IT'S A JOY FILLED MASTER PIECE!

Some movie advertised on Facebook. But it could just as well have been lunch. Leftover salt fish and chicken fried rice with mustard cabbage, chopped hot link, and green cury paste. Salt fish and chicken fried rice (鹹魚雞粒炒飯 'haam yü gai naap chaau faan') is very Hong Kong, but if you add sambal or cilies, fried rice of any kind is completely Dutch. Provided you don't forget that pinch of nutmeg to make the meat component meatier. Just call it nasi goreng.

The effect of the potent smokeables (HH Rustica) I had stuffed into my pipe earlier for a walk around the neighborhood had worn off, as had the coffee, and I was feeling it little pooped.
Very much in need of sustenance.

The left-overs from a few days ago were perfect.


When I went into my apartment mate's room to fetch the turkey vulture napping on her bed, who shares in EVERYTHING WE EAT AROUND HERE (because otherwise we'll hear about it, long into the night), it smelled extremely clean in there. Probably because the combo of salt fish and frying made the entire rest of the apartment reek like a flop house off Mabini Street, not too far from Sinagoga, or perhaps Remedios. As a comparison.
I'm expecting that aroma to disappate by early evening.
Nevertheless, I shut her door again.

It's kind of the universal South East Asian fragrance. Encountered nearly everywhere, precisely like dissatisfied Americans, Australian alcoholics, and European pederasts.
Of those four things it is the most appealing.

Heading out for tea and a pastry in Chinatown soon. It's full of white people there. They're all keenly interested in the things they see: ancient monuments, colourful trinkets, and dried fish.
And almost none of them know what masks are. They've never heard of the pandemic.


As I understand it, there is a enormous part of this country that has been unaffected by Covid: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Drunken Australia and Pederastic Europe have also been unaffected.
Apparently it's just a California phenomenon.



AFTERWORD

My friend Jonathan in Israel hates it when I sneer at the "real America".
He has a peculiar affection for that part of the country.
He's a good old boy and a buttercup.
A true patriot.



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