veganmofo v!
September 13th, 2011 10:00 pm by Kelly Garbato
People! The dates for VeganMoFo V have finally been announced! (Funny, the timing: just after I drew up this submission for the vegan problems tumblog,
but before I had a chance to submit it! Procrastination FAIL. Or WIN, I guess, depending on how you look at it!)
This year the Vegan Month of Food is October. By signing up, basically you pledge to write about vegan food – emphasis on VEGAN, and vegan only! THAT MEANS NO DEAD TURKEYS, Y’ALL! – all month, weekends optional, for a total of at least twenty posts. Challenging but fun, and an awesome community-building project to boot. There shall be contests, and giveaways, and prizes, and daily nomz roundups, and more vegan sweets that you can wag your tongue at, and a marvelous time will be had by all! Until week three, when everyone is exhausted and burnt out. (BUT WE’LL WORRY ABOUT THAT LATER, MKAY?)
2011 will be my fourth year participating (I missed the first go-round. Boo! Hiss! Boo!), and I’m really overextending myself by throwing three of my who-knows-how-many blogs into the ring. (Err, kitchen?) Over on tumblr, fuck yeah vegan pizza and fuck yeah vegan ice cream will be a breeze, since I already post four or five time per day, per blog. (Microblogging, gotta love it!) But twenty posts in this here space? Is more than I’ve written in the previous four months combined! Oh self, what were you thinking!?!
If you’d like to play along too, here are some links to get you started.
The deadline to sign up and be featured in the official VeganMoFo blogroll is September 28, so get to it!
And now, let the post hoarding commence.
Oh, but first: the first batch of Mags & Finnick photos are up!
(Mags and Finnick being the “senior” rat terriers we adopted last week. “Senior” in scare quotes cause Fin’s more like 6, and Mags is maybe 9. The shelter staff said 10, at least. WHY OH WHY DO THEY ALWAYS DO THAT! I know that guessing a dog’s age is just that – a guess – but if you’re bound to err, why not err to the dog’s benefit? The same thing happened when we adopted Rennie: we thought we were getting a four-year-old adult, and ended up with maybe one-year-old pup. Ack! But I digress.)
Seven dogs, only one photo (so far!) in which they all appear.
And of course I’m not in it, pfffft. No justice.
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More to come soon, along with a super-sweet, adorable and sentimental blog post, no doubt. But for the time being, I have my hands full with SIX RAT TERRIERS AND AN ORNERY OLD DACHSHUND! Oh, and now twenty mofo posts too. Seriously what was I thinking!
Updated to add: veganmofo.wordpress.com is now www.veganmofo.com !!!
September 14th, 2011 at 5:09 pm
You were thinking that dogs rock!!
I’m contemplating doing Vegan MoFo this year, but aren’t sure yet. I’ve yet to participate, but then again I’ve never been much of a team player…. :o
September 14th, 2011 at 8:43 pm
I can’t argue with you Molly, your logic is impeccable!
You should definitely do veganmofo this year, if you have the time! You’ll definitely be one of the more uniquely themed blogs participating!
September 17th, 2011 at 9:16 am
I just signed up! Mike and I are kind of drastically changing the way we eat, so it’s going to be a perfect opportunity to blog about it. I’ll still be posting pup treat recipes, too. :)