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Joshua Ploeg is a touring post-punk vegan chef and these are his harried tales of traveling the Greyhound with sex-crazed teenagers, shaving cactus with dull knives, being drugged by his hosts, eating at shitty restaurants, cooking for "artists," bad sexual experiences, a fellow bus passenger that stole a Gatorade and delayed the whole bus, and much more. Joshua deals with the most unpredictable of circumstances in his touring--navigating new towns, acquiring groceries, unknown kitchen appliances and utensils, and unpromoted shows.
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Joshua Ploeg is a touring vegan chef/caterer and pioneering queercore punk musician. He has cooked for Senator Daryll Steinberg's Proposition 8 Repeal Fundraiser, Perry Ferrell, The Gossip, Ben Davidson, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Fugazi, Nikki McClure, Ani DiFranco, and Anti-Flag. Named a notable Dutch-American by the Dutch Embassy, he has written for Brooklyn's Satya Magazine and featured in Vegan Police, Details Magazine, The Advocate, NME, Abolitionist, The Bay Guardian, City Paper (DC), News & Reviews (Sacramento), and Razorcake. Formerly the singer of Behead the Prophet (Spin magazine's #38 "best 100 band names of all time"), he currently sings for Select Sex. Read an interview with Joshua on our blog!
