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Oct/09
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Happy Fun Time

Tonight is last Thursday and Alberta street Has a big huge party every last Thursday of the month except when it gets too cold and nasty. To keep with the good fun we’ll be hosting a vegan potluck every Last Thursday! Tonight is a little different because we’ll also be hosting an artist reception for Jeremy Scott Kemp. And on Nov. 6th from 6-9 we have a big Opening Party with lots of neat stuff including the art of Katie Simpson and live performance by Mortal Clay that will have you stomping your feet to no end, and performances by the Radical Cheerleaders for Animal Rights.

Nov 6th 6-9pm 3033 NE Alberta Opening Party

Nov 6th 6-9pm 3033 NE Alberta Opening Party


Our Store is located at 3033 NE Alberta Portland, OR 97211 right next to Vita the Vegan vegetarian restaurant and now big news: Dovetail Vegan Bakery will be right next door!!!

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Oct/09
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For Your Viewing Pleasure

Watch this nice video of Derrick Jensen one of the best writers and thinkers of our time working it out.

Stolen from ENDCIV.COM

After you watch the film and go to your locally owned bookstore and buy one of his amazing books you can stroll on down to HVB at 30th and Alberta right next to Vita “…primarily vegan restaurant…” oh wait, you already read twenty of his books, what do I know? Anyway come in and buy something if you need it or work on that vegan craft project or just hang out with us and talk about interesting things.

10
Oct/09
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Fashion By Flashlight!

Super crazy fun times on Alberta!

Super crazy fun times on Alberta!

4th Annual Fashion by Flashlight: Thursday Oct. 15th 6-9 PM

Boutiques on Alberta St. are having a special evening of trunk shows and sales, with designers in house showing their new and ever-brilliant creations. HVB will be hosting some spectacular something or other no doubt that will have your head spinning and lava pouring out of your face! Oh I can’t wait this is going to be amazing and super. No vodka for us though, we’d rather not have all that.

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Oct/09
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Cancer in My Head etc.

An endless list of reasons not to write this is trying to stare me down. Need more sleep, too much pain, emotional imbalance, and it goes and goes but oh well. About an hour ago I realized that I lived through it. No really it hit me hard looking into my sweet heroic wife’s eyes crying happily that I could have died as easily as I lived.

Maybe a month ago my biopsy for my congested sinuses came back with all kinds of amazing results. Malignant. I only want to give an update here in case someone heard something like the rumors I’ve heard, I can’t write or talk or walk yet but I have to do some thing. It all happened so fast but in slow motion very much monochromatic with bursts of muted color. Red. So much red. Melinda is so strong and loving and we have each other and nothing else is that big. She carried me all the way up the hill and out of danger. I want to spy on her movement till time is no longer time, her face is the focal point of surrounding good things. Good finds a place to rest in her beautiful face. She saved me from the sea of red now only in my routine nightmares.

I have been home from hospital now two weeks. Two weeks in hospital. ICU HELL. The food they kept putting in my tube was vegan only in that it had no animal milks or parts but it was not vegan the way I’m vegan. Ingredient one: water. Oh well water is good for sure but in “food” i would prefer water to be “juices” that come from FOOD. Lets see… ingredient two: Corn Syrup, yeah that shit I avoid in my real life! At home I don’t need insulin cause I eat very well- vegans really have it good if they are doing it right which is most of us. Every six hours they poke holes in my fingers then come back with a shot of insulin and that pissed me off more than anything in the world. It could easily be avoided if they actually had FOOD the shit in the can they put in my tummy tube has a big Nestle logo. Enough of the rant here is what the operations entailed roughly.

I was out while for twelve hours lots of people I love and who love me waited while two teams worked on me. One team cutting down the length of my lower leg to remove my tibia save a couple inches on each end. Attached to the bone are a sizable muscle and 4×6 inch bit of skin. While this is happening the other team separated my facial skin from my cheeks and upper jaw so they could cut out and remove my cheekbones, upper jaw, and sinus area with the fist sized cancer. I really am not ready for this level of detail. for more or less info veganPDX on fb.