Archive for the 'icbtdem' Category

ICBTDEM! #5: The Black Kids

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

I haven’t done one of these in a while, but I thought a little snippet in the latest peta2 E-mailout tied in quite nicely with charmedquark’s last post: Win Signed Black Kids Stuff! [peta2] catch up with Owen from Black Kids to chat about music and why he went vegan. Check out the video, and [...]

ICBTDEM! #4: Terence Stamp

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Following the deviation from music in the ICBTDEM post about Oprah, I thought I would express my shock in finding out about Terence Stamp being vegan. If the picture (from “Haunted Mansion”) on the left isn’t immediately recognisable, think “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” – in the film version, Stamp plays the drag queen turned [...]

ICBTDEM! #3: Oprah..?

Monday, June 9th, 2008

For three weeks, everybody*s favourite day-time talkshow host, Oprah Winfrey is on what appears to be a caffeine-, gluten-, sugar- and alcohol-free vegan diet, as part of a 21-day spiritual cleanse: “[T]aking your time, making healthy choices and chewing slowly—being conscious of every bite and not scarfing down a meal and then thinking about the [...]

ICBTDEM! #2: Conor Oberst

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

By “weekly”, I didn’t actually mean “spontaneously, or on a schedule of whenever the fuck I can be bothered” – but internet access in my house has been non-existent (I came home and someone had buttraeped my router). Plus I’ve been having trouble with file hosting websites so you can just find and download the [...]

I-Can’t-Believe-They-Don’t-Eat-Meat! #1: Fiona Apple

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

First up: Fiona Apple PeTA may use celebrity culture in the hopes of wooing the impressionable masses, which I can sort of see the value in, but it is a bit of a double-edged sword (who’s going to take Steve-O srsly?) I’m not going to insult anybody’s intelligence or preach to the (sadly minority of) [...]