maragritaville....

quickly, i discovered that being a vegan in dallas, and i assume pretty much anywhere in texas (aside from austin), is extremely difficult.

my first full day in town began with me going to a fancy grocery store much like whole foods, in search of a tofu sandwich. i walked up to the first lady i saw and asked for a tofu sandwich. her face twisted and she responded,a very thick texan drawl...it's where they talk real slow and draw out the sounds on the vowels..."where you from?" i said,"oregon." her reply shocked me, and quite frankly sort of offended me...she said,"...well that's okay honey, now i don't have any tofu, but if you like, i can take you around the store and make you anything you'd like." then she grabbed my arm and proceeded to drag me around the store. she was shockingly over-helpful.

the following days, i went to an awesome indian resturant named, cosmic cafe (shown below)...the place is super cool. good food, people are friendly and less hick-ish than most people you encounter around texas, and they do yoga and meditation upstairs




i also returned to a bar, called the new amsterdam coffeehouse, that i hold fond memories of. the name is deceiving, and the atmosphere is raunchy...my kind of place...





while shooting these pics, some guy heckled me, screaming "i'm gonna need that film little lady"...so i responded, "if you can get the film out of my digital camera, i'll give you $2000." the bar laughed and he bought me a drink and tried to buy me a shot of tequila...i hate tequila...unless it is in a margarita...

...which some of you may remember my 9:30am text messages asking if it was wrong to be drinking a frozen margarita with a shot of chambord on top before noon...
by the way...i drank that in 5 minutes and then had another...

i was really tipsy having to face my entire bible-beating-christian-family, in which three of them are pastors for various churches...at my family farm, in which my grandparents had been living for the past 50+ years...my grandparents being members of AA and Ala-non, for almost that long.

yeah, it went over well...