He's going hungry in California.

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Thursday October 16, 2008 · 2:47 AM PDT

2008/10/16 · 02:47

Fellow Kossacks, this is a personal diary, and a plea for help. It's about my ex-boyfriend, currently languishing in an apartment in Northern California, going hungry on this World Food Day. And with the global economy the way it is, he'll have plenty more days just like this one.

I know there are plenty of ecologists, foodies, nutritionists and locavores around these parts, and I hope they can lend me a hand. How can my ex, and other people who were already on society's lower slopes, live healthily under the coming downturn? What is a cheap and responsible way to procure food? A vegetable garden springs to mind, but they live in an small apartment somewhere.

These aren't people who are homeless or particularly irresponsible with money. Like so many others, they've been dealt a crappy hand in life, and they have to make do with what they've got. They're the first ones being hit by the crunch of rising prices, the first ones to need a safety net.

I'm praying every night Obama wins, and finds that net somewhere in the White House closet. Meanwhile, we - and they - will have to make do. Follow me behind the jump for a little more personal backstory.

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