DISTANT INSECTS BUZZING

In addition to Elon Musk wishing to steal your Social Security data, there is also Allison from Right Guard who wants to do the same. Kindly F off, sweetheart. I am an eighty five year old transgender black lesbian from Iowa with arthritic knees, one foot in the grave, and horrible indigestion, who wishes to terrify your eleven year old daughter in women's restrooms all over the deep south.

Gas stations. And Waffle Houses.

Actually, I am currently on a village road in Indonesia. Due to horrific windstorms, it is blocked by fallen greenery in the middle distance, and the villagers have sought shelter.


There is no place nearby where they have rendang. Not safe to set fire to the kerosene stove in this weather. Could start a conflagration. Rendang takes several hours to prepare, and no one wants to risk the kampong going up in a giant ball of petrochemicals, beef tallow, and coconut grease. With or without freshly made shrimp sauce chilipaste. Mmmm.

Actually, some ayam goreng jowo would be nice too. Pieces of chicken, simmered in coconut milk with turmeric, lemon grass, and galangal (and a pinch of sugar), for about half an hour, drained and rested, then deep fried golden brown and served with steamed rice, atjar tjampoer, and that same lovely shrimp sauce chilipaste.


Lukewarm tea, not so much sugar, to wash it down.


Followed by a pipe filled with Capstan, smoked under the awning of the shop while watching the sudden downpour drench the road. It will be over soon, and fifteen minutes afterwards there is no evidence of the rain. Just a slight increase in the humidity, which was already quite high. If you think about it, your skin feels like it's brushing against hot wet velvet.
And you itch a bit. Small bugs love parts of you.


Here in San Francisco it's only sixty degrees, more or less, heading up to about seventy by teatime. And there is nowhere to get ayam goreng jowo or rendang. On my days off I like to eat good food. Not something that happens often when I work in Marin.
Capstan Gold today. Soon no longer be available.
They've stopped making it.



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