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18May/101

I Should Be Asleep

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I blew it on the bike so I'm forced to mellow out. I really can't tell how injuriously effected I am cause all the cutting is beneath the skin and the pain meds mask really well. Leave a comment so I know someone's paying attention and go to the FB thing and be my Fren: Micah on the FB. Oh and the store page is at http://Facebook.com/HELDVeganBelts please click whether or not you like it.

If you are disfunctional enough to subscribe to my YouTube situation then you can experience the fine film to accompany this great photo. The store is so much fun you have to come check it out. OK now I can sleep.

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16May/101

F Y I infodatas

Held Vegan Belts
3033 NE Alberta Street
Alberta Arts District
Portland, OR 97211
(503) 288-8866

http://www.yelp.com/biz/held-vegan-belts-portland-2

Leaving reviews on sites like the above Yelp and the Googles are very helpful. Leave a tag to the website http://m3house.org if you interested in showing support another way. We still have one intern position to fill come to the store ready to work and have some belt fun.

I have been experimenting with streaming live video from the shop cause its almost non-stop adventure and fun, peril and certainly shenanigans aplenty. Always on the lookout for un-upcycled "waste" like bits from the rainbarrelman's barrels that are now lovely new belt buckles.

Tuesday is the official HELD Vegan Music Day. Come in and jam out with the drums, guitar, bass, mic, drum machine, sequencer, foot stomping, handclapping, electro-jizzelle-flapper good time happy-making. Last Tuesday Rusty brought a whole recording studio and it was so much fun; I didn't make it to the emergency room but it was way more fun.
On the oncology front I am sick and fucking tired of having only half a face. My mind is rapidly deteriorating and recovery seems to be taking more energy than I have; I thought I could ride my bike to work but it wears me out. I'm really enjoying creating the new designs everyday and my friends pop into the scene and before I know it I'm not thinking about cancer at all! Come check out the rad new stuff I just started using the coolest new brass snaps and stuff.

7May/100

HELD Vegan Video

Okay we got a camera so I'm going to figure out how to stream some video here from the finest Belt factory ever. We'll be having all sorts of special guests and all types of music going on. I'm a performance artist so I love LOVE love to put on a show.

I suggest grabbing the video player and putting it on your desktop and just letting it run whether people are on it or not cause something is bound to happen that just might surprise you. I'll try to get the player to work here but go to the link below and see all the options on there.

The URL: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/heldveganvideo

Go ahead and see the page this is coming from click here.

6May/100

Success? Thanks Verily tø You

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We are so happy over here at HVB to announce we have established the supply of our very favorite Conveyor Belt Scraps! Its a damn miracle. (Now just let me get this out of the way real quick like. I was about to exclaim in big from wormseye perspective and what wot... "yahoo!" But no I fucking can-not thanks to the assholes over at you know who idiots went and erased a word from our cultural lexicon. OK tirade over but damn that ain't too cool)

Sorry about that I'm very thrilled cause this means we can open it up- consistent supply means we can now have a catalogue to put on your davenport! We have to pay for the supply now but we made a deal after three years of negotiations. We still get the garbage before it hits the dump but now they will cut some of it and we get a wider selection thanks to our legitimacy. The company we get the scraps from just bought another much smaller company and they are going to donate some of the bits and pieces that are redundant to us! Kinda scary getting this close to a big corporation feels like I'm looking out a lower deck porthole of a huge pirate ship. Shh....

We now have Electric Guitars as well. Please if you know how to use one come plug in and fire it up! I got all the proper bits and pieces to Jack them into our local HELD Vegan Sound System we love fun time jammy-jam! Bangeth Thy Head

We still need consistent intern/volunteer positions filled so if you have some days or a certain day you can donate it would be great. All proceeds from HVB go directly back into AR local and national. I'm not done shaking off the cancer there's more surgery fun to come after recovering from this one. I'll draw up a schedule on the whiteboard we can finally use that more than a little bit.

Again we need to get the catalog together to start getting some real outreach going cause man we have to get this out there. Two reasons primarily:
A) replace the "need" for and extinguish use of bad materials like leather and fake leather that cracks and splits.

B) Show people they can live the vegan lifestyle without giving up this basic component so psychologically important.

Those who can't donate regularly just come in when you can and get busy, crank up the tunes grab an exactly some sticky-vinyl by the back door sit at the white table and get crackin'. Or you know ask someone what to dü.