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homemade cat food?! yes, at tambey's kitchen

Dear friends and random contacts,

Today is the start of my new venture - homemade, hormone-free, mostly organic cat food!
I will be delivering my product through the 5 boroughs of NYC.

If you are not in the NYC area or are not a cat owner, please forward this to someone who is!!!

The deal:

Have you ever looked at the ingredients of store-bought cat food? Most affordable cat food is filled with animal by-products, dyes, filler ingredients like corn and soy, and is basically McDonald's for cats. Even the house brands at Whole Foods and Trader Joe's (stores that proclaim themselves as the leaders in healthy and/or organic food) have a lot of questionable ingredients. And the healthy brands like Wellness and Holistic Select retail at nearly $3 per 5.5 oz can. And they come in a can, which can sit around on a shelf for years.

Now, Tambey's Kitchen is offering homemade, fresh, affordable cat food with only clean, locally sourced ingredients - organic when possible. Our food is made fresh to order in our kitchen and is frozen to ensure maximum freshness (though it doesn't have to be, just call us and we'll talk). We are now delivering within the NYC metropolitan area!

$5 off delivery for orders over $25! And 50 cents off each container when you buy 6 or more!

To order, email tambeyskitchen@gmail.com, or call me at 646-361-5560! Also you can order via our website: http://www.tambeyskitchen.com

Our ingredients include:

- hormone-free, free range ground turkey (from diPaola's Turkey farm, NJ)
- organic rolled oats
- organic sweet potatoes, broccoli and carrots
- nutritional yeast (for B vitamins)
- taurine
- organic eggs
- organic kelp powder
- vitamins A, E and C

MORE INFO AT ::: http://www.tambeyskitchen.com

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love,
YOKO
(and tambey!)

tomorrow at sidewalk:

8:00 - Preston Spurlock
9:00 - Samuel Lang Budin's Weird Chess
9:30 - Erin Kilkenny
10:00 - Dibson T Hoffweiler
11:00 - Daniel Fishkin's Dandelion Fiction
12:00 - Ben Krieger's Yosarrian Feedback

Singing About Cat's Cradle at the Bushwick Book Club

http://www.greenpointnews.com/news/singing-about-cats-cradle-at-the-bushwick-book-club

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Singing About Cat's Cradle at the Bushwick Book Club

Jan 07, 2010 by Talisa Chang Would you like some ice-nine? Maybe only the non-lethal kind, served up as the specialty drink at Goodbye Blue Monday, at 1087 Broadway in Bushwick, on Tuesday night, where the Bushwick Book Club kicked off its second year with Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.
The Bushwick Book Club was started in January of last year by Susan Hwang, 36, who had been laid off from her secretarial day-job in the banking world in 2008. She took the opportunity to pursue music full-time and work at the Bushwick coffee house and music venue. Inspired by themed music nights and her own zombie movie songwriting, Hwang decided to start the Book Club series, inviting musicians to write new songs about a different book each month.
Tuesday night featured songs in the spirit of Vonnegut—funny, thoughtful, and a little disturbing. Musicians took to the piano, clarinet, ukulele, and guitar to mediate on nuclear war, religion, midgets, and oceans of ice-nine.
The first performer, writer and musician Deenah Vollmer, strayed from music for the night and read a dark and comical short story about a man who had invented his own religion.
“Book clubs are fun. It’s fun to literally be on the same page as somebody in terms of what they’re reading and to make art derived from that,” Vollmer said. “I feel like all artists want assignments, and this really gives a clear assignment and deadline.”
“People get really into it,” she continued. “Susan’s a wonderful host because she really makes it a united evening. There’s always a special drink. Sometimes there are costumes and people dress up. [Goodbye Blue Monday] is the best cultural spot in Brooklyn. Steve [Trimboli], who runs it is amazing. He’s incredibly kind and open to all kinds of programming and events.”
So far, the books have ranged from The Bible to Darwin’s Origin of Species to Watchmen. This year, Hwang is keeping it interesting with selections like Dolly Parton’s biography and encyclopedia entries from the letter Q.
Another musician, who has participated in five Book Clubs, Franz Nicolay, 32, sang “It Is Never a Mistake to Say Goodbye,” about the themes of nuclear destruction in the book.
“The major thing that’s different about the Book Club is that they’re all new songs,” Nicolay said. “So even with people who are seasoned performers, everybody is equally nervous about their song. Maybe they didn’t write it that long ago or maybe they didn’t get to practice it enough or maybe they didn’t memorize the lyrics or they wrote it on an instrument they don’t play so well. The difference between the people who are amateur musicians and the people who are professional musicians is really evened out.” “The other thing is it really takes people’s songwriting in a different and often more focused direction,” he continued. “It’s a great writing exercise because it gives people topics that they wouldn’t necessarily write songs about, and ways of speaking and characters that they wouldn’t necessarily be writing about or in. Also on a very basic level it forces you to write a song, which is always good exercise.”
Hwang herself played a song on the piano about the “Girl Pool” in the book, comparing the girls who carol and get chocolate bars to her fellow secretaries in her days at Goldman Sachs.
“There were certain phrases that he uses that really stick with me,” Hwang explained. “‘Girl pool’ was one of them. Also ‘paper rectum.’ I hadn’t really thought about my old life that much and then all of a sudden I was writing about it. It was really fun.” Steve Trimboli, the owner of Goodbye Blue Monday, has always encouraged the Book Club, which is now one of the mainstays at the venue.
“I’m incredibly grateful. We try anything here,” Trimboli said. “We have spoken word events; we have comedy events. This is one of the first mainstays. I’ve been here for five years and this is its first full year. It’s a wonderful feeling. I’m a writer and my writing process is one thing, but to put words and music together is something else. I marvel at it, I think it’s great. I just love the fact that there’s a very communal sense about everything that happens here. That was what I was hoping for when I first opened. I’ve made some really wonderful friends because of it.”
Next month’s book is The History of Love. Hwang is also hoping to release a compilation album of some of last year’s songs. To find out more, visit bushwickbookclub.com
“All of these different musicians getting exposed to each other—that’s definitely one of my favorite things,” Hwang said. “My favorite thing always is just hearing what people have come up with. I don’t hear the songs before and it’s sort of a like a combination of Christmas and getting your photos developed at the same time. The things that people come up with you would never think of. It’s really amazing stuff because people are so talented.”

FREERANGE NONFICTION READING SERIES (1/6)

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO THE NEXT INSTALLMENT OF
FREERANGE NONFICTION READING SERIES

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
6:00 p.m.
Downstairs @ the Cornelia Street Cafe
$7 cover, includes one drink
Mira Ptacin, host


READERS INCLUDE:
Ilana Garon,
Maris James,
Mike Stutzman,
and
Deenah Vollmer

FEATURING:
Ben Yagoda, author of the recent book "Memoir: A History." Ben is author, coauthor or editor of nine books, including "The Art of Fact," "The Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing" and "About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made." He has written about language, writing and other topics for Slate.com, the New York Times Book Review and Magazine, the American Scholar, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and many other publications. He teaches at the University of Delaware and lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

bushwick book club tonight!

Nothing brings in the new year like a celebration of foma in the face of a pool-pah and some boko-maru. The Bushwick Book Club presents songs inspired by Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle." True-life tales of Vonnegut from Julie Lamendola and ice-nine cocktails! Yay, hello 2010.

SONGWRITERS:

Franz Nicolay, Dibson Hoffweiler, Maria Sonevytsky, Matthew Varvil, Preston Spurlock, Susan Hwang, Laura Brenneman, James Wells, Madeleine Fix-Hansen, Brook Pridemore, Brian Speaker, Deenah Vollmer, Dan Costello, Rachel Devlin, Natti Vogel

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010, 8pm
Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 Broadway (JMZ to Myrtle or J to Kosciusco)
ph: 718 453 6343