

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Chapter I: The Legend of Shiny – An Introduction So, Shiny — how did you become a vegetarian? Well, it was the summer of 1989. I was a rising senior in high school. I was about to embark on a teen trip across the country associated with the Jewish youth group with which I was [...]

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The director of our organization was in town yesterday and today. Her office is about 250 miles away at one of the company’s headquarters, but she makes a trip up about three times a year to make sure all is running okay here. And you know what? It is! She told us that she was [...]

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