Are you guys really hearing about this all the way over in the UK? :)

When I was in London and Scotland in August, every person who found out I was from CA asked what I thought about Arnold. :rolleyes:

In the exit polling, 50 percent of voters volunteered a favorable opinion of Arnold Schwarzenegger, while 45 percent offered an unfavorable one.

epski --
I like your sig.
:)

Thanks! One of the reasons I like Regan so much. I try to convince my mom you don't have to choose animals over humans, but a lot of people just don't get it.

http://www.spotlighthumane.com/

I'm looking for someone in the L.A. area to join me for this event. My wife can't go because she has exams and a major presentation coming up. The advance ticket price is $25, which is steep, but I think you get a decent amount of free stuff while you're there. Explore out the link, and PM me if you want to go!

Anybody from the San Francisco Bay Area? Just checking to see if I had any neighbors. Thanks!

--Marco

Anybody from the San Francisco Bay Area? Just checking to see if I had any neighbors. Thanks!

--Marco

I am not too far in Sacramento.

San Mateo here! :up:

Hey, Muzicfan & Oatmeal! Thanks for the response. I'm from Benicia. Now I don't feel like the only Vegan guy within a 200 mile radius! :o

Hopefully soon I will be in LA... now to figure out a place to live to calculate costs...

Hey Marco.. you are very welcome. Yea, I have been wanting to meet up with close Ve*ns to get to know them, and have new friends that have the same "lifestyle" I do. you can email me any time Marco... :)

Hopefully soon I will be in LA... now to figure out a place to live to calculate costs...

Everyone in LA serious about finding an apartment uses http://www.westsiderentals.com

i'm in west covina, that's east of los angeles. i'm new to these boards too.

i'm in west covina, that's east of los angeles. i'm new to these boards too.

Hi! Welcome to the boards! I grew up not far from West Covina. :)

I've always thought a group living situation in a house would drive down living expenses. Lately I think maybe 10s of people, perhaps 75 living in one house would be far less expensive. let's see take a monthly rent of $1500 for a house and divide it by 75 people, why that's $20 a month. With that many people you might need a few eco composting toilets(non-electric).

I also think that the SCLC or PUSH or some homeless group ought to buy a Beverly Hills Mansion and drive around town pick up the homeless and bring them to live in the mansion for life, clean them off, dress them in affluent people's clothes for dinner at 8 and generally, take them around to apply for jobs, give them spending money. People have an unqualified right to be vegan millionaires living in mansions in a garden paradise now that society can afford it(by the way society could have afforded it 4,000 years ago and ever since, a world without war, poverty, want, etc for all that time). I support living wage for workers (and for all people) constitutional amendments, such as they have in India's Constitution.

Also there ought to be homeless and destitute adobe mansion-building projects throughout the country with the unfortunates being given the keys to and title on the newly built estate homes.

The Poor People's coalition ought to sponsor a homeless cruise to rescue the destitute of India currently dying in the streets, pick them up on their backs and take them to hospital like real people, yeah save their very lives.

I've been urged by some people over in the relationships board to indroduce myself over here in the California thread. I'm assuming this is the right one!

Anyway, I'm a 27 yr. old vegan guy living in the L.A. area (OK, I'm in the valley...I'll admit it! Myah!). While I have a really nice group of vegan friends, it's always great to find more like minded people....and if they happen to be nice single veggie girls - that's a plus! *wink*

This is my 5th year as a vegan and a Californian - and I don't think I could have chosen a better place to live with all the awesome resturants and food selections. I'm a total foodie, and I love cooking and going to cool veg resturants ....although lately I've been lazy and eating out a lot. Tonite I did cook though - I made szechuan veggie-"fish" w/ broccoli, mushrooms, and snowpeas! Yum. Anyway, I'm not gonna make you sit thru a long winded bio or nuffin...just introducing myself and whatnot. For all I know, I might know some of you here....hmmm...anyway, later!

Rare Hero

This is the right place. All right, ladies, check him out.

BTW, cool new vegan restaurant on Sunset between Fairfax and La Brea called California Vegan, if you ever get over to this side of the hill.

This is the right place. All right, ladies, check him out.

BTW, cool new vegan restaurant on Sunset between Fairfax and La Brea called California Vegan, if you ever get over to this side of the hill.

Yup, been there. I guess it's owned by the same peeps who run Vegan Express, a tasty little hole in the wall on Cahuenga. It's pretty much the same food, but prepared more fancy-like...and it's more of an actual resturant. I recommend it if you live around there, but for me - the traffic battle to get there makes it a painful effort.

Rare Hero

Hello fellow Californians! I'm in Diego. Any neighbors of mine on here?

Yup, been there. I guess it's owned by the same peeps who run Vegan Express, a tasty little hole in the wall on Cahuenga. It's pretty much the same food, but prepared more fancy-like...and it's more of an actual resturant. I recommend it if you live around there, but for me - the traffic battle to get there makes it a painful effort.

Rare Hero

It's literally a block away from my apartment. I'm friendly with the guy that runs the place, and I've met his family (the ones that run Vegan Express). I far prefer CA Vegan, and not just because it's so close! It's much nicer to dine in.

I ate there last night and when I ordered soft noodle chow mein what I got was bland spaghetti noodles with old brown dried broccoli florets. I poured soy sauce and sprinkled lots of pepper on the mass and asked for chili sauce. $4.95 plus tax. Raw deal. Funny they hadn't had bad food before, (like shrimp with snow peas, pork fried rice, pineapple fried rice, kung pao assortments, orange chicken, etc,) but last night the only utopian vegan cooking was mine own at home. Except now I remember they had, the soup tastes like they pour soy sauce in hot water to make a broth, or is it teriyaki sauce, then they add some sliced veggies, mushrooms, tofu and things, old seaweed, not so good. So I wouldn't recommend them for taste, only symbolism. Real Food Daily has them beat. I would destroy them in a cookoff every time. My cooking is like a heavenly priest had made it, like it comes from the divine. What I use is Indian hybrid cooking with some 25-50 spices in every plate of food, most whatever I have in the house which will taste good in the dish, plus a wide range of veggies. I like to cook everything from scratch using fresh whole foods, never canned or frozen foods. I of course prefer organic produce and grains.

If one wants a packed nutritional punch I would suggest an Indian buffet, perhaps the heavyweight champion of nutrition or a top contender at least. But they are not entirely vegan and those items which are vegan, well one has to brave Murphy's law as applied to omnivorous restaurants.

I ate there last night

You mean CA Vegan? I haven't even tried that. I tend toward the wraps and plates. It's not fancy, or even gourmet (like RFD), but it's solid vegan fair with friendly employees, and it's only a block away. Oh, and I don't like Indian food. Never have. I'm trying to add it into my repetoire, but maybe you'll have to prepare one of your heavenly meal for your fellow Angeleno VB members to come over and eat with you.

I was in L.A. on Saturday with a few friends, but since I, once again, was not the one driving, I had little say in where we ate dinner. Next time I have to remember that when I have the car, I get to choose the place. I still haven't been to any of the vegan restaurants in L.A. :(

Though the one next to me is so tasty, I'm doing fine. :)

What ever happened to that So CA brunch idea? It's too close to the holidays now, probably, but maybe early next year?

You mean CA Vegan? I haven't even tried that. I tend toward the wraps and plates. It's not fancy, or even gourmet (like RFD), but it's solid vegan fair with friendly employees, and it's only a block away. Oh, and I don't like Indian food. Never have. I'm trying to add it into my repetoire, but maybe you'll have to prepare one of your heavenly meal for your fellow Angeleno VB members to come over and eat with you.

I have same problem with Vegan Express. Some dishes good, some not so good. Real Food Daily beats them out. Indian Buffet some of finest restaurant food in the world, but could be cheese in your saag(spinach), dairy in your naan(bread), clarified butter(ghee) lurking at large somewhere as well as yogurt to defeat food poisoning frequently added to otherwise vegan dishes. The buffet table is a mine field of terror and distress for the vegan purist. Thus to go utopian purist one must completely abandon omnivorous and even lacto-vegetarian restaurants. In other words there are only 3 restaurants in S.F.V. which are vegan. And all of them are Xinhuaese with some good dishes, some not so good dishes. So its cooking at home with fatfree.com or for the fat people out of practice, I suggest brainwashing oneself into becoming a great chef by watching 10 cooking shows on PBS - the English fish guy, frugal gourmet, italian cooks and others - then applying your talents to vegan recipes out of vegan cookbooks.

As I said Indian food has many many spices according to the owner of the Indian restaurant.

India- democratic socialist Living wage constitutional provision
Xinhua- dictatorship socialist $50/ month wages

San Francisco city minimum wage is now $8.50. Some cities like Berkeley have minimum wages for city employees only (not private employees) of higher than that if memory serves me correctly.

Alaska, Washington and Oregon have minimum wages of $7.15 to $6.90(California at $6.75). Connecticut back east at $7.10.


http://www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/america.htm


seriously brick lego mansions ought be built for every individual and family. see my website for details.