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Master of Art in English for Language Arts Teachers

Program Coordinator

Admission Deadlines

Additional Links

Dr. Maren Clegg-Hyer Fall Semester: July 15 Retention/Dismissal/Readmission Policy
Spring Semester: November 15 Graduation Requirements
Phone: 229-333-5946

Summer Semester: April 15

Department of English

Admission Requirements

Required Documents

Admission Requirements

Online Graduate Application

  • Application Fee $35 (credit or debit card and e-checks accepted)
  • Apply Online

One Official Transcript from each institution where you have previously enrolled (undergraduate and graduate).

(Transcripts of coursework completed in-residence at VSU will be obtained by the Graduate School

  • Must hold a bachelor’s degree from a regionally-accredited institution in any one of the following three areas or its equivalent:
    • English
    • Secondary Education - English
    • Middle Grades Education - English.
  • Minimum GPA of 3.0 on 4.0 scale. This GPA may be cumulative or in the undergraduate major.

Graduate Record Exam

Minimum GRE Requirement:
  • 153 score on the Verbal section of the GRE OR a score of 4.0 on the Analytical section of the GRE.

Two Recommendations

(General Recommendation Form Required)

  • Recommendations from professionals familiar with your academic background.
Cover Letter
  • Applicants must submit a 2-page cover letter detailing how the degree will impact the applicant's professional life, including relevant academic training and interests and professional career goals.

VSU Medical Form

Page 1 of Medical Form

Page 2 of Medical Form

  • The form must be completed and signed by the student/applicant.
  • This form must be received prior to enrollment, NOT prior to admission.
  • Applicants who are currently enrolled, and those who attended VSU in the past, are not required to resubmit the Medical Form

Unless otherwise indicated above, all required documents must be received on or before the admission deadline for your file to be reviewed. It is the applicant's responsibility to allow adequate time for document delivery and to en-sure receipt of documents. Please allow at least 7-10 days for delivery by mail.

Important Program Information

  • The above requirements represent the minimal standards which must be met for consideration for admission to the MA program in the department of English. Meeting or exceeding these standards does not guarantee admission.  The department makes a determination for admission based on these criteria as well as the student's career goals, fit to the program, and evolving trends and standards in the profession.

Probationary Admission

  • Students may be accepted as probationary in the Department of English.  Probationary admission is at the complete discretion of the Department of English's Graduate Studies Committee. Meeting or exceeding the minimal standards for probationary admission does not guarantee admission. In order to be considered for this admissions status, the following requirements must be satisfied:

    1. Bachelor's degree from a regionally-accredited institution
    2. Meet EITHER the minimum GPA requirement OR the minimum GRE score required for regular admission.
    3. Submit all supplemental materials in the above checklist (such as statement of intent, etc.) prior to the admissions deadline.

International Applicants

International applicants must meet all admission criteria and documentation requirements as defined by the program, however, additional documentation may be required.  Please review the information below for specific information and guidelines

  • Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) Exam – Applicants whose first language is not English (based on country of citizenship) must submit official scores on the TOEFL exam. International applicants whose first language is not English but who have earned a bachelor’s degree or higher from a U.S. institution may be exempt from the TOEFL requirement.
  • Certificate of Finances- The Certificate of Finance is required of any applicant requiring a student visa to enter the United States to complete his or her studies. This document is considered a part of the application for admission and applications will not be reviewed without this document.  Applicants who do not require an I-20 student visa to complete their studies are exempt from this requirement.
  • Evaluation of International Transcripts - Applicants who have completed coursework at an institution outside of the United States must submit a course-by-course evaluation of the coursework.  This transcript evaluation must be completed by an international education credentials evaluation service such as Josef Silny, ECE, etc.  The transcript evaluation does not replace the transcript requirement. Official transcripts are still required.

Admission Classifications

  • Regular Status
  • Probationary Status
  • The Master of Arts in English Studies for Language Arts Teachers program will consider requests for Irregular Admission; however, requesting Irregular Admission does not guarantee approval to enroll.  See the Graduate School Requirements and Guidelines for Irregular Admission for specific information.

Admission Questions

For admission questions about this program, please contact the Graduate School by phone, email, or stop by our office.

  • Call Us: 229-333-5694 or toll free 800-618-1878, Option #5

  • Visit Us: Converse Hall (Main Campus), Third Floor, Suite 3100

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As an act of perseverance, and compassion, graphic designer Timothy Goodman attempted to draw a unique valentine for every single one of his Twitter followers on February 14, 2012, between the hours of 7 AM and 7 PM. I guess sometimes you have to be mad for love. Learn more about this project.

On February 14, 2012, I attempted to draw a unique valentine for every single one of my Twitter followers between the hours of 7 AM and 7 PM. By doing this, I responded to each follower’s handle/picture/bio as seen up top. The plan was to draw each one on a 4 1/2” x 5 1/2” pre-cut card, take a picture with my phone, and tweet it directly to each follower, real-time.

Why? Traditionally, Valentine’s Day is spent expressing ourselves with gifts and valentines for people we love. However, in lieu of all the people I care about in my personal life, I spend much more time sitting in front of my computer all day: working, emailing, scanning, printing, chatting, and tweeting. I have developed great relationships with people in my personal life because of Twitter.

That being said, everyday I have many conversations with designers and illustrators on Twitter that never go beyond the monitor in front of me. In spite of this, I wonder how I can honor these virtual relationships? Can it be done outside of technology? And besides the typical gifts we give each other on Twitter—like a mention or a retweet—what would it mean to make an analog gift for someone who is following me?

With 1150 followers, I estimated roughly 40 seconds per valentine (or 96 an hour). This was very ambitious, and unfortunately I had an array of problems that required me to upload the cards to my Flickr instead. This took too much time. However, I successfully sent out almost 500 valentines to followers from all over. In return, I received hundreds of touching responses and handmade notes from people I’ve never met. The goal was not achieved, but the love and effort was undoubtedly there. Thanks to everyone who was a part of this demanding, yet very rewarding 12 hours with me!

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Festival also pays tribute to Forman, Laurant

PARIS — Monaco’s Cinema and Literature International Forum, launched six years ago as a meeting point for fiction writers and film and TV professionals, closed its three-day run with recognition of one of French cinema’s most enduring villains.

The forum, which wrapped on Saturday, bestowed its trophee d’honneur on veteran French film star, stage actor and director Robert Hossein. Honorary presidents, director Milos Forman and American novelist Patricia MacDonald, also presented a career achievement award to Guillaume Laurant, whose screenwriter credentials include “The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain” and “A Very Long Engagement.”

The best literary adaptation for cinema award went to Claude Berri, director of the French hit “Hunting and Gathering.”

Other winners included Emmanuel Lepage for his graphic novel “Muchacho” and Marie-Jose Croze as best actress in a literary adaptation and Alain Attal as best producer of a literary adaptation, both for the thriller “Tell No One,” based on the novel by Harlan Coben.

Best literary adaptation for television went to “Mademoiselle Gigi,” directed by Caroline Huppert, from the novel by Colette.

Now in its sixth year, the forum has developed into a leading international venue for marketing original adaptations and remakes from literature to cinema and television. This year’s grandees included directors Peter Webber (“Girl with a Pearl Earring”) and Manuel Huerga (“Salvador), French actress Sylvie Testud (“La Vie en rose”) and Czech dramatist and former president Vaclav Havel.

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Economic crisis impacts all facets of biz

In Latin America, “The industry’s feeling the impact of the crisis in every segment, although in differing degrees,” says Steve Solot, prexy of the Latin America Training Center.

Fallout includes distributors buying finished films as opposed to pre-sales of product in production and steeper declines in DVD sell-through sales, he adds.

Film sales are also slowing.

“Prices for acquiring movies are still at the same level, but there are fewer buyers,” says Eduardo Costantini, prexy of Costa Films. “Companies with cash are waiting for prices to fall during the next few months.”

While B.O. is up slightly, piracy-ravaged DVD, which originally powered up prices in Brazil, is now imploding.

Costantini estimates homevid sales are down a year-on-year 40% across Latin America.

With the Brazilian real having tumbled 50% against the greenback in 12 months, distributors are attempting to renegotiate contracts or are just not buying at all, one says.

“The weaker real may well slow Brazil’s digital cinema rollout. As for installing digital 3-D equipment, the costs are now prohibitive, which will affect box office next year,” comments Fabio Lima, founder of digital cinema operator Rain Network and CEO of MovieMobz, a cinema-on-demand initiative.

In Argentina, DVD rental titles that used to mean 10,000 units shipped now mean 3,000, says vet distributor Bernardo Zupnik, at Argentina’s biggest indie, Distribution Co. With prices not yet falling for Argentina, expect slow trading at Berlin.

Movie attendance grew in Mexico in 2008, but large indies — Videocine-Televisa, Gussi — say they’ll look for sure-fire hits and be far more cautious before buying.

Lessons learned are “(be) careful about negotiation terms, careful about reading scripts thoroughly — being extremely picky,” says Mineko Mori, Paramount Pictures director, acquisitions and co-production, Latin America.

There is some silver lining in all the clouds. Latin America’s able to turn out edgy, original titles on scant budgets. One example: Berlin competition player “The Milk of Sorrow” (La teta asustada) from Peru’s Claudia Llosa, is a buzz title. And young filmmakers are still pushing the envelope. Pedro Aldrete’s “River of Gold” is an Apache-Mexican-Creole oater.

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Honoring Kirk's kid for bad behavior

Michael Douglas has always had a gift for playing ethically challenged and morally ambiguous characters, and even a cursory look at his greatest hits — “Fatal Attraction,” “Basic Instinct,” “The War of the Roses,” “Disclosure” and “Wall Street” — reveals just how successful he’s been at it.

“The jerks and pricks are always a lot of fun to play, and it seems to be my area, my focus,” he admits, “although sometimes when I look at my resume I’m still surprised to see that all of these characters are contemporary and all deal with moral dilemmas.”

Douglas didn’t always traffic in the jerk department. In fact, he started out playing sensitive young men.

“In a sort of strange parallel with my dad,” he says, “I moved to darker characters. He didn’t get acclaimed until ‘Champion,’ where he played a prick, and it was the same thing for me with ‘Wall Street.’ But then look at all the awards and nominations — they’re usually for bad people. So I guess we don’t reward good behavior.”

Happily for the star, there’s plenty more bad behavior on display in his two new films — “Solitary Man” and “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.” In the former, he plays a big-time car dealer “with a couple of ethical lapses which cause his small empire and marriage to collapse.” In the latter, he effortlessly slips back into the reptilian role of Gordon Gekko, his most iconic part. “After eight years in jail he’s shed his skin — or at least one,” Douglas says with a laugh.

Is Gekko a changed man? “Hopefully you’re not quite sure where he’s coming from. And yes, there’s something of me in him — but there’s something of all of us in him. That’s the beauty of the character.”

Born in 1944, Douglas grew up on the East Coast, and although he saw little of his legendary father as a kid, he admits that Kirk Douglas’ shadow “was hard to step out of.” But he inherited his father’s “tenacity and stamina, and my mother’s diplomacy,” and landed his first acting break in the CBS Playhouse episode “The Experiment.”

“That got me out to Hollywood, where I did a few films before sliding into episodic TV and getting ‘The Streets of San Francisco,’?” he recalls. “That show was the most important development moment in my life, being able to do 104 hours and having a great mentor like Karl Malden. It was a great training ground.”

Douglas eventually parlayed that experience into a successful film career, starring in such hits as “The China Syndrome,” “Romancing the Stone” and “Jewel of the Nile.” But it was as a producer — of 1975’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” which won the 31-year-old his first Oscar — that he first tasted real success. “And everyone strongly recommended that I just focus on producing, as making the transition from TV to movies was much harder back then,” he notes. “But I always had a passion for acting. That was always my first love.”

For Douglas, the key to a successful acting career “is good material well-executed — and I’ve been pretty lucky in finding good material and never really having a low — or slow — point in my career, except for taking a break the last few years to spend time with Catherine (Zeta-Jones) and the kids,” he says. “The business has changed a lot since I began, but there’s always options, and my production company, Further Films, has a bunch of projects we’re working on including ‘Rollover,’ based on Adam Penenberg’s book ‘Tragic Indifference.’?”

Next up is Steven Soderbergh’s “Liberace” film, with Douglas starring as the flamboyant pianist. “I’m excited, although my piano-playing’s going to need some serious work,” he allows. “But hey, I saw ‘Avatar’ — they’ll be able to make me play great.”

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Venice Daily Spotlight: French Cinema 2012

Dormant Beauty
Marco Bellocchio (Italy/France)Intl. sales: Celluloid Dreams
A woman in a vegetative state is the focus of a struggle between rival factions in Italian society. Isabelle Huppert stars.
The Fifth Season
Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth (Belgium/Netherlands/France) Intl. sales: Films Boutique.
Haunting tale about a mysterious calamity that breaks the natural cycle.
Lines of Wellington
Valeria Sarmiento (Portugal/France)Intl. sales: Alfama Films
French troops invade Portugal in 1810, throwing the locals’ lives into turmoil; with Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich.
Paradise: Faith
Ulrich Seidl (Austria/France/Germany) Intl. sales: Coproduction Office
The second chapter in Seidl’s “Paradise” trilogy examines religious devotion and marital conflict.
Brian De Palma (France/Germany) Intl. sales: Wild Bunch, SBS Prods.
Erotic thriller in which two female biz execs fight for supremacy. Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace star.
Something in the Air
Olivier Assayas (France) Intl. sales: MK2
Coming-of-ager in which a student gets swept up in 1970s political fervor.
Xavier Giannoli (France/Belgium) Intl. sales: Wild Bunch
A complete nobody wakes one morning to find that he’s become a celebrity, but he doesn’t know why.

Cherchez Hortense
Pascal Bonitzer (France) Intl. sales: SBS Prods.
Kristin Scott Thomas plays a wife who persuades her husband to solicit a visa for an immigrant from his bureaucrat dad.
Gebo and the Shadow
Manoel De Oliveira (Portugal/France) Intl. sales: Pyramide Intl.
A patriarch sacrifices himself for his son. Stars Claudia Cardinale, Jeanne Moreau.
El Impenetrable
Daniele Incalcaterra, Fausta Quattrini (Argentina/France) Intl. sales: Doc & Film Intl.
Docu follows the director’s attempts to set up a national park in Paraguay.
Lullaby to My Father
Amos Gitai (Israel/France/Switzerland) Intl. sales: Agav Films
Story of Gitai’s father, a student at Bauhaus, who was imprisoned by the Nazis and later traveled to Palestine.
The Man Who Laughs
Jean-Pierre Ameris (France/Czech Rep.) Intl. sales: EuropaCorp
Gerard Depardieu toplines Victor Hugo adaptation by the scribe of “Amelie.”
The Tightrope
Simon Brook (France/Italy) Intl. sales: Films Distribution
Portrait of theater director Peter Brook by his son

Gli Equilibristi
Ivano De Matteo (Italy/France) Intl. sales: Rodeo Drive, Babe Films
A man’s perfect life is torn apart when his wife discovers he’s been unfaithful.
Jazmin Lopez (Argentina/France/Netherlands) Intl. sales: Premium Films
The line between reality and fantasy blurs for characters wandering in a forest.
Tango Libre
Frederic Fonteyne (Belgium/France/Lux.) Intl. sales: Films Distribution
Drama about a prison guard who is attracted to a woman, the wife of not one prisoner, but two.
Three Sisters
Wang Bing (France/China) Intl. sales: Album Prods.
A peasant family ekes out a harsh existence in a Chinese mountain village.
Djamila Sahraoui (Algeria/France) Intl. sales: Neon Prods.
Algerian civil war seen through the eyes of a grieving mother, whose two sons fought on opposing sides.

Herve Lasgouttes (France) Intl. sales: Premium Films
Feature debut turns on a troubled young man who falls in love with a dedicated swimmer.
Heritage — The Inheritance
Hiam Abbass (France/Israel/Turkey) Intl. sales: Films Distribution
Hidden conflicts arise as a Palestinian family gathers for a wedding.
Keep Smiling
Rusudan Chkonia (France/Georgia/Lux.) Intl. sales: Doc & Film Intl.
Several Georgian mothers are tricked into appearing in a phony beauty contest.
Kinshasa Kids
Marc-Henri Wajnberg (Belgium/France) Intl. sales: MK2
A Congolese boy living on the streets of Kinshasa decides to form a rap band.
Enzo d’Alo (Italy/France/Belgium/Lux.) Intl. sales: Rezo Films
Toon update of the Carlo Collodi classic
Queen of Montreuil
Solveig Anspach (France) Intl. sales: Films Distribution
Comedy centering on a director trying to get over the death of her husband.

Spotlight: French Cinema 2012
Venice fest serves up these French-kissed offerings | Solid haul of Gaul’s gold | Babe maintains producer’s ties to motherland

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Music trade org BPI blames piracy for decline

Despite sales of 3.8 million for Adele’s album “21” — the biggest single-year tally ever in the U.K. — and record singles sales, the BPI reported an overall decline of 5.6% in British album sales during 2011.

The U.K. music trade org tied the drop to rampant piracy.

Biz’s loss came despite a 26.6% increase in digital album sales to 26.6 million units; 15 albums sold more than 100,000 digital copies. Sales of digital singles climbed 10.4% to 26.6 million units.

However, CD album sales slid 12.6% to 86.2 million units.

The CD remained the principal format in the U.K., accounting for 76.1% of sales, vs. 23.5% for digital and 0.3% for vinyl. The latter format boomed nonetheless, climbing 43.7% in 2011.

Adele single-handedly propped up music in her native country: Her chart-topping album was the year’s domestic bestseller, while her renascent 2008 debut “19” placed No. 4 among the year’s top titles. Her tunes “Someone Like You” and “Rolling in the Deep” placed first and ninth among the bestselling singles of the year.

Still, unrestrained piracy torched Blighty biz, according to BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor.

“British artists continue to produce incredible music that resonates at home and around the world,” Taylor said in a statement. “But while other countries take positive steps to protect their creative sector, our government is taking too long to act on piracy. … Unless decisive action is taken in 2012, investment in music could fall again — a creative crunch that will destroy jobs and mean the next Adele may not get her chance to shine on the world stage.”

Nielsen SoundScan is scheduled to release year-end figures for the U.S. on Wednesday.

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Wednesday, 30 December 2009

vegan potluck picnic - princes park

Yesterday we went on a Vegan Pot Luck Picnic to Princes Park, just a short tram ride from our house. There were lots of Melbourne vegans in attendance, and this resulted in lots of yummy vegan food.

In an amazing turn of events for any picnic, most everyone arrived at or close to the start time. This was because Cindy had let us know that she would be bringing savoury ice cream, and as it was a picnic the ice cream would simply have to be eaten first, before it melted!

This was a lie. Although the weather was warm, it took the ice cream a good half hour to soften sufficiently for serving!

avocado and tomato icecream

Opinions were divided on this new treat. Cindy provided us with two savoury ice creams to sample, one avocado and one tomato. The avocado was likened to eating frozen guacamole; the tomato, to frozen tomato soup. Cindy has blogged the recipe and process here.

In the meantime, as we waited for the ice cream to melt, we started in on the ample savoury goods.

roast carrot dip

It was awesome to meet Carla for the first time. She brought along a delicious roast carrot dip, and a great basil pesto. Both of these were amazing deliciousness.

Vicki brought along a muffaletta. I was really excited about this because I haven't had one in ages! It was really dense, and filled with pesto, sun-dried tomato, capsicum, olives, and artichokes, and I think perhaps some other things I have forgotten.

not quite like sushi rice paper rolls

Tahn brought some wraps filled with hommous, avocado, carrot, lettuce and some other delicious things. They were tightly wrapped and soft and squidgy, which made them lots of fun to eat (and dare I say it, even more delicious than usual?). She also brought three children, Popeye, and a whole lot of fruit and some chocolate banana bread (which I didn't get to try! sadface). She's already blogged about the picnic here.

Other raw and refreshing foods were provided by Craigiepants (has a blog, refuses to use it), who brought along some rice paper rolls. He claimed that these were poorly rolled, but he lies, because these were well rolled and very delicious.

vol au vonts

Bec made vol au vonts, and these were GIANT. Fortunately they were delicious (so delicious that Toby refused to share them). The pastries for these were store bought, so they do exist!

vegan paté sushi

Kristy and Toby rocked in with a basket full of delights, starting with this vegan pate. Being a pate disliker from way back, I ended up passing on this veganised version, so I can't tell you what it tasted like! For the very first time EVER, Toby tried his hand at sushi. He used the recipe from Tempting Tempeh for the tempeh and avocado rolls, and then made a sushi version of a classic sandwich, cucumber and (tofutti) cream cheese. These were great, I love the idea! (also sushi)

gado gado

I brought along some gado gado. I love making gado gado and lontong! It's all cold and squishy and delicious. I use the same recipe every time, which I've previously blogged here. Plus it gave me the opportunity to use up the yao chao guai that had been languishing in the freezer for two months.

raspberry lemonade

For drinking, we had an assortment of picnic delights. Kristy made up some raspberry lemonade (with actual raspberries lurking in the pitcher) (recipe here), and then we ventured into alcoholic territory with some gin and tonics, and a whole lot of beers. I wished desperately that I had brought some pimms, but our picnic basket was just too heavy!

chocolate hedgehog oreo truffles

Utilising the recipes of others, Lisa brought some chocolate hedgehog slice (based on my recipe); and D made some oreo truffles, based on sj's recipe.

cheesecake truffles jam thumbprint cookies

Continuing with the truffles, Kristy made some cheesecake truffles, recipe inspired by Tahn. Vicki made her own jam, and then made jam thumbprint cookies! This was inspired and excellent. More people should make jam! (and then give it to meeee)

miscellaneous goodies

Johanna made some more truffle-y things (awesome), and something sweet and fruity that I didn't get to try, I was so stuffed!

Did I miss anything? I'm not sure, there was so much food and it was so incredible. This was an amazingly delicious picnic, and I was so delightfully full at the end of it. There should be more awesome vegan picnics!

Tuesday, 29 December 2009

lentil as anything at the convent

I struggled to find a cafe open on Sunday morning for breakfast, but eventually discovered that Lentil As Anything at the Convent would be doing breakfast, so early Sunday morning SJ and I headed out to Abbotsford.

I'd never been to Lentil at the Convent before, but I've heard a lot about it. Pip bakes on occasion for them, and I was looking forward to seeing what they had to offer for breakfast.

What they had to offer wasn't extensive. It's unclear from the menu what's suitable for vegans, and when I asked I was offered only the one option, the Mushrooms.

mushrooms at lentil at the convent

Don't get me wrong, these mushrooms were amazing, the tomato and spinach and the spices all combined to awesomeness, and I really enjoyed it. But SJ got to order the Sri Lankan Breakfast which looked suspiciously like dosa, so I was a bit disgruntled that the filling was an egg and potato curry. Alas!

No cakes to appeal, I suspect because it was the day after Boxing Day.

Lentil As Anything
1 St Heliers Street

Open seven days

Sunday, 27 December 2009

vausage roll obsession

Internets, today I made Cindy and Michael's vausage rolls AGAIN. This is like an obsession, and I don't even care. They are amazing. Tomorrow's food plans are waffles for brekkie (D got me Vegan Brunch for Christmas), and then probably the rest of these vausage rolls.

I'd say I was going to take some of these to the potluck I'm attending on Tuesday, but if I'm really honest with you all, we'll probably have eaten these by then (SJ, you are welcome to drop by and try these since you have yet to sample their delights).

the sausage rolls

Cook them now! I recommend it.

christmas day noms

This was our first Christmas away from our immediate families. Usually it's all go go go, from Christmas Eve through to sometime Boxing Day, but not being in close proximity to family meant that in the end, we had a very quiet couple of days.

After a very simple breakfast of field mushrooms on toast, I got started on some cooking and D got started on some cleaning (pausing every three minutes to send another IM). I prepared filling for Cindy and Michael's revolutionary vegan sausage rolls (vausage rolls) on Christmas Eve, but that was the extent of my advance preparations.

Pimms #1

I'd not prepared a roast meal before, not on my own, so I smsed D's mum to ask her advice regarding roasted potatoes, drank some Pimms, and then got started.

chocolate coated cherries

In the meantime, our guests turned up, with delicious supplies! JS brought these amazing and simple cherries, which had been dipped in melted Lindt chocolate, and then frozen. The ice in the middle of the cherries made this simply superb, and I ate a lot of them.

She also provided some wreath-shaped brushetta! These were served with tofutti cream cheese, tomato, spring onions, capers, and parsley, and were also amazing!

roast pumpkin and field mushies

A trick I learnt from my dear friend Dr.G is the roasting of giant field mushrooms, so when I saw some for sale at the markets on Thursday, I knew that they would be added to the roasting pan. I also roasted butternut pumpkin, and potato.

table setting

Other additions to our lunch time feast were potato salad, pasta salad, the Sanitarium vegie roast thing, and of course the vausage rolls. It was all of deliciousness!

We rounded out the meal with fresh berries and sorbet.

Finally, much later in the day, D and I ventured outside of the house to Enlightened Cuisine, where we had delicious Chinese noms for a moderately filling dinner with Kristy and Toby.

Hooray! I love whole days of eating.

Wednesday, 23 December 2009

yong green food, fitzroy

Extreme heat plus a lack of air conditioning in House of K + Toby saw us and Jo make an impromptu visit with them to the new vegetarian, somewhat organic and raw restaurant on Brunswick Street in Fitzroy this evening.

Please forgive the photos, they were taken on Danni's new N900.

We stepped inside, only to discover that although the air was slightly cooler, there was no air conditioning and no fans. So we started by ordering some drinks, a whole lot of mango lassis and I, the lone dissenter with a chocolate banana milkshake.

vegan mango lassi

Toby, last to arrive yet first to order, went for the Korean Barbecue with rice. I didn't get to try this; he commented that he liked the sauce, but the fake meat tasted 'like the cheap sort.'

korean bbq

K and I both opted for raw meals, as the restaurant heavily promotes this. Tempted by something I absolutely knew I wouldn't make at home, I ordered the rawsagne. At first bite, the cold density felt odd, but as I got used to its rawness I began to really enjoy it, and although the portion size looked small, I felt well sated by the end of it. I would eat this again.

K, claiming to not be that hungry (later proven a lie), ordered a serve of the raw sushi. I liked the novelty of this, the raw carrot playing a strong part, but I'm not sure I'd personally order this dish.

raw sushi

Danni and Jo ordered from the brief wraps menu; Jo a chickpea wrap with a side of noodle salad, and Danni a lentil wrap. The filling for both of these was very nice, but the portions were quite large and Danni at least had difficulty finishing.

raw chocolate cheezecake

To round out the meal, we ordered two raw vegan cheesecakes to share. There were three on the menu, and we deliberated, picking two; then they brought us all three, one on the house, declaring two just wouldn't be enough! This was lovely, and indicative of the service we had all night (friendly, accommodating, no hovering), but proved a problem for us in the end as we struggled to finish!

raw berry cheezecake

Totally worth it though. The three varieties were blackberry, green tea, and chocolate. A vote on the way back to Brunswick saw three votes for green tea and one vote for berry.

Lots of GF options. The menu is still a little limited, as they've only just opened, but there's a nice range available from which to choose.

Yong Green Food
421 Brunswick Street

Tuesday, 22 December 2009

fruit bread

One morning D came running into the kitchen, declaring a sudden urge to bake fruit bread. This was a first attempt, a modification off one of our usual bread recipes, and it was exciting to bake! I love fruit bread.

Fruit bread

fruit bread

two cups of plain flour
1 tsp yeast
half a cup of warm (not hot) water
1 tsp sugar
half a cup of sultanas
half a tsp each of ground cloves, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg

Activate the yeast in the water, then add the sugar. Leave to do its work for ten minutes, then combine together with all of the ingredients. Knead well for ten minutes, then coat thinly in vegie oil, and leave to rise for an hour or two, covered, in a warmish spot.

After it has risen, knead another five or ten minutes, then move the dough into your bread-shaped baking tray. Leave the dough to rise again in the bread tin (about forty-five minutes). Bake for 40 minutes at 180C.

Monday, 21 December 2009

rice and red bean buritto

D made dinner tonight, and we were both feeling lazy and tired and, inspired by several recent posts (maybe by Carla and Wanting Kneading?), D whipped up this amazing rice and beans burrito.

It was so delicious, I only paused in eating it to exclaim "this is delicious!" several times. I'm a little disappointed that tomorrow's lunch is put aside for a work Christmas function, so I can't eat the left overs - that will be D's delight!

This was delicious, and so fast and simple, I will be making this again very soon. This is only GF dependent on your wrap, so make sure to check.

beans and rice burritos

two (small) cups of brown rice
veggie beef stock
1 clove garlic
small branch of fresh basil
a heavy shake each of Mexican chilli, cayenne pepper, cumin, paprika, and dried oregano
4 roma tomatoes (diced)
add red kidney beans (one 400g can)
3 tablespoons of tomato sauce*
just over two cups of water
various delicious toppings (we used shredded lettuce, grated carrot, some salsa, and some really delicious freshly made guacamole)

Cook the brown rice in two cups of water with half a veggie beef stock cube or equivalent.

In a little oil, fry garlic, fresh basil, chilli, cayenne pepper, cumin, paprika and oregano for a minute or two, then add the tomatoes and kidney beans. Stir well, and leave to simmer for ten minutes with the lid on, stirring occasionally. After ten minutes, check to make sure the mixture has reduced well, then add the tomato sauce, rice, and no more than a quarter of a cup of water. Simmer for another five minutes. Serve warm on an tortilla, with various toppings. Wrap and eat, messily or otherwise.

*I've been getting a lot of 'what is that?' questions lately in regards to various things that I know people have in the US, they just don't know the name we use for it! In this instance, I mean ketchup.

thai(ish) red curry

I am very fond of curries, it is one of the first things people learn about me. I have many old staples, things I make all the time, but I love discovering new and delicious curries. This recipe was an attempt at a Thai red curry - it is good, slightly coconutty and quite delicious, but it is not exactly what I was going for, and so the experimentations continue. Don't get me wrong though, I will definitely make this again.

spices in the mortar

red curry paste
2 teaspoon red chilli flakes
1 tablespoon coriander seeds
1 teaspoon ground cumin seeds
2 shallots
a handful of coriander leaves
1 tablespoon lemongrass (middle fleshy bit)
2 red chillis
1 garlic clove
1 small piece galangal
5 or 6 lime kaffir leaves
half a teaspoon of salt.

Crush the lime kaffir leaves. Soak the chilli flakes and the lime kaffir leaves in a tiny amount of hot water, just enough to cover them. Leave for ten minutes. In the meantime, roast the coriander and the cumin until fragrant. Pound together all of the ingredients.

simmering in the pot

red curry
3 cups coconut milk
2 tablespoons of grated palm sugar
quarter cup of light soy sauce
6 lime kaffir leaves
1 small length of lemongrass (middle fleshy bit)
1 cup vegetable stock
a whole lot of vegetables (I like to use carrots, brocolli, capsicum and bamboo, and maybe some snow peas)
handful of tofu puffs, sliced into small squares.
large handful of Thai basil leaves

Dry fry the curry paste, then as it begins to smell delicious (only a minute or two), add a little bit of oil, then toss through the harder vegetables (such as carrots and capsicum, bamboo, or potato), and coat well. Add the coconut milk and lemongrass, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat, and simmer for five or six minutes, covered.

Add palm sugar, soy sauce, lime kaffir leaves, vegie stock, and any appropriate vegies such as brocolli. Simmer for another ten minutes, covered. By this time all the vegies should be tender or just tender. Add the snow peas, and simmer uncovered for five minutes. Stir through the basil (and bean shoots if you're using), and let sit for five minutes, before serving.

Sunday, 20 December 2009

pearl oyster, thornbury

On my recent request for breakfast recommendations, wanting kneading suggested Pearl Oyster, in Thornbury.

Located on the corner of Miller Street and Gilbert Road in Thornbury, it is quite near to some of our friends, so when they suggested a Friday morning breakfast, it seemed the perfect opportunity to try it out! Wanting Kneading implied it was difficult to get to by tram, but actually it is no problem - catch the 112 up and there is a stop right outside.

this sugar is from perth

Like many of the cafes around Melbourne, Pearl Oyster has that quirky miscellaneous feel - spoons and plates that look like they've been scrounged from the op shop or some Nan's collection, old signs, and some text books of such a nature that I fear for any children who took that as the truth.

amazing mushrooms, avocado and dukkha on sourdough

After a small perusal of the menu, and a lot of chatter (and some coffee spillage), I decided to combine together two menu items - the roasted mushrooms on toast with rocket, with the avocado and dukkah on toast. This dish was delicious! The mushrooms were succulent and juicy, and the avocado was just perfect. The dukkah and lemon added a lovely flavour to the overall meal. I could eat another portion just thinking about it!

fruit toast and tofutti cream cheese

D went for the fruit toast with tofutti cream cheese. Although the portion size was quite small, this toast packed a punch! The bread was incredibly flavoursome, and worked perfectly with the tofutti.

J and DB, our companions at breakfast, ordered various eggy things. J was moderately pleased with his lean green eggs, and DB was very happy with his omlette with sambal.

a side of raspberries

Although it was a slightly chilly morning (Melbourne WTH), the sun came out and it was nice to sit in the (no smoking) courtyard, so I ventured inside to check out their cakes on display. To my joy, there were vegan cakes available! I ordered two slices of raspberry coconut cake, which were from Sugardough.

sugardough cake at pearl oyster

We were super pleased by the service, most notably by their thoroughness. The Sugardough cakes had been provided from Sugardough with I forget the name, the silver balls that are used for cake decorating. Our waitstaff noted that these balls usually contain gelatin, and so called Sugardough to check for us (Sugardough, as it turns out, sources these especially so they are vegan). And then they brought us a serve of raspberries to pour all over our cake!

I was really happy with my meal, and the atmosphere was friendly and lovely, and it was a great morning out. I will definitely return, probably for the mushrooms on toast again!

Pearl Oyster
114 Miller St

Closed Tuesdays

GF options available

Saturday, 19 December 2009

come visit me in fitzroy

I'm in the FOE bookshop all day today, so come visit me if you're around Fitzroy! Do some ethical shopping! Say hi to me! Get a tasty piece of cake!

Here's an article to read: Shoppers unconvinced about the impact of their ethical shopping choices. You can make a difference! Even if many people don't believe it!

Thursday, 17 December 2009

big mouth, st kilda

We might be doing St Kilda incorrectly - after all this time, the only notable vegetarian eatery at which we've dined is Lentil as Anything.

We've eaten at Big Mouth twice, though. The first time, on the grounds that the menu contained a vegan burger (it did not). The second visit was because Lentil as Anything was closed, and we were very, very hungry.

fries at bigmouth

The first time, I ordered these chips. "Are you sure?" cautioned the waitress, who didn't believe I could eat the chips and my meal. I will confess that she was almost correct - the portion size of these chips is significant, and we did struggle, but they are delicious.

In fact, G, on his recent visit to Melbourne, declared the Big Mouth chips more delicious than the Lord of the Fries chips (though he concedes this could have been because LotF chips were talked up). The great thing about these chips are the spices on them, giving a really great flavour.

lentil soup at big mouth

There are only a small number of items on the Big Mouth menu that are vegan or easily veganisable. As a result, on both visits D and I have ordered one of two dishes, and swapped halfway. Featured here is the Surjit's Bowl, a lentil soup. It is delicious, and served with a side of roti. On the menu it comes with yoghurt, so you need to order it without. We have also sampled the Indian Kitchen, a chickpea curry, which is heavy on the vegetables and the coconut milk, so quite rich and heavy, but not overwhelmingly so.

Big Mouth
168 Acland St
St Kilda

Open 7 days
GF options available

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

capsicum soup

Whilst Zanchey and Sheebaface were in town, aside from taking a week off work I tried not to let it completely mess up my schedule. So I still did my FOE shift, and one night I went to class as usual. Sheeba went to Camy's for dinner with an old school friend, and I left D and Zanchey with instructions to provide dinner.

capsicum soup

Zanchey volunteered, and produced this delicious, full-bodied capsicum soup. The flavour of the capsicum was not over-powering, it was underpinned by the zucchini and very tasty.

Capsicum Soup, taken from 200 One Pot Meals, cooked by Zanchey

2 onions (finely chopped)
2 tbsp olive oil
1 garlic clove, crushed
3 red capsicums, deseeded and roughly chopped
2 zucchinis, finely chopped
900mL of vegetable stock or water
salt and pepper
garnish: chopped chives

Brown the onions in the oil; add the garlic and cook for 1 minute. Add the capsicum and half the zucchini and fry for 5-8 minutes (or until soft and brown).

Add the stock to the pan with salt and pepper. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat, cover and simmer for 20 minutes.

When the vegetables are tender, blend the mixture in batches to a smooth soup, and then return to the pan.

Season to taste, reheat and serve topped with the remaining zucchini and garnish with chopped chives. Don't prepare the garnishes too early! Otherwise the zucchini dries out :o(

Good hot or cold. Serves 4.

Sunday, 13 December 2009

soul food, fitzroy

On my first day back at work after a full week off, I had to spend all day in Fitzroy in meetings. So D took advantage of my location to meet me for lunch. Las Vegan being closed on Mondays, we thought we'd give Soul Food a go.

monster vegan brekkie at soul food

I recalled being told their lunches weren't great, so I reached for the breakfast menu. I was immediately drawn to the Monster Vegan Brekkie, and lacking anything else that really strongly tempted me, ordered it.

I really liked this! The hash browns were soft in the middle but crunchy on the outside (which I love). The scrambled tofu had this great flavour, I suspect from the caramelised onions. The bread was also pretty amazing, which was unexpected - I'm used to really thick bread being nice but difficult to chew, but this was fantastic.

potato and leek soup of the day at soul food

D ordered the Soup of the Day (always vegan and GF), which was potato and leek. This was good, and came with some nice turkish bread on the side (of which there could have been more). However it was a little bit salty.

Anyway, nice, if not mind-blowing, interlude, before I returned to meetings.

Soul Food Cafe
273 Smith St

Saturday, 12 December 2009

walk against warming

The Walk Against Warming is today. Melbourne is 1200 at the State Library, Perth is 1100 at the Cultural Centre (ie, the stairs/amphitheatre outside Alexander Library).

I don't know about the accessibility of any of the routes.

Please go! Actions speak loudly, and all that.

Tuesday, 8 December 2009

a penang affair, fitzroy

Continuing in my hunt for an adequate CKT in this city, I was working in Fitzroy today and took the opportunity to try out the char kueh teow at Penang Affair.

char kueh teow at a penang affair

It was great. Very vegetable-filled, which is not the usual thing (beanshoots and spring onions only). Lots of mushrooms, bean shoots, snow peas, and some broccoli, and some tofu puffs sliced thin. The wok hei was not as strong as I am used to, however.

Although the CKT was very filling, I allowed myself to be upsold by the Chinese-Malaysian uncle who owns the restaurant. Lunchtime special is $13.50 for an entree and a main, so, having finished my main, and not quite bao le, I ordered a serve of spring rolls.

spring rolls at a penang affair

These were pretty good also! But good spring rolls are easy to find; good char kueh teow less so.

I will definitely return for the char kueh teow at Penang Affair again, and I look forward to sampling the rest of the menu. Although the restaurant is not vegetarian, the manager there is strict vegetarian, and as a result there are a lot of things on the menu that are already suitable or easily modified for vegans. And I've just noticed on the menu that they have a vegetarian laksa, how did I not notice this before? Maybe it's better than every other laksa I've had in Melbourne (not hard).

Lots of Gluten Free options available. We are totally going here for my birthday (note it in your books).

Penang Affair
325 Brunswick St

Closed Mondays

Monday, 7 December 2009

gramel at the northside makers market, northcote

I love going to markets, especially crafty arty markets. My favourite at the moment is Rose St Market, and not just because our buddies at Fair Weather Friends are there.

Another market I'm enjoying of late is North Side Makers Market, an approximately monthly craft market held in Northcote.

One of the things I've always longed for at markets are those delicious sweets, beautifully decorated cupcakes and great looking slices. Since going vegan, I often look at these stalls in hope, and turn away in disappointment.

So I was super excited to find a stall selling vegan baked treats! I don't even know the name of the stall! We were super full from breakfast at Ceres, so I only purchased this gramel (gingerbread camel) for later nomming. It was a little hard, but nice! And more excitingly, I hope to see more vegan bakers at craft markets. :o)

Sunday, 6 December 2009

Grigons + Orr, North Melbourne

Yesterday was D's birthday, so we celebrated by going out for breakfast at Grigons & Orr Corner Store, in North Melbourne. This was delightful little cafe was recommended to us by Meveg in my request for recommendations, and seconded by Lidia.

It was amazing! I will absolutely be going back there again, it was so good.

magazine rack

Grigons & Orr is this tiny little corner store. There are only three very small tables inside, but several more outside, and there were blankets out for use. We managed to snag a table inside, next to the fridges stocked with the usual soft drinks as well as things like Cherry Coke. Behind the bar, the shelves were stocked to the ceiling (literally - they required a ladder to get things down) with corner store items, like matches, soap, and coconut milk.

strawberry water

We were promptly seated and served a jar of strawberry water. After much deliberation, we were able to order, and our waiter was very helpful.

pot of tea

Greg's pot of tea came with a matching tea cup, which I liked! I love these types of pots. Kind of old-school ugly, but also kind of cool. D had a soy flat white (they have bonsoy), and I went for a hot chocolate.

pan-fried tofu in soy + sesame sauce

After a very short wait, our food arrived. D ordered the crispy pan-fried tofu with spinach, mushrooms, and spice infused soy sauce dressing (the menu online says honey, but this is no longer in the sauce, so it is all good for vegans!). The tofu is also coated in sesame seeds. This dish was so delicious, I am definitely going to order this next. D found its quantity very slightly lacking, which was fine, because I found my dish way too much, so there was plenty left over.

cous cous porridge

I ordered the cous cous porridge with coconut cream, goji berries, toasted almonds and shaved coconut. This was enormous and amazing. So good! It comes with honey, but you can get agave honey, which I chose not to get but I think the addition would have made this dish stupendous. I am not a big fan of cous cous but it wasn't really cous cous-y at all, it was just delicious. The coconut flavour wasn't overwhelming, it was just rich and slightly sweet, and the addition of the almonds and shaved coconut added a crunch to the porridge and it was brilliant. I must eat this again.

For those who are not vegan, G ordered the apple fritters with marscapone, which he really enjoyed, and the wider menu includes other fun-looking options and sides (including a snickers milk shake). Gluten Free options are available.

Brilliant! Highly recommended.

Grigons & Orr
Corner of Queensberry St and Chetwynd St
North Melbourne
Open every day


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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Restaurant Review: Ria's Blue Bird (Atlanta, GA)

I am not a morning person. If the sun isn’t up then my body can’t even begin to process anything beyond orange juice and tea. Last semester I somehow ended up with a 7:30am research class which required me to be up before the sun, my goats, my bunny and my dogs – in my opinion if the companion animals aren’t up yet then there is no earthly reason I need to be up either. It’s just nature right?

Every Monday and Wednesday I would run out the house, brushing my teeth on the way out the door, shoes and socks in hand with no more than a mug of hot black tea or orange juice to fill my stomach. By the time class was over my stomach was not only grumbling it was yelling, cursing and I think it might have even back-handed me a time or two. Usually when I came under assault from my stomach I would head to my usual spots like Stone Soup Kitchen, R. Thomas Deluxe Grille or even Whole Foods but one morning I was craving something new. A quick Google search on ye ole blackberry and tada! – I was off to Ria’s Blue Bird (421 Memorial Drive Atlanta, GA).

As I pulled up to the parking lot I realized I’ve passed by this place dozens of times and not even realized it was there. It’s one of those unassuming dives that just blends into the background of a city drive. The menu is geared more towards vegetarians than vegans but the waiter was super friendly, helpful and steered me in the direction of all things vegan. As with Stone Soup Kitchen, Ria’s “soysage” isn’t vegan (haven’t these people ever heard of the joys of gimme lean sausage?!)

However, their southwest scramble is and it is marvelous! Although the description is very clearly laid out on the menu when I got my big bowl of southwest scramble it was nothing like what I expected, but I was still pleasantly surprised. The base was black beans, then there was your standard tofu (cubed, not scramble) topped with tomatoes, onion, and broccoli (it comes with a cilantro pesto which I just automatically told them to leave off since I always assume pesto has some hidden cheese in it). The combination of flavors was a fiesta in mi boca (that's a little spanglish for ya)! I would have never thought of putting this combination of flavors together in this way. It was such a filling meal that incorporated nearly every food group. And best of all the service was fast (which was great because I think if I would have waited one more minute my stomach would have hauled off and dropped kicked me).

Other vegan-friendly menu items are:
Country Fried Tempeh (minus the buttermilk biscuit of course)
Oatmeal (boring!)
Granola (super boring!)
Tempeh Reuben (hold the cheese please)
BBQ Veggie Riblet
Arugula or Spinach salad + tofu or tempeh (sin queso)

You can also get a side of spicy tofu, cup of beans, grits, or a fruit cup. Eat up!

  1. Don't forget the mighty tasty Bionic Breakfast!

  2. Hey Jeff, Is the bionic breakfast vegan? I was just at Ria's for brunch today and it looked anything but vegan.

  3. Yup... The spicy tofu sauce is a mixture or Sriracha and silken tofu. Been having it for years.

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Beware the Teaparty Down Under: Abbott is a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

17 Feb

No, not the villain from the Matrix. This is Australian Head of the Center Right Liberal Party Tony Abbott

We’ve heard this garbage before, but we’re used to hearing it from right wing crazy people here in America. But when a prominent politician and possible PM hopeful in Australia echoes Freedomworks‘ anti-Science stance on global climate change, it is cause for alarm. Tony Abbott pictured here, has gone on the record saying: ‘‘I don’t think we can say that the science is settled here’’ He went on to question whether ‘‘emissions are quite the problem that some people say they are’’, and argued, ‘‘whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.” This is contrary to the findings of roughly 97% of climate scientists who study the effects of man-made pollutants on our global ecosphere. Unfortunately, Australian politics is not laden with stars in the Labor party (which is akin to our Democratic Party in the U.S.) and no one candidate is poised to take the reins of government like Tony Abbott in the September 14 elections later this year.

There are code words the conservatives in the U.S. often use to indicate they are anti-science and pro-big business, with little regard for the environment and health of their people and wildlife. Mr. Abbott takes a page out of the GOP playbook and uses the catchphrase, “the climate change-science is far from settled” here:

Not only is this man, who likely will win in a divided political climate, a danger to those who will be impacted by the rising tides and weather catastrophes in store for all of us if we don’t lower emissions, but Mr. Abbott is a highly religious “family” man, reminiscent of the U.S. pro-life crowd. A poll of 100 voters across Sydney found that Labor and Green voters despise the way Abbott injects religion into his political campaign and policy. On the other hand, Liberal voters respect Abbott as a ‘conviction politician’ who is firm on his beliefs. Liberals, mind you, are like the GOP in America, except a bit more logical. You’d actually be hard pressed to find a party like the Teaparty-laden GOP in a Western Democracy. Abbott has been called “Mad Monk” and “Captain Catholic” by some who believe, as many of us do here in the USA, that religion has no place in politics.

In order to appear as equally sexist, misogynistic and bigoted as his American Teaparty counterparts, Tony Abbott has a rich history of chauvinistic bullying in his C.V. His attempt at mirroring candidates like “legitimate rape” failed Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin are evident in this quote: “When it comes from Julia (Gillard, the unmarried, current PM) , ‘No’ doesn’t mean ‘No’,” his choice of that charged term was completely intentional, and part of a nasty, subterranean agenda. He often refers to the current PM, Ms. Gillard, as unqualified on matters of family as she has no children. He appeals to the farthest right wing elements of his country and to think a man of Abbott’s transparent motives has a such great odds at winning in September is quite disturbing to many Australians.

The last thing a world in turmoil from unchecked corporate hegemony needs is another puppet leader like George W. Bush in a hemisphere that has been wrought with climate change disasters as of late. In a world where the most educated and civilized are moving away from religious dogma dictating social policy, it is anachronistic to have a man like Abbott as head of any state. Generally, Australians are only given one month’s notice of an upcoming election. Hopefully PM Gillard, with this unusual time frame, has given the Labor Party enough notice to try to best a dreadful candidate who will only depress a fairly strong world economy who has averted a recession. The Progressives of America are with you Australia. I hope we can help keep another Mitt Romney from a “Down Under” victory.

19 Responses to “Beware the Teaparty Down Under: Abbott is a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing”

  1. henry Frey February 17, 2013 at 6:15 pm #

    Why the focus on “Down-Under”?

    No thoughtful person would expect TeaPartyItis to be limited to the USA.

    That it appears elsewhere only gives it “Legs”.

    Winston Churchill was never in combat (although he did, as under secretary of the Navy, fight many battles). I guess the British population (which created the “Down-Under” as a penal colony, meaning most of the current population are descendants of criminals) made a big mistake putting him in effective charge of Britain’s war effort. silly brits!

    • recalcitrantrick February 18, 2013 at 5:00 pm #

      Henry, I’m not sure I understand what you were getting at in that post but let’s clear up a few things. Yes some parts of Australia were founded as a penal colony but not all. Most of the “crimes” were so petty as to be irrelevant in todays world. (stealing a loaf of bread as an example) If you study our history you will find we were and are, a peaceful, successful, multicultural society with great respect for the rule of law, and more than half of our 23,000,000 inhabitants are of cultures other than English. Perversely of course :-) there is now great pride in being a descendent of a convict. As for Churchill??? As the son of English parents, I heard many war stories and Churchill certainlay had his faults, but in my mind and of many others, he was without doubt, “The man for the times”.It seems to me you lack some perspective and need to do a bit more reading!

    • Audrieau February 18, 2013 at 9:55 pm #

      I would like to add that the convicts only came to Australia when America was no longer available to them. America had convicts from 1600-1780, 150 years, Australia only had them 60 years, 1788 -1840, before they said enough is enough.

      Australia is a modern society with a high standard of living, not religiously influenced, laid back and democratic.

    • Pat August 13, 2013 at 2:23 am #

      re: this moronic, ignorant, insulting comment: “I guess the British population (which created the “Down-Under” as a penal colony, meaning most of the current population are descendants of criminals)…”

      It was not the British population but the small ruling class of merchant elites (bankers and corporations like the Crown) who ruled in a fascistic brutal manner, stealing land, homes and other assets from people across the British isles, who set up several distinct colonies on the Australian continent. They sent those whom they had oppressed, stolen from, framed and kidnapped to be their slave labor in (Crown) business ventures.

      Just like they had done for centuries prior in the Americas. Google “the forgotten white slaves” – hundreds of thousands of people kidnapped (most particularly from Eire) and sent all over the world, mostly to the Americas, prior to Australia’s discovery.

      Regards today’s population in Australia around 1 in 4 are born overseas and 1 in 2 have parent’s born overseas. Not that many here go back several generations as Australians.

      In any case, we are generally proud of our heritage and history of progressing to become a beacon of relative peace, prosperity and diversity in a largely hostile world.

      • vegasjessie August 13, 2013 at 8:03 am #

        My generalization comes from the perspective given by American textbooks. My apologies. I should have phrased it differently and will research your nation’s history more thoroughly. Regards

  2. Miglo February 18, 2013 at 4:37 pm #

    Reblogged this on Café Whispers and commented:
    Smart people, those Americans. From he outside they can see how dangerous Abbott is. We need to follow suit.

  3. goodrumo February 18, 2013 at 4:59 pm #

    Reblogged this on iheariseeilearn and commented:
    Tea Party Down Under Style-Meet Tony Abbott

  4. goodrumo February 18, 2013 at 5:13 pm #

    Spot on. This IS Tony Abbott’s mindset and brain hardwiring. He has surrounded himself with similar and likeminded cabinet as well, his backroom strategists have been working very hard to frame the sell: aka as George Lakoff has studied: High-Level, Moral Frames Matter More

    Higher-level frames, deeper in the system, have a disproportionate effect.

    The more the language of frame is repeated, the stronger the frame gets, along with the system the frame is in. And the weaker the frames of the contradictory system gets. The stronger high-level frames are, the more effective frames that fit them will be. And the less effective frames that contradict them will be.

    In politics, the high-level frames are the moral systems that define what is “right” for a conservative or progressive.

    Most Framing is Unconscious

    Frames are conceptual; they are the elements of thought. Most thought is unconscious. Words activate frames. We are rarely conscious of the frames that are activated by the words we hear. Yet those frames are there in our brain circuitry, and more we hear the words, the stronger the frames get, even though we aren’t aware of it.

    Framing is Long-term

    Framing is the establishment of permanent (or long-term) high-level frames and systems of frames with the brains of voters. Framing can be done by long-term careful political messaging, or through education (say, by controlling school textbooks).//

  5. goodrumo February 18, 2013 at 5:22 pm #

    They (the conservatives) are adept at the framing, it has entrenched itself here, running it’s course, akin to a form of propaganda, even subtle brain washing. But it works. Progressive, visionary, labor politics do not adopt this skill to full advantage, use. You need not compromise political values, just learn to speak the universal language of how to frame it. See more of George Lakoff’s talks to have it explained better. It isn’t even that Aussies even really ‘like’ Tony Abbott, it is that the framing, the shaping has been repetitive and reinforced, it’s working, especially on those that may not have critical thinking skill developed like some of us have and do.

  6. Katz February 18, 2013 at 8:43 pm #

    Thanks for noticing Australia.

    While Abbott-style conservatism and Tea Party ideology do not map perfectly, nevertheless it is true to say that they are both examples of conservative populism that take pride in dismissing scientific opinion as “elitist”. Such movements pander to and encourage the ignorance of downwardly mobile members of socially dominant groups. It is the politics of resentment larded with the folklore of nostalgia. And the punters swallow it with relish.

    As a wise man once said, if something is unsustainable, eventually it will stop. Eventually, more and more adherents of the Tea Party and like groups will be forced to concede that their nostrums will solve nothing. But much damage will be done before enough of them come to their senses.

    Many people will become sadder but wiser during the epoch of right wing populism.

  7. Mohammed Junaid Noori February 19, 2013 at 8:22 am #

    This is a terrible blog.

  8. srs666 February 19, 2013 at 2:20 pm #

    In my opinion, the article contains errors of fact, and is biased and subjective.

    • vegasjessie February 19, 2013 at 10:03 pm #

      What specifically?

    • 2353 February 19, 2013 at 11:08 pm #

      We are still waiting for your considered response. As an Australian it scares me that Abbott might become Prime Minister. He has yet to mouth anything more than platitudes and three word slogans in between running a vicious and nasty campaign because he didn’t get his way last time.

  9. xiaoecho February 20, 2013 at 1:47 am #

    No comment on the Aussie political scene can go without mentioning the completely biased pro conservative media. Rupert Murdoch owns 70%of Australia’s media and the anti Government, pro Conservative agenda here is relentless. Commentators here talk about the unprecedented bias of all forms of media, print, radio and television. Even our publicly funded broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has lost any semblance of balance and follows the Murdoch driven regime change agenda. Australians are almost in complete ignorance of our governments achievements and even though we are one of the best performing economies in the world they will tell you the government is in total disarray with no achievements whatsoever, despite passing over 200 pieces of reforming legislation. Australians in effect have no truth in media, holding both parties to account, only a Conservative propaganda machine…..yes, it really is that bad

  10. BSA Bob February 20, 2013 at 2:49 am #

    Take a mild exception to your statement that Labor’s a bit short of stars. It has them but their lustre’s dimmed by a relentlessly negative press. Largely Murdoch owned & almost entirely Murdoch influenced, our mainstream media’s set its sights on this government.
    But the gist of your piece about Abbott is spot on. Possibly the only thing you missed is his bullying of those he can coupled with utter sycophancy to those he perceives as his superiors.

    • vegasjessie February 20, 2013 at 7:23 am #

      Thanks for clarifying. Murdoch’s stranglehold on US media is slipping. Hope it goes south too.

      • recalcitrantrick February 20, 2013 at 4:37 pm #

        :-) To paraphrase The Dixie Chicks, I’m ashamed that Murdoch comes from Australia and now spreads his brand of unthinking dumbness around the world!

  11. Ben Down February 22, 2013 at 11:06 am #

    There are some fighting back

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Jimmy Casper retires after failing to find a team for 2013

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Jimmy Casper winning stage 1 of the 2012 Tour of Oman

PARIS (VN) — French sprinter Jimmy Casper announced Friday that he would retire after failing to find a team for the 2013 season.

“Retired in spite of myself,” the 34-year-old wrote in a statement sent to AFP. “I am compelled and forced to put an end to my career as a professional cyclist.”

Casper notched 61 wins since his professional debut in 1998, including a stage win in the 2006 Tour de France. He won at least once every year until 2012, after which AG2R La Mondiale decided not to offer him a new contract.

His other teams included La Française des Jeux (1998-2003), Cofidis (2004-06), (2007), Agritubel (2008) Besson-Sojasun (2009), and Saur-Sojasun (2010-11).

In 2008, Casper tested positive for a corticosteroid during the Tour and Agritubel benched him. He successfully argued that the issue involved a paperwork issue regarding a long-held therapeutic-use exemption for asthma medication and resumed racing.

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As Google gears up to announce its first quarter financial results on Thursday, there are early reports that its paid-click growth numbers from March will be stagnant. If this sounds familiar, its because we go through this every month now (see here and here).

The numbers for March point to a paltry 2.7 percent growth in paid clicks, according to Silicon Alley Insider which was tipped about the comScore data a bit early. Even worse, is that for the entire first quarter, it looks like Google only saw an overall paid click growth of two percent year-over-year. Compare this to the last two quarters when the numbers were up 25 and 48 percent to the previous year, respectively.

Some see this slowdown as an inherent problem in Google’s business model. Other’s see it as a problem with online advertising in general. And still others see it as yet another sign that the overall economy is in the dumps.

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However, once again we’re forced to wonder if this is actually bad news at all. While paid click growth has ground to a halt, the price-per-click numbers on the ads have gone up, exactly as Google was expecting when they took measures such as shrinking the click areas on ads to ward off some errant clicks.

So once again, I’ll repeat what we wrote two months ago:

ComScore’s researchers note that they would not be surprised at all to see this trend continue into 2008 — paid clicks go down, but revenue remains steady or improves.

While everyone will again undoubtedly start freaking out on Thursday if these numbers hold true, at least some people out there have been expecting these results each time — perhaps it’s time to listen to them.

Now if the price-per-click numbers are off as well, that’s a different story. An ugly one.

update: Here’s some more information on the comScore report compliments of UBS:

U.S. Web Queries for March

Google’s web searches were up 33% y/y, up 10% m/m, and up 5% q/q. Yahoo’s were down 4% y/y, up 6% m/m and down 1% q/q. MSN’s were up 17% y/y, up 6% m/m, and up 3% q/q. Ask’s were up 63% y/y, up 12% m/m, and up 17% q/q. AOL’s were down 1% y/y, up 4% m/m, and up 9% q/q.

U.S. Sponsored Clicks for March

Google’s paid clicks were up 3% y/y, up 13% m/m, and down 9% q/q. Yahoo’s were down 3% y/y, up 5% m/m and down 5% q/q. MSN’s were down 15% y/y, up 3% m/m, and down 4% q/q. Ask’s were up 78% y/y, up 11% m/m, and up 6% q/q. AOL’s were down 2% y/y, up 7% m/m, and up 23% q/q.

U.S. Click-Through Rate/Coverage Ratio for March (vs. February ’08)

Google’s click-through rate and coverage ratio was 10.9% and 45.5% (vs. 10.6% and 46% in Feb). YHOO’s CTR and coverage ratio was 13.2% and 70% (vs. 13.4% and 69.1% in Feb). MSN’s CTR and coverage ratio was 10.2% and 65.5% (vs. 10.5% and 69.5% in Feb). Ask’s CTR and coverage ratio was 20.7% and 71.8% (vs. 20.8% and 74.0% in Feb). AOL’s CTR and coverage ratio was 18.5% and 65.4% (vs. 18% and 64.6% in Feb).

From UBS’ bottom line on the data:

We should also note that Google’s coverage ratio continued its recent decline to 45.5% in March, its lowest level ever. We continue to believe that this is the right thing for Google to do for the long-term health of the Google ecosystem, but will likely negatively impact revenue in the near-term.

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Guided rockets. Raspberry Pi smart glass. A Unity Candle. Mobile 3D printers. These are some of the projects that hardware hackers have proposed as entries to win a free trip into space from do-it-yourself hardware site Hackaday announced the contest in April and it has received more than 138

Through its website, SupplyFrame is offering The Hackaday Prize, a hardware contest where the grand prize is an all-expense-paid trip to space on a carrier of your choice. The call for entries is now open. The prize is a recognition of the growing movement of hardware hackers who celebrate do-it-yourself, innovative, open hardware projects.

The Raspberry Pi Smart Glass project is a kind of do-it-yourself Google Glass project that work with a small Raspberry Pi computer.

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If you don’t want the space trip, you can choose to get $196,418 in cash. That amount is a Fibonacci number, a specific set of integers in math.

Mike Szczys, the managing editor of, said in a statement, “We’ve been receiving a wide range of projects that can be called serious, innovative, playful, and awe-inspiring. The core concepts of The Hackaday Prize are electronics that are “connected devices” and exhibit Open Design. So far the hackers working on these projects have not disappointed us. Some of the early entries have included a way to make your house listen to what you have to say, methods for making sure communications networks are easy to set up and available where needed, and even a concept for using swarms of mobile 3D printing robots to build domed cities.”

A guided rocket proposed in Hackaday contest.

Above: A guided rocket proposed in Hackaday contest.

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The winner can hitch a ride on any galactic space company. Carriers to choose from are the winner’s prerogative but it could be Virgin Galactic, XCOR Aerospace, or perhaps even the World View balloon that’s ramping up to a launch. Other prizes include team sky diving, a paid trip to the Akihabara electronics district in Japan, and hardware-hacking tools such as milling and tooling machines and 3D printers.

The peer judges include some notable figures in hardware hacking:

  • Andrew “Bunnie” Huang, Ronin, @bunniestudios
  • Jack Ganssle, The Ganssle Group,
  • Joe Grand, Grand Idea Studio, @joegrand
  • Sprite_TM,, @SpritesMods
  • Limor “Ladyada” Fried, Adafruit, @adafruit
  • Dave Jones,, @eevblog
  • Elecia White, Logical Elegance, @logicalelegance
  • Ian Lesnet, Dangerous Prototypes, @dangerousproto

The preliminary submissions were accepted through June 28 for contestants over 13. The awards will be judged on the basis of actual physical hardware built, the ability to connect to the Internet, and the degree of openness based on the use of open-source technologies. The Hackaday Prize is sponsored by Pasadena, Calif.-based SupplyFrame, a tech and media company that targets electronics professionals. Its Hackaday Projects has 800 hardware projects go live since February.

The winner will be announced at the Electronica event in Munich on Nov. 10.

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Veterinary sales tax expansion tabled in Ohio--for now

Veterinary sales tax expansion tabled in Ohio--for now

Ohio VMA has vocally opposed proposed tax, saying it would hurt economy further.
Jun 13, 2013
By staff

The sales tax expansion in Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s state budget proposal is now off the table as the budget process continues toward final approval before the start of the state’s fiscal year July 1. The 5 percent sales tax expansion on services in the state would have included veterinary services. The Ohio Veterinary Medical Association (OVMA), as well as other professional associations, actively opposed the measure.

The Ohio House of Representatives approved the budget--House Bill 59--shedding the sales tax expansion in April before sending it to the Senate. According to the OVMA, state Senate leadership does not intend to reinsert it. However, the OVMA is confident that the sales tax expansion will continue to be explored outside the budget process.

“To that end, the OVMA has joined a broad coalition of professional and business groups to provide specific and substantive economic data on the negative impact to consumers and businesses alike of the expanding sales tax,” wrote Michelle Holdgreve, OVMA government relations director, in the May/June issue of the association’s publication, The Observer.

The OVMA and others in opposition believe an expanded sales tax would increase costs, negatively affect customers’ purchasing habits and further “weaken already ‘soft’ economic conditions for veterinary services,” OVMA Executive Director Jack Advent said in testimony to the House Finance and Appropriations committee March 19.

He said that 84 percent of veterinary practice owners had seen a moderate to significant impact from the recession on their businesses and that 29 percent of dog owners and 22 percent of cat owners did not visit a veterinarian in 2011 because of cost. “A 2010 Ohio State University study found veterinary facilities employ over 12,000 individuals in Ohio and contribute $1.1 billion to Ohio’s economy,” Advent said in his testimony. “If the pet-owning public, which comprises 56 percent of households, reduce or redirect to another state their use of veterinary services, economic growth and job production in veterinary medicine is not just stymied, it is put in jeopardy.”

The OVMA is encouraging its members to continue its grassroots efforts to oppose sales tax expansion in Ohio.


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When a guy eats out a girl during her periods.
She had her periods but he still fuckin' licked her out! He gave her a fuckin' red dragon man!
viết bởi O.G.BaBii 25 Tháng năm, 2006
when you lift a chubby disabled kids shirt up to expose his body to the public
you see that kid Trevor? yea i red dragoned him so bad, he almost fell out of his wheelchair
viết bởi kenneth wu 14 Tháng ba, 2011
When a girl (or maybe even a guy) is giving a blow job then when the person is swallowing/deep throating, you (as the one getting the head) punch them in the stomach so that blood and jizz come out of there nose!
I gave her a disgustingly brutal red dragon just for shits and giggles!
viết bởi Wood9423 13 Tháng hai, 2009
cross between red wings and an aklaskan firedragon, when a guy is getting his red wings and the girl says something like 'I have vaginal herpes' the man tries to pull out of it but is chocked by the girl causing the period to burst out of his nose like a dragon.
Bob:*licking his way to his redwings*
Sally:*pulls Bob's head in close and whispers* 'hey cocksucker i have herpes'
Bob:*tries to wrench away but chockes causing the blood to spurt from his nose...Like a red dragon :D*
viết bởi Ginger-spam 07 Tháng chín, 2008
when you are having ass sex with a girl and you punch her very hard in the ass she will tighten up when she does that pull your dick out, this will rip the lining of her ass out, giving her a Red Dragon tail.
i gave kailey quinn a red dragon.
viết bởi dane johnson 03 Tháng mười hai, 2004
When the male having fucked his bitch ragged. Pulls his dick out of which ever hole he is fucking and continuously slaps her face with his throbbing penis. Producing a red welt on her face. Thus, giving the name the red dragon.
i pulled my trobbing member from her ass and pounded her face untill she screamed mercy from the dragon master.
viết bởi Red Dragon Master: Pikel 21 Tháng bảy, 2003
The most famous and feared of all dragon's, the Red Dragon was larger then all other Dragon's except the Black Dragon, and the White Dragon. The Red Dragon was made famous in teh game, followed by the movie, Doungeons & Dragons where it was the sworn enemy of the Gold Dragon, a much smaller and more noble Dragon. As like all dragons, the Red Dragon could breath fire.
After kidnapping the princess, the rider of the Red Dragon flew off with Gold Dragons in pursuit.
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Sandy Jadeja, chief market strategist ay SignalPro, believes the trend for gold prices remains on the downside and says now is not the time to buy physical gold as prices will go still lower.


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CBR TV @ NYCC: Bill Paxton Carves “Seven Holes For Air” Graphic Novel

Actor and director Bill Paxton visited the CBR Tiki Room during his first New York Comic Con to discuss his first comic book project, a digital-first original graphic novel entitled “Seven Holes For Air” by writer John J. McLaughlin (“Youngblood,” “Black Swan”) and fine artist Mick Reinman. The project began life as a screenplay that Paxton hopes to direct, but he fell so in love with the story that he wanted to present in a form that others could enjoy it as well even if the movie never materializes. McLaughlin spoke to CBR TV at length about the graphic novel, its “man’s man” protagonist Bob, his history with both comic books and fine art, as well as his upcoming role in director Doug Liman’s “All You Need is Kill” opposite Tom Cruise and how the project has its DNA in another famous genre movie Paxton starred in, “Aliens.”

On his reason for visiting New York Comic Con: I’m promoting a graphic novel that I produced. It’s based on a screenplay by John McLaughlin and the artwork’s done by a guy named Mick Reinman. I just loved the screenplay and I eventually I hope to turn it into a movie but, if that doesn’t happen, I love the story so much I wanted it to exist in some level so people could buy it and enjoy it like I enjoyed it.

On “Seven Holes For Air’s” different kind of story: It’s a little bit of a horse of a different color; it’s two stories in one novel. The protagonist is a guy named Bob, he’s a working class hero. He’s a welder, he’s been married for several years, he has a daughter at college and he’s gonna have to deal with a mortality issue in the course of the narrative. And that’s one story that takes off — the thing about Bob is, he kinda lives by an old western code. He’s so macho he’s detestable, but that becomes one of his endearing traits. … A few pages into the graphic novel another story starts and Bob is in a hardcore Spaghetti Western where the rich landowner and the bank and the railroad are coming through, and he’s the last guy who hasn’t sold so they’re sending killers to take him off his land. But Bob’s like Alan Ladd in “Shane.”

On the appeal of Bob as a character: When I read this screenplay, Bob became such an archetypal hero to me that for the next two weeks anything that would come across me that was perturbing or some kind of pettiness I would think, “Well how would Bob handle this?” and it got me through it. … He’s a total man’s man. And he makes no apology, and there’s something, I guess, in society now where these guys are becoming few and far between. He stands for a simple code of ethics and it’s kind of take it or leave it. He’s a hard-drinking, hard-smoking, hard-living kind of guy but through the course [of the book] and how he deals with the issues in his life you grow to have a great respect for him.

On what he gets from directing as opposed to acting: As an actor you get to bring a color to the canvas. As the director you get to have your finger in the paint box — all your fingers. You orchestrate all the departments. What’s great about the director, as far as directing the actors goes, the director gets to play every part and help modulate the actors. Because I have been an actor most of my professional life, I can speak the language of actors and so that gives me an advantage when it comes to helping an actor get the best possible acting out of a scene.

On how his latest acting role has its roots in “Aliens,” which he starred in 27 years ago: It’s funny, I’m shooting “All You Need is Kill” right now with Tom Cruise in London, it’s a big sci-fi movie that definitely has some DNA in “Aliens.” And 27 years ago I was with Lance Henriksen and Jenette [Goldstein] and all of the guys. … All of us over in London doing “Aliens,” so it’s kind of cool. And I’ve got a platoon — we’re not Colonial Marines, but it’s kind of a similar vibe. There’s an alien infestation and we’ve gotta take Normandy Beach and take Europe again. I’ve enjoyed all these actors, they remind me of all of us when we were doing “Aliens.”


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