by Ro and Joanna Piekarski
Illustrated by Cathryn Clark

* total vegetarian, low fat
* hearty, healthful, and delicious
* lightweight and inexpensive
* quick and easy
* no-soap cleanup
* keeps the garbage out of your body, your pack, and the environment

Copyright 1995
Golden Glow
192 Porter Road
Morrisonville NY 12962

Trail Cooking - Clean and Green

You're about to discover that you can enjoy delicious, healthful, quick-and-easy, "all-you-can-eat" food while hiking, bicycling, or canoeing, without any overpackaged, undersized, overpriced prepared "camping foods." All it takes is access to a good natural foods store or coop and some planning.

Table of Contents:
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner:
Beverages
Dessert

( Breakfast )

( Lunch )

( Dinner )

( Snacks )

( Beverages )

( Desserts )

Mori: Last night, for Biff's birthday (it was not, he hates TV, he hates sci-fi, he's very "we got weirdshit at home,") we watched the mysterious DVD of unknown provenance from the sci-fi library that nobody knew what to do with.

( A fanmade Matrix/Star Trek/Firefly crossover thingy that never got completed and disappeared into the Internet ether? )

...does anyone want this? It is wasted on us.

(as told by someone who has never audienced any Doc Savage story except, as a child, the 1975 movie which is apparently infamously terrible)

While doing my noble duty at the sci-fi library (that is, putting call number stickers on book spines), I had the occasion to look over a hundred Doc Savage covers in one go, all reprints by Bantam from the 1970s. Another librarian (cataloging said Doc Savage books) noted that Doc Savage had the exact same torn shirt every single time. This had led to a lively conversation among the librarians: was it the SAME shirt for a hundred books? Did he rip every single one of them the same way? Was the shirt rips editorial mandate, or artist joke? One librarian theorized that Doc Savage was so hard on his wardrobe (and cheap) that he ordered them in bulk from a canny distributor who gave him all the shirts with the same defect.

This led to me looking for every 1970s Bantam book cover of Doc Savage NOT for-sure wearing the ripped shirt. And it is a story of pathos, dear readers. A story of love and loss and fleece.

(made thanks to beepbird)

This is a post on how to make a zine when you are working on paper, as compared to digital. It goes into how to lay out your pages for easy printing, how to scan and do post-production, and how to keep it easy on yourself, especially for a first go. You will need:

• paper
• stuff to make black marks on said paper (pens, markers, coal, cut-out newspaper text or magazine pics...)
• a scanner (arguably you could use a public library or something, but it's a paaaaain)
• a computer with an image-editing program (for this post, we use GIMP, which is free and open-source)
• (optional) scissors
• (optional) printer + ink/toner
• (optional) long-arm stapler + staples
• (optional) bone folder

Today, we went to an offline wake for the soon-to-be-defunct website Cohost. I admit, when I came out, I wasn't sure anyone else would even be there, but imagine the surprise when I found roughly three dozen people!

It was an experience unlike anything we had been to. People brought brownies and stickers and stamps to share. There was a big sign for the Eggbug Fan Club; we drew a heart on it. (Passerby peered at us with curiosity. What were we, some sort of performance art? A joke? A cult?) Everyone wore a mask. We talked about the things we loved about Cohost, and what we were planning to do next, and swapped contact info. There was a feeling of camaraderie and celebration, even as we expressed sadness at the site's soon-to-be passing. But there was a sense of forward movement, a sense that things would be okay, and that we could build into better things, using skills we'd learned (or been inspired to learn) from Cohost.

I was a lurker on Cohost. Exactly two people knew I was on it at all, and one of them was at the wake. (The other are friends on here.) I didn't have an account for very long, and I never said anything of importance on there. But it made me realize just how an incredibly hostile Internet has warped my behavior, even though I haven't had much trouble in years.

Cohost made me think: hey, what if I STOPPED acting like a soldier who never came back from the war? What if I STOPPED writing like my primary audience are rabid wolverines and not decent people? What if I tried to embody Cohost's values and help make my little corner of the Internet a warmer, friendlier place?

Cohost may soon be gone, but the spirit of Eggbug never dies! VIVE EGGBUG!

This post is grahamlore's fault and you should blame them.

So, for professional reasons, I found myself reading Frederick Hodges's "The Ideal Prepuce in Ancient Greece and Rome: Male Genital Aesthetics and Their Relation to Lipodermos, Circumcision, Foreskin Restoration, and the Kynodesme", and it proved fascinating reading, because man, the Greeks were the JUDGIEST BITCHES about foreskins.

( I hope you're ready to read about foreskins! Ancient Greco-Roman body shaming and antisemitism behind the cut, but this is overwhelmingly a very silly post. )

Rogan: In Skin, Dorothy Allison has a number of essays about her belief in the power of fiction, story, and writing. She taught writing, and in "Believing in Literature," some of this really got us thinking! For instance, she talks about how, in her classes, she would encourage her students to pick out stories they considered unequivocally "good" or "bad," and towards the end of the class to bring in the BEST and the WORST story they'd ever read:
( But what is good? What is bad or harmful? Who decides? )

Rogan: Vaaaaaaxpooooosting!

Our roommates have been watching the Sandman show. Normally I wander in and out at best while they watch stuff, but Sandman has drawn me in. Which is crazy, because: I don't like the Sandman comic. I like the show better, WAY better, and that NEVER HAPPENS. Why?

So a while back, I went to the library, grabbed the volume the show was on, and compared and contrasted. And not only did I realize why I liked the show better, I realized why I have so much trouble connecting to Gaiman's work!

( spoilers for the Doll's House arc, plus the Graveyard Book and American Gods )

 Ava Pun has just started the multi arc of her adorable science comic, Academy 118! It will focus on the carbon system, most notably Graphite, Diamond, and Graphene! The comic is fully transcribed and screenreadable. Come read about a special periodic table boarding school and the elements within, and come prepared for science puns! (As the artist told me, "my name is A Pun, after all!")

Ava Pun asked me to sensitivity read this story way back in spring, and I am really excited to see it come to fruition! I hope you enjoy it too!

Mori: Lately, I've been on a kick reading about notable people with Hansen's disease, which is how I learned about King Baldwin IV, AKA Baldwin the Leper, AKA the dude who really didn't want to be king, shouldn't have been king, and kept being king anyway.

( I totally understood this story, I'm sure. This CliffNotes version is absolutely factual and would totally pass the most rigorous of sniff tests, I swear. )