#dan saladino

[indigenousidentitytheft]

Eating to Extinction credits Bruce Pascoe as an Aboriginal writer and farmer for introducing him to Murnong. (Correct your errs, Dan Saladino)

In actuality, he is evidently white - as per his ancestry, ie. all four of his grandparents were English. Yet he goes so far in his claim to aboriginal identity that he wrote an award winning booking on indigenous history and practices and operates a huge farm and company selling indigenous produce that he refers to in said book.

If you want to learn more about indigenous food culture, ie. more sustainable and nutritious eating -- look to actually indigenous people. That requires some work, but here's one example: Karlos Baca, an Indigenous Foods Activist from the Southern Ute Nation

https://www.instagram.com/tasteofn8vcuisine/?hl=en

Karlos Baca, formerly a chef, and now a teacher says his students travel from places where there are more gas stations than grocery stores.

"'Here I'm teaching them how to survive the American food system.' Baca is on the front line of a food war, one being waged against indigenous people. The way he sees it, the first casualty is health. 'That's why we need to decolonise our diets,' he says."

"During the class, he took a handful of blue maize flour and mixed in some water, turning the grey-white powder into a deep purple porridge. To this, he added a pinch of burnt wood ash that made the colour of the maize more intense. With a small blade, he sliced tiny slivers from what looked like a gnarled and blackened piece of wood. 'I can tell you my life story through this one bowl,' Baca said, 'and this food can also show you what happened to my people.'"

[chocochipbiscuit]

So I've been reading Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them by Dan Saladino, and really enjoying it so far! The writing is engaging and I find the topic interesting, especially as he talks about how the loss of biodiversity risks us losing traditional foodways and more vulnerable to crop losses due to disease and climate change.

I've heard of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault before, but never the world's first seed bank: the Vavilov Institute, founded in 1921 by a Russian scientist dedicated to ending world hunger. His ideas fell out of favor with Stalin and he was sent to a prison camp in 1940. During WW2, though:

….his seed collection came close to being lost as the German Army blockaded Leningrad in a 28-month siege. The Soviets had plans in place to save works of art from the city’s galleries but had done little to protect the seed bank. The Nazis, however, recognised its potential as a future food resource and saw the institute as an asset they needed to target. Fortunately, Vavilov had so inspired his fellow scientists that they moved hundreds of boxes of seeds to a basement and took shifts inside the dark building, in the sub-zero temperatures, to protect he collection. What happened next is well known to botanists, but it’s a story we should all know.

Surrounded by seeds they could have eaten, the caretakers of the collection faced hunger rather than jeopardize the genetic resource. By the end of the 900-day siege, in the spring of 1944, nine of them had died of starvation, including the curator of the rice collection. He was found at his desk surrounded by bags of rice. ‘We were students of Vavilov,’ one survivor said, explaining their heroic efforts to protect the seeds. By then, Nikolai Vavilov was already dead. In 1943, at the age of fifty-five, he was claimed by the very thing he had spent his life working to prevent: starvation. He died in a Soviet prison and was buried in an unmarked grave.

This book includes foods thought to have gone extinct, but which have been brought ‘back to life’ and restored to farmers’ fields because their seeds were collected by Vavilov and his colleagues and kept safe inside the institute. Nearly a century after his dead, a new generation is following in Vavilov’s footsteps.

Just!!! How is this not amazing? It’s sad and heroic and all I can think about is the strength of purpose it must have been to been literally dying of starvation while surrounded by the food that could have saved their lives, but still holding on to hope that these could be useful to replenishing food after the war, and for future generations.

[onenakedfarmer]

Currently Reading

Dan Saladino EATING TO EXTINCTION The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

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From the publisher:

Over the past several decades, globalization has homogenized what we eat, and done so ruthlessly. The numbers are stark: Of the roughly six thousand different plants once consumed by human beings, only nine remain major staples today. Just three of these—rice, wheat, and corn—now provide fifty percent of all our calories. Dig deeper and the trends are more worrisome still:

The source of much of the world’s food—seeds—is mostly in the control of just four corporations. Ninety-five percent of milk consumed in the United States comes from a single breed of cow. Half of all the world’s cheese is made with bacteria or enzymes made by one company. And one in four beers drunk around the world is the product of one brewer.

If it strikes you that everything is starting to taste the same wherever you are in the world, you’re by no means alone. This matters: when we lose diversity and foods become endangered, we not only risk the loss of traditional foodways, but also of flavors, smells, and textures that may never be experienced again. And the consolidation of our food has other steep costs, including a lack of resilience in the face of climate change, pests, and parasites. Our food monoculture is a threat to our health—and to the planet.

[thetardycreative]

Currently reading May 2023

I am currently reading quite a few book according to my Goodreads.com list, but I would say I am only really active in four of them for the past week now, despite there actually being 22 books on the list, a handful have been slowly slogged through for the past year! But never mind – it’s just the result of an ever increasing chaotic and information starved mind! The four I am currently reading…

[balu8]

Zero Hour #3

by Dan Jurgens and Jerry Ordway

DC

[longwuzhere]

Some cool Easter eggs I caught watching My Adventures with Superman that I want to show to people so they can be in on it with comic book readers

My episode 2 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 3 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 4 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 5 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Episode 6 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Episode 7 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here and here

My Episode 8 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Episode 9 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Episode 10 easter eggs and refences in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 1 post is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 2 post is here

My Easter eggs and references for My Adventures with Superman comic issue 3 post is here

(SPOILERS if you haven't seen the show yet):

Lois Lane has a cut out clip of Vicki Vale. Vicki Vale is a journalist in Gotham City. Her first appearance was in Batman #49 (1948) as seen in the panel here (W: Bill Finger, A: Lew Sayre and Bob Kane, I: Charles Paris, L: Ira Schnapp).

Looks like Jimmy is a fan of Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask. Good video game taste.

Jimmy mentions a psychic starfish and the one starfish in the DC universe who is psychic is Starro the Conqueror, who's first appearance is in Brave and the Bold 28 (1960) (the cover art here is done by Mike Sekowsky, Murphy Anderson, and Ira Schnapp) and has the power to mind control people.

Lois, after barging into Perry White's office about a story, mentions Mt. Simonson. This is a neat name drop to Superman: The Man of Steel writer Louise Simonson, one of the nicest comic book writers you'll ever meet. She helped co-create John Henry Irons a.k.a Steel with artist of the Superman: The Man of Steel comic, Jon Bogdanove (really hope we get to see Irons in this show too).

Jon Bogdanove also gets a name drop here as does...

Dan Jurgen, comic book writer and artist on the Superman comic in the 90s (also one of my favorite Superman artists).

Now who are these kids that call themselves the Newskid Legion? Well, they are a VERY deep DC cut and reference to the Newsboy Legion back in the 1940s. The group was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, LEGENDARY comic book creators.

The page here is from Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #16 (1986) with the art by Jack Kirby and Karl Kesel. Most of the Newskid Legion is named after the Newsboy Legion members

Gabby and Big Words here share names with their Newsboy Legion counterparts as does Flip Johnson...

who shares names with Walter "Flip" Johnson here on the cover of Superman's Pal Jimmy Olson #137 (1971) which was done by Jack Kirby, Neal Adams, and Gaspar Saladino.

Patty, the cartoonist of the Newskid Legion homages this panel from Adventures of Superman #500 (1993) (W: Karl Kesel, P: Tom Grummet, I: Doug Hazelwood, C: Glenn Whitmore, L: Albert DeGuzman), the first appearance of Superboy, Conner Kent/ Kon-El.

But who is the one below that drawing? We'll his name is in Big Word's word puzzle, in the show. It's Jim Harper, the Guardian.

Jim Harper becomes the Newsboy Legion's legal guardian despite their causing trouble for him. The page here is from Star Spangled Comics #7, the Newsboy Legion and the Guardian's first appearance, by Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, and Whitney Ellsworth. You might've seen the Guardian on the recent Young Justice cartoon.

When Lois, Clark, and Jimmy go investigate about the smuggled robots in Metropolis, Jimmy makes a reference to super intelligent gorillas in France. This is a subtle hint at Monsieur Mallah, the Doom Patrol villain who will be in the show along with his partner, the Brain. Both made their first appearance in Doom Patrol #86 (1964) .

The cover art here is done by Arnold Drake, Bob Brown, and Ira Schnapp.

Later in the episode we see Clark receive his powers and he is surrounded with electricity, giving off Superman Blue vibes when in the comics, Superman gained electricity powers and became Electric Blue Superman who's first appearance was in Superman #123 (1997) (cover art by Dan Jurgens, Joe Rubenstein, Patrick Martin, and Todd Klein.

Link to Episode 2 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Link to Episode 3 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Link to Episode 4 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Link to Episode 5 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Link to Episode 6 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Link to Episode 7 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here and here

Link to Episode 8 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Link to Episode 9 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Link to Episode 10 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 1 post is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 2 post is here

My Easter eggs and references for My Adventures with Superman comic issue 3 post is here

[typhlonectes]

There are more than 1,000 varieties of banana, and we eat one of them. Here’s why that’s absurd...

The lack of diversity could mean the fruit’s extinction. It offers a stark warning of what could happen to other key foods.

Most people don’t question why every banana they’ve ever eaten looks and tastes pretty much the same. Most of us will never try a blue java from Indonesia with its soft, unctuous texture and flavour of vanilla ice-cream, or the Chinese banana that is so aromatic it’s been given the name go san heong, meaning “you can smell it from the next mountain”. The demand for low-cost, high-yielding varieties has resulted in vast monocultures of just one type of globally traded banana, and this is true of many other crops as well. Homogeneity in the food system is a risky strategy, because it reduces our ability to adapt in a rapidly changing world...

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/22/1000-varieties-banana-lack-of-diversity-extinction

[merrymarvelite]

Cover of the Day: Inhumans #8 (December, 1976) Art by Gil Kane, Dan Adkins, and Gaspar Saladino

[coffeebooksandmore]

It seems like all I read or see is about loss. To have hope for the future feels foolish. Why waste your prayers when everything is burning to the ground? Why try when we are told that there is no more time left?

Hopelessness is capitalism’s biggest tool. If you are stuck in a black hole of “what’s the point,” you’ll let yourself sink into the nothingness they want you to feel.

When you start searching for hope, you start finding it in everything. There are people fighting, all over the world, people who have less power and resources than you and me. For them, losing hope isn’t an option. They need our help because your hope is theirs; and theirs is yours.

“Eating to Extinction” is a book by journalist Dan Saladino, who traveled the world to tell the stories of the world’s most at risk foods. Once these foods are gone they will leave devastating impacts on our ecosystem. In each chapter you learn about a food item at risk; you are told its history the legacy it holds and the culture it inspired. The Kavilca wheat’s ancient connection to Anatolia, Bison and the Great Plains, Memang Narang from the Garo Hills in India - these stories brought me to my knees. I know so much, but know so very little.

There are certain stories that make the foundation of who I am and one of those stories are of the world’s first seed bank created by Nikolai Vavilov. This seed bank had over 150,000 seed samples, collected by Vavilov and his colleagues to study and save for future famines. Sadly the seed bank was under attack by the Nazi’s during World War 2. They saw the Seed Bank as an incredible genetic resource and knew they had to have it. 900 days this seed bank was under attack and the caretakers of the seeds never gave up. 9 of the caretakers died of starvation. Instead of saving themselves and eating the seeds they gave their lives up for future generations. For the earth.

We have to honor the lives of those before us who gave up everything, so we can have a more beautiful future. We can honor them by planting something native and endangered, that’ll give life for years after we’re gone. We can start to examine what we buy in the grocery store. Have you gone to your local farmer’s market recently? We all can take small steps to eating more diversely. I know it’s a lot to take on, but what are we here for if it’s not to take care of each other?

IG: coffeeandbookss

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

COMMEMORATING HALF A CENTURY OF EVERYONE'S FAVORITE "DREADED DEADLY" CANUCK IN 2024.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a Marvel house ad for "The Incredible Hulk" Vol. 1 #181 (1974), featuring the first appearance of the "dreaded deadly Wolverine," on sale July 30, 1974. Artwork by Herb Trimpe✝, John Romita, Sr.✝, & Gaspar Saladino✝. Marvel Comics Group.

MINI-OVERVIEW: "Nobody demanded it but Marvel did it anyway. There was no way that anyone, including  creators Len Wein, Roy Thomas, John Romita, and Herb Trimpe could have foreseen how this runty little Canadian with an attitude (actually introduced in the last panel of Hulk #180) would become one of the company’s breakout stars, but someone up there thought enough of the idea to spotlight Wolverine over his green-skinned host in this ad."

-- THE 13TH DIMENSION, "My 13 Favorite 1970s MARVEL COMICS House Ads," by Dan Greenfield, published August 2023

Source: https://13thdimension.com/paul-kupperberg-my-13-favorite-1970s-marvel-comics-house-ads.

[lineffability]

helloooo line 💜 random asks incoming 💌: what kind of music do u like? what’s ur favourite colour? do u prefer mountains or the sea? do u relate more to aziraphale or crowley? why? are you reading anything at the moment? 🥰

whee these are many I alr have ragrets ok let's see ... my 3 most listened to selfmade playlists are probably....gomensy rock (what az would call bebop), angry girl punk and American female hiphop á la junglepussy. so, that's my music taste for u. I can never pick a favorite color. I like my mountains right by the sea so I can have both. hmmm I relate more to....I relate to both of them an equal mid amount? I would pick 50% of their traits from each of them that I relate to and the other 50 not at all. (can you tell I hate choosing.) I AM reading sth at the moment, in fact I started reading it only today, it's Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction! also technically the Great Gatsby and Frankenstein but I'll get back to those.

[geekcavepodcast]

The Folio Society to Publish "DC: Batman" Celebrating Batman's 85th Anniversary

The Folio Society and DC Comics are partnering on DC: Batman, a hardback book celebrating the Dark Knight's 85th anniversary. The 320-page deluxe compilation will include 12 seminal comics all selected and introduced by DC President, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief Jennette Kahn. DC: Batman will also come with stand-alone replica copy of Batman #1, "scanned in its entirety from an original 1940 copy...which includes the original back-up strips and vintage ads and introduces DC’s Clown Prince of Crime, aka The Joker, and The Cat, who would come to be known as Catwoman." (DC Comics)

Per DC Comics, DC: Batman includes:

"Facsimile: Batman #1 (Spring 1940) Writer: Bill Finger Cover artists: Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson Artists: Bob Kane, Sheldon Moldoff Editor: Whitney Ellsworth

The Bat-Man Detective Comics #27 (May 1939)  Writer: Bill Finger Artist: Bob Kane Editor: Vincent Sullivan

Robin—the Boy Wonder Detective Comics #38 (April 1940) Writer: Bill Finger Artists: Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson Editor: Whitney Ellsworth

The Crimes of Two-Face! Detective Comics #66 (August 1942)  Writer: Bill Finger Artists: Jerry Robinson, George Roussos Letterers: Ira Schnapp Editor: Whitney Ellsworth

Batman and Green Arrow: The Senator’s Been Shot! The Brave and the Bold #85 (September 1969) Writer: Bob Haney Cover artist: Neal Adams Penciler: Neal Adams Inker: Dick Giordano Letterer: Ben Oda Editor: Murray Boltinoff

Daughter of the Demon Batman #232 (June 1971) Writer: Dennis O'Neil Cover artist: Neal Adams Penciler: Neal Adams Inker: Dick Giordano Letterer: John Costanza Editor: Julius Schwartz

The Dead Yet Live Detective Comics #471 (August 1977) Writer: Steve Englehart Cover artists: Marshall Rogers, Terry Austin, Tatjana Wood, Gaspar Saladino Penciler: Marshall Rogers Inker: Terry Austin Colorists: Marshall Rogers Letterer: John Workman Editors: Julius Schwartz, E. Nelson Bridwell

The Dark Knight Returns Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1 (June 1986) Writer: Frank Miller Cover artists: Frank Miller, Lynn Varley Penciler: Frank Miller Inker: Klaus Janson Colorist: Lynn Varley Letterer: John Costanza Editors: Dick Giordano, Dennis O'Neil

Batman: Year One—Chapter One: Who I Am—How I Come to Be Batman #404 (February 1987) Writer: Frank Miller Artist: Dave Mazzucchelli Colorist: Richmond Lewis Letterer: Todd Klein Editor: Dennis O'Neil

Batman: The Killing Joke (July 1988) Writer: Alan Moore Cover artists: Brian Bolland, Richard Bruning Artist: Brian Bolland Colorist: John Higgins Letterer: Richard Starkings Editors: Dennis O'Neil, Dan Raspler

The Last Arkham (Part One) Batman: Shadow of the Bat #1 (June 1992) Writer: Alan Grant Cover artist: Brian Stelfreeze Penciler: Norm Breyfogle Inker: Norm Breyfogle Colorist: Adrienne Roy Letterer: Todd Klein Editors: Scott Peterson, Dennis O'Neil

Knightfall Part 1: Crossed Eyes and Dotty Teas Batman #492 (May 1993) Writer: Doug Moench Cover artists: Kelley Jones, Bob LeRose Penciler: Norm Breyfogle Inker: Norm Breyfogle Colorist Adrienne Roy Letterer: Richard Starkings Editors: Scott Peterson, Jordan B. Gorfinkel, Dennis O'Neil"

DC: Batman is available at The Folio Society.

(Image via DC Comics)

[kudosmyhero]

Detective Comics (vol. 1) #484: Assault on Olympus!

Read Date: July 15, 2023 Cover Date: July 1979 ● Writer: Dennis O'Neil ● Penciler: Don Newton ● Inker: Dan Adkins ● Colorist: Adrienne Roy ● Letterer: Gaspar Saladino ● Editor: Julius Schwartz ●

**HERE BE SPOILERS: Skip ahead to the fan art/podcast to avoid spoilers

Reactions As I Read: ● this is a triple-length issue

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Synopsis: When a searchlight mocking the Bat-Signal appears in the dark sky of Gotham City, Batman goes to the source of the light and finds that it is being projected on a metallic tower. As he approaches the place with the Batmobile, the tower activates an electric charge towards the vehicle, causing a big explosion. Although Batman manages to get out unscathed, a couple of kids that are nearby were injured. After making sure that the kids are fine, Batman deduces the identity of the man behind the vicious attack.

At that moment on the Olympus building in the middle of Gotham, Maxie Zeus is informed about the failure of his trap for Batman. Zeus continues on his delusion that he is the embodiment of the Greek Mythological God, Zeus, but despite his crazy ideas, his henchmen stick with him because of Zeus' intellect and mind for business. After learning that Batman survived the attack, Zeus reinforces his defences by placing several henchmen on his building.

Moments later, Batman goes to the Wayne Foundation to pick up a Bat-Glider that will help him reach Zeus' building unnoticed. True to his plans, Batman gets to surprise the thugs located on the rooftop thanks to his stealth. Batman decides to avoid some of Zeus' henchmen by breaking by the side of the building, knocking a couple of his henchmen. As he walks into a big room, Batman falls into a trap, where the roof slowly comes down on him, giant rotating blades block the back exit and three wolves come from the front, where Maxie Zeus stands watching as Batman struggles to find a way out of the trap.

Zeus explains that the wolves would attack Batman once the roof hits the floor, leaving him enough time to escape. Batman manages to tilt the roof to one side and uses it as a shield and plank, forcing the wolves to run directly into the blades, killing the animals and breaking the blades. After he crawls out of the collapsed roof, Batman takes a moment to recover his strength before confronting and defeating the last of Zeus' henchmen, a young archer by the alias of Odysseus.

Knowing that he had depleted his energy and that he wouldn't reach Zeus in time, Batman uses one of the radios in the building to contact Zeus' private vehicle. Maxie Zeus is about to board a ship towards Europe when he listens Batman's message. The Dark Knights taunts Zeus to the point where Zeus decides to go back and confront Batman, just to prove the vigilante wrong. Minutes later, Batman captures Zeus and his thug, clearly admiring the pride in the criminal's mind, which Zeus finds as the most fitting compliment for a god like himself.

(https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Detective_Comics_Vol_1_484)

Fan Art: Batman-Robin by JPRart

Accompanying Podcast: ● Overlooked Dark Knight - episode 13

[aunti-christ-ine]

Happy 4th of July, Kool Ben!

-> Twitter Source

[Images from "Thirst in Time" in The Adventures of Kool-Aid Man #2 (Marvel, 1984), script by Jim Salicrup, pencils by Dan DeCarlo, inks by Jim DeCarlo, colors by Ken Feduniewicz and Judi Higgins, letters by Gaspar Saladino]

More Kool-Aid Man comic stuff:

https://gocollect.com/blog/open-plea-to-the-mcu-kool-aid-man-the-thirst-avenger

[cinaed]

January 2024 Monthly Media

Anime/Cartoons

Bob's Burgers 14.11

Hazbin Hotel 1-6

Books

Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

Unraveler by Frances Hardinge

Delivered Under Fire: Absalom Markland and Freedom's Mail by Candice Shy Hooper

  The All-Consuming World by Cassandra Khaw

Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy Levy

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell

Eating to Extinction: the World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them by Dan Saladino

Manga/Comics

 20th Century Boys Volume 2 by Naoki Urasawa

Oglaf (ongoing webcomic)

Order of the Stick (ongoing webcomic)

Movies/Documentaries

Daughters of the Cult (2024)

Shiny Happy People (2023)

Podcasts

Dungeons and Daddies

The Magnus Protocol 

Not Another D&D Podcast

The Silt Verses

Worlds Beyond Number

TV Shows/Web Series

Critical Role 3.80-3.82

Dimension 20: Fantasy High 3.01-3.04

The Repair Shop 1.01-1.15

Shakespeare and Hathaway 1.01-4.10

[anothersebastianblog]

That person (and a few others like her) had an obsession about him fucking everything that moves.>> I remember this crazy woman, she wanted to ruin him for other people. There was one time he liked a post by Dan Saladino's niece, and because of her the girl closed the page because she said the girl was some prostitute he was paying, something like that.

Nah that’s crazy