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The Vintage Remedies Essentials Series was written by Jessie Hawkins, and focuses on natural health and real foods, and is specifically designed to by used by “Natural Living Educators” in a four week class. We always love working with Jessie! We provided a basic copy-edit for the VREssentials Real Food Workbook.

The Vintage Remedies Essentials Series was written by Jessie Hawkins, and focuses on natural health and real foods, and is specifically designed to by used by “Natural Living Educators” in a four week class.

We always love working with Jessie! We provided a basic copy-edit for the VREssentials Real Food Workbook.

Two Dudes Foods

Check out this new project I started with my friend Daniel. We’ve been swapping food and drink recipes for a couple of years, and now we’d like to share it with you! And our project is on tumblr and Facebook, so follow us!

Classical Education Resources

Our educational imprint Holy Trinity Classical now has an online webstore for our text books. Tax and shipping included in the price. Check it out!

(Source: holytrinityclassical.com)

Summer is about fun, and fun is about collaborating. Hip-hop never sounds so good as when artists get together and fuse their creative genius. And BBQs are always more enjoyable when everyone gets together and brings a little something. Perfect for your next BBQ party, this hip-hop mix fuses Royal Ruckus, J-Qwess, Spoken Nerd, Sareem Poems, Fabio Musta, Pigeon John, Akil of Jurassic 5, Busta Rhymes, J. Rawls, Sadat X, Mars iLL, Deepspace5, Alex Goose, De La Soul, Flynn Adam, Public Enemy, KRS-One, Far East Movement, Sufjan Stevens, Aesop Rock, Blackalicious, Lateef, Cappadonna, Redcloud, Shwayze, Pete Rock, C.L. Smooth, A Tribe Called Quest, and others. And these artists took the time to do the fusing for us. No fancy turntable mixes involved here. Just hand-picked the collaboration songs, and made them friendly for you! Download the mix here. 1. Tennessee Tiki – Royal Ruckus, Spoken Nerd, J-Qwess 2. Lower the Boom (Remix) – Sareem Poems, Fabio Musta, Pigeon John, Akil of Jurassic 5 3. What’s Next – Leaders of the New School (Busta Rhymes, Charlie Brown,  Dinco D) 4. Face It – J. Rawls, Sadat X, Wise Intelligent 5. No One Rides for Free – Deepspace5, Alex Goose 6. Breakadawn – De La Soul 7. Le California (Unreleased) – Rootbeer (Pigeon John. Flynn Adam) 8. Sex, Drugs, & Violence – Public Enemy, KRS-One 9. The Fresh (MyNINJA!) – Peter Rocks, Far East Movement, Rootbeer 10. Star of Wonder (None Shall Pass) – Tor, Sufjan Stevens, Aesop Rock 11. Side to Side – Blackalicious, Pigeon John, Lateef (Latyrx) 12. Too Strong to Change – Mars iLL, Cappadonna (Wu-Tang Clan) 13. Blue Hearts Club (Unreleased) – Royal Ruckus, Redcloud, Malachi Perez 14. Tapatio – Redcloud, Pigeon John 15. Buzzin’ – Shwayze, Cisco Adler (Whitestarr) 16. They Reminisce Over You – Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth 17. Scenario – A Tribe Called Quest, Leaders of the New School

Summer is about fun, and fun is about collaborating.

Hip-hop never sounds so good as when artists get together and fuse their creative genius. And BBQs are always more enjoyable when everyone gets together and brings a little something.

Perfect for your next BBQ party, this hip-hop mix fuses Royal Ruckus, J-Qwess, Spoken Nerd, Sareem Poems, Fabio Musta, Pigeon John, Akil of Jurassic 5, Busta Rhymes, J. Rawls, Sadat X, Mars iLL, Deepspace5, Alex Goose, De La Soul, Flynn Adam, Public Enemy, KRS-One, Far East Movement, Sufjan Stevens, Aesop Rock, Blackalicious, Lateef, Cappadonna, Redcloud, Shwayze, Pete Rock, C.L. Smooth, A Tribe Called Quest, and others.

And these artists took the time to do the fusing for us. No fancy turntable mixes involved here. Just hand-picked the collaboration songs, and made them friendly for you!

Download the mix here.

1. Tennessee Tiki – Royal Ruckus, Spoken Nerd, J-Qwess

2. Lower the Boom (Remix) – Sareem Poems, Fabio Musta, Pigeon John, Akil of Jurassic 5

3. What’s Next – Leaders of the New School (Busta Rhymes, Charlie Brown,  Dinco D)

4. Face It – J. Rawls, Sadat X, Wise Intelligent

5. No One Rides for Free – Deepspace5, Alex Goose

6. Breakadawn – De La Soul

7. Le California (Unreleased) – Rootbeer (Pigeon John. Flynn Adam)

8. Sex, Drugs, & Violence – Public Enemy, KRS-One

9. The Fresh (MyNINJA!) – Peter Rocks, Far East Movement, Rootbeer

10. Star of Wonder (None Shall Pass) – Tor, Sufjan Stevens, Aesop Rock

11. Side to Side – Blackalicious, Pigeon John, Lateef (Latyrx)

12. Too Strong to Change – Mars iLL, Cappadonna (Wu-Tang Clan)

13. Blue Hearts Club (Unreleased) – Royal Ruckus, Redcloud, Malachi Perez

14. Tapatio – Redcloud, Pigeon John

15. Buzzin’ – Shwayze, Cisco Adler (Whitestarr)

16. They Reminisce Over You – Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth

17. Scenario – A Tribe Called Quest, Leaders of the New School

Why Google+ is Meh

Or, why the 9 Reasons to Switch aren’t enough for me.

1. I don’t really want more integration with Google services. My primary work depends on Google services. Integrating my social networking only tempts me to utilize it more often for unrelated activities. This is the reason I dumped the Flock browser after a week.

2. I’m not particularly impressed with better friend management. It’s cool. But Facebook will copy it or improve on it in no time flat.

3. Better mobile app? Maybe with time, but there is no mobile app for iPhone yet. Do not pass go, do not collect $200.

4. Easier to find stuff to share? Neat idea, but I find stuff to share from Facebook and twitter because I have developed a network of people who care about what I care about. I really don’t need Google’s help. I’ll tinker around with this and perhaps I’ll take these words back.

5. This one wins. I like to keep my data.

6. Better photo tagging? If you do things you’ll regret showing up online, I guess this would matter to you. I don’t do anything I’m afraid people will know about, so this doesn’t appeal to me. No facial recognition software? Not an improvement.

7. I don’t care about group chat. The only thing I can imagine using a video “hangout” for is business, but there are already plenty of ways to do this.  If you like group chat, fine. I don’t need it, nor want it.

8. Safer content sharing? Easier to do? If you don’t know how to do this on facebook, you aren’t doing it right. (It’s next to the share button…)

9. Maybe Google is a better steward of your personal data. Seems to me, time will have to bear this out a little…

In the end, there are 700 million people on Facebook now, including my mother and grandmother. I’ll never be able to get them to make the switch. I’m very pleased with twitter, tumblr, and other niche social networking sites. For me, it’s more like Google minus.

Other food for thought:

The Vintage Remedies Guide to Real Food by Jessie Hawkins Bottom line: Good health depends on good food, and good food must be real food. We provided the copy-editing work for this book, and hired our friend Kelly Seow to give the book a special touch and a second set of eyes.

The Vintage Remedies Guide to Real Food by Jessie Hawkins

Bottom line: Good health depends on good food, and good food must be real food.

We provided the copy-editing work for this book, and hired our friend Kelly Seow to give the book a special touch and a second set of eyes.

Fund this ‘stache! I’ll be sporting this ridiculous moustache in celebration of Moustache May and to raise $500 for IOCC, an organization currently providing relief for people in Japan.

Fund this ‘stache!

I’ll be sporting this ridiculous moustache in celebration of Moustache May and to raise $500 for IOCC, an organization currently providing relief for people in Japan.

Some time ago, I worked at Starbucks with my pal Mike Walker (from Royal Ruckus). In between hating Frappuccino drinkers, we had great fun. Fewer people had more inside jokes than Mike and me. For awhile, we had a very uptight assistant manager. At one point, he mandated that we only give coffee cup sleeves for drinks for which the handbook required sleeves. In other words, unless requested specifically by the customer, we were only allowed to put sleeves on drip coffee, tea, espresso, and Americanos. The trouble is that pretty much everyone expects a cup sleeve these days. So to add to the fun, when people would ask for a sleeve, if they couldn’t think of the name of it, we wouldn’t supply it. We would let them find a word to express what they needed. Hand motions wouldn’t suffice either. We played dumb. Here is the customer made list we gradually compiled; and folks, we aren’t making this up: Cup Gripper Protector Java Jacket Bra Cuff Sleeve (you got it, pal!) Wooden Thing Thingies Coaster Cozy Handle Hand Thing Envelope Slip Huggy Cover Jacket Holder Card Pocket Skirt Collar Hanky Lil Deals Paper Thingy Sweater Holder on the Sides Carton Brown Thing Hot Thing Cool Thing Coffee Condom Coffee Clutch Liner Sock Warmer Hand Guard Thermo-Protecting Cuff Insulator Hand Job Caddies Slipper Circle Band Jobby Sheets Hand Saver Styrofoam

Some time ago, I worked at Starbucks with my pal Mike Walker (from Royal Ruckus). In between hating Frappuccino drinkers, we had great fun. Fewer people had more inside jokes than Mike and me.

For awhile, we had a very uptight assistant manager. At one point, he mandated that we only give coffee cup sleeves for drinks for which the handbook required sleeves. In other words, unless requested specifically by the customer, we were only allowed to put sleeves on drip coffee, tea, espresso, and Americanos. The trouble is that pretty much everyone expects a cup sleeve these days.

So to add to the fun, when people would ask for a sleeve, if they couldn’t think of the name of it, we wouldn’t supply it. We would let them find a word to express what they needed. Hand motions wouldn’t suffice either. We played dumb.

Here is the customer made list we gradually compiled; and folks, we aren’t making this up:

  1. Cup Gripper
  2. Protector
  3. Java Jacket
  4. Bra
  5. Cuff
  6. Sleeve (you got it, pal!)
  7. Wooden Thing
  8. Thingies
  9. Coaster
  10. Cozy
  11. Handle
  12. Hand Thing
  13. Envelope
  14. Slip
  15. Huggy
  16. Cover
  17. Jacket
  18. Holder
  19. Card
  20. Pocket
  21. Skirt
  22. Collar
  23. Hanky
  24. Lil Deals
  25. Paper Thingy
  26. Sweater
  27. Holder on the Sides
  28. Carton
  29. Brown Thing
  30. Hot Thing
  31. Cool Thing
  32. Coffee Condom
  33. Coffee Clutch
  34. Liner
  35. Sock
  36. Warmer
  37. Hand Guard
  38. Thermo-Protecting Cuff
  39. Insulator
  40. Hand Job
  41. Caddies
  42. Slipper
  43. Circle
  44. Band
  45. Jobby
  46. Sheets
  47. Hand Saver
  48. Styrofoam

Royal Ruckus | Rumors of our Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated | CD Baby

My latest music project is now available in hard copy format!