ok,
in these days of turmoil and strife i feel that is incumbent upon me to address certain issues that might or might not be germaine to our collective and subjective empirical understanding of the world in which we live.
specifically i would like to address tacos and googlism.com.
in order of importance i should deal with tacos first.
i have just recently become reacquainted with our friend the humble taco.
or, rather, our humble friend the taco.
or, rather, taco friend the humble our.
back in the 1930’s when i was a meat-eater i learned to love the taco. i would go to chi-chi’s in the stamford town center and eat ground beef taco’s and drink a lot of free coca-cola. ptomaine notwithstanding, i made the trek to chi-chi’s often (with the added incentive that my girlfriend at the time, margaret, worked in the aforementioned stamford town center mall. in fact, i too have worked in the aforementioned stamford town center mall. i washed dishes in the restaurant in macy’s there, and i stood behind the counter at a short lived retail establishment then known as ‘feats of clay’.).
then when i became a vegan in the late 1980’s i found my life sadly devoid of tacos. and as time passed i found myself remembering tacos as a vague and tasty and greasy memory.
and now, just recently, i have become reacquainted with the taco.
i went out and i bought some taco shells (which, caveat emptor, are not exactly low in fat, so dieters beware). and i bought some seitan and black beans. and i bought some lettuce and tomatoes. and some salsa. and i cooked the seitan and black beans with salsa and chili powder. and i added the seitan/black bean/salsa layer to the bottom of the taco shell. and then i added some freshly cut lettuce. and then i added some freshly sliced tomatoes. and then i added some more salsa. and then i ate them. and they were flawless. my life has been markedly improved by my reacquaintance with the taco. i can presumptuously suggest that your life would be markedly improved by making the acquaintance of a good taco, too.
my friend holly has a chihuaha named taco. which is a good name for a chihuaha. but being a vegan i would, of course, not eat a taco made out of a chihuaha. why would you, when you can have a perfectly delicious dog-free taco made out of vegan ingredients? go make a taco. it will make you happy, as it did me.
and then googlism.com.
i googlism.com’d myself (being a self-involved megalomaniac and etc) and i was very amused by the little one-liners that came back re: me.
i’m guessing that googlism.com is an offshoot of google (which has kind of gone downhill as of late, i hate to say, with more and more responses seemingly going to companies as opposed to institutions that serve the public interest).
i think i might go and googlism.com ‘taco’ to see what comes up. something delicious, i’m guessing.
because tacos are great.
find someone who doesn’t like tacos and they will, most likely, be a serial killer or an evil robot alien pretending to be a human. in fact the ‘taco test’ might be a good way of identifying serial killers and inhuman robot-aliens before they do bad things.
kind of like the beginning of ‘blade runner’.
thanks,
moby