Protest pics

Here are a couple shots I got with my cell phone while walking along the Embarcadero. Robin and I ran into Shane and his lady randomly on bart, so it was really nice to see some familiar faces by our side.
This was a weird day for me. I had a lot of things running through my mind about people in general and christians specifically, as well as some things going on in the wide world currently. Overall though, I'm still gad I went, and made my opinion known and took a stance against something I didn't agree with.
I honestly had a new fear of christians after this day. I saw one guy (shown in the bottom picture) who had a long black coat on and was carrying a simple white flag that had a plain black cross on it. The other thing that did it for me were these younger kids (teenagers? give or take) who were walking around in a line of about 5 deep. They were dressed in black slacks and shoes with white button up longsleeve shirts and black ties, and on their arms they had black armbands that read "christ" on them. They looked like nazis walking down the street. I felt the presence of pure hate and judgement. Not cool.

Pre protest food

Another display of Robin's awesome cookery skills. This was some roasted butternut squash, with dope ass garlic mashed potatoes and some greenery on the side.
As you can see (maybe?) there is a poster board on the floor next to the table. Robin and I were about to go protest the "Walk For Life" in the city the next morning. It is a christian based fund raising walk that is anti-abortion. This was going to be my first protest, so I was a little excited and nervous.

Ritos

This rito is from a spot up in Pittsburgh (CA) right by Mecca, called Reynitas (Little Princess) ( http://www.restaurantica.com/restaurants/58754/ ). I stopped by here because I was told they made Gallo Pinto ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallo_Pinto - this page makes it seem as if it is a Costarican dish, but was told by a fellow employee that this is truly from Nicaragua), and I needed some for a presentation I was doing in my Spanish class. So instead of finding some weird americanized version of the dish and making that, I figured I would play it safe, and go with some more authentic stuff.
Reynitas was pretty cool. They serve your traditional burritos and other Spanish food, but in addition, they serve El Salvadorian, and Nicaraguan food.

Homemade Chicago style pizza

This was all Robin's doing, I simply got to help destroy the evidence. We had been talking about going to Zachary's (a Chicago style pizza place in Oakland/ Berkeley which, according to a lady I talked to who was from the windy city, is even better than the pizza she had in Chicago. Impressive? I'd say) for a while, and one night decided to make some pizza. With that in mind, Robin decided to surprise me with a Chicago style pizza. IT WAS SUPER GOOD! It really tasted as good as it looks. We're gonna try to go hiking this weekend and maybe get some Zachery's afterwards. I'm definitely looking forward to this saturday.

Tofu scramble

I think I was on my way home from Robin's on this day. I got off bart and got over to Todos Santos park in Concord and saw the farmer's market was going on, and about a minute into walking around, soon had a craving for a serious scramble. I found some sweet "Tofu Yu" garlic and black pepper flavored tofu (there is a store front in berkeley I still have yet to scope out). I got some veggies and the rest is history. I <3 farmer's markets.

FOOD!

You are about to be bombarded with photos and little stories about what I've been up to. Here is something to eat to get you going.

Souly Vegan!
So, the restaurant itself is closed, but they are currently still serving food @ the lake merit farmer's market in Oakland. The guy I talked to who was serving food said they were going to re-open the restaurant down by Jack London Square. I'm very happy about that.

BATTLE FAMILY BENEFIT

It think this might come out a little small on here, so just in case...
4/3/09 @ The Li Po Lounge 916 Grant St. San Francisco, Ca. $5 9pm