6/27/06
Know what's really sad? Any attempt to divest one's diet of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is impossible. This ingredient is pervasive in nearly every food available on the shelf at the supermarket. I'm sure before they sledgehammer in a cow's head or cut a hog's throat the farm will inject vast quantities of HFCS into the doomed beast's body. Farmers, I am certain, spray their crops with HFCS. I'm sure that if I could eliminate HFCS that my weight would drop in a most precipitous fashion. HFCS is not natural nor is it something that a human being should be consuming on a regular basis. This is well above and beyond the axiom of "sugar is poison".
Know what's really sad? Any attempt to divest one's diet of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is impossible. This ingredient is pervasive in nearly every food available on the shelf at the supermarket. I'm sure before they sledgehammer in a cow's head or cut a hog's throat the farm will inject vast quantities of HFCS into the doomed beast's body. Farmers, I am certain, spray their crops with HFCS. I'm sure that if I could eliminate HFCS that my weight would drop in a most precipitous fashion. HFCS is not natural nor is it something that a human being should be consuming on a regular basis. This is well above and beyond the axiom of "sugar is poison".
High fructose corn syrups is the worst thing one can eat next to my semen.
raddidge will say i'm stupid and slow
This is presuming that she does agree with me. High fructose corn syrup is a symptom of a greater problem. There are too many people on the face of the earth. If humans didn't feel it was their god-given right to pump out a succession of babies then populations would remain sane and there wouldn't be any burden upon the farmers and other food producers. HFCS stretches the available food, making it palatable in order to feed the countries of the world. This goes far beyond the simple concept of convenience and simplicity.
three wishes
If I had three wishes, I'd wish for:
- I'd wish to be thin. About 225 pounds.
- I'd wish for a shitload of money.
- A stardrive that actually works and can be built by nearly anyone. Like the one featured in Jerry Oltion's The Getaway Special or a working version of the Dean Drive. Ignite a vast diaspora and seed the cosmos with the most fucked up species of mammal known to itself.
irte
spivak, editor in chief of heptapod.org, apologizes for his error in the 6/27/06 entry. High fructose corn syrup is a uniquely American phenomenon and is not a worldwide epidemic. The provincial contributor deeply regrets the error.
obligatory work mention
A week before Independence Day and Monday was slow. For a little bit I became anxious about the situation wondering if the company was hurting or not. I figure if the company does go under, at least I'll have four years of unemployment to draw upon but I really don't want any interruption in my wages. Perhaps as the week grinds onward, things will pick up and the summer will actually become busy like all prior summers.
In Yer Dreams
The single motif that ran through my dream was an attempt to remember a quote. My struggles made the dream quite abstract and I wouldn't be surprised if I was talking in my sleep. Tall, blue words and letters zipped past my field of view in hopes they would jar something of my memory.
I knew the quote was from Othello, Cassio is talking about how he's a lush. Even during the slow points at work, I was racking my head to get the quote out of my head. Only when I got home and did a quick search did I find the offending quote.
act two, scene seven
Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! O strange! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.
