hey. what's new? cooked anything awesome recently? watched anything amazing? single-handedly conquered the pine beetle problem? ridden any elephants? narrowly averted death? eaten a tuna sandwich?

you didn't answer about the tuna sandwich. but i forgive you.

what would you do differently with your do-over?

wait wait. are you fermenting your own miso? i had a friend who did that in tennessee. he wrote a book- wild fermentation. i recommend it, i think you'd dig it. anyways, am sensitive to msg but it's gotten much less severe over the past year. i guess just because i've been more and more exposed to it, it's upped my tolerance or something.

cool that you're learning guitar. it's definitely one of the easier instruments, you're right. it's one of those ones you can pick one up and play around for a few minutes and not sound entirely horrible, like you would with, for example... a tuba. have you learned to play any other instruments before?

yeah, still in china until may. then i will go home, live in a dirt shelter, trap and gather my ow food for 3 months. then, ecuador!

as far as food.. i've been kind of lazy about cooking lately. lack of availability of certain things has left me a bit uninspired. when i'm home, i just cook simple comfort foods lately i guess.. i'm also limited by a lack of oven. lots of mashed potatoes, pasta, soups, stews, curries.. it's impossible to get good beef here.. a typical meal is something like chicken medallions with dijon sauce, mashed potatoes with green onions, and some vegetable, like sauteed green beans or a salad. simple but good.

Come back!

I'm going to see Uffie next weekend at the most hipster of venues, Brooklyn Bowl. I think the fact I just posted it here made it less cool somehow.

Turin!

Again?

Not at all. Glad to see you actually. Now find me on the faceboox before one or both of us is gone forever from this place.