- over at my other blog. I’ve only received a few entries thus far, so the odds are in your favor! The contest ends early Friday morning – don’t delay.

Other stuff I’ve been up to: Stephanie at Change.org‘s Animal Rights blog invited me on board as a guest blogger. My first piece (a two-parter) went up last week (here and here). It’s about – what else? – intersectionality and animal advocacy.

And of course, these are topics I’ve been blogging about ad nauseum on easyVegan, by the by.

I’m not abandoning Smite Me, just taking a break. I’ll be back in the winter, at the very latest, to share all the crafty FSMas goodness I came up with since the previous December.

Now if you’ll ‘scuse me, my office is littered with doggies in need of belly rubs.

If my blogging seems a bit light as of late, that’s because you’ve been looking in the wrong place. Over the past few months, I’ve been spending more and more of my free/internets time at easyVegan.info, my animal advocacy blog. In particular, I’ve found myself increasingly interested in intersecting and parallel oppressions, i.e., the many ways in which violence against non-human animals is related and linked to violence against women, children, people of color, etc. (Blame it on the ever-infuriating PETA kerfluffles, natch.) Since I used to blog about this topic infrequently, I’d usually crosspost liberally between here and there. But too much crossposting makes me feel like a cheater, so I’m getting more selective with the copy and paste functions. If this topic interests you, then, you should definitely add easyVegan.info to your reading list.

Speaking of crossposting, after 8+ months, I’ve finally updated the Get Active! page. The list of resources had more than quadrupled; even I can’t believe how many mailing lists I’m on. Check it out, and let me know if I missed anyone.

Now for the random awesomeness!

These blogs, which I am seriously digging: Animal Person; Invisible Voices; Sociological Images; On Human-Nonhuman Relations; SuperWeed; and Animal Rights @ Change.org. And Elaine’s new project, Selling Compassion, sounds quite promising.

Cara’s Yoko Ono: A Feminist Analysis series (final post here).

Stephen Colbert, back from vacation. And with co-host Alan Colmes, to boot!

Jon Stewart’s ‘Strip Maul’/Gaza analogy.

The soft-serve ice cream maker that mommy gifted me for FSMas. Now I just need to find some vegan recipes. I’m off to an ok start with A Vegan Ice Cream Paradise and this list at VegWeb. Additional suggestions, anyone?

Ellen the miniature American Eskimo dog

who totally resembles this weird, cuddly little cryptid.

WANT.

11 days left in Bush’s term, 12 days ’till inauguration and 13 days until the Season Five premiere of Lost.

Decidedly NOT awesome: the last item on the above list is the one which most excites me.

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So I’m back, mostly at least. The surgery went well; the laughing gas and sedatives knocked me on my arse more than anything else. The whole first day I couldn’t keep much of anything down, not even liquids and Vicodin, and so I spent all of Thursday alternating between napping and puking. (A stomach empty save for Dr. Pepper makes for surprisingly interesting vomit. No, for reals.) By Friday my back was seized up from laying around, but I was too dazed to do much of anything else. Same for Saturday. Yesterday I was restless enough that I dragged my but into the office and slogged through my email. Not fun, but at least I got to sit upright for a bit. Yoga felt soooo goood this morning, I almost did it twice.

All in all, the whole experience was not as fun as I’d hoped. I’d had grandiose visions of spending a weekend catching up on Netflix movies, reading a book or two, and just generally milking the sympathy. Not so much. And the caffeine withdrawal (there was a 36 hour stretch where I couldn’t eat *at all*) sure didn’t help matters.

Aside from the four gaping holes in my mouth, I’m good. Good enough to make some lolz, anyways. Here’s a Kaylee series, after she had six teeth removed last March. Her old “owners” sucked ass, but the only thing we can do about that now is love on her and laugh about it as best we can. And edumakate others. So, take your animals to the vet, people, otherwise this is what happens.

Such a sweet face, even with those crazy teefs!

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House, that is. Posts will be sporadic to nonexistent (what’s new, right?) for a few weeks while the furbabies and their harried parents get settled in.

And when I finally return from hiatus…I’ll come and move the blog, too. Happy happy joy joy.

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Originally posted @ www.kellygarbato.com/blog/2007-09-13/
Filed under: Admin — Kelly @ September 13, 2007 11:52 am