Fuck the Man, I'll Have a Vegan Punk Rock Cupcake, Please.

BOUNCE COME ON BOUNCE
BOUNCE COME ON BOUNCE
I SLAM THE DOOR (BOOM)
WHEN I COME INTO THE BEDROOM (WHAM BAM)
'CAUSE I'M THE KING OF THE CASTLE (NA NA NA)

TURN ME ON TURN ME LOOSE
(COME ON COME ON)
TRY TO HIT IT
IT'S A HASSLE
COME AND GET SOME OF THIS
DON'T FORGET INNUENDO
PLAY ME LIKE NINTENDO
NEVER LET GO
SCREAMING SO LOUD
YOU'LL BE HITTING THE CRESCENDO
DOH RAY ME FA SOL LA TE DOH

CHORUS:
COME BABY COME
BABY BABY COME COME
COME BABY COME
BABY BABY COME COME

WELL YOU GOTTA GIVE ME LOVIN'
AND YOU GOTTA GIVE ME SOME
YOU GOTTA GIVE ME LOVIN'
AND YOU GOTTA GIVE ME SOME

WELL I CAN HEAR THE (RING RING RING)
THE TELEPHONE GOES RING (HELLO HELLO)
BUT WE'RE STILL GETTING BUSY
(PUMP PUMP PUMP HUH)

NOW YOU'RE GETTING DIZZY
I CAN SLOW IT DOWN
SO YOU CAN PUMP IT (PUMP IT)
THEN I CAN MOVE IT FAST
SO YOU CAN PUMP IT (PUMP IT)

TWO BALLS AND A BAT
THE PITCHERS WEARS A HAT
SLIDING INTO HOME BASE
TRYING TO HIT A HOME RUN
SWING BATTA BATTA BATTA
BATTA BATTA SWING

CHORUS

BOUNCE COME ON BOUNCE
BOUNCE COME ON BOUNCE
TELL ME DO YOU IT LIKE THAT (YEAH YEAH)
DO YOU WANT A LITTLE MORE (YEAH YEAH)
NOW TELL ME DO YOU LOVE ME (YEAH YEAH)
COME ON (DO YOU LOVE ME)

STRAIGHT UP NOW TELL ME
BOUNCE COME ON BOUNCE
BOUNCE COME ON BOUNCE

BOUNCE COME ON BOUNCE
BOUNCE
COME BABY COME
BABY BABY COME COME
COME BABY COME BABY BABY
COME COME
YOU GOTTA GIVE ME LOVIN'
AND YOU GOTTA GIVE ME SOME

DON'T FORGET INNUENDO
PLAY ME LIKE NINTENDO
NEVER LET GO
SCREAMING SO LOUD
YOU'LL BE HITTING THE CRESCENDO
DOH RAY ME FA SOL LA TE DOH

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i think this is about how horrible the conditions in industrial cattle farms are.

A haiku.

"Punk rock saved my life
Then I got bored and found out
About other stuff"

BRILLIANT

Since the 1990s, Upper Haight is filled with crusties.

PLACENTIA, California (AP) -- Brent Liles, a former bassist for the 1980s punk rock group Social Distortion, was struck and killed by a truck while riding a bicycle, authorities said Wednesday. He was 43.

Liles was hit on January 18. No immediate charges were brought against the driver.

Liles, who was from Fullerton, joined Social Distortion in 1981 and played bass on the band's "Mommy's Little Monster" recording two years later.

Fed up with turmoil inside the group, he and drummer Derek O'Brien quit the band during a New Year's Eve performance in 1983.

Liles went on to play with other punk groups such as Agent Orange.

Like feminism that embraces makeup and miniskirts — the frivolous bits — Ms. Moskowitz’s veganism embraces chocolate, white flour, confectioners’ sugar, and food coloring.

It would have never occurred to me that veganism would not embrace these things (assuming we're not talking about milk chocolate).

Personally I favor eating local more than eating vegan. Makes more sense to eat your neighbor's eggs than to buy tofu grown in China with GMO soy and then shipped and trucked to hell and back.

Yus. That's something I try to follow more these days through CSA.

mr octigan I am stunned and impressed by your bold and trailblazing stance on punk rock & the ethical positions sometimes associated with it! pls continue to boldly proclaim your truth!!

Biscuits and Tempeh Sausage Gravy

The recipe consists of three parts: the sausage crumbles, the gravy, and the biscuits.

SAUSAGE CRUMBLES
the recipe is posted here:
http://www.theppk.com/recipes/dbrecipes/recipe.php?RecipeID=125

prep time: 2 minutes | cooking time: 25-30 minutes | makes about 2 cups

Ingredients
8 oz package tempeh
1 tablespoon fennel seed
1 teaspoon dried basil
1 teaspoon dried margoram or oregano
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1/2 teaspoon dried sage
2 teaspoons garlic, minced
2 tablespoons tamari or soy sauce
1 tablespoon olive oil
juice of 1/2 a lemon

Directions
In a saute pan, crumble the tempeh and add enough water to almost cover it. Over high heat, steam the tempeh until most of the water is absorbed, about 15 minutes. Drain the remaining water and add the rest of the ingredients and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until lightly browned, about 10 minutes.

GRAVY:
2 cups cooked white beans, or 1 15-oz can drained and rinsed
2 Tbsp olive oil
1/4 cup veg broth or water
1/2 tsp salt
Black pepper
10-12 leaves fresh sage, chopped

Prepare the Tempeh sausage crumbles and keep them warm in a pan.
Puree the white beans with the oil and broth until relatively smooth. (I have a hand blender so I just do it right in a cooking pot, but you can do this in a blender or food processor instead). Add this to the tempeh crumbles with the salt and pepper. Heat through. You can thin the gravy by adding more vegetable broth. Mix in the sage and cook for another 2 minutes.

BISCUITS:
I'm not going to bother posting a biscuit recipe, but there's a drop biscuit recipe the Joy of Cooking that uses olive oil instead of butter. Try that one out. It works well.

ditto.

i don't eat meat that often (broek), but when i do, i buy local organic stuff from the co-op.

still bummed that my roommate never hooked up an elk, though ;_;

Since the 1990s, Upper Haight is filled with crusties.

By 2010, filled with yuppies and senior citizens! (Cf. the church that's being converted into a senior home at Haight/Central and the Whole Foods/DMV rebuilding thing.)

You missed out. Elkburgers are cool.

Then again, I don't think I've ever met a vegan who didn't also drink and smoke a ton. It's all about balance I guess?

in its pure form heroin is perfectly natural too, right? just have to use vegan syringes.

This is the most OTFM thing ever

Orangey-Tasting Felched Matter = the new OTFM

Are you serious? this subject is addressed in about half of the fifty or so vegetarian cookbooks I own

Then again, I don't think I've ever met a vegan who didn't also drink and smoke a ton. It's all about balance I guess?

Really! this sounds like a gross overgeneralization, or else you've encountered a remarkably consistent sample

HAHAHAHAH

Why? How is it worse than owning fifty meat-based cookbooks? If anything, vegetarian cookbooks tend to contain a more diverse set of recipes, since they don't all revolve around dressing up only the 4 meats that comprise the bulk of the American diet.

article that promotes the cook book by proclaiming:

"veganism: it's like being gay"

priceless

if

owning 50 punk rock records = pathetic

owning 50 punk rock records = pathetic

there aren't 50 punk records WORTH owning.

True, true. All you really need is Dig That Groove Baby.

mmm, yes.

that is such horsehit. there's at least 51

and don't deviate into 'hardcore' and do not include SOnic Youth or the Butthole Surfers, as i can't think of anyone who considers them punk.

why the fuck not?

guh? also the no hardcore rule is particularly wierd?, considering the thread.

but either way there are i'm sure there are 50 cookbooks worth owning, if that yr thing.

it's silly and pedantic to argue about this i guess, but saying something like 'there aren't 50 punk records WORTH owning' is even sillier!

Someone mentioned above something about how all the vegans he knows drink and smoke a lot. Well, for the most part, vegans are about non-violence to animals, not health concerns. While it sometimes bothers me that many vegans rely on heavily processed foods and junk to manage their diets, I don't think this runs fundamentally contrary to vegan ideals. These foods might not be healthy, but the health aspect is an ideal placed on them by people who aren't vegan, and don't understand the ideology-- a straw man, essentially.

In my experience, most people who think of cooking as some sort of "learn the basics, then improvise!" deal turn out to be shitty cooks who couldn't make sourdough worth eating from a natural starter if there was a gun to their fucking heads. They make real good outraged internet dudes though.

And people who slavishly follow recipes are sort of crippled by that, in my experience. Bound by rules, freaked out about things that aren't exactly right, and, most importantly, unable to understand what elements do what in a dish and how they can be modified, substituted, or otherwise improvised. Just freestyling everything is bad too - there's a happy medium. I was totally with you up until your last paragraph, though.

I own more cookbooks than I do novels, by far. Not even close.

also as an ex-Catholic I do enjoy following me some directions to the letter when I can

I think veganism in its purest form really is a punk concept
I really disagree with this: I think you can become vegan for 'punk'-type reasons, as a rejection of mainstream food culture etc, but to call that the 'purest form' is seriously undervaluing veganism, like it can't exist unless it's shackled to an ideology, and a reactive one at that.

I suppose you're right in the sense that veganism can and should be able to stand on its own (i.e. existing in the absense of a contrary position). But on a practical level, I just don't think there are many vegans out there who don't have a moral agenda or ideological stance. As ampersand mentioned above, unless you were born into it and adopted it without the benefit of a conscious process, it seems that rejecting meat/dairy as food requires a value judgement (or at least a moral observation) being placed on the action, unless it is veganism for health reasons. Maybe it doesn't need to be reactive to meat-eating as such, but for all practical purposes, anyone who is vegan in the modern world will be forced or pigeonholed into a political role as a spokesperson for that lifestyle, even if they don't want to be (again, unless for health reasons). And frankly the demands of that lifestyle in the face of the modern diet, and the changes one would have to implement just to accomodate it will result in so much energy being expended into maintaining it that it will almost certainly begin to cause the person to define their own behavior in a way that necessarily references and rejects mainstream thought on the issue. Maybe this is not necessarily the case, but I would venture to say that it probably represents the situation of most vegans.