hallelujahlogic

so jon and i were at blockbuster about an hour ago, paying for our movies, when i overhear a guy telling the other clerk about food inc, and how life changing it was for him.

so of course, i'm like "food inc!? we saw that in the theatre the day it came out!" and we started talking to the guy for a little bit. he was middle aged, blue collar, hispanic. not the sort of guy i'd automatically associate w/a crusade to stop factory farming, but i guess that makes me an asshole, because he was! he said he makes illegal copies of food inc, and gives them to people. he also said that he used to work at a ham processing plant in hamtramck, and they used to have to spray maggots off of the ham carcasses, and that a buddy of his lost a thumb on the line and it was never found.

it made me so happy to be able to talk to someone about these things, to hear a regular downriver dad--(as opposed to like, a hippy dippy rich college kid from ann arbor) speak so passionately about the evils of factory farms.

this (meaning ending cafos, factory farms, and human ignorance about what they're ingesting) is my crusade and sometimes it is incredibly disheartening. but today, i feel so good about it. i feel like maybe all most of the world needs is to get shaken out of their convenience coma and then, slowly but surely, we can take back the world from the bastards who want us to live in shit, breathe in poison, and eat what literally amounts to diseased, tortured mutants.

but anyway, this guy retired from his last job not too long ago (he was a plastic surgery assistant. he said everyone who worked there and went there was pretty much evil.), and now runs Juanita's chips and salsa out of river rouge. he said he is incredibly proud of his product (and he should be! it's not made of poison, and it's delicious!). so we went our separate ways, i said merry xmas, he said it back.

while we were sitting in our car, the dude comes back and knocks on the window. he had a bag of chips and a quart of salsa for us! he said "how's that for merry christmas?"


and that is why i believe this world can change, that it's not all bad, and that it's the little things that make the biggest difference.

and that is why i am a humanist.

and that is why i am a human.

the viewing for my Nana will be at Martenson Funeral home on Goddard and Allen
on Thursday, 12/10 from 1:00 PM to 9:00 PM.

jon and i just ate these:




http://www.vegeusa.com/Product1.html



vegetarian drumsticks...wrapped in a tofu skin. how freaking clever is that!? and they're amazing. definitely the best mock chicken i've ever had.

i highly recommend picking up a box next time you're at whole foods.

hung out w/matt and mike tonight. i'm drunk. anyway, i had so much fun. made friends w/mike. probably the only other person i've met whose favourite character from comics is emma frost. also the only other person i've met who owns it's a mad mad mad mad world on dvd. i want to hang out w/them more. they only live like..five doors down or something. it's silly not to.

yeah, hey who wants to hang out tomorrow? go to noel night, or just go bowling. gordony and meg? i miss you guys.