Soy Sauce Packets & Epiphanies: Christian Siriano, Fierce?

fierce [fîrs] -adjective
1) having a savage and violent nature; ferocious.
2) extremely severe or violent; terrible.
3) extremely intense or ardent: fierce loyalty.
4) strenuously active or resolute: a fierce attempt to escape.
5) informal Very difficult or unpleasant: a fierce exam.
6) savage or threatening in appearance.
[dictionary.com]

at first i thought this kid was obnoxious. i didn't really watch 'project runway,' except when it re-ran at 3am and there was nothing else on tv. it was not until he actually won, and my friend johanna changed her profile picture on myspace to a picture of 'ferocia coutura,' that i actually paid him any mind. i didn't even recognize the picture of him and had to ask her who it was. she got a little upset that i was clueless to his identity, and so i youtubed him. that's where i found this video. long story short, i love to hate him. he's so over the top obnoxious, and for that reason, and that reason only, i love him. he overkills on his 'signature' words and phrases like fierce, fabulous and ferocious; he uses the word tranny to describe things that are just like him, over the top. he even shortens some of his signatures to create his own terms, like 'feroch.' (i do that often too.) his usage of these words may not be correct according to the dictionary, but they are sure to become part of pop-culture. all hail ferocia coutura, NOT really that fierce (except maybe his flock of seagulls hair).

i'm sorry that the site has been looking more like a vlog lately, but since the completion of 'project mayhem,' i've been busy with 'operation plunder-shed.' more on that soon...

EXPERIENCE+CHANGE=2008

the story behind ssp&e:

so i'm not sure if you're anything like me, but being the 'off the cuff cuisine' chef that i am, i try not to let anything go to waste. you know, when you bring home some bk or mickey d's, and after consuming your poor excuse for food, have ketchup packets or sauce shots left over that you throw in the door and forget about. same goes for chinese food, and you know they always give you enough sauce to put out a fire at the pentagon with your order. you throw them in your refrigerator door and forget about them. then one day you're trying to impress some last minute guests that have decided to stay at your place for dinner and all you have in your 'gourmet' kitchen are some ramen noodles, frozen veggies and some leftover grilled chicken from last weekend's cookout. the makings of a superb, on-the-fly stirfry. but wait, OH SHIT!, how are you going to make a sauce for your stirfry with no sauce? you look in the fridge and all you see is a bottle of ketchup, french's mustard (i use the term mustard loosely when describing french's), and a jar of pickle juice. oh no, what to do, what to do. then you bust open the butter holder, that invariably has never seen a stick of butter in it's life, and VOILA! soy sauce, duck sauce, hot mustard! packets, but instant chinkychow sauce nonetheless! each one of those packets, collected over time, came from a meal, inevitably eaten over conversation, an argument or during a lone lunch of self-reflection, came from a time and place in the past. as are our lessons learned. we learn through the years how to cope, how to inspire, how to teach, and how to live. we don't always remember those lessons, as we throw condiment packets in the fridge we throw life-lessons into the back of our heads, until one day we find ourself in a situation where it becomes relevant and we pull them from the back of our minds as to not waste the advice and lessons of the past. the moral of this story, and the linking of it to my blog- our life experiences are our 'soy sauce packets,' our hidden links to our experiences of our past...

e·piph·a·ny - noun - a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience. [www.dictionary.com]

the epiphanies that we experience in life, questions or situations that we find ourselves in, and don't know how to resolve, can most often be solved my raking our brains in search of a 'soy sauce packet.' an answer to a question. a solution to a problem. and so this, this blog, is simply an ever-expanding culmination of soy sauce packets in my butter box, and the epiphanies that have helped to make room for more butter in my fridge...

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