Yup, it’s going to rain all day, tonight and Saturday. All of the big events planned for this weekend will probably suck, that is, unless you get your galoshes, your rain parkas and get outdoors. Things should clear up by Sunday, but will be a little mushy. Don’t forget to visiting MUSE and STYLE for more weekend events!
Saturday
Charlottesville’s 12th Annual Vegetarian Festivus [website]
Join a bunch of hippies celebrate animal superiority to humans! The festival is free, celebrates healthy lifestyles and has a bunch of food samples and should be pretty fun to attend. We doubt the claim that 6,000 people will show up, but if you go there, make sure you get a chance to visit as many booths as you can!
Sunday
Fall Foxfield Races [website]
It’s completely different from the debauchery that happens in the springtime. Most people call it the “family foxfield.”It’s probably going to be on the muddy side, but if you want a more relaxed, family atmosphere, these are the Charlottesville horse races for you. Beware the people that don’t know the difference between fall and spring!
Federweisser FallFest [website]
Keswick Vineyards hosts the first ever Federweisser FallFest. What the hell is Federweisser? (from German Feder = feather + weiß = white, from the appearance of the suspended yeast), is an alcoholic beverage, typically 4 percent alcohol by volume. It is the product of fermented freshly pressed grape juice, known as must. Um, I’ve never tasted this stuff, but it sounds like winebeer, aka wineer. So, if you are a winery and feel left out of Oktoberfest, it’s what you do.
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Did you really say the people at the Vegetarian Festival are hippies that celebrate animal superiority to humans? I think you’ve got that wrong. It’s actually all kinds of people who love animals and want to promote eating healthy. You may be joking but it sounds deprecating.
The Clark 5K begins 8am Saturday: register from 7am at 1000 Belmont Avenue (Clark School). Benefits the Clark Educational Opportunity Fund. Run or walk through beautiful, downtown Belmont. Registration forms online at:
http://ceof.org/images/pdfs/Clark%205K%202008%20registration.pdf
And why dispute the claim that 6000 will attend the Vegetarian Festival? Vegetarians do exist and leave their homes occasionally.
@1 - italics!
@3 - the rain!
Thor-cesco hates vegetarians. I hope he comes to the Festival so we can tie him up and whip him with celery stalks and pour gazpacho in his socks.
“join a bunch of hippies celebrate animal superiority to humans!”
Thats an a**%$le statement. Not funny. I’m ashamed to lurk here.
/respect?
ok, i’m sorry people.. it was a little joke, mainly to get people talking about the event
ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK
/get him veggies!
dreaming Isabelle tonight at zinc, free show starting at 10:30pm
luckily, Thor, celery hurts even less than wet noodles and gazpacho cleans up pretty easy.
it’s tough to actually kill someone with a vegetable. animal bones are much better suited for that purpose.
If you are in Lynchburg we’ll be showing the Debate live and drinking Blue Mountain Beer at Starlight.
Tomorrow night I will be in town to see David Sickmen and Joia Wood at the Teahaus.
friday: come and laugh at orchid’s raincoat at market street, beer run, & crush wine tastings.
Stereotypes perpetuate themselves. All the vegetarians I know are hippies - tree-huggin’, hair brading hippies. They make their own clothes and smell like patchuli. And they go to festivals - in swarms, and leave roaches, and little balck balloons all over the place.
@13: Maybe you just hang out with hippies. None of the vegetarians I know are hippies. Stereotypes are perpetuated by people who make generalizations.
hippies are gross.
Does anyone actually think that Patchuli smells good?
your mom (if she were a hippie)
Are all hippies vegetarians now? In days gone by there were plenty of meat eating hippies. I should know. I was a penniless hippie wandering around Mexico 35 years ago. I’d occassionally get some change together and buy a steak and cook it over charcoal in the market in Oaxaca. Is vegetarianism now required by the hippie membership committee? Actually, I eat a lot less meat now than I did then and I’m definitely not a member anymore.
I’m with thor on this one.
Hippies who aren’t vegetarians are generally ‘lifestyle’ or ‘fashion’ hippies, or just couldn’t find the laundry-detergent, Irish Spring, or Dr. Bronner’s Peppermint all-purpose enviro-cleaner that day. Vegetarians who are young are generally just plain smug. Vegetarians who aren’t hippies are generally wealthy and slumming it without risk to their Farmington membership. Vegetarians who make their young kids and pet dogs/cats/lemurs go vegetarian are cruel bio-genetics-evolution-deniers. Vegetarians who were forced to become so for health reasons (forced, not chose b/c of some article they read in Mother Earth News), have my supreme sympathy.
Anyhow, the veggie festival is super-cool, and i attend it every year–highly recommend.
/I eat Ramen Noodles for every meal anyhow, ‘cuz my ass is po.
Sunday evening:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/shotgunstories/
Shotgun Stories playing at UVA Offscreen. Newcomb Theater @ 7 & 9:30 — $3
Solid movie w/ perfect soundtrack by Lucero. If you missed it at least years VA Film Festival, don’t miss it this time.
@10 - ok, I’m thinking that you don’t actually do laundry, or have ever had to clean a tomato based stain…
@16 - NO. period. and i don’t care if it’s redundant.
otter, is that your complete vegetarian list?
Yes, it’s obvious hippies are responsible the war, depression and financial panic. If not for our most talented people running off to be hippies each year, Goldman Sachs would be full of kind-hearted humanitarians. Like it used to be!
On to vegetarianism. I am Thomas Jefferson and I endorse eating small amounts of meat as a condiment. Horking into a big roast beef for dinner and drowning it down with a tankard of gin is just wrong. I envision a nation where an enlightened gentry class will rule over independent yeoman farmers who will gradually absorb our wine-tipping and vegetable-enjoying mores, and inherit this great earth. In the meantime, I will employ or allow to be employed on my estate the scariest slave overseer I can find.
Of course not all vegetarians are perfect, and sometimes they look hungry, but I don’t recall ever being so reflective AND productive as for the year or two I practiced their craft (+ fish). Hmm might be time to consider it again.
Sheesh, sounds like people need some more iron in their diet.
eh, eh? anybody? no? sigh.
/off to wreak havoc in my garden like a produce godzilla
Well, i overslept and missed it anyways.
@19, You once again offend. Not everyone falls into categories like that.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those that fall into categories, and those who don’t.
And everyone that generalizes is an asshole.
I think you’re a very nice person actually. And Pink too.
@28
don’t be silly, sweetie. the general ban on lengthy thread-responses make it such that we are all mostly reduced to generalization.
Also, as you know from Aristotle and Freud in their essays on humor, and Swift on satire, it is the exclusion-of-exception and shorthand-of-generalization that is the fundament of most Wit and The Comic. Read Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary or anything Mencken ever wrote, or Twain.
That said, my comment was only to re-inforce Thor’s aim, which he stated plainly in @ 7:
………………”ok, i’m sorry people.. it was a little joke, mainly to get people talking about the event”
Just that this Thor was slow-playing and it wasn’t working, so i pushed all-in. As i said, i have attenhded the Festival with great pleasue every year since its inception.
I haven’t had a steak in five months, and only one burger in that time, and because i’ve lived in Cville forever, 90% of the girls i’ve dated, and friends I have, are vegetarians or vegans or worse (worse = more extreme, like raw-food, white-food, etc.).
/tinkety-tonk
white-food
geez, cut it out with the racism everybody. come on!
mc and stanley are the same person. I knew it.
I despise PeTA for their bad-faith greedy provocations, but I really like this T-shirt they sell, saw it downtown today:
http://www.petacatalog.org/prodinfo.asp?number=TS122
are PETA members allowed to have cats or dogs or ferrets and such as pets (meat-friends)?
@30: It was a joke. Because I was generalizing. Whatever.
Hey did you all know half the people who work at X Lounge are ditching it to go work at Si?
@35
i know ! i thought it was funny. that’s why i gave you a lengthy and idiotic response citing people.
@35, yep. there’ve been other peeps ditching elsewhere, but not as massively.