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Shane

*hearts* his lil Ewok!

About Me

Geeky straight edge guy. I live in St Paul, MN, work in Minneapolis. I have been vegan for almost 11 years now. Very political, and do my best to be well informed...

My Interests

Geek stuff, pedaling around Minneapolis and St Paul sci fi, computers, animation, indie film, veganism, animal rights, politics. Cooking, photography and a few other foolhardy artistic/creative pursuits. Music: hardcore, punk, ska etc.

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I'd like to meet:

While I have met someone very special, I am open to new friends, who ever wants to say hello, although racists, sexists and homophobic conservative types keep on a walkin'

Music:

Fugazi, The Evens, Dillinger Four, Bad Religion, Naked Raygun, Trial, Neko Case, Minor Threat, Johnny Cash, Social Distortion, Ani DiFranco, Strike Anywhere, The Epoxies, Reggie and the Full Effect, The Get Up Kids, Operation Ivy, The Specials, The Pacers, Fishbone, Big Black, Jawbreaker, Snapcase, Boy Sets Fire, Tilt, The Ramones, Husker Du, Refused, The (international) Noise Conspiracy, Atmosphere, Public Enemy, The Replacements, PiL, Descendents, Rainer Maria, Visqueen, Superhopper, Avail, All, 7 Seconds, Dead Kennedys, Trial by Fire, Paint it Black, Bane, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

Movies:

LOTR, Serenity, Brazil, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Kevin Smiths films, Star Wars, Romero Zombie Flicks, 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead, Monty Python films, Akira, Studio Gibli Anime, Kill Bill, Pixar films, Blade Runner

Television:

Firefly, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, ER, X Files, Angel, Simpsons, Iron Chef, The Daily Show, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who

Books:

Neuromancer, Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, Song of Solomon, Stupid White Men, Shrub, Blowback, Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, LOTR, Dark Knight Returns, Safe Area Garagde, Hairstyles of the Damned, American Hardcore: A tribal history, A People's History of the US, America the book. Vegan with a Vengance, Vegan Freak, Guns Germs and Steel, The whole slug o cook books by Sarah Kramer.

Heroes:

Gandhi, The Buddha, The Dali Lama, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Ian MacKaye, Johnny Cash, Henry Rollins, Paul Wellstone

My Blog

My recipe has been posted online

Food porn included.the recipe contest
Posted by Shane on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:00:00 PST

Its finally out

At long last the Vegetarian Times with the contest winners is out. My Pizza looks all kinds of pretty with the food stylist and studio lighting. And the recipe is mostly intact they just altered it to...
Posted by Shane on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:03:00 PST

Zombie survival

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Posted by Shane on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:07:00 PST

Vacation, Vegetarian Times and tooting my own horn.

So I just finished my long long long vacation, it was good, it was fun. We spent much of it at Kala's folks place, playing badminton, water balloons, mini-golf, and the like. It was a lot of fun, and ...
Posted by Shane on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 05:08:00 PST

Vacation Part I: Duluth

Kala and I went to Duluth, MN. It was all sorts of fun, we got to see Paul Bunyons fish, and hang out by the closest thing to big water you can find in the middle of North America. We went up in the...
Posted by Shane on Sun, 06 May 2007 09:06:00 PST

Vacation Part II: Naked Raygun

Last night was the big show, a music event I have been hoping for for years, a reunion of Naked Raygun in a time and place i could manage to get to.Dillinger 4 was one of the openers and great as alw...
Posted by Shane on Sun, 06 May 2007 09:21:00 PST

ARRRRGH

So Kala's car was broken into today, a horrid amount of damage was done just to get the stereo out. It was totally avoidable if our prick neighbor had not called the cops and forced Kala to keep the a...
Posted by Shane on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:57:00 PST

Shane errr um Shaun of the Dead

Here is my costume in all its gloy...enjoy....
Posted by Shane on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 07:27:00 PST

Jack-O-Lanterns

Well Kala and I did some pumpkin carving here are some pics....
Posted by Shane on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 06:29:00 PST

Random june weirdness...

Well June is almost over and its been quite a month, with crazy amounts of work and a couple of just weird incidents.Weird incident the first: Last week my bike found what turned out ot be a large pei...
Posted by Shane on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:07:00 PST