Over the past few weeks America's organic standards have once again come under heavy attack. First the USDA's National Organic Program (NOP) announced on April 14 that they would no longer monitor or police "organic" labels on non-agricultural products, literally opening the door for unscrupulous companies to put bogus organic labels on products ( Read more... )

DaveTheButcher5: I have eight clocks in my living room just in case ( Read more... )

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im going to make this simple.

poison ivy.

my eyes are near swollen shut and my balls look a lot bigger and kinda red.

i just realized that the only people that read my journal are the ones that were already coming, so that last post was really unecessary. anyways there were no step teams, young female rappers, or dalmations...the BBQ was ill planned and the manager of k-mart took our volleyball.but we still managed to have an amazing time and a roaring fire by the ( Read more... )

all able bodied beings are invited to the first annual summer kick off weekend here in sunny(god willing) Roanoke Virginia. the festivities will start on Friday in Ironto Virginia at the home of Mike Gangloff, you might remember him from such bands as the black twig pickers and pelt. Audio starts at 6:30 with performances by Petey and the hellcats ( Read more... )

things take turns for the better. i got to see two very dear very missed friends this sunday in the good ol' capitol of the confederacy. a one shelly briggs and none other than the justin spivey. as well as a few other important characters of the greater richmond area. the rain cleared up on the ride back to a fucked up apartment and the surprise ( Read more... )

today yielded the most intense thunderstorm i think i have ever seen or heard. fires were started, commerce areas were flooded, and an ink pen that never existed exploded in my bathroom. im not sure how to explain that one but there was a large clap of thunder that knocked the power out...next thing i know there is splattered black liquid all over ( Read more... )

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today was one of those unexpected winners...you wake up not wanting to answer phones and wind down being glad you did. jamie and i along with his dalmatian panda tromped through the back creek area of the roanoke river area for the better part of the afternoon. we found two amazingly colored tortoises, upwards of about fifty ticks, a log to ( Read more... )