Soy Sauce Packets & Epiphanies: Swear to Vote.

a friend of mine just posted this. he was able to wind up everything that i've been thinking into one. simple. paragraph. for you-

The election is upon us and I, like most Americans, just can't frickin' wait for it to be over. I haven't exactly been around for, or conscious of, a ton of presidential races but this one in particular seems to be centered around the "look what a retarded Nazi my opponent is" premise. Maybe they've all been like that or maybe I'm more sensitive to it this time around because I actually find myself with a strong horse in this race but it's exhausting and frequently laughable. Regardless of the result, two entities will have benefited, the American people and Saturday Night Live and as long as those two interest groups are being served, it's been a success. Congress is FINALLY going to have a new scapegoat in the Casa de Blanco and SNL had it's first funny skit(s) in recent memory. The cast of that show is the real change we need. If you're not getting out and voting on Tuesday you should seriously consider seeking professional help. I don't know if there's an apathy treatment program but if the current state of the nation isn't enough to put you on the road to recovery maybe a swift brick to the head is the best course of action for you."

[via strollingincircles]

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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Monday, November 03, 2008

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