Cast Iron Chaos: 2011-10-18

Cooking as meditation: For the past few days, I'd been pondering a way to make a tasty chowder with fish and pork. Fresh fish is expensive and salt pork is expensive, so I substituted those ingredients and came up with this recipe for Surf-n-Turf Chowder. I spent yesterday evening watching Garfield's Halloween Adventure and the original classic Frankenstein while putting the chowder together. The next time I knew, I glanced at the time and it was 10:30 PM. You know how time seems to fly by when you're doing something you enjoy, and you're caught up in it to the point where you're practically in a trance? That, of course, is magic. It's also what we do, I think, when we meditate. So even though it's hard to find time to meditate when I work full-time, I feel as though I'm getting a bit of practice in.
And what is it with political zombies? On Sunday the Ron Paul drones started berating me on YouTube because I called them "Ron Paul drones." By the time last night's comments showed up, I'd degenerated in their eyes to a fucking asshole who is obviously part of the "pro-Israel lobby." Because, as we know, the Jews are behind it all. [1]