Tonyb on the ppk forums caught this gem on MSNBC. Vegan in the news ticker! You can also stop on by the forums to argue about whether or not Kucinich is electable. Or you can just sit there in yor cubicle, staring off into space, while the world passes you by.

From Teen Magazine, this must be the slippery slope that conservatives are always talking about in reference to gay marriage. Men marrying men! Women marrying women! What’s next? Flowers marrying cupcakes?! I would make a great neo-con radio host.

TEEN: What’s the strangest dream that you’ve had?
V.A.: It was so random and it felt so real. My sister was marrying a cupcake. And then a cupcake shot up into the air and made cupcake babies and there was a whole bunch of them. My dad was like, “This is a suitable husband for you.” So I married a cupcake, too!“

Thanks to Queen CousCous on the ppk forums for posting about this!

As of right now our Times article is still the most e-mailed story on their website. What's wrong with you people?! Don't you know there is a war going on?

But thanks for all the support! I can't answer all the e-mails I've gotten but I'm trying to! My family has been in tears since it came out. Yesterday my Aunt Bonnie called to tell me, “Uncle David is crying and has 35 copies of the paper to bring home!” It's a happy day for Sheepshead Bay Moskowitz's the world over. And what do we do when we are happy? We cry.

In anticipation of all the new vegans the NY Times article featuring me and Terry is going to spawn, instead of actually wasting my time thinking, I am going to direct you to some awesome vegan information resources.

Vegan Outreach has a great section entitled “Why Vegan?” Guess what? It’s about why you should go vegan! They also have a great vegan starter kit. Get a bunch and annoy your family and co-workers with them.

For something a little more timely, Kathy Freston’s recent article on the Huffington Post discusses environmental reasons to boycott the animal agriculture industry. For instance, did you know that you want your children to have a planet to live on? Read Vegetarian is the New Prius.

Compassion Over Killing is a great outfit that runs lots of great campaigns, including trying to get egg cartons to stop displaying misleading labels.

Last but not least, Ed Begley Junior is vegan. Don’t you want to be a little more like Ed Begley Junior?

Happy veganism, everyone! And I apologize that my kitchen is such a mess, I should have cleaned for you.

*conservative estimates indicate that the article will make half the US population vegan, not including all the people that will die in that time period (because only the dead are truly vegan, but we can still keep them in our statistics)

So I was awarded a “proggy” from PETA. Me and Arnold Schwarzenegger. I am happy about it but the weird thing is no one from PETA contacted me! I found out from someone on my message boards a few weeks ago. Apparently there is a plaque waiting for me at my publisher's office and I will totally hang it on the wall, right next to my GED. But the reason for my writing is that I just came across this quote from Ingrid Newkirk, PETA's president, about the award:

“Isa Moskowitz's phenomenal new cookbook is bound to encourage even diehard meat-eaters to give humane vegan cooking a try,” says PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk. “We're thrilled to recognize Isa for helping to meet the growing hunger for meatless foods in the most creative and delicious ways imaginable!”

It made me feel weird that Ingrid Newkirk looked at my book. I mean, of course she did, there isn't much vegan bathroom reading to look at out there. It just made me feel at once honored and also a little like my mom read my diary. I've been equally critical and supportive of PETA in the past. Critical because of their sexist advertising, supportive because I feel like they make a huge difference with their (fully clothed) outreach and their animal cruelty investigations. And it just made me think, oh great, now if I say something bad about PETA they will send Bob Barker over to my apartment to rip the damned proggy off the wall. Well, fine, but you can't have my GED, Bob! I earned that shit!

What I'm saying is now I feel like I am “established” and my opinion has to be somewhat calculated. It's not a good feeling. And I don't mean to come across as self-important at all, like my opinion matters oh so very much. I just mean that I hate all the bullshit that goes on in our interactions. I hate when people don't say what they mean or when people are being obviously manipulative and not laying their cards out on the table in an honest way. I just hope that no matter how much “fame” I get in this little vegan world I never feel the need to compromise. And, on the flip side, I feel like now that I know people are listening I am a little bit smarter. I have a habit of shooting my mouth off and being dead wrong. I think that the little pause I give before I say what I want has been helpful. Maybe this post contradicts all that, but I can delete it and just post something like “ZOMG! I GOT A PROGGY! I AM THE BEST! DON'T EAT THE MEATZ! LOL!”

I wonder if Arnold Schwarzenegger is suffering the very same existential angst over all this.

These are chocolate with raspberry buttercream cuppies that I made for my very good friends Jason and Keren’s wedding last weekend. They have a little problem with loving wrestling. Well, they don’t think it’s a problem, but I know better. I found all these beaten up wrestling figures for really cheap and placed them around the cake, which served two purposes; to keep an eye and make sure no one took cupcakes before it was time and also to be flower girls. On top is The Invisible Girl and the stretchy guy. I know the stretchy guy is not Plastic Man because I got chastised for saying it was. I won’t make the same mistake twice.

Mazel tov Jason and Keren!

The cupcake tower in all its glory

A trio of wrestler flower girls

Muy machismo

Whatcha gonna’ do when the elbow runs wild on you?

These are stocked right next to the “You’re An Asshole” baking spray.

For the record, they aren’t very good cupcake liners. They fall right off the cupcake!

This is not safe for work, but too late for that now. Your boss knows about your pastry fetish.

They’re from Lolo at veganyumyum but she hasn’t put them on her blog for some strange reason. I totally scooped her.

Allow me to be the first person with a blog to admit that they really have nothing to say. This will go down in internet history.