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About Me:: Just a normal guy, eating his raw foods, and living day by day.

How can the community best support you in your journey? (moral support, transition advice, fitness tips, etc): It can pay for all my meals at Pure Food & Wine.

Relationship Status:: Single

Favorite Raw Food or Recipe?: There are far too many desserts to list. The almond butter chocolate mudslide cake from Cafe Gratitude is certainly near the top of the list.

Interests (outside of Raw Food):: I'm interested in life and all that's in it.

Favorite Books or Authors:: The works of Vonnegut, Twain, Dostoyevsky, R. Wright, and Hesse, Catch-22, The Phantom Tollbooth, Steps, Knots, Passing Time, Infants Of The Spring, The Breast, The Hundred-Year Lie, Fast Food Nation, The Collector, American Psycho, Last Exit To Brooklyn, Ragtime, The End Of Faith, Addicted To War, We The People: A Call To Take Back America, The Big Book Of Hell, America: The Book, Woody Allen's collected triology of short stories, Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns, From Hell, Johnny Got His Gun, On The Beach, The Physics of Star Trek (so I'm a geek), All The President's Men, The Silver Age Of Comic Book Art, most of the western classics we had to read in high school, Nausicaa And The Valley Of Wind (best manga), Apocalypse Meow, ...Or Not To Be (A Collection Of Suicide Notes), and anything by Charles Bukowski.

Favorite Quote:: "I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people." - John Lennon

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GI2MR Oath: I promise to do my best to keep this community drama free. I will not name call or throw around personal attacks. I pledge to be respectful even if I do not agree with another member's opinion. When possible, I'll try to smile : ): Yes! I accept the GI2MR Oath.

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Insightful article on Obama's cabinet picks

Barack Obama announced today he will make uber-hawk Hillary Clinton his Secretary of State and retain current President Bush cabinet member Robert Gates, another uber-hawk, as his Secretary of Defense. Those announcements should finally put to rest any hope that an Obama administration would bring substantive change to the White House on foreign policy issues. Samantha Power’s “monster” is now located in Chicago in the form of the Obama presidential transition team. Obama and his advisers are s… Continue

Posted on December 4, 2008 at 5:54pm — 5 Comments

Read the second to last sentence.

UN adopts Russian proposed anti-Nazi resolution UN, November 19 (RIA Novosti) - The UN General Assembly on social and humanitarian issues has adopted a draft resolution proposed by Russia on tackling a rise in the glorification of Nazism and the desecration of WWII monuments. The draft resolution on "combating racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance," is aimed at tackling the practice in the former Soviet republics of Latvia and Estonia of honoring SS veteran… Continue

Posted on November 20, 2008 at 8:55pm — 9 Comments

My Way, with special guest-star: me

In case you're utterly bored and looking for something to read... http://www.welikeitraw.com/rawfood/2008/11/my-way-charles.html

Posted on November 15, 2008 at 12:43pm — 3 Comments

Melissa Etheridge's response to Prop 8

Okay. So Prop 8 passed. Alright, I get it. 51% of you think that I am a second class citizen. Alright then. So my wife, uh I mean, roommate? Girlfriend? Special lady friend? You are gonna have to help me here because I am not sure what to call her now. Anyways, she and I are not allowed the same right under the state constitution as any other citizen. Okay, so I am taking that to mean I do not have to pay my state taxes because I am not a full citizen. I mean that would just be wrong, to make so… Continue

Posted on November 11, 2008 at 12:15am — 6 Comments

Two kickass quotes on Activism

“We are conditioned to respond in socially acceptable ways, i.e. protests, petitions, boycotts, etc. We also have the problem that nature and other species are an abstraction to us. Humans fight for property, for immediate self defense, and for religion. Hominids are a self-centered species. When people ask how I can risk human life to protect a whale, I cite the fact that we do not think it is unnatural or unethical to risk our lives and to kill over property like land and oil. And we accept dy… Continue

Posted on November 9, 2008 at 8:54pm — 1 Comment

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At 10:44pm on December 4, 2008, Raw Vee(gan) said…: I love when someone younger than me calls me "kid." ;)

I'm envious of your bummitude. Sweet heavenly nothing.

At 8:13pm on December 4, 2008, Jessy G said…: Psychology. I want to have an integrative practise one day. I think mind and body are so interconnected as well, so I'd like to encorperate some raw wisdom into my practise :P. Either that or a retreat! But that's my big dream :)

At 8:01pm on December 4, 2008, Gil said…: no doubt!

At 6:09pm on December 4, 2008, Sara said…: I never considered freezing nuts before.

At 5:55pm on December 4, 2008, omshanti said…: i would have thought badgering you would be very much in alignment with the badger song but then I have no idea what I'm saying either.

I don't say this often but I'm having a crap day so I'm going off to make it better. I'll think of a much more intelligent and witty retort while I'm out and report when I get back.

At 5:50pm on December 4, 2008, Sara said…: hey charles, do you know what the average shelf life of raw nuts is? Im considering buying some in bulk but Im not sure its a good idea. I am being totally serious.

At 5:04pm on December 4, 2008, Toeknee said…: O, cool. I am jealous. I want to go.

I went to Omar's Living Quisine when I went to UT. It was OK. I used to love that place, but this time I only liked the sweet stuff. It is probably the pregancy that is affecting my tastes. I used to love cilantro and parsley, but now I don't like it-- it is wierd. He uses alot of that in his dishes. I had an awesome pie there made with Brazil nuts and coconut-- yum.

At 5:01pm on December 4, 2008, Raw Vee(gan) said…: That picture triggered my gag reflex.

I write for an ad agency for the j.o.b. For myself, fiction, poetry and bloggy stuff. How bout you? Whatchu do?

At 4:34pm on December 4, 2008, RawKev said…: An Amagake is a less common type of persimmon. They are like a fuyu in that they can be eaten when crisp, but usually larger and have a more yellow tint to their skin and flesh. They are much tastier than a fuyu.

At 4:29pm on December 4, 2008, RawTastic! said…: Gosh Charles YOU ARE A RAW Rock star!!! I would love to see you start a raw ice cream company with distribution to major areas. You've got raw billionaire written all over you. You could use stevia and make it diabetic friendly and save the world!