tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54292311039058254102024-03-09T18:46:22.723-08:00Billy Prusinowski, Vegan Fitness and Ukrainian Dance2023 Personal Training, Group Fitness, and Vegan NutritionBilly Prusinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04746610858361468451noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5429231103905825410.post-27965658376071572882023-01-04T23:40:00.001-08:002024-01-17T09:36:21.747-08:00Training Options 2024<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">2024 Training Options</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Group Fitness:</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Billy Bad Ass CORE Conditioning</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Tuesdays 5:30 P.M.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">$20</span><br /><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(non-student)</span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Billy Bad Ass Cardio Kickboxing</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Tuesday</span><span style="font-size: large;">s 6:45 P.M. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">$25</span><br /><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(non-student)</span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>One-on-One Personal Training:</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">60 minute Fitness Assessment and Introductory Workout</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">$90</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">50 minute Personal Training Session</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">$85</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">50 minute Virtual Training Session via Zoom</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">$75</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Vegan Nutrition Plans:</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">30 minute Virtual Consult via Zoom</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">$50</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2 Week Customized Vegan Meal Plans</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">$100 - $300 </span></p>Billy Prusinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04746610858361468451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5429231103905825410.post-59211639132989978672020-06-13T22:36:00.001-07:002021-07-08T10:31:17.635-07:00Joined Antifa? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Billy Prusinowski, born 9/28/84, joined Antifa 9/28/02.<br />
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<u>That</u> (my 18th birthday) was the date of my first mass demonstration, dressed all in black, marching toward the White House to protest the WTO (World Trade Organization).<br />
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It all started with Blink 182, and I will try to keep this prelude concise. Once my neighbor Sean Miskell played Blink for me, I fell in love and continued to discover similar bands such as Pennywise and NOFX, who were punk, and then Bad Religion, who was political punk, and then Propagandhi who was VERY political (helped mold my current day thoughts) and then I heard about live punk shows in my own town. I began going when I was in 10th grade, watching Sean's ska punk band, along with others who had political messages of their own. Some went to high schools where they had a Gay/Straight Alliance called Acceptance Coalition (AXCO) so I co-founded an AXCO at my school, and began on my lifelong path of reading radical literature about police brutality, prisons, fascism, animal abuse, and environmental degradation. This was pre-internet, so this literature was in the form of pamphlets, which, once I read, I was compelled to pass on to the next person. Along with compatriots in groups like Syracuse Animal Rights Organization, we set up tables at shows and at schools to pass out loads of pamphlets about all kinds of social justice issues. Activism in Upstate New York at the time had an amazing surge then, and I was lucky to be a part of it.<br />
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After graduating high school, I went to Syracuse University in 2002, and my first month on campus, I noticed DIY sidewalk chalking talking about protesting world trade on September 28th, which was my birthday. I figured, since I was straight edge, I wouldn't be buying cigarettes or anything to celebrate turning 18, so I'd go and protest the WTO and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in D.C. during their upcoming summit.<br />
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The group organizing the trip from SU to DC was called SEAC (Student Environmental Action Coalition). After a few meetings, we were on our way to the nation's capital, and had all of our gear ready. We were educated, most of us undergraduate students, and wanting to demonstrate our new knowledge about our country's imperialism by marching in the streets! The thing was, this summit did not want to hear it. Our research and communication with other activist contingents en route to DC indicated that militarized police presence was imminent, and we needed to be prepared for the worst. What did that mean? Well, here's your lesson on Antifa.<br />
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Nobody seems to know this. It's ridiculous, but Antifa is not an organization. It is a <b>tactic</b>. It is how we were planning to effectively protest against an organization that wanted to physically restrict our freedom to assemble. Barricades, fully-armored police forces, and even tanks lined public streets to prevent anyone coming near the capitol buildings where the world order was being decided by 8 superpower countries.<br />
We knew to wear all black, because when police fish out individuals to beat or unlawfully arrest, they point and say "the kid with the red hat". Well, 500 of us wearing the same thing makes that impossible. That's part of the strategy. Next, bandanas soaked in apple cider vinegar over our faces. This one is scary to the public, but done in order to <b>protect our</b> eyes, nose, and mouth from tear gas, which is a weapon of war shot at us with cannons and we don't want to end up blind. To clear up more misconceptions- not one of us carried weapons. I ended up with a "stick" when my protest sign got ripped off it when someone yanked it away from me. Did I use it for violence? No, I helped hold someone's huge banner with it so they could rest their arms.<br />
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So, Billy, why did you dramatically say you joined Antifa if that's all you did? Well, because we marched together against fascism. News footage showed all of us super crammed together, but only when police tried to squish us by walking into us from all sides holding interlocked metal barricades. I do a combination laugh/cry when people see protestors throwing smoking objects towards police and they're like, "See, they've got weapons!!" BRUH where do you think college students get military tear gas canisters? Home Depot? Cops shoot them at <b>us</b>. We wear black gloves so we can pick these extremely hot objects up and throw them far away so they don't burn our hands. If we don't throw them, they burn our <b>lungs.</b><br />
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I didn't come here to get killed.<br />
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Did we go to fight cops? Dude, no. We made up a chant to be sang with 100,000 of our comrades so the people in the WTO could hear our collective voices cry out against the mechanisms that intentionally keep countries poor. In 1999, this "Antifa" (which was called something different then) SHUT DOWN the Seattle WTO summit. Unfortunately this time, no luck shutting it down, but a victory in that thousands of first time demonstrators like me were forever moved to continue in this fight until the day we die.<br />
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Don't call me Antifa. I wear all black to the doctor's office too. Call me anti-fascist though, because I certainly am. And you need to be too. But I don't represent this inanimate object any more than the next person who denounces fascists like Hitler, Mussolini, and Trump.<br />
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This story probably wasn't as dramatic as you thought it was going to be. At least you can go to bed knowing that this is all just a scare tactic. I will continue to teach a social studies curriculum to my 8th graders based on accurate information, and you will see our movement against imperialism, fascism, and police brutality grow and grow and grow. You're welcome.<br />
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Also, you know Trump exploited the word "Antifa" to let these killer cops off the hook for pushing this old man down. I'll forever be sick to my stomach thinking about that fact, thinking that anyone in the world believes he was "Antifa", and thinking that that would make it ok to try and kill him like these unhinged cops did.<br />
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It was my privilege to interview this woman, who graces the world-renowned Ms. Olympia stage EVERY single year, and has made a recent splash with her One Month of Vegan video. Aside from these two things, she is the new owner of the gym I work at, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/santacruzpowerfitness/?hl=en">Santa Cruz Power Fitness</a>, and this is why I call her <b>boss</b>. <i>But she is a boss on many levels...</i></div>
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My name is Camile Periat and I was raised in Pescadero, California, and attended Half Moon Bay High growing up. I am a coastal girl!</div>
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To be honest, the word "body builder" portrays a certain image that I don't exactly fit. TechnicallyI am a body builder but I think of myself more as a fitness competitor and that translates betterfor most people who don't have an understanding of the sport I am in. I practice the same fundamentals as body builders, but am a petite version of one. </div>
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The biggest competition I have competed in is the <a href="https://mrolympia.com/mr-olympia">Olympia</a> and I have competed there the last three consecutive years. It is very hard to qualify for the Olympia, as it is the biggest and most prestigious show in the world. The highest placing I have received was placing 7th at the 2017 Olympia. While that was my best placing, it wasn't necessarily my best showing. As we progress and the sport grows competitively, I feel I have brought better packages to the more recent Olympias, yet placed lower due to the increasingly competitive athletes I am up against.</div>
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When I first decided to compete in 2013, I was 33 years old, new mother and dental hygienist. I wanted something to train for and have a personal goal to work towards. I decidedto competewithout knowing much about the sport, without a coach or ever seeing an actual show. I instantly fell in love with the sport and the community and didn't want to stop. Three months later, I earned my Pro card on my 3rd show in Las Vegas. It began with this passion that never died. </div>
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In order to compete the way I do, the first thing it will require is time. Very, very rarely does someone earn their Pro card, have tremendous success as a pro early on, and make to Olympia as a rookie. It takes time, showing up to shows and takes consistently putting your time in. That also goes for the amount of time it takes to build mature muscle which allows us to have a specific look as we condition down. The biggest factor that most don't realize at first is the amount of time it takes to build, sculpt and progress. It can take years for most. </div>
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This is an important question and topic to me. I come across many men and women who have such high expectations of themselves. <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/body-dysmorphic-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20353938">Body dysmorphia</a> is a disorder that most suffer from to a degree. In this sport and in the fitness industry, it is easy to look at yourself and see flaws before strengths. </div>
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In my twenties, I suffered from an eating disorder and tried to hard to be as thin as I could. I would obsess about the scale and was very fearful about gaining weight. This disorder stopped when I learned I was pregnant with my daughter and knew I had to change my lifestyle. After her birth, I wanted to shift my exercise style and focus more on strength rather than burning calories. This new focus and shift in training style really did change my life. </div>
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The most important takeaway from my journey in body building is that it taught me how to feed my body, focus on strength and growth rather than deterioration. My perception towards food changed as well. I used to fear food and do cardio simply to burn the amount of food I consumed. Now I eat to grow and look at food completely differently and understand the importance of it on so many levels. This realization may come with time for many, but as I have aged and grown with the sport, I can safely say it changed the way I view myself and am more comfortable with my body whether I am 10 lbs. heavier or stage lean. </div>
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My daughter has grown up through my competing journey and it is normal for her. It is very important to me that she grows up with her own ideals and not to impose any perception of how she should be or women should be. In our home, the only pictures on our walls are family portraits. I don't put show pictures of myself up or want to impose a specific body type on her. My daughter eats normal food like every other kid. When I am competing, I may have different food on my plate than the family, but it's just our way of life. When I am not in show preparation, we are like any other family. </div>
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There have been times when I have told my daughter I was going to retire and her response surprised me. I assumed she would be happy and thrilled that I could be more "normal" but her reaction was the opposite! She was sad and did not want me to stop because she was proud of what I did and looked up to it. She has no desire to compete as I do in this sport, but she is proud of me and what I have accomplished. She is one of my biggest supporters and fans!</div>
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I am planning on applying for the <a href="https://www.arnoldsportsfestival.com/">Arnold's Classic</a> in March. This is the second most prestigious show next to the <a href="https://mrolympia.com/bikini-olympia">Olympia</a> and is invite only. This would be my third year attending and I love the Arnold's. I have already qualified for the 2020 Olympia, which I will be competing at in September 2020. This is the first time announcing that after the 2020 Olympia, I will likely be retiring from the <a href="https://ifbb.com/">IFBB</a> (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/ifbb_official/?hl=en">International Federation of Bodybuilding</a>). I have had an incredible journey, and with our businesses that I share with my fiancé, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/chris_ellis_ifbb_pro/?hl=en">Chris Ellis</a>, it's time to focus on the growth of our dreams. </div>
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We have exciting plans for <a href="https://www.instagram.com/santacruzpowerfitness/?hl=en">Santa Cruz Power Fitness</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/santacruzsportsnutrition/?hl=en">Santa Cruz Sports Nutrition</a>, and <a href="https://teampulsesc.com/our-coaches-2/chris-ellis-ifbb-pro-cpt-and-head-coach/">Team Pulse</a> in 2020. Team Pulse has been our team we have coached for the past six years. We had stepped away from coaching for a period of time due to the workload of Santa Cruz Power Fitness, but will be stepping back in the coaches circle with a new company name Power F.I.T. offering a fully integrated training program to members of Santa Cruz Power Fitness and remote clients. We have been working on the infrastructure of this new program for the last three months and plan to launch it mid November. </div>
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<b>As you know, I am passionate about veganism, and am genuinely curious about other people's thoughts on it now that people have seen Forks Over Knives, What the Health, and Game Changers. With your in-depth understanding of food and fuel, I wonder what your thoughts are about people's ability to switch to veganism and continue to grow, stay strong, stay shredded, etc. Can it be done? Would you ever consider it? </b></div>
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<i>A note: Camile tried going vegan for a month, and published a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/B48OTkPBELv/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link">controversial video</a>. A fellow fitness and bodybuilding professional <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/B4818pAp28C/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link">created a response video</a> to hers. </i></div>
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Billy Prusinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04746610858361468451noreply@blogger.com0Santa Cruz Power Fitness36.9803166 -122.0181694000000311.458279600000001 -163.32676590000003 62.502353600000006 -80.70957290000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5429231103905825410.post-17167070428409998162019-08-28T11:54:00.000-07:002021-07-08T10:32:08.210-07:00Billy Prusinowski Ukrainian Dancer California<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Billy Prusinowski, a fourth generation Ukrainian residing in California's Bay Area, retains many aspects of his heritage through Ukrainian Dance. This form of dance represents traditional "Український тaнeць" derived centuries ago by the people of Ukraine and others in Eastern Europe.<br />
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Beginning with the <a href="https://www.syrucc.org/gallery.htm" target="_blank">Odesa Dance Ensemble in Syracuse, NY,</a> he got his start under Pani Slawka Bobesky and then Mike and Tania Lewycky. His teachers recognized his charisma and encouraged his participation in the Roma Pryma Bohachevsky <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6hzHvreVkM" target="_blank">Ukrainian Dance Workshop</a> at <a href="http://www.soyuzivka.com/cultural-festival.html" target="_blank">Soyuzivka Heritage Center in New York's Catskill Mountain Region</a> in 2007. Along with doing two workshops, he helped co-instruct his original group, Odesa, until moving west in 2009.<br />
Billy's predilection for movement, dance, and fitness took shape in the form of teaching fitness classes, primarily cardio kickboxing, starting in 2010. Focusing on that along with going to grad school, then becoming a teacher kept him away from dancing for almost 7 years.<br />
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It wasn't until 2016, when he and three dancers from Cleveland, Ohio and Melbourne, Australia came together to co-found <a href="http://www.facebook.com/burevisnykydanceensemble" target="_blank">Burevisnyky in the San Francisco Bay Area</a>. One of only two groups in the entire state of California, Burevisnyky has had the opportunity perform at festivals from Santa Cruz to Sebastopol. <a href="https://aretedancecenter.com/" target="_blank">Arete Dance School of Los Altos</a> and the <a href="http://www.tanneryworlddance.com/" target="_blank">Tannery World Dance Center of Santa Cruz</a> have hosted Billy as a guest instructor, offering opportunities to teach diverse populations from adult ballroom dancers to World Danz/Zumba enthusiasts.
<a href="http://southvalleydance.com/our-instructors/" target="_blank">South Valley Dance Arts of Morgan Hill, CA</a> has been Billy's focus in 2018-19, performing Liberte, Swan Lake, and Nutcracker, with designated Ukrainian Dance segments featuring Billy's choreography.<br />
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SVDA creates large-scale productions every season featuring ballerinas that have gone on to dance with companies including San Jose State, Brigham Young, and the World Academy of Dance. Their adaptation of The Nutcracker in 2018 included Billy's personalized choreography of Arkan and Vesely Chasy.<br />
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Burevisnyky is growing with a number of dancers from Syzokryli, Hromovitsya, and Kashtan. Inspiration from each of these groups' members helps shape the current choreography used in Burevisnyky's dances. Roma Pryma Bohachevsky's legacy of Ukrainian Dance influences much of Billy's choreography today.<br />
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To date, Billy continues to teach cardio kickboxing along with Ukrainian Dance throughout the Bay Area. <a href="http://santacruzpowerfitness.com/our-classes/page/2/" target="_blank">Santa Cruz Power Fitness</a> and University of California at Santa Cruz are two venues offering his brand, "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWR7q5CArmo" target="_blank">Billy Bad Ass Cardio Kickboxing</a>" which has elements of both dance and the martial arts he grew up with.<br />
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Performing the acrobatic and physically-challenging jumps and kicks in Ukrainian Dances like Hopak are what draw many to either become dancers themselves, or actively seek out opportunities to attend events like the annual <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1887165571318597&set=pcb.1910923538974955&type=3&theater" target="_blank">Ukrainian Independence Day celebration or World Arts Festivals</a>.<br />
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Staying in shape is merely one of the benefits of an active lifestyle including this style of dance and continuing with its physical demands. You can find many a dancer in the gym or even on a bodybuilding stage, showing off the physiques they've built up over years of dance.<br />
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Some of the bare-chested and more "macho" dances from Roma Pryma's Dance Workshops have hosted other Ukrainsky Tansuvaty including Nick Kobryn, Lew Iwashko, and <a href="http://www.sacballet.org/performers/stefan-calka/" target="_blank">Stefan Calka of the Sacramento Ballet</a>.<br />
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<b>Erik, we want to hear about your band Stab the Judge. For those who have never heard of STJ, give us a synopsis.</b><br />
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It's all a little hazy, but I'll do my best... As far as I can recall, the seeds of the band got sewn somewhere in 1998. I was in a band already, and one of my best friends, Bubba, used to hang around constantly. He would come and hang out at practice, and help us load in at shows and stuff like that. He loved our band, but he wanted some deeper involvement, so he bought a bass guitar and asked me if I'd join a new band with him. I agreed, but since the band I was in at the same time was my 'main' band, I told him I'd only be the singer, as opposed to playing guitar like I had been doing in other situations. Bubba and I ran in the same circles, so he didn't really know anybody else who played music, so he eventually came to just invite everyone else I was playing with at the time, except the bassist! But as things progressed, the original band folded, and we were without a drummer. We tried out a small number of drummers until we hit upon Steve, who I think we started playing with in late 1998, and I believe we played our first real show in January of 1999. </div>
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We carried on for a few years, and we did the whole 'break up to make up' thing for a while at the end. Not that there was any bad blood between us; we just didn't really have a clear plan of how to go forward once we were all out of high school. Priorities seemed to change. I can't really give you a good date as to when the era of us being in a regular band ended, but I believe we had our final 'reunion' show in 2003.<br />
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So, I was the singer, and I wrote about 95% of the music and all of the lyrics (I think!). Steve Buckley was our drummer, although when he bowed out we did try and continue without him for a little while, and we played one show with our friend Tyler Johnson (RIP). Chuck "Manic" Monday played guitars and sang. Bubba played bass, and also created general mayhem. </div>
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Me and the drummer, Steve, were real tight and I'd crash at his house for weeks at a time. So one day, as we were waking up at his house I grabbed a Jason/Friday the 13th mask off of his wall. (He was a big horror movie guy *and* a collector, so he had stuff like that hanging around everywhere) I said, "Wouldn't it be funny if I wore this mask during our set?" and so I did. It was really just a lark, but this is as the band was still kind of finding our Sea Legs, as it were. I had always played guitar before; I'd never been front and center without a guitar to hide behind, so I was unsure what to do with myself and lacked confidence. But, when I wore the mask the first time, we had a wild show and everyone was like, "You should do that every time!" So I think it did help with that at first, but really it had become kind of a shtick. And a lot of people talk about shtick in a dismissive context, but I'm not necessarily doing that here. It just became something that was one of our calling cards. Plus, I eventually came to appreciate the anonymity it afforded me. I can't tell you how many times after our set I'd be outside with people talking, and they'd tell me how much they hated the band that just played!<br />
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Yeah, in the beginning I didn't wear the mask. But once it became our thing, I pretty much always wore it. And after the first 5 or 10 shows I did with it, I started wearing the mask to the venue and until I was in a car or van on the ride home. Just to try and maintain some mystery, especially for people seeing us for the first time. I don't know if it would still be Stab the Judge without it, at least not in the sense we came to know it. At our height, we started bringing strobe lights and black lights and killing all of the other lights in the venue. We were trying to create an atmosphere, and I think the mask could aid in creating a disconcerting experience. You can barely see, and then you got someone running around and screaming, but you can't see their mouth moving, or the sweat pouring down their face.<br />
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The worst was easily one of our first shows. It may have been our second show ever. Chuck was out of town so I ended up playing guitar and singing, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. But, for whatever reason, Steve was in a bad mood and just telling me how much the people at that particular show sucked, and how much they hated us, etc. I'm not really sure why, I think that was some kind of defense mechanism he had for when he was nervous or something! But he got me all gassed up and exceptionally bitter towards the crowd that day. So we started our set, and everyone was kind of just staring at us. So after the first song or two, I start harassing people in the audience- nothing vulgar or out pocket, but just telling them to move around a little bit, bop their heads, give us some symbolic gesture that they are at a rock n' roll show. Nowadays, I know this is a totally obnoxious thing to do. But I was like, 15 or 16 years old. Anyways, they continued to just stare at us with their hands in their pockets. So during the 3rd song (maybe?) I just lost it and took my guitar off and threw it to the floor. Flipped everyone off, yelled, "Fuck you guys. Fuck you all!" and walked off. However this was the Westcott Community Center, and if you've ever been there, you'll know that there is *NO BACKSTAGE*. So I retreated to the bathroom right behind the stage to hide. There was a lot of confusion, because there was no clear reason why I was pissed. I was just completely in my head. But the band didn't know why I stormed off, or if we were going to finish our set. After about 3 minutes, I had to slink out of the bathroom and collect my now-broken guitar, turn off and pack up my amp, and bring everything to the side of the stage so it'd be out of the way for the next band. Meanwhile, tons of people are coming up to me asking, "What's going on?" and "Are you ok?" and other things like, "Can I have your guitar? What are you going to do with it? It's broke." I couldn't really articulate to anybody what had happened, and I had to stand in front of the whole crowd and pack up after my random tantrum. That was embarrassing as all hell. I just wanted to crawl in a hole.<br />
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You know, that's a good question. I'm not really sure. At the time, I didn't really think they did. But, looking back, I think that they actually did embrace us way more than maybe they should have. And they definitely did embrace us more than any other punk band. At least that I know about.<br />
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Initially, that was not our intent. But me and Bubba both went to a ton of hardcore shows before we ever made the band, so we definitely had an appreciation for that scene. We were the type of kids who'd go to *every* show, we didn't really discriminate. I saw it all as different branches of the same tree. But when we first started out, we just wanted to play rad punk shows. As things progressed, we got more abrasive, all the while the punk shows at the time seemed to be headed in a decidedly more pop-oriented direction. And then there was the politics, too. As we got more political, I felt like the punk scene was getting less political. It went hand in hand with the pop punk. This is not to say I don't love playing shows with a bunch of pop punk bands. I just feel we had as much overlap with them as we did with a lot of the hardcore bands of that day. It was really more of a matter of not really having a "home", so we tried to make one where we could. We borrowed some stuff from everywhere, and in turn, there were people in every scene that could identify with us in some way.<br />
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That would look terrible. Haha. Nope, no plans. Although I will say this- I'd be happy to play music with any of those guys. They're still my best friends and some of my favorite people, although I haven't spoken with them in a while. But even if I did play with one, or all of them- it wouldn't be Stab the Judge!<br />
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At first, we definitely were <i>not</i> political. Since I was already in a band when STJ got its start, it was originally kind of a joke band. The concept was to just be offensive and provocative. Our name was supposed to be <i>The Don't Cares</i>! What a terrible name... But as things got more serious, I started to embrace the political stuff more. That's not to say we were exclusively political- there were songs that were just for fun. Or about high school stuff. I wrote the lyrics.<br />
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I don't know about "Good Little Vegan Warriors" haha. That song is more contained to a certain time and place. Hopefully kids today don't have to go through what we went through. Syracuse is a small city, and in the mid-90's it was the Straight Edge capital of the world. Per capita, there were more Vegan Straight Edge kids than anywhere else in the world! It's hard for people to imagine what that's like. But it was like Beatlemania, or Pogz. One of those things that every white, suburban teenage kid did at the time. It was a normal phase of growing up: the straight edge phase. While there were a ton of smart, sensitive, and thoughtful people attracted to the ideas, there was also more than your fair share of mindless dunces. The type who didn't really believe in anything, but would try to hard to outdo everyone else. And the sheer number of them that were around is inestimable. So that is really about a very particular mindset. I wouldn't want a song like that to be promoted today; I wouldn't want to discourage someone from trying out a lifestyle that could potentially work really well for them.<br />
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<i>Fuck You Nazi Motherfuckers</i>, on the other hand? Sure, there will always be a place for that. It's probably more relevant today than it was when we wrote it. Just as long as you listen to the other song we put out on that tape: <i>Anti-Fascism is Fascism Too</i>. <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/antifa">It's like we predicted this whole tension</a> 20 years ago.<br />
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<b style="text-align: center;">Anything else on the horizon for your music?</b><b><br /></b>I'm playing in a band with some good dudes, <a href="https://malavista.bandcamp.com/">Mala Vista</a>. I'm not singing or writing lyrics, just playing guitar. It's fun. We will have a 7" out soon, keep your eyes open. It will be up on Bandcamp and the other assorted places people can listen to music nowadays. Be warned- it doesn't sound like STJ. But it's awesome!<br />
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<b>Thanks so much for the interview Erik, and thanks for influencing me and about a thousand other young punx just like me with Stab the Judge.</b><br />
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Billy Prusinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04746610858361468451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5429231103905825410.post-92233136652426872992019-01-19T23:25:00.001-08:002021-03-10T10:07:32.771-08:00Interview with Eva Genie, Singer of GATHER<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Hello Eva Genie! So, is that your real name? </b><br />
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Yep! Genie is a slightly different version of my middle name, but growing up, people in my family would call me that.<br />
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<b>Most people know you as a musician. What bands have you been in?</b><br />
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I was in a few bands in junior high and high school, but those don’t count because I’m too embarrassed to even listen to them haha. But in 2004, we started <a href="http://boundxbyxmodernxage.blogspot.com/2014/05/gather.html" target="_blank">Gather</a> which broke up in 2007. Then I played guitar in a <a href="http://www.bikinikill.com/" target="_blank">Bikini Kill</a> cover band called Pussywhipped that was only around for about a year, maybe from 2008-2009 or so. The most recent was Rats in the Wall, which was around for 6 years before I quit just this year, so 2012-2018. I’m currently doing a new band with some old friends and family, but we haven’t even come up with a name yet!<br />
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<b>That being such a variety of acts, which was your favorite? And of course...why?</b><br />
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I guess Gather will always be my favorite because we just had so much fun, and met so many of our best friends while in that band. There was a great sense of community in the vegan straight edge hardcore scene during that time, and everyone was so passionate and sincere. I had a blast every show we played, except for when my voice was dead. Then I was in the worst mood ever. I really did love the music we made in Rats in the Wall, and I also felt like the lyrics were so personal to me, so that was very meaningful, too. My roots are in punk, so it was really fun to be in a punk band again after being more involved with the hardcore scene for so long. But I never connected with the members of Rats like I did with Gather. None of them shared my ideals at all, and they had a very different view of punk/hardcore than I did, so it just wasn’t as fulfilling overall as my experience in Gather was.<br />
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<b>Your lyrics have touched people. Personally, I resonated with Gather's political message. How did you choose what to write about?</b><br />
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Thank you! I would simply just write about the things that my friends and I would frequently rant about—the things that outraged us and kept us up at night. As a <a href="http://www.wsm.ie/c/introduction-anarcha-feminism-anarchist" target="_blank">vegan straight edge anarcha-feminist,</a> there are always PLENTY of things in this world that anger or sadden me. When there is injustice all around us all the time, punk/hardcore has always been a great creative and emotional outlet for anger, and discovering that so many other people felt the same way made it a great way to connect with them.<br />
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<b>What kind of connections have you made with people through your lyrics and your music in general? </b><br />
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When Gather formed, there were not too many women in hardcore bands, and what made me so happy were all the women who showed us support. Shows sometimes felt alienating when all you saw were other guys acting super macho and putting on some tough-guy performance for the other men there, saying sexist and homophobic things on stage. So the fact that there were often lots of women up front and singing along at our shows was one of the greatest feelings—we no longer felt like outsiders at shows. I also loved that there were crusty anarcho-punk kids who were drawn to us because of our lyrics, but there were straight edge hardcore kids who were drawn to us because of our sound, so our shows often had an awesome mixture of kids who wouldn’t normally go to the same shows. We’d play anarcho-punk fests, and we’d play regular hardcore shows, and both made sense.<br />
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<b>This is all quite remarkable. Let's hear about your other talents. You're an artist...correct?</b><br />
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I do like to <a href="http://www.pictame.com/user/xevageniex/455682823" target="_blank">draw and do tattoos</a>! I’ve always liked to do art for different zines, bands, fliers, etc. I also try to help different organizations by donating art to them to use however they want (raffles, or merch, etc) to raise money for their causes. I started tattooing in 2011, but I ultimately quit working in shops, as I’ve found that every time I make something I like to do into a job, I start to hate it. I hope that won’t always be case with me. But it’s still a medium I enjoy when I have the time and motivation.
Is your experience in this field different in any way because you're a woman?
For the most part, I would say no. However, sometimes working in a tattoo shop was somewhat unbearable since tattoo culture for a long time has been a “boys’ club.” It’s like misogynist jokes are just the name of the game, and if you speak up about it, you’re a buzzkill. It’s USUALLY not a very progressive environment, so I certainly felt frustrated at times having to work where racist, sexist, and homophobic jokes were just thrown around.<br />
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<b>How do spell the word "woman" nowadays? </b><br />
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In 2004, one of the main goals for Gather was to explicitly talk about things like radical feminism, and a common thing that feminists would do in order to draw attention to the ways in which patriarchy is everywhere, including our language, was to spell woman with a “y” (womyn.) So we did that. It was just an in-your-face way to remind people about the exclusion that they don’t even think about. And it would make sexist dudes mad, which was hilarious. Today, there are SO many more women in punk and hardcore, and I feel like even in the mainstream there is a lot more talk about gender issues and feminism in general, so it’s been less common for people to purposely spell words that way (and that’s not to say that we have gotten rid of gender oppression—not even close.)<br />
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<b>Where did you learn this stuff? Where did you go to college? Did your experience there radicalize your ideas? Or were you the radical... </b><br />
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I guess when I started listening to punk in junior high is when I was first exposed to all the things I still care about today. Bands like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crass" target="_blank">Crass</a> and Anti-Product introduced me to feminism and anarchy. Rudimentary Peni made me go vegetarian, and ultimately vegan. Minor Threat helped me feel like I wasn’t totally alone in my decision to be sober. Almost all the bands I liked were talking about racism and classism. I also grew up poor, feeling very uncomfortable with feminine norms, and my mom struggles with addiction and mental illness to this day. So, personal experience shaped my views from a young age and gave me a different perspective of the world. When I first started going to school at UC Santa Cruz, I was majoring in physics. I was vegan and straight edge, but pretty naïve politically. I studied physics for three years and hated it so much. I took a quarter off to tour with Gather (I think?), and I started reading <a href="https://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html" target="_blank">“A People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn.</a> I didn’t want to continue with physics, so a friend suggested I study the kinds of things addressed in that book. I ended up majoring in American Studies which is basically gender, class, and ethnic studies, and a lot of my professors were pretty radical. I was finally learning more about the things that the bands I loved were talking about, the kinds of things I was always drawn to. Even though my degree was totally useless in the end and just got me into 15 years of debt, haha, it was very interesting and I’m glad I finally found something that fulfilled the interests I already had as a young punk.<br />
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<b>Speaking for myself, I'm pretty tired of arguing with people about the same stuff for decades now. Are you any less likely to argue with bozos today than you would have been 15 years ago? </b><br />
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I am also pretty exhausted and have learned to choose my battles, and how to identify the kinds of people who are not even worth engaging with. I have much less tolerance for toxic people who only want to cut you down and don’t actually have any intentions of coming to an understanding with you. However, I love talking with people who are genuine and who just want to understand where I’m coming from, whether they agree or not. I often seek conversations with people who are different from me just because I’m simply curious about where THEY are coming from, whether I agree or not. And not agreeing is ok! I can’t stand people who talk to others like they’re trying to “win” something—it’s so gross. Those people just seem like they feel threatened by others who are different, and they feel they need to force you to accept their views as if they’re objectively right. They’re unwilling to even question themselves because they’ve already got their minds made up that they somehow know it all. They’re the worst—some of them are the vegan straight edge kids I used to probably be friends with.<br />
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Hands down, the issue that freaks me out daily is the environmental devastation that comes with climate change because it affects everything and everyone (except the super rich people—they’re untouchable and they know it which is why they don’t give a fuck.) So many animals, plants, and people are at risk because of this human-caused problem, and there’s pretty much no realistic solution at this point—things are already too far gone. Industrial civilization was a failed experiment, and those who still defend it, or think that technology will save us are fooling themselves, and we’ll all suffer because of their faith in this system. I often despair at the state of things and what the future will be like. All we can really do is adapt at this point, but I’m not even sure how to go about that.<br />
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<b>Are you all fired up to say more things about this world now? Here is your chance. Any final words from Eva Genie? Upcoming projects to look out for? </b><br />
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As I mentioned earlier, I am working on something new: a straight edge band. We’ve got some songs written and hope to record sometime in early 2019, so that’s what I’m looking forward to!
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<b><i>Hey Shanaholic! So like, is that your real name?</i></b><br />
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No, Shanaholic isn't my real name. I just thought it would be a cute spinoff and way to connect me with Cinnaholic.<br />
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<b><i>If people ask YOU personally about Cinnaholic, what do you tell them? What was it like becoming a business owner?</i></b><br />
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It's been a fun growth process since we started in July of 2010. Originally, we started out as a small shop in Berkeley, CA. I was putting in long hours, blood, sweat, and tears and barely making ends meet for about three of those years. Since then, we've expanded to 20+ locations, hired a corporate team and partnered with some amazing people all over the world! These days, I am able to focus more on managing the brand and conducting training sessions rather than working in the actual storefront. It's been really fun being able to dabble in all aspects of the business throughout the years.<br />
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Back when I was working in the store, I would eat them every day. I've narrowed it down to when I travel for store openings now. I test the rolls at each opening I attend to make sure the product tastes the same so that our customers have the same experience anywhere they go.<br />
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<b><i>Where did the idea for a strictly cinnamon roll shop come from?</i></b><br />
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I used to be a hobby baker and would attend vegan bake sales for fun on the weekends. I started making these unique cinnamon rolls every time we would go to them to sell. We were running late one day and a friend of ours called and said that people were already waiting for us to show up to buy them! That's when it clicked that we might have a business idea. I really liked the DIY concept that Chipotle, Subway, and Starbucks were using, so we decided that sticking with one product and making it customizable was the way to go.<br />
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<b><i>Are they rolls or buns?</i></b><br />
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I tend to call them rolls, but people use the two terms interchangeably all the time. Call them whatever you want, just don't call them Cinnabons! Haha.<br />
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<b><i>Now, rumor has it that Cinnaholic is entirely vegan. Is this true?</i></b><br />
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We are! From the very beginning and it will continue to be an all vegan company for as long as we are a part of it.<br />
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<b><i>Why don't you use the word 'vegan' in your store and in your advertising more?</i></b><br />
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We have a section on our website that addresses veganism and why it is important to the company and in general. There's a <a href="https://vimeo.com/13317130" target="_blank">great little video</a> on our page that's worth a watch if you haven't seen it! We also have a small sticker in each store that shows our products are guaranteed vegan-friendly for those who are looking for reassurance. I think we've created nice balance so that if you're vegan, it's not hard to find the information. If you're not vegan, the information isn't being shoved in your face.<br />
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Our goal is to get people to try our products. Whether they are vegan, vegetarian, paleo, meat-eaters, whatever. You can sit and talk to someone about the impact of veganism until you're blue in the face. You can recommend every book, podcast, documentary, etc to try and convince them that living a vegan lifestyle is more sustainable than not, and get zero response. In my experience, people need to be shown first-hand how easy being vegan is and how they don't need to "sacrifice" everything in order to do better. We try to convey this message through amazing tasting food.<br />
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We chose not to advertise the word vegan too loudly because we've found that even in 2018, there is still an unfortunate stigma around the word. Especially around baked goods. Some people see "vegan" and are hesitant to even try the product. You can see in many of our <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/cinnaholic-berkeley-2" target="_blank">Yelp reviews</a> that people are shocked to find out we're vegan after having had the product because it tastes so good. </div>
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I used to have a blog that I did for fun called <i>Confessions of a Cinnaholic</i>. I was new to the vegan community at the time and that's really how I got my foot in the door with meeting people, finding out about vegan events and experimenting with baking. So, the name Cinnaholic essentially reflects that whole growth experience for me. It's also cute and sort of silly. And also true once you've tried our products :)</div>
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I think the word "vegan" carries more of a weight to it. Eating plant-based is very different than living a vegan lifestyle. While eating plant-based is better for your health, it doesn't encompass the compassionate aspects of living cruelty-free necessarily. Unfortunately, I think a lot of people associate the idea of guilt, exclusion, and deprivation, when you use the term "vegan." Studies show that more people are willing to embrace a lighter term like "plant-based" to avoid feeling those feelings. The bottom line is to turn people on to the idea of switching from animal-based foods to plant-based ones. Whichever language helps get people there is fine by me. </div>
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All of the locations follow a standard franchise agreement that the product and the experience should stay the same no matter which one you visit in the U.S. or Canada. That's what I spent years building, testing, and perfecting. We also understand how important it is to be creative and to thrive in the environment you work in each day though. This is why we encourage our franchise partners to come up with fun names for their rolls that reflect the community they live and offer local menus in each state that feature specialty items available exclusively in their areas. So, each store varies slightly and has it's own unique vibe. </div>
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<a href="https://locations.cinnaholic.com/us/ca/berkeley/2132-oxford-st.html" target="_blank">Berkeley, CA</a> will always be my baby. That's where Cinnaholic was born! As we expand, we've been able to add new things from equipment to fixtures to signage, which is exciting...so really every new store that opens is my new favorite as we continue to grow. </div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Both screen-shotted from from Instagram 8/9/18! Brand New!</span></i></div>
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<b><i>At the Berkeley shop, you had a wall full of pictures of famous people and musicians eating your cinnamon rolls. How do these people find out about Cinnaholic and who else has visited?</i></b></div>
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Both my husband and I grew up in the music scene. He was a touring musician in Germany, and I was a (goth) DJ/Programming Manager for a radio station back in the day, so we made a lot of celebrity contacts through our prior lives. We're so grateful to have been given the opportunity to have them post and advertise for us over the years. The vegan community is pretty tight knit and word of mouth travels fast. Being a specialty shop, we've sort of become a vegan tourist stop for people all over the world. </div>
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Yes! We just signed a major deal in Canada with 60+ locations coming! There are also several U.S. locations underway right now. Including a few in Concord and Walnut Creek, where I grew up, which is exciting!</div>
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Right now now, I'm having a lot of fun growing the brand, traveling the world, employing new staff, and opening people's minds up to the idea of veganism. Just trying to find a balance between work, family, and "me" time like everyone else I guess!</div>
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<i>Editor's Note: This was an extraordinary opportunity to interview someone who once-upon-a-time served me an Old-School Roll at Cinnaholic's Grand Opening, and has now become an international restaurateur. 60 more locations?! Wow. I am so proud of you, Shannon. I am rooting for my other vegan restaurant-owning friends to reach such heights. (Looking your way <a href="https://locations.cinnaholic.com/us/ca/berkeley/2132-oxford-st.html" target="_blank">Strong Hearts Cafe</a> ;)</i></div>
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<i>When my partner moved to California, we heard that Cinnaholic was going to open new locations, currently only having the one. She put the gears in motion to open one in Santa Cruz (little-known fact)! The time wasn't right, but sometimes we dream of what it might have been like owning our own store just down the Bay. </i></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 36pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">This morning on my way to school, on came a song that I remembered first hearing in the dorms. Freshman year at SU, I made friends with a lot of people from our sister school, SUNY-ESF, and Lary Reeves was one of them. He was THE punk on campus, having the hugest mohawk, and crustiest patched pants anyone had ever seen. I went to his dorm to screen-print patches for our jackets. This was a punk right of passage, and I was stoked to finally be learning how to do it myself. </span></div>
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This was my foray into speaking on video about political issues when my home state (New York) increased its minimum wage. People spouted their backwards opinions about tax burdens, etc...well fuck them, listen to me in Stroking My Beard Episode 1.</div>
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I didn't have an epic beard for most of my life. When I grew one, I had to Vlog about it. I had a new computer from my school to make some fun edits, so here is Episode 2.</div>
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I was pissed off about entitled brats that are causing the kind of problems, that if left unchecked, will turn into the kind of adult bullshit that gets people, hurt, domestically abused, sexually harassed, etc. I don't know when or how little fucks like these need to be put in check; I am in no place to do it when I'm outside of my classroom. I couldn't use my words in this situation and...you should just watch the video to see what's up.</div>
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My mother is an advocate for immigrants, who raised a son with a big heart, and an even bigger mouth. This is a well-researched piece about <a href="http://www.trump.com/biography/" target="_blank">Donald Duck's</a> failed plan to ban Muslims from the United States. Also giving some love and shout-outs to Syracusans who aren't afraid to fight fascism with logic and love. </div>
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This is the end of my Stroking My Beard series. Episode 5 is footage of me shaving the epic beard. My students see me in school every day and finally convinced me to shave that shit. Then, of course, as soon as I shaved it, the question was, "Mr. Pruuuuuuuzzz, why did you shave your beeeeeard?"</div>
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Do I really believe this is the solution? No, of course not. That is the worst idea I have ever heard. It is based on the Donald Trump mentality of "do it because that's how you run an efficient business." It is based on the idea of making money in a cutthroat economy.<br />
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Donald Trump would start firing people based on their evaluations. How has the United States (Department of Education and <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/betsy-devos-christian-schools-vouchers-charter-education-secretary" target="_blank">Betsy The Devastator Devos</a>) begun to evaluate teachers? Based on the kids they have seen for 180 short days in their long lives. We, as teachers, are responsible for working magic with our students in a lot of cases. I teach at Cesar Chavez Middle School near California's Bay Area. My 8th graders (35 per class) have reading levels 6th, all the way down to 2nd graders.<br />
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The US (dept. of ed. all the way down to the common citizen who they've convinced) wants to evaluate me based on my students all achieving 9th grade standards by the end of this 180 day school year. Students, on average will be absent 6-11 of those days during the year too. That is not even considering emergencies like the current flooding in New Orleans (August 2016 flood) or Hurricane Sandy which close entire districts for weeks. These are of course due to climate change (a result of everyone's doing) and cut down that 180 days to even fewer, making the actual face-to-face interaction time with the kids smaller. Teachers are still all held to the same standards nationwide though. From Palo Alto, California to Camden, New Jersey. From Westchester, New York, to the flooded parishes across Louisiana.<br />
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So let's pass our evaluations! Let's <i>work hard</i> or <i>work </i><b style="font-style: italic;">harder</b> to get all of our 2nd grade reading levels to 9th grade in 180 or less days. If your past your first 5 fresh years of being a public educator, you better be staying in the same tip top shape as those recently graduated, Master's Degree-equipped 20-somethings. If you're not, if you've started a family, if you've experienced the death of a close one or an accident yourself, your life is going to be more challenging than the majority of fresh post-college grads, but that means you better now put <b>more </b>time in and work <b>much harder</b> to be exactly where the Google and LinkedIn teachers are. Do it or else you'll get fired. Trump doesn't give a fuck about your new kid or kids. Your recent hardship or home purchase that you need to pay the mortgage for. Fuck you for being a lazy and shitty teacher. It's bad for MY BUSINESS. My business is public education. It should be treated like Wal-Mart or Trump Industries. If you hurt our profits, you're fired.<br />
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BUTT. Here's the but. You knew there was a butt right? Why is there a but? Because fuck you Donald Trump. Your ideas will not make america great again. (When was it so fucking great in the first place? Like, great for who dude?) You forgot things because you're so busy making emotional comments about war, poverty, economy, and anybody who disagrees with you.<br />
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Here's what you forgot: After you fire the old and shitty* teachers, you're going to need new ones to replace them. People that are choosing teaching over way higher paying jobs are going to have to actually want to do this difficult and way underpaid job. Why would they want to when they know you're going to be a fuckin' dick to them midway (or even early on) in their profession? Answer: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-darlinghammond/the-answer-to-teacher-sho_b_12319698.html?">they're not</a>. You don't make anybody want to please you. I don't want to work for you. I won't work for you if you become President. Fox news fucks are trying to convince us that you're actually close to your contender, but the actual stats show that you're just not going to do it. How does Fox report on lies? They're your friends, so fuck all of you.<br />
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You need fresh college minds filling the positions of your fired teachers. Burn the veterans in the name of new "faster" and upgraded brains. The newbies that will be able to type away on Chromebooks, but won't have any pride in their industry! (Gawd you've already got me calling education an <i>industry</i>.) What will happen to them after a few years go by and the next wave of new teachers comes through? The same thing! You have no foresight. You've completely bankrupted corporations. Not one, not two, but FOUR! Bankruptcy, which would destroy anyone else's credit score (leading them closer to poverty) but still allows you to say to your republican voters that you'd run America like a wise businessman?<br />
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Public education needs a champion. We have some teachers fighting for us. Tom Torlakson was elected California's State Superintendent of Schools. Teacher unions have gotten propositions to be put on this November's ballot that will help public schools. <a href="http://www.register-pajaronian.com/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=22045">Voting for Prop 55 in California</a> this year will extend the millionaire's tax to continue funding education. Everyone that will be taxed (the households making over $500,000 annually) is trying to get a tax break though. Of course, someone who says he made a "smart" decision to avoid paying any federal taxes supports this tax break. Why would you TAX anybody? <-- paraphrasing Donald Trump. </div>
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<i>Because everyone deserves an education. Nobody could say this country was "great" or #1 at anything if we didn't champion this idea. If you don't think every single child in this country deserves the same education, you are clueless as to what our country was founded on. We continue to espouse the idea to the rest of the world that we are the greatest at everything. If the truth gets out that we are denying most children of color and kids in impoverished communities a sound education, no one would think this country was great. We have to continue to be the land of opportunity. </i></div>
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<i>A simply way to start is by supporting teachers. This is my fifth year being one. About half of my friends are. And most of my idols are as well. This job does not pay well, and it is challenging not just to <b>teach</b>, but to spend countless hours writing propositions (like 55), encouraging people to vote, explaining how their vote will affect our kids and our future, and having to defend what we do to this culture of teacher-hatred. Rich people and the news sources they control are making us out to be the enemy. Because we make $50,000 a year and creating a huge tax burden, right? You make me want to punch myself in my own damn face sometimes. Teachers in public schools aren't the problem; they're the solution. </i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Disclaimer: Transparent is my favorite show and this interview was a huge privilege. Zackary and I were friends and allies through the Acceptance Coalition at both of our high schools. This pretty much makes her "my friend that made it big in Hollywood." Watch the quick trailer to understand the magic that is Transparent.</span></i></div>
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My name is Zackary Drucker and I’m a full-time human. I’m a co-producer on the Amazon show Transparent, and I’m an artist who has shown my work in various museums around the world, including the <a href="http://whitney.org/">Whitney Museum</a>, the Hammer Museum, and MoMA PS1. I was friends as a teenager with a person named Billy Prusinowski, who asked me to do this interview.<br />
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Syracuse, New York.<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Well, for a lot of reasons. I had already started building a name an an artist and I didn't want to start over. I considered changing my name and when I realized that I didn't want to, that I'd only be doing it to make everyone around me more comfortable, I decided that it was the epitome of a bad decision. Gandhi said "be the change you wish to see in the world" and the world I decided to live in is one in which a woman is named "Zackary." We trans people have learned to modify ourselves to set other people at ease but at the cost of our sense of self, our histories, and often at the expense of our bank accounts. Any expectation to conform to social norms has always been a good motivator for me reject social norms. These are all personal choices I'm speaking to, I totally support everyone's right to change their names and modify their bodies. I think the goal for all of us should be to optimize our comfort in our bodies, we're the only ones who have to live in us. </span><br />
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I started on Transparent as a transgender consultant when creator Jill Soloway was developing the pilot. I came on as a full-time employee for season 1 as an associate producer, and now I’m a co-producer. There’s a big team behind Transparent, but I would say that I, specifically, manage the politics of transgender representation, initiatives with the community, working with actors, cast, and crew, and bringing as many trans people onto the production as possible, both in front of, and behind, the camera.<br />
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In season one, there's a flashback episode that dives into the main character Maura’s history and traces her path as a young parent to three children, into finding her gender non-conforming community. Camp Camelia is a fictional retreat for crossdressers based on many similar communities and safe spaces, and I provided research and visual references that helped create that world. It means a lot that I was able to help showcase the community strength that existed back when trans people were barely visible.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The show seems "very LA." Though not identifying as trans, the three kids have pretty insane lives. Are Josh, Sara, and Allie's lives realistic for someone in LA in 2016? </span></b><br />
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YES. The Pfefferman family is fictional, but I think that they're absolutely representative of this place and moment in time.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Me doing an interview about trans-issues makes me feel like Macklemore singing about <a href="http://blacklivesmatter.com/">#blacklivesmatter</a>. Does someone like me have any right to write about an issue like this (which you've truly lived and I haven't)? </span></b><br />
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Thank you for writing about this and about me. This is a big conversation that involves everyone - gender is something that everyone has their own relationship to. Trans people are oftem a more visible representation of something that virtually everybody experiences, as illuminated by decades of feminism, and this is something that men are still catching up to by acknowledging that masculinity is as much a construct as femininity. The thing that has created a shift towards acceptance of trans people is that cisgender* (non-trans) allies have started to have these conversations, and then that we are all speaking to different communities. I think that white people certainly need to be having conversations about racism. It takes all of us to move culture forward.<br />
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I’m definitely rooting for Trump, because I love a bully just as much as any other Fox-News-watching couch warrior. Kidding! The show is very political, much more so behind the scenes. Jill Soloway has had an incredible gift of bringing a lot of brilliant people together to create Transparent, and it is created very much with a feminist model of sharing inequality. We take our social responsibilities very seriously and with a lot of laughter. The show is a comedy, it’s hilarious. It’s proof that we can examine ourselves without exploiting each other’s difference.<br />
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I, as a teenager, identified as a genderfuck, and that’s probably the word I used for it at the time. Looking back, I would say genderfluid or gender non-conforming, but those words didn't exist at the time. I wore a dress to my prom and didn’t believe that I had to subscribe to the binary. Really, I wouldn’t have had the choice. I always emphasize that I identify as a human, because sometimes when we start parsing out our identities and get more and more specific, it becomes showy. I also identify as trans, as a trans woman, and as a woman, and I don’t have much of a preference or allegiance in any of those categories.<br />
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I don’t know how many people who knew me back then are watching the show or know that I’m involved in it, but I love that you know. And to all our comrades of yesterday, I’d like to say: I love you, and thank you very much - we survived!<br />
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<br />Billy Prusinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04746610858361468451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5429231103905825410.post-64553865160584257652016-02-16T21:27:00.002-08:002021-07-08T10:33:01.663-07:00Cheating, Sexism, YouTube, PornThe video where the boyfriend lures his girlfriend inside his house with a blindfold on, only to give her the Valentine's Day "gift" of stalker pictures of her cheating on him disgusts me.<br />
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I saw this on a bodybuilding forum, where most people commenting were in favor of the boyfriend/creator of this video. Now, in case you don't know, what happens is that this boy sets up a trap for his girlfriend to get embarrassed and shamed specifically for a YouTube video. The entire time he is taping (with his camera sideways....idiot) and using the most bro-ish language one could possibly use to set up this poor girl for a prank. The prank is that he finally ends up showing her a picture of her cheating on him, which she sees and then gets screamed at by the boyfriend to "get the fuck out of the house."<br />
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First, the title of this video reminded me of the genuinely funny video from a couple years back of the guy faking his girlfriend out and saying he cheated, only to have her say, "It's ok, I cheated on you too." I dunno, I'm a sucker for that kind of stuff, and that video didn't contain any terrible sexist bullshit, so I will say I'm a fan of it. I was incredibly wrong to assume that this video was going to be funny or worthwhile to watch. Honestly, I think the boyfriend AND his roommate both think they achieved "viral" status on YouTube by creating this awful video. The entire end is them saying things like "slut" and "whore" to this girl in order to make them seem cool for this video they were so excited to release. They both said, "This is going on YouTube!" <- That is a huge reason I'm so pissed off at these pieces of shit. And our entire sexist culture.<br />
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I saw a musical act last night and they played a song that I <i>know</i> was not on YouTube yet, so I whipped out my phone and videoed it while thinking to myself, "Yes, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfS-hsjuHcE">this is going to get me some views</a> and subscribers!"<br />
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Isn't that what social media should be about? Posting things that will enrich or in some way educate our friends and followers about the world? I know we've strayed far away from that...but this video epitomizes the garbage mentality that so many of its viewers had.<br />
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The comments section makes me sick. It is a bodybuilding forum where everyone's avatar is a mirror selfie of their baby abs (most of these morons are late teens and early twenties) and they all talk in internet lingo! One that made me particularly sick was their use of the word "Alpha." Now, I have watched enough weightlifting channels to know that calling oneself "alpha" is a big compliment. It means the same thing as an alpha dog.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Right off the bat, one of these 18-19 year old "bodybuilders" said that the dudes who made the video were so alpha. More chimed in saying, "Alpha move, bro!" "Total Alpha!" If I had a nickel for how many times these novices misused that word that I am now so fucking sick of, I would be as </span><a href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/" style="text-align: left;">rich</a><span style="text-align: left;"> as </span><a href="http://www.trump.com/biography/" style="text-align: left;">Donald Trump</a><span style="text-align: left;">.</span></div>
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What these boys need explained to them is that an alpha dog doesn't disrespect women for YouTube fame. I know exactly what their thinking is. I've seen the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdBoybKnzZw">Zyzz videos</a>. I've seen the supplements called Alpha Amino and Alpha Pro. The gym bros that have the biggest muscles and get the most girls get called Alpha. Everyone, of course, wants to be the Alpha. Everyone actually thinks they are it.</div>
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I can sympathize with the confused state of mind a lot of them are in, because there is no one out there explaining that getting jacked and getting laid can be healthy, sex-positive, and empower all genders. What this piece of shit did to his girlfriend was not alpha at all. It was the supreme opposite, because he was acting on massive insecurity issues, taking someone else down to make himself feel more powerful. Did he get cheated on? Yes, I guess that is the premise of the video, so he has every right to be hurt. He has no right to practically kidnap this girl and videotape her being forced to endure his and his asshat roommate's verbal abuse. </div>
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Another word that was used was "cuckold." Dude, that word has been made popular by <a href="http://pornhub.com/">Pornhub.com</a> videos which feature a guy watching his significant other getting fucked by someone else. It's a strange word and will disappear into obscurity as quickly as it (sort of) appeared. Now, for the record, it <b>was</b> the girl's defenders that were using this word and its made-up derivatives: "cuck," "cuck'd" etc. I will give them a little credit for at least knowing who was in the wrong in this shitty video, but they are using words that they learned from porn! </div>
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These guys, just like the others, are all between the ages of 16 and 26. (Goddamn I hope there isn't anyone older than that on those forums speaking like a little Generation Z internet troll. There probably is. They're probably our bosses at work. FML.) They get their education from internet posts and YouTube comments. I'm excited hoping that the day their social media posts stop getting LIKES, they may just enter the real world where literally no one will ever say the word "cuckold" outside of fetish porn. It was so weird hearing the guys who share my views on this shithead boyfriend trying to insult him by saying, "Looks like yr the 1 that got cuk'd bruh." I mean, use your words, guy.</div>
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My hope with this piece is that someone who is getting their education from comments on the internet will stumble across this and learn from my comments. This video was NOT a good idea. This girl did NOT learn any lesson. This prank did NOT make the guy more powerful. This did NOT set a good example for young men who need to learn how to grapple with infidelity/relationships/jealousy. </div>
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<i>Most of the time I make these blog entries when I am developing my ideas or political stances on current events. A lot of the time I am angry, and rather than punching someone or making a Facebook rant, I choose to develop my thoughts here. This entry was created out of my disgust for the way a lot of young guys are thinking nowadays. When one or two people think a certain way, I know I can't change every mind. But when asinine ideas are spreading through channels like these (the entire bodybuilding "scene") I am just afraid. I'm sure there have been more women mistreated and verbally abused by boys trying to emulate this video themselves. I feel for all of those victims, and I want all of these guys to rethink their lives. Don't be the next douchebag. Cheers. </i></div>
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This is my most recent video, stating who I know and apologizing for who I don't know, in the "Vegan Scene in 2016." Enjoy. Subscribe to my channel, as I believe I will more active on it in the near future. Check out <a href="http://www.plantbuilt.com/">www.plantbuilt.com</a> for your inspiration and answers to all things vegan/fitness until then. </div>
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I am against guns. All guns. Unpopular sentiment with a lot of people I consider myself friends with? Yes. But that doesn’t determine my friendships with them. Do I like it when friends agree with my ethical views? Sure. And that’s what I was reminded about as I listened to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Global_Threat">A Global Threat</a> tonight.<br />
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Maybe you know me as a West Genesee graduate, or SU graduate or UCSC graduate. Maybe as a vegan, maybe as a teacher, maybe through fitness competitions and classes. Could also be because we’re both Ukrainian or have done karate together.<br />
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You likely know my politics. Pro-peace, anti-drugs, pro-union, animal-friendly, <a href="http://www.gp.org/">Green Party (the political party of sustainability)</a>, etc etc. Those politics were formed because of the punk rock I was exposed to in high school, went on to really “live the scene” during my college years, and continued to enjoy in while in Portland and working for PETA.<br />
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The friends I had in high school will never be forgotten. I remember each one of them fondly tonight, because I listened to my favorite A Global Threat album and read their liner notes and <a href="http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/globalthreat/stoptheviolence.html">lyrics</a> like I was 16 again.<br />
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This scene that meant so much is very similar to my <a href="http://www.plantbuilt.com/">PlantBuilt</a> Family that has been growing since 2013. Here is why: Vegans aren’t all the same. Some suck. Most are rad, but we don’t agree on everything. The fact of the matter is that PlantBuilt is a community of people who DO feel the same way about a lot of things. Everything? Of course not. But we’re staunchly against racism. We support our trans-brothers and sisters. We believe in food reform, plant-based diets, environmental protection, and a whole slew of other things that some might not realize are directly correlated to the vegan lifestyle. </div>
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I had conversations about religion, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown">police shootings</a>, <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/06/caitlyn-jenner-bruce-cover-annie-leibovitz">Caitlyn Jenner</a>…I felt very “at home” with a crew that was intelligent, sympathetic, and DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
This is my community in 2015. It took this street punk record tonight to help me rewind back to 1999 when I participated in another community like this. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Syracuse Hardcore Scene, Westcott Community Center</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seattle Hardcore Scene, Camp Nowhere<br />
Tim, Chris, Allan, John - Seven Generations</td></tr>
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For a good 7 years, I went to punk shows every weekend. Eventually I got pickier and chose the more political bands over others, and would travel for their shows. Some of my favorite groups promoted books called “<a href="http://www.crimethinc.com/">Crimethinc</a>,” which I was influenced heavily by and ended up on entire tours with Crimethinc-affiliated artists. The thing with those shows was that THOSE were my people. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me, Lauren Winship, Chicago, IL</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me, Pat Roberts, Reno, NV</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me, Chris Rouse, Tim Rusmisel - Seven Generations</td></tr>
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They weren’t just kids watching bands. Lyrics influenced lifestyles, and outside these shows you would talk with any one of these kids and be down to go hitchhike the country with them, or figure out a way get free food, or scam a mega-corporation, or protest a Ringling Brothers circus coming to town. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me, Chriztophe Shingleton, Petland Austin, TX</td></tr>
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They are the reason I moved to Portland. I was told about this wonderland of punks and train hopping and <a href="http://www.foodnotbombs.net/">Food Not Bombs</a> and bike culture and <a href="http://directactioneverywhere.com/#main">direct action</a> that I 100% lived while I was there. </div>
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The rapidly-growing community of “my people” was thrilling, and made it really easy to become so confident in my far left views of the world. I wouldn’t read <a href="http://chomsky.info/">Noam Chomsky</a>, Howard Zinn, and Derrick Jensen in vain. My friends could discuss these authors in-depth, and so we did. </div>
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I love being a part of this kind of community.
I haven’t listened to punk music regularly since college. But baby I was SO into it. Who remembers the mohawks I’ve had? Insane? I sure hope you thought so. That was my goal in life! </div>
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I would say my politics are at least equally as radical as they were then. And this was when I was going to activist group meetings several nights a week and skipping entire weeks of school to sit-in or march or disrupt things we were campaigning against. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Syracuse Animal Rights Organization</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me, Zac Wolfheart, Marissa Wolfheart, Portland, OR</td></tr>
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I don’t have a mohawk anymore. I look so mainstream it hurts sometimes. But with that being said, I wouldn’t be able to do crossfit with an 8 inch mohawk or my studded pleather jacket. I wouldn’t have gotten hired teaching in a public school, where I can reach a population of impressionable youth and steer them toward future peace and justice. I wouldn’t be able to do <a href="http://www.myvega.com/">Vega</a> demos. I wouldn’t be able to get “in” to all of the circles I am in, where people trust me, they believe me, and then when I share my opinions with them, I have much more of a chance getting across to them. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">PETA works to reach the mainstream and get across to<br />
populations who would otherwise not hear our message<br />
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Has anyone seen the meme that was a dude asking a little kid “are you the only vegan in your family?” and the kid replying with “yes” and the last part of it was them hugging and crying together? That pretty much sums up how it feels to be in a place with your people- especially ethical vegans. Instead of the local punk/hardcore show being the place where we are unite, it's in the gym. I'm certainly not the only one who has evolved in such a way. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Carolyn Napier, Holly Noll, Ed Bauer, Me, Kelly Green,<br />
Allison Dunham, Sara Russert, Flexvx Crew 2014<br />
(have way more in common than just our muscles)</td></tr>
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Team PlantBuilt members are very much into their physiques. That is the reason that this group of vegans came together as a team. Though after meeting up with them the past two years, I realize how consistent each of our compassionate lifestyles are when addressing other worldly issues (racism, police brutality, xenophobia, homophobia, drugs, oppressive religious views, etc).</div>
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When we speak, we are at ease. When we eat, we share our meals. When we work, we work hard. When we hear about another war starting, we protest. We know who to trust, and for each other, remain forever true. After PlantBuilt 2014, a lot of us who still hold strong ended up at the all vegan <a href="http://www.sweetritual.com/">Sweet Ritual</a>. We took this picture to break the record of most years XVX combined to ever be in one place. These are the faces of the people I truly feel at home/at ease with nowadays. Much love. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Allison Dunham, Holly Noll, Kelly Green, Sasha Perry, Carolyn Napier, Billy Pruz<br />
Joey Marsh, Ed Bauer, Matt Ruscigno, Sara Russert</td></tr>
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The only picture that can follow this one up is from exactly 10 years previous. The most "at home" I had ever felt with other vegan straight edge kids up until PlantBuilt began. Total Liberation Tour was monumental in bringing together XVX bands from all over the globe to play a tour in the U.S., and I got to meet some tremendously inspirational people that year. Karl from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Crisis">Earth Crisis</a> is there. Andy Stephanian from the <a href="http://www.shac7.com/">SHAC 7</a> is there. I'm there. Yeah buddy. Syracuse, NY, June 2004.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Couldn't name every person, couldn't name every country, couldn't believe when <br />
I heard that a whole bunch of them sold out...but this was fucking amazing.<br />
Total Liberation 2004 - Vegan Straight Edge</td></tr>
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<i>When I made a Facebook post with only the text from this blog, I tagged a lot of the people because tagging is so easy on social media! I wish you all had Blogger so we could just do it that way here! Oh well, here we go with trying to find pictures with a lot of you, which I will only be able to successfully do for a fraction. Maybe you'll see yourself, maybe not. I still hope you smile :)</i></div>
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Billy Prusinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04746610858361468451noreply@blogger.com0Santa Cruz, CA, USA36.9741171 -122.0307963000000236.8726396 -122.19215780000002 37.0755946 -121.86943480000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5429231103905825410.post-90658097112779477752015-06-02T13:18:00.000-07:002021-07-08T10:33:20.813-07:00Vegan Couple: CrossFit/Powerlifting/Bodybuilding<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><u>HOLLY</u></b><br />
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<b>You've been a baker and chef for a while now. How long exactly and how did that start?</b><br />
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<i>Holly:</i> Well, I was literally in a baby seat in commercial kitchens with my Dad and Grandmother when they were working together when I was growing up. I started helping out when I was super young because I liked it and have been learning since. When I went vegan, people said it would limit me severely in my career as a chef but I would say it did the opposite. Baking came later, and at 22 I opened my first vegan business, a wholesale vegan bakery in Oakland, California. Though I decided that was not my path, baking has really taught me so much that I've been able to bring into other aspects of my life, like a love of pure physical chemistry, and about learning the foundation before breaking the rules. Once I learned all those foundations, I was able to start connecting between my love of fitness food, (i.e. macro friendly, high protein, cleaner ingredient foods) and delicious baked treats.<br />
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<b>Were punk rock and hardcore a big part of your involvement with this lifestyle? </b><br />
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<i>Holly: </i>Huge. My Mom and Brother got me into punk rock when I was a little tiny kid. I was kicking it with my Brother at shows at local venues and skate parks way before graduating elementary school. Punk rock taught me that I didn't need to adhere to anything the world around me told me, that it was cool to be a tough, strong, girl, and that I could do whatever I wanted in the world as long as it meant I was fighting for what I knew to be right. It was also a huge part of my education about the world around me, from wars in far off countries, atrocities of history, or the corruption of capitalism, lyrics and record sleeves taught me so much.<br />
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Hardcore brought me into veganism and straight edge. They both gave me the mind, tools and strength to lift heavy and fight hard, especially when the world around me thinks what I'm doing is impossible or insane. The mentality of hardcore and punk rock really resonate into my more adult (read: less able to play in bands or make it to shows) life in different ways besides mentality. For instance, it connects you instantly to others who have had similar experiences and creates an environment of honesty and openness, especially among other older hardcore ladies. These both came together recently when another bad ass punk rock lady and I started Rise and Resist, a podcast that's opening up many topics within fitness and nutrition, breaking myths and taking on all aspects of what it means to live a vegan lifter lifestyle.
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<b><u>ED</u></b><br />
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<b>Describe yourself in a few sentences. </b><br />
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<i>Ed: </i>I am a long time ethical vegan, who has competed in BodyBuilding, Men's physique, and CrossFit competitions. I hold multiple certifications in Personal Training, Olympic Weightlifting, Mobility, Nutrition, and the CrossFit Level 1 Certificate. My goal in life is to show the world that a 100% plant-based diet has everything we need to be strong, fit, healthy, and damn good looking.<br />
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<b>PlantFit is all the rave in the Bay Area vegan scene. </b><b>What exactly is it? </b><br />
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<i>Ed: </i><a href="http://plantfitstrength.com/">PlantFit Strength & Conditioning</a> is a fitness facility that I own with my partner that promotes a plant-based lifestyle. We use a mix of functional fitness, bodybuilding, powerlifting, and lots of mobility to ensure everyone is moving safely and efficiently.<br />
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<i>Ed: </i>I was a personal trainer for five years working for big box gyms, and the time finally came to open my own business. Also, while the fitness industry was so busy promoting whey protein and meat consumption, I was able to establish a vegan business in a niche market ahead of the trend curve.<br />
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<b>You are on Team <a href="http://www.plantbuilt.com/">PlantBuilt 2015</a>, which takes a ton of dedication. Has lifting become more of a passion than your baking? </b><br />
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<i>Holly: </i>That's an amazing question, and not one that came up with an answer for quickly. I have been at all the PlantBuilt meet-ups 'til now, but it wasn't until this last year that I realized where I fit in the fitness industry. I love lifting heavy and breaking stereotypes, so when I began powerlifting, it really tugged at my heartstrings and I knew I wanted to be part of the team. It definitely takes a ton of dedication, but it really is just a love of the lifestyle. We live upstairs from PlantFit, so training now is quite an interesting phenomenon. I walk downstairs to the gym and get to train alone, listening to old xvx hardcore (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chokehold_(band)">vegan, straight edge bands</a>) for inspiration, while the dogs lay in the sun and I do what I love. I guess I let it take over because the passion simply shifted. I still love baking, which is why I started FitQuick (to meld the two)!<br />
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<i>Holly: </i><a href="http://fitquickmix.com/">FitQuick</a> is a dry mix, meant to be mixed with non dairy milk, that becomes a super awesome protein waffle or pancake, free of sugar, dairy, soy or gluten. It has 22 grams of protein per serving, while being low fat and carbohydrate, and very high fiber. I like to think that it came out of my desire to answer "But where do you get your protein?!" with "from WAFFLES!". It currently comes in three sweet flavors: Original which is meant to be similar to buttermilk, Double Chocolate Brownie, Java Chip as well as the more savory Pizza Style. I mostly distribute through the incredible <a href="http://www.veganproteins.com/">VeganProteins.com</a> and will be expanding into more products and flavors in the future.<br />
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<i>Holly</i>: FitQuick grows itself. As people catch onto how great it is, they spread the word for me. It has been the most rewarding company I have ever started because it's been so driven by demand. Plans for FitQuick include new flavors such as Blueberry Lemon and Peanut Butter Swirl, new products such as Protein Peanut Butter and Mixed Berry BCAA's Omega 3 Jam, Protein Donut Mix and I just started allowing bulk orders for those who love it so much they just want tons. I recently began coaching at PlantFit and that has been moving me further from the food industry and more into teaching fitness and nutrition which has been amazing, so hopefully the future will hold more clients and more events. We are beginning to plan pop up dinners/brunches with many local chefs in the courtyard and in the space itself which will be super fun. Also, we are growing out the supplement shop and, as we get more and more people coming through, we will grow FitQuick Performance Cafe as well.<br />
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(For Remote or Local Fitness or Nutrition Coaching, or for more information on PlantFit or FitQuick, please email <a href="mailto:xvxholly@gmail.com">xvxholly@gmail.com</a> and follow <a href="http://websta.me/n/xvxh">@xvxh</a> on Instagram)<br />
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<i>Holly: </i>Veganism is the back bone of my passion and motivation. Knowing that I'm proving what can be done without the oppression of the earth and animals gives me a reason bigger than myself to grow stronger. Straight Edge is the tool that keeps me focused on what matters. They both keep me healthy and happy.<br />
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<i>Ed: </i> I would tell them that both vegan and straight-edge are all about respect. I respect the rights and freedom of all living creatures. I think all animals should have the right to live free of pain and suffering. Living a 100% vegan lifestyle is the only way to grant them that respect. Also a straight-edge lifestyle is all about respect for myself. Staying away from all drugs and alcohol allows me better health, a clear mind, and more opportunity to make better decisions. It also keeps me out of dangerous situations such as drunk driving or substance abuse and addiction.<br />
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<i>Ed: </i>It had to at first to get it ready for its grand opening in January 2015. Since then, I have found a healthy balance of coaching others while establishing a strong improvement in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gxIhiGO0v4">my personal programming</a>.<br />
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<i>Ed: </i>I am a part of the <a href="http://beyondmeat.com/">Beyond Meat Pro Team</a>, which means I get to promote a forward thinking company and eat delicious plant-based meats like <a href="http://beyondmeat.com/products/view/grilled-strips">Beyond Chicken</a> and <a href="http://beyondmeat.com/products/view/the-beast-burger">Beast Burgers</a>! I share my experience with Beyond Meat on social media and they provide us with swag, coupons, ad marketing opportunities. They are truly a company that aligns with my values.<br />
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<i>The relationship I am grateful to have with Holly Noll and Ed Bauer has helped solidify my presence in the <a href="http://www.veganhealthandfitnessmag.com/">vegan health and fitness world</a>. Both of them inspire me to stay ever-committed to this vegan, straight-edge, punk-loving, and fitness-focused lifestyle. When I was 15, I had a huge support network of dozens of straight edge kids at West Genesee High School (Syracuse, New York) and at least 10 of them were fellow vegans. Support is what you need when you make any kind of significant change in your life, and those who don't have it fight an uphill battle. </i></div>
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<i>Unfortunately, over the years and after several relocations criss-crossing the country, my <a href="http://veganamericanprincess.com/straight-edge-veganism-syracuse-new-york/">Syracuse Straight Edge</a> scene has thinned out and the vegan movement has gone through a "changing of the guards" so to speak. Those vegans who inspired my decision in 2001 to evolve to a plant-based diet are not vegan anymore. Additionally, those who I inspired in the ultra-militant first 3 years of my vegan journey probably aren't vegan anymore either. (There are a few holdouts, and my respect for them is huge. I won't stay stuck in the past though, and instead choose to align myself with people who are <a href="http://www.plantbuilt.com/">new or newer vegans</a>, because it's all the same to me.)</i></div>
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<i>I do this interview because Holly and Ed are my new support network. They are <u>not</u> new vegans (30 years of veganism between the two of them!) but still rather fresh on my friend radar, and I hope they stay forever. This picture captures much of the spirit and attitude people like us share. Josh <u>is</u> a "new vegan" and already a seminal part of our movement. Allison is my partner, and nicely rounds out the EdHollyBillyAllison fearsome foursome. I call this picture "The Order of The Phoenix" because Harry Potter and his crew are almost as badass as us. Thanks for reading.<b> </b></i></div>
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Brooke Ence Sawyers aka Brooke Ence (in competition) I'm originally from Saint George, Utah, but I currently reside in Santa Cruz, CA. and I am 25 years old.<br />
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I was preparing for a dance audition for the show "Le Reve" at the Wynn Las Vegas and I was looking for someone to help me learn to do some skills such as rope climbs and <a href="http://gymnasticswod.com/content/skin-cat">skin the cats</a>.<br />
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In 2011, I was on <a href="http://www.utecrossfit.com/">Ute CrossFit Team</a> and we took 2nd at Regionals. In 2013, I competed in a new region (Northern California) with Team CrossFit West and we took 4th I believe. Finally, in 2014, I competed as an individual in the Northern California Regionals, and I finished 6th.<br />
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E<b>veryone sees a bright future for you in this sport. What are your hopes and dreams with CrossFit for the next few years? </b><br />
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I want to make it to the CrossfFt Games and continue to become an inspirational athlete that people look up to. I would also like to work on my interviewing skills and be in front of the camera a little more. :)<br />
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<a href="http://crossfitamundson.com/">Crossfit Amundson</a> for a brief moment then moved right to<a href="http://www.crossfitwest.com/"> Crossfit West Santa Cruz</a> and eventually adding <a href="http://www.crossfitwatsonville.com/">Crossfit Watsonville</a>.<br />
It is important to know the movements and know how to teach them but it is even more important to be the person that people want to be around and learn from. When teaching it is tough to be "on" at all times. Every class, each day, I am teaching the same movements and coaching the same workouts, but every person that comes to class is different. I have to be present and ready to be engaged with each class, as if it's my first time correcting the exercises that we are working on that day.<br />
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I am no longer interested in the world of <a href="http://www.bodybuilding.com/">bodybuilding</a>. I have mad respect for people that do it, because I know first hand how much work and time it takes. What's different with CrossFit is that I have found a healthier community that serves as one big family. I will never turn back [to bodybuilding]. People are connected to CrossFit in a different way than other sports; I love it!<br />
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<b>A lot of people read your <a href="http://www.boxlifemagazine.com/">Boxlife</a> Magazine interview about nutrition this month. How does it feel to be noticed by companies like that and to be the "standards model" for CrossFit HQ?</b><br />
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It is surreal! I am totally honored every time someone recognizes me or asks me about what I do and or wants a picture or autograph. I remember when it was a "dream" to be someone that was noticed for her hard work. I knew that i just had to keep working on myself and my goal [which was] to make it to <a href="http://games.crossfit.com/region">Regionals</a> and then <a href="http://games.crossfit.com/">The Games</a> for to become a reality. Look at me now- I want to be the same person on the way up as I would be on the way down. I work to stay humble and recognize how lucky I am to be where I am today.<br />
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<a href="http://www.roguefitness.com/athletes/sam-briggs">Sam Briggs</a> aka Engine, <a href="http://games.crossfit.com/athlete/153604">Mat Fraser</a>, <a href="http://games.crossfit.com/athlete/19117">Lauren Fisher</a> amazes me every day. and seriously so many others.<br />
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Just DO CROSSFIT. there is no magic program. <a href="http://www.eattoperform.com/welcome">Eat to perform</a> and work on your weaknesses. you have to be willing to suffer, as shitty as that sounds. :)<br />
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<b>An epilogue to this interview: Brooke became a coach at CrossFit West shortly after I started there. She was the only female coach, and gave the fiercest instruction of anybody there. As far as my very visible/talked about vegan lifestyle, Brooke has always had a genuine comment or question about my strict adherence to it. I'd like to think she's learned something from me, as I have learned from her. She was interviewed in Boxlife Magazine next to my vegan brother in iron, Ed Bauer, discussing different diets for CrossFit performance. Although her diet and mine are not alike, her coaching has helped me utilize my plant-based performance nutrition for WOD excellence this past year and a half. Team PlantBuilt will benefit from my contribution to their Wodapalooza team score this year, so I will give one final <u>thank you</u> for that. </b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Billy Prusinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04746610858361468451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5429231103905825410.post-33571122551901615552015-03-04T12:47:00.000-08:002021-07-08T10:33:25.122-07:00Kettlebell Sport with Vegan Athlete Scott Shetler<b>With whom do I have the pleasure of speaking with today? </b><br />
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My name is Scott Shetler, I am a business owner, professional trainer, speaker, author, over the hill iron addict, supporter of animal welfare, plant eater, massive Gilmore Girls fan, and not yet totally convinced that I am not Spiderman.<br />
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Yes, my personal IG is <a href="http://websta.me/n/sshetler613">@sshetler613</a> and my training center is <a href="http://websta.me/n/sshetler613">@eptsatl </a><br />
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<b>You're a small business owner, which is admirable, and very difficult to do. Tell us about your business and what you do every day. </b><br />
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Thanks! I agree, I admire anyone who takes that leap as well. I own a private training center in Atlanta, <a href="http://www.extreme-fitness.org/">Extreme Performance Training Systems</a>, where I train everyone from very high level athletes to motivated fitness enthusiasts. I love to write and have authored / co-authored 10 books, in addition 100% of the sales from my two Plant-Based Performance books benefit animal welfare organizations, specifically Mercy For Animals, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, and Forgotten Animals Rescue. I also do quite a bit of online coaching / consulting, public speaking, and am the co-founder of an online golf fitness and performance business called EP Golf.<br />
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<b>What kind of fitness training have you been yourself lately?</b><br />
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I believe training should be holistic and focus on internal as well as external development. My external training consists of the basic powerlifting movements coupled with kettlebells and Indian clubs - specifically I am training for kettlebell sport competitions and deadlift specialist powerlifting competitions. My internal training consists of meditation, qigong (I have been devoting my time to learning the Yi Jin Jing / muscle tendon changing classic and the Xi Sui Jing / marrow cleansing classic forms), and the internal martial art of Taijiquan. I’ve had the honor of studying qigong and Taiji with my Shifu, Shi Deru - 31st generation grandmaster of the Shaolin Temple, for nearly 4 years now.<br />
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<b>What is kettlebell sport? Why do so few know that this even exists? </b><br />
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<a href="http://aka-sport.org/">Kettlebell Sport</a> (also known as <a href="http://www.kettlebellscience.com/a-comparison-of-kettlebell-styles.html">Girevoy Sport</a>) originated in Russia and is the power endurance counterpart of Olympic Weightlifting.<br />
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Instead of establishing a 1 repetition maximum as in weightlifting, kettlebell sport involves lifting fixed weight kettlebells for as many repetitions you can perform in 10 minutes without setting the bells down. Just like other strength sports it is a bit of a cult sport, but I’d say many people know about it based on the fact that there were over 500 athletes from all over the world competing at the 2014 IUKL <a href="http://worldkettlebellclub.com/">World Kettlebell Lifting Championship</a>! There are three events contested in kettlebell sport - the biathlon (jerk and snatch), long cycle (clean and jerk), and snatch-only. Women use 1 kettlebell in all three events and men use 2 kettlebells except in the snatch where they use 1 bell. When 1 bell is used the lifter may only switch hands once. It is a brutal sport, but the US is really making progress and producing some great lifters.<br />
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Despite all my joking with bodybuilders, I eat very healthy and periodically throughout the year I go through periods of being completely raw vegan. My regular diet is mostly raw, usually one or two green smoothies and a fresh pressed vegetable/fruit juice each day. In addition I eat more raw fruits and vegetables, and my other food is usually rice and beans, tofu / tempeh, and for a quick fix peanut butter sandwiches. I drink my share of coffee and the only other things I drink are tea, water and non-dairy milks. I don't count calories or protein grams and honestly think the protein addiction is a bit ridiculous. If you eat a predominantly whole food plant-based diet with enough calories to support your training, you will get all the protein you need. I don't use many supplements and think most are pretty ridiculous but I do have a post training drink that is usually a serving of a plant protein (<a href="http://www.myvega.com/">Vega</a>, <a href="http://www.plantfusion.com/">Plantfusion</a> or <a href="https://healthforce.com/warrior-force">Warrior Force)</a> mixed in chocolate almond milk with a serving of creatine. This is only after heavy training sessions to help with glycogen/protein/ATP replenishment to stimulate recovery and tissue repair. I'm not totally anal about food and I do have a sweet tooth and enjoy dark chocolate, cake, and I am a huge fan of the vegan donuts from <a href="http://www.revolutiondonuts.com/">Revolution Donuts</a> in Decatur-huge thanks to my friend Amy for turning me on to that place! I've been known to have an Oreo or two as well! When I go out to eat it’s usually a specialty vegan restaurant, or an Indian, Ethiopian, or Asian place. Atlanta actually has some very good options.<br />
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<b>We went out to eat in Atlanta, GA several months ago, and you said you drove there in your Lamborghini. Now, I never saw it, so...do you really have a Lambo? What's up with that? </b><br />
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Props to <a href="http://www.soulvegetarian2.com/">Soul Veg</a>, that place is awesome right?!?! I was there recently with my boy Jeremy Hiebert guitarist of one of my favorite bands, <a href="http://comeback-kid.com/site/index.html">Comeback Kid</a>, when they played Atlanta - they are about to destroy the West Coast so go see them, they are insane live!<br />
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Yes, I have a Lambo, my wife Lisa (who is the real car nut in the family) and I got it brand new in 2012, it’s a Verde Ithaca (bright green) <a href="http://www.lamborghini.com/en/home/">Gallardo LP 550-2</a>. We are both fans of high performance exotic cars and currently have a Maserati <a href="http://www.maserati.com/maserati/en/en/index/models/granturismo/granturismo.html">Granturismo S</a>, and my wife’s baby a brand new 2014 Ferrari <a href="http://www.caranddriver.com/ferrari/458">458 Italia</a> in addition to the Lamborghini. Here is a picture of the Ferrari and Lambo at <a href="http://www.tintworld.com/">Tint World</a>, a custom shop that painted our Lambo’s wheels a few months ago.<br />
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<b>It seems like you are doing a lot of great things with <a href="http://www.plantbuilt.com/">Team PlantBuilt</a> and Abundant Health/Extreme Fitness. What are your goals with these endeavors in the next few years? </b><br />
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My goals are to help people and help animals, and when I can combine the two it’s even more awesome! I plan to be at the 2015 Plantbuilt event in Austin, TX - terrorizing the bodybuilders with my bestie <a href="http://www.plantbuilt.com/profiles/powerliftng/jason-morris/">Jason Morris</a>, again ;) This year I won’t be powerlifting, instead I will be part of our first ever kettlebell sport team. For my personal business I plan to continue with my training and consulting business but with my focus shifting more toward holistic wellness I am starting to pursue destination wellness retreats where I would love to teach meditation and <a href="http://qigong.com/">qigong</a>, among other things. It’s tough to say right now, but there are ton of opportunities popping up!<br />
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If people would like to follow my work or blogs they can check out the following sites:
<a href="http://www.extreme-fitness.org%20/">www.extreme-fitness.org </a><br />
<a href="http://www.scottshetler.com%20/">www.scottshetler.com </a><br />
<a href="http://www.plantbasedperformance.org%20/">www.plantbasedperformance.org </a><br />
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Thanks for the chat Billy! It was a blast and I can’t wait to hang out with you and the rest of our Plantbuilt teammates in Austin again!<br />
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What a creative name for a muscle and vegan-themed website! Samantha Shorkey, my <a href="http://www.plantbuilt.com/">PlantBuilt</a> teammate and first ever <b>vegan</b> WNBF bikini pro, runs Jacked on the Beanstalk from all the way up in frozen Alberta, Canada. Her Ebook with the same title informs its readers about optimal plant-based foods to eat for contest-winning fitness.</div>
<i>"Building strong, lean muscles on a vegan diet is not as hard as you might think! Jacked on the Beanstalk is a how-to guide for preparing healthy, high-protein and low-sodium meals suitable for any vegan strength or endurance athlete." </i><br />
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Personally, I think it is pretty awesome that people like Sam are still doing blogs, because her insight about vegan fitness and vegan modeling is hugely appealing to people wanting <i>the look that gets the touch </i>(excuse my Finesse commercial reference). There is a wealth of volunteered advice from people who don't necessarily have <i>the look</i> and though they might be knowledgeable about their trade, the info just doesn't sell. Being your own advertising is the bottom line in the fitness industry. My experience with personal training and group fitness instruction at <a href="http://www.santacruzpowerfitness.com/">Gold's Gym</a> and <a href="http://www.toadalfitness.com/">Toadal Fitness</a> in Santa Cruz is that the more shredded the trainer is, the more clients he or she will get. </div>
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Having had the pleasure of spending the 2014 <a href="http://www.plantbuilt.com/">PlantBuilt</a> meetup/competition with Samantha, I can attest to the fact that people definitely be askin' her, "How do you do that?!" </div>
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Well, she doesn't quite say it that way. But if she did, she would be doing that person a favor. Jacked on the Beanstalk is where it's at in 2015 for fitness/nutrition blogs. Got a competition coming up? Get your learn on with Team PlantBuilt's Samantha Shorkey. </div>
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My favorite vegan restaurant in the country is <a href="http://www.strongheartscafe.com/">Strong Hearts Cafe</a>, located in Syracuse, NY. They opened their doors in 2008 and have been wildly successful in the business world while not compromising their ethics whatsoever. Syracuse, NY does have a large vegan community, so they had that going in their favor, but it was Nick and Joel (the co-owners of SHC) who took the risk of trying to open this business after the Great Recession, in a down Syracuse economy. I helped them out where I could, but it was the message and the persistence of the people behind Strong Hearts that made it into the vegan pillar it is today. </div>
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Oh deary me, I forgot to mention Laura Ryan, the manager of Strong Hearts! Nick Ryan (co-owner) was my college roommate for two years, and we both had younger sisters that we tried to be positive role models for. One of the positive messages we both conveyed to our siblings was the idea of animal liberation and that we shouldn't be eating our fellow sentient beings for lunch. My own sister navigates between different versions of plant-based diets nowadays, but Laura has become a vegan chef, blogger and nutritionist. Impressive specs. </div>
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<a href="http://veganheartbeats.com/">Vegan Heartbeats</a> is a frequently updated blog with delicious plant-based recipes for dishes ranging from coconut cheesecake to strawberry gin. I am not the chef that Laura is, but have semi-attempted a recipe from Vegan Heartbeats, which despite having only half the ingredients for, still ended up as a delicious and nutritious post-workout treat. </div>
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Along with tons of recipes, organized very nicely in the side column of her blog, she includes <b>Vegan Writing </b>and <b>Societal Writing, </b>which make me super-stoked because I am one who affirms that animal rights is part of a greater worldwide movement toward total liberation. If I were to break my own writing down into two categories, it would probably also be vegan and societal. And ya know, if I had a third, it would probably be about exercise. Which, ironically enough, is the other section Laura features on Vegan Heartbeats! </div>
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Go ahead and click on any of those links (because I believe it will connect directly to her blog) or stay here and enjoy drooling over some genuine Vegan Heartbeats creations below. Whether you're into this for plant-based performance nutrition for sports and exercise, or just want some delicious cruelty-free recipes, these two blogs are worth your while. Laura is humble, <i>in my not-so-humble opinion</i>, and may be surprised to hear what an inspiration she is to myself and a lot of others in the vegan scene. I first and foremost admire her endless support for her brother, Nick, because he and I have shared so much over the years, and I know that to do what he does, with his excellence in execution, he needs the support of loved ones. People seldom realize that by being someone's steadfast support network, you are equally responsible for all the good that they do. To take it to the next level and become the second-part of a ONE-TWO-PUNCH (like Laura did with this blog) is extra special. Between Strong Hearts and Vegan Heartbeats, Syracuse is becoming a Vegan Mecca, and I am proud to say I am one of their loudest cheerleaders.<br />
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<b>More about <a href="http://veganheartbeats.com/about/">Laura</a> from her blog:</b><br />
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<i> I am a woman. </i><i>25 and counting. </i><i>Vegan. </i><i>I have a bachelor’s degree in nutrition science from Syracuse University. </i><i>I work as a restaurant manager for Strong Hearts Cafe, TWO all-vegan restaurants in Syracuse, NY. </i><i><br /></i><br />
<i>I have the sweetest puppy named Rigby and a super loud, super independent kitty named Stella. </i><i>I live with my boyfriend, Josh. We do lots of stuff, like hike and camp and go to concerts. And eat. </i><i>I have a really cool, super supportive family. </i><br />
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<i>Contact me: Via tumblr (lots of old content here!): <a href="http://lcryan01.tumblr.com/">lcryan01.tumblr.com </a></i><i><br /></i><br />
<i>Via email: <a href="mailto:lcryan01@gmail.com">lcryan01@gmail.com</a></i><br />
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<i><br /></i>Billy Prusinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04746610858361468451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5429231103905825410.post-38333668629469541432015-02-11T13:06:00.004-08:002021-03-10T14:03:08.362-08:00Teacher Turned Powerlifter Leah Lutz, Santa CruzAt my CrossFit affiliate, <a href="http://www.crossfitwest.com/">CrossFit West Santa Cruz</a>, Leah Lutz practices her back squats, dead lifts, and bench presses all the time. She doesn't <i>only</i> do those lifts, but they are the focus of her powerlifting training.<br />
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I have taken a particular interest in the sport of powerlifting ever since my team (<a href="http://www.plantbuilt.com/">PlantBuilt Vegan Muscle Team</a>) took on Mike Wolf, Kelly Green, Sara Russert, <a href="http://www.scottshetler.com/">Scott Shetler</a>, Jason Morris, and Crystal Moulton as their 6 member powerlifting squad.<br />
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Powerlifters weren't born freaks of nature, but their training sets them apart from the rest of the fitness world much of the time. Let's see what our Leah Lutz has to say about it!<br />
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<b>1) With whom do I have the pleasure of speaking with today? </b><br />
Hi, I’m Leah Lutz, and my vocation is teaching while my hobbies are family, friends, cooking, travel, and training.<br />
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<b>2) What is your Instagram? What does that mean? Can we follow you?</b><br />
<a href="http://scteacher/">@scteacher</a> (noting the job that I absolutely love: teaching, and the most amazing place to live: <a href="http://www.cityofsantacruz.com/">Santa Cruz</a>)
I am always happy to have followers, and I promise that I try to keep the hideous food pictures to a minimum.<br />
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<b> 3) What is powerlifting? </b><br />
Competitive powerlifters train for and compete in meets that include the back squat, bench press, and deadlift. Each competitor has three attempts for each lift, and records can be set for each lift and the meet total (the best of all three lifts.) You compete in a flight of various lifters in any given competition, but all records are set by weight class and powerlifting type-typically: raw (knee sleeves and a belt allowed), raw classic (knee wraps and a belt allowed), or geared (with lifting suits)<br />
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<b>4) How long have you been powerlifting? How did you get into it? </b><br />
I competed in my first meet in October 2013, and decided right away that I love it. I never, ever expected to be doing this, for many reasons, not the least being that I have never competed in any athletics before this.
5 years ago I walked into CrossFit West weighing 265 pounds, so nervous and feeling out of place that I could barely walk in the door. Just getting to classes and keeping up with it was incredibly difficult, I would often cry over how hard a workout was or how pathetically out of shape I really was. Every single class and every movement was difficult, but I had been overweight for years, and I was 100% ready to change my life. The coaches and athletes at <a href="http://www.crossfitwatsonville.com/">CFW</a> were and are unbelievably supportive. I am still amazed at their confidence in me and their willingness to encourage me when I didn’t want to finish (or sometimes even start) a workout. Through CrossFit and a switch to the <a href="http://www.t-nation.com/diet-fat-loss/paleo-the-good-bad-and-the-ugly">Paleo</a> diet, I was able to lose about 50 pounds, and I felt better than ever.
In all of this, I also discovered that I loved lifting weights. I was a decent squatter from the beginning, so I was happy to work on that often. Through a series of injuries, I had shoulder surgery in August 2013, and it was during my rehab from that that I decided to focus more and more on lifting. I still had no desire to compete, I just wanted to regain my lost strength.
Post-surgery I was also working to lose more weight, and my coach knew that a set goal would be a great motivation for me. I wanted to reach 165 pounds, a seemingly impossible goal at that time, so he talked me into entering a meet in the 165 weight class.
Reaching 165 for that first meet seemed almost impossible, but I just kept working each week, progressing with my training and being consistent with my diet. Really my one goal for that first meet was to weigh in at 165, and any lifts were secondary.<br />
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<b>5) Do you coach powerlifting? What instruction have you offered?</b><br />
I coached several barbell classes at CrossFit West and done a small amount of personal strength training. In the barbell classes, we are able to focus on the 3 power lifts for 6-8 weeks, dialing in technique and really pushing each class member to meet new goals.<br />
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<b>6) Can a crossfitter be a powerlifter? </b><br />
If they want to be competition-level, can they still do both concurrently?
It is certainly something that athletes do. Skilled, trained athletes often have the ability to perform well in a variety of specializations or sports. Now whenever you choose to enter one type of competition, I think you have to decide whether you will really specialize your training for an optimal performance in that one chose sport or whether you will keep up training in several different areas. Spreading out your training will be definition cost you some specialization, but many athletes chose this general approach and do very well. I’m not that level of athlete! I do best in specializing in my chosen sport.<br />
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<b>7) Can a <a href="http://www.bodybuilding.com/store/find-supplement-plan.html">bodybuilder</a> be a powerlifter? Can they compete in those two sports concurrently? </b><br />
I don’t have personal experience with this, so I can only refer to what I know of other’s experiences. I do know people who have competed in both bodybuilding and powerlifting, but I think they have all switched from one to the other, and then maybe back to one again. Powerlifting will certainly give you a strong base for your bodybuilding prep.<br />
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<b>8) What do you think of competitive bodybuilding? </b><br />
Competitive bodybuilders are some of the most dedicated competitors I have run into. I have great respect for someone who sets a goal to compete and then keeps up with their very meticulous diet and training plan.<br />
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<i>Thank You Leah, and happy birthday! More powerlifting interviews to come. Scott Shetler from Team PlantBuilt and <a href="http://www.extreme-fitness.org/">Extreme Performance Training</a> has something to say about vegan powerlifting and I say bring it on!</i></div>
<br />Billy Prusinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04746610858361468451noreply@blogger.com0Santa Cruz, CA, USA36.9741171 -122.0307963000000236.8726396 -122.19215780000002 37.0755946 -121.86943480000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5429231103905825410.post-50897072506446169692014-11-21T14:21:00.000-08:002021-07-08T10:33:41.112-07:00Buffalo Snow- My Collection of Pictures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I moved to California in October 2009 to open up some new opportunities for myself. The West Coast is the Best Coast and one of the reasons this is true is because of the sunny days, year throughout. Now, I do enjoy snow; trips home for the December holidays are a custom and the week or two at home with snow on the ground is thrilling.</div>
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SNOW CAUSING MANY DEATHS<br />
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Who the hell has ever heard of this? Unless it's because of snow-covered roads causing auto-accidents, deaths are very unusual in any discussion of mere snowfall. So what the heck is going on in Buffalo? Maybe some Buffalo residents can read this and comment about their experience. (hopefully you're OK)<br />
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The <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/fear-turns-roofs-flooding-after-deadly-snowstorm-buffalo-western-new-n253291">news stories from NBC tell</a> a harrowing tale of Western NY residents as they cope with 8 feet of snow around (and even inside) their homes.<br />
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<i>The death toll from the epic snowstorm this week climbed by three on Friday to 13. That included two elderly residents of a nursing home in the town of Cheektowaga died during an evacuation on Thursday when the roof began buckling. </i><br />
<i>At least 30 building collapses were reported overnight, mostly farm buildings and flat-roof structures, and authorities said they expected more as they made their way around after sunrise. The storm dumped more than 7 feet of snow in some places. </i><br />
<i>“It’s getting heavier,” Thomas Mudd Jr. of Cheektowaga told The Associated Press as he and his wife shoveled 4 to 5 feet of snow off their roof. “It’s supposed to warm up and we're supposed to get rain on the weekend, which will make it even heavier. So I didn't want my roof collapsing.</i><br />
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A few flakes fell atop this guy's head and shoulders, but no damage done to anyone in Syracuse luckily. These next few images have been collected over the years, the top being most recent and longer and longer ago as we go down.<br />
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The Vegan Straight Edge Anti-War Mobile. My car 2006-2009.<br /></td></tr>
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Lastly, to go with this blog's theme of Herbivore Athletics, we feature two skiers who<br />clearly give their ALL to win this race. Cross-country skiing is the best cardio-vascular<br />exercise for humans. Great sport...can only be done in snow. Maybe Buffalo's ski<br />sales will go up in the coming days. Let's look at the cup as half-full!</div>
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How do people build their blogs without selling out? No I won't pump your crappy supplements and say I've used them to attain <a href="http://www.veganbodybuilding.com/?page=bio_billy">my physique</a> when I really haven't. Actually, I took your product, it contributed to my seizure disorder and I built no muscle because of it.<br />
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No I won't post naked pictures.<br />
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No I won't do that #sfs crap on my Instagram or other cheap tricks to get followers that don't know how to read anyway.<br />
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Maybe I'll just add topics that some people are actually searching for online like <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/18/us/adrian-peterson-suspended-for-season/">Adrian Peterson</a> (NFL's favorite child abuser), <a href="http://www.democratichub.com/ray-rice.aspx?gclid=CMTa54O2h8ICFU-TfgodKX4ABQ">Ray Rice</a> (NFL's favorite domestic partner abuser), <a href="http://www.democratichub.com/article/20873.aspx">Roger Goddell</a> (NFL's lover of child abusers and domestic partner abusers.<br />
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<i>What I do like about blogging like this is that when I tag names like I just did, search engines are more likely to direct searches for those names to the articles that I just linked them too. (If you haven't clicked on them, FYI I linked them all to sites condemning their behavior. Not bullshit like F*X News) And you'll notice me not actually spelling out the name of that news station, nor talking about it because that will, in turn, make them higher in search engine results, which really no one wants. Even the fuckers that think they do want that, I am helping save their lives. The frail, back country hicks and hickettes all airbrushed and poised to look like news-authorities are worse than ever in 2014 and spreading hatred faster than <a href="http://www.medscape.com/resource/ebola?src=ppc_google_acq_bola">Ebola</a> to their viewers. </i><br />
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While you are not watching that crap, I would like to suggest watching <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e2xY0pMz70">The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I</a> in two days when it comes out in theaters. This movie has a major revolutionary undertone that is helping to teach the world to not just distrust authority, but to see the corruption and evil behind much of it. Even the salute from The Hunger Games is now being used in the real world much as it was used in the movie.<br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: 'PT Serif', Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;">Five student protestors were arrested in Thailand today for holding up the three-fingered “Mockingjay” salute, which opponents to the country’s military junta have </span><a href="http://qz.com/215631/thai-coup-protesters-have-adopted-the-hunger-games-three-fingered-salute/" style="border: 0px; color: #168dd9; font-family: 'PT Serif', Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">adopted from <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Hunger Games</em></a><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: 'PT Serif', Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;"> as a symbol of their resistance.</span></span><br />
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I hope this sign catches on in student protest movements. It is always heart-wrenching when you see it in the film! Allison Dunham and I will be there hooting and hollering in the <a href="http://www.downtownsantacruz.com/venue/regal-santa-cruz-9/">Santa Cruz Regal 9</a> with our own hands up in the mockingjay salute with Katniss and Peeta baby!<br />
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Good thing we can actually make it to the movie theaters in Santa Cruz. I just spent a weekend in the frozen tundra of Upstate NY. Have you heard about their insane snowfall? Coming off the plane from California, a few tourist-style snow selfies were taken, but that hardly describes the half of it.<br />
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The snow in Syracuse was epic. It ended up with is in a car wreck on an icy bridge, but I digress. The snow just a few hours west in Buffalo, NY is absolutely insane. Here are some of the pictures of yesterday and today's snowfall that caused fatalities! I've never even heard of that having grown up in Syracuse for the first 22 years of my life.<br />
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Most of the time, <i>killer snowfall</i> stories are worth a laugh or two. Folks from warm weather areas are hit with an inch and act like it's the end of the world. Well, when Buffalo or Syracuse or even further upstate make a cry for help, it has to be Syracuse. These residents deal with way over 100 inches of snow every winter, so anything less than a <b>total snow onslaught</b> wouldn't even get media attention. This, my friends, is serious. So while we keep Buffalo in our thoughts, let's let the important part of our mind wander back to the Hunger Games and our star, Katniss Lawrence. I mean, Jennifer Lawrence. Thanks for being <i>one of us</i> and taking nudes on your phone. We do the same, but don't caught up in the <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/jennifer-lawrence-leaked-nude-photos-4145139">iCould nude selfie scandals</a> like you did. Sorry about your privacy, thanks for all of the "activity" that's resulted from it ;)</div>
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