Epicurean Existentialism

It’s just like me to make a flowchart on how to eat out, how to survive really, and go out of my way to ignore it. Like the Christian Existentialists who explain life’s troubling, irreconcilable paradoxes through the existence (and source) of the greatest irreconcilable paradox–Jesus (God/man? mortal/immortal?–anyone else confused? No? Congratulations–you’re smarter than me.)–sometimes [...]

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Sí, Por Favor

~ Totally Generic Grocery Store Checkout Girl: This is flat leaf parsley, right? Cilantro-Loving Birthday Friend: Uh (rolls eyes), no; this is cilantro. TGGSCG: Right. ~ This is the scene that had taken place in a local grocery store mere hours before my friend’s annual birthday brunch this Saturday past. We had chilaquiles. We had [...]

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