Supporting HELD is Supporting Community

Crazy with the FB stuff right now.

We have a URL proper: http://facebook.com/HELDveganBelts

and whatever this thing is:

HELD Vegan Belts on Facebook

Behind The Mask

Click to watch this great AR film: Behind The Mask

Here it is again in case anyone missed it. A very good film and the maker Shannon Keith. Here is an interview with her on Animal Voices (((interview)))

Thai Food Cafe' **FULL VEGAN MENU**

My favorite new Thai restaurant is in North Portland but it looks like Thailand. Meow is the owner and she is super sweet. I asked her husband Thom what he recommends and he went and asked her. Cool, egalitarian and highly considerate. I nearly died from seafood when I was eleven so I couldn't try any of the vegan seafood dishes.

Oh yeah, big huge letters on the front menu page "FULL VEGAN MENU" so I felt really comfortable, even more so after talking with Thom and Meow a little bit. I'm not worried about any crossover omnivore food getting into the vegan, they are very respectful.

We had the vegan Drunken Noodles with pepper beeph and the Evil Jungle Noodle with chikun both number two on the hotness scale from 1 to 4. They were both very delicious but we wish they would stop calling it "chicken" or "Beef" since they aren't and we think those things are pretty gross.

Two is hot, hot, hot! But not so hot that you can't enjoy all the flavors swirling around. The arrangements were very pretty and highly colorful. We both preferred the beeph over the chx but at one point Melinda spit some into her napkin cause she thought it was real- its not. But that was pretty damn funny. The chx is too dense and needs to be chewed alot- according to my colonic the day after. See this is no ordinary review. I'm a performance artist who happens to be vegan- I want all the vegans and vegetarians to go and support this place. Since I ruined the review I'll just quit now, sorry about that. Really good food and great people.

Thai Food Cafe'
833 N Killingsworth St
Portland, OR 97217

503 285 8745
It looks much better at night.

Workshop and Greenhouse slideshow

Thanks to Jeremy Kemp, Steve Stuart, Brad McCormick, Courtney Kintz, Athonwy Doherty, Jonathon Pilgrim, and any others who have or will be helping out with this ongoing situation.

EX Proyect (english)

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Project X is a 1987 film produced by Parkes and Lasker and directed by Kaplan. The film makes a political commentary on the ethics of animal research.

The screenplay's premise has a fictional air force soldier named Jimmy (played by Matthew Broderick) who, as punishment for "misconduct" involving a romantic interlude in an aircraft cockpit, assigned to a top-secret military project wherein chimpanzees are trained on virtual reality flight simulators, and experiences a crisis of conscience as to the project goals.

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Greenhouse Build

We start building the greenhouse this Wednesday. The space is about 20 x 10' half over a preexisting slab. Foundation work is all done.

Your motivation: you want access to fresh vegetables when the grocery store shelves dry up for one reason or another, you want experience to build your own, you want to share your experience, you want to develop community that you can count on, you want to have a good time.

Schedule (email to be certain): January 28th and 30th
February 1st, 2nd, 20th, 21st, 22nd

All times are roughly 9am to 4pm stone soup for lunch, vegan. Why?
Especially need help with the earthen wall, otherwise its just 2X6 and recycled windows.

Movie Night and the TV SET

First let me just say the TV SET is on the googles http://ping.fm/xLIZr you can search too and getting tons of hits in the native Blip. I made a new archive page for it at http://ping.fm/QvR66 please go and see and bookmark it, every couple of weeks a new episode goes up. Its an hour long and a little corny but very real.

The same guy that hosts the show will be bringing a movie to the M3house every Tuesday. The new M3house site has a link to the info page on that.

TV Set January 10 2008

This episode is a little scary, as it looks into the inevitable global crisis looming on the horizon. For more background information listen to the podcast from the Washington County Public Affairs Forum
Micah Perry

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"Aiding and abetting the progressive community since 1991"

A well-considered discussion of scenarios that may occur post Peak Oil.

Guests that are actively engaged in this issue, but from very different points of view, so a variety of scenarios, and visions of our future will be available for your consideration and discussion.

John Kellerman, Mark Lakeman, Tod Sloan, Per Fagereng, Jerry Erwin, Deb Delman, Bruno Amicci, Jan Lundberg, Jim Wrathall

An informative audio podcast: http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/1293677

Gnome Community Building

Vegan Gnome Potluck Party


The Potluck was cool, about 20 people attended altogether and the food was delicious. We made mash taters and super yummy gravy- ok Melinda made the awesome gravy. We got the recipe from the new large Slingshot yep, that's how HELD remembers stuff. We had to improvise a little, the recipe is vegan but called for beer and a couple other things we don't usually keep. I think Geddon brought the sumptuous Tempeh and hummus. Was it Jade that brought the Salty Balls? Mm, I loved the way the Salty Balls felt in my mouth. Anyway tons of food just kept coming and it was all super stellar.


The whole time we were playing exquisite Gnome. You paint part of a Gnome and then pass it to someone else who paints a little more. Or if someone should happen to break a thumb- the next person sticks it to its head in a ball of dried paint. It was good fun and the gnomes turned out much nicer than I imagined they would- you know, cause vegans are such notoriously terrible artists. Party started at six and wrapped up after midnight.

TV Set December 13 2008

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Aiding and abetting the progressive community since 1991.  

The Real Wealth of Portland: Supporting a More Caring Economy project is about making the invisible economy visible. It is about moving to an economy that fosters social justice, equity, and peace.

http://RealWealthPDX.org

Patty's got a whole new bag.

International Cartoons.

Hi Res TV Set

For those who don't know TV Set is a really good locally produced show that is informative, entertaining, & provocative. You can subscribe to the show on iTunes watch it posted in this blog or download the high resolution large screen format here: http://www.veoh.com/channels/TVset I'll be putting in a side bar on this blog later.

TV Set November 8 2008

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Aiding and abetting the progressive community since 1991.

TV Set November 22 2008

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Aiding and abetting the progressive community since 1991

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New Online Store

We now have a store on Etsy.com the address is HELD.etsy.com and soon I will be making wallets and belts from discarded fabrics and bike inner tubes also.

The roof for the greenhouse is around $300.00 so I have to raise some money, lucky you its the holiday season (wink, wink).

The Sink

The old bathroom sink had been developing a crack and it was very ugly anyway so we went to the Rebuilding Center in North Portland to find a new one. The Rebuilding Center takes donations from building demolitions and then cleans them up andre-sells them for a huge discount. This sort of recycling has been going on here in Portland for a long time but the other stores sell stuff at much higher prices. The Rebuilding Center is a Non-Profit Org.

So we found the perfect sink nice and deep and wide and very MODERN which is an aesthetic and philosophy Melinda and I appreciate. It looks like a Devo hat upside down and white. Part of the MODERN aesthetic is the economy of space which fits nicely with the M3house vision, not to mention it is a discarded object bought locally and the funds will go back into helping the community.

The new lights are used also from the Rebuilding Center, and the new cabinet. I had to replace the hardware on the cabinet and could only find new replacements. Painted the walls and cabinet with a "green" paint. I'll write about paint later.

Drip Drip..

Last year we started the garden beds in the front yard and tomatoes in the back. We kept forgetting to water them and in turn did a crummy job. We installed a drip system this year which is WAY more efficient and runs on a timer.
(Volunteer Jeremy Kemp)
Back and front yards. It was quite simple, my goal is to have a battery of rain barrels on the south side before next summer.