SEXXX

I'm home alone in my sauna-like apartment while the rain and wind has an unbearingly dark atmosphere looming outside.

I'm sans pants making spicy curry sauce while watching my kitties sweat in their fur coats to Larry Heard (aka Mr. Fingers) records. I'm so thankful I have a steam-heated, Victorian apartment with huge closets and excellent insulation (I also have the best 60-year-old building manager who keeps our building in the most pristine condition).

Something about the music, the rain outside, the mucho picante spices and the warm air in my place has me thinking about one thing and one thing alone...SEX. Too bad my baby daddy is on a work trip.

A few things I'm finding sexy at this moment:

 

 images via tumblr

1. Peek-a-boo tits

2. Eggs

3. Pancakes

4. Leaving the skin on the potatoes

5. Bengal kitties. LOL! 

Flesh Eating

Barneys Holiday 2010. Nobuyoshi Araki w/ Kiko Mizuhara

I posted on my Tumblr that I'm eating seafood and fish, and was absolutely enjoying this new adventure in flavors. I've been a strict vegetarian for the past 11-12 years and don't really remember how all these animals tasted like. Now I remember. They are tasty.

One of the funny things about being a vegetarian for a long extended period is that tons of people in SF thinks they are a vegetarian for sometimes eating vegetables.

"Oh I'm a vegetarian, but I eat fish."

 "I'm totally vegan, but sometimes I'll eat a burger."

Just because you actually ate some string beans with your steak does not make you a vegetarian. Also, some vegans and vegetarians were some of the most unhealthy people I knew (some ate only rice with nutritional yeast on top, some ate nothing but junk food). SF is full of characters.

But, I digress.

I've debated for the past year or so about eating fish and found out I'm a type O- (we are the only blood type that can't be vegetarian). I'm tired all the time and take naps a lot (though, I think this is mostly a stereotype about vegetarians). I was not eating enough food in general (so unheathy). I picked up pick up Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer to mull over this moral dillema of what it would mean for me if i abandon 12 years if saving animals for tasty tandoori fish on my dinner plate.

Then I finally had some sushi. Then soft shell crab. Then Chilean Sea Bass.

I may go back to eating strictly vegetarian, but for now the exploration is really exciting. Do I feel guilty sometimes about eating fish? Of course. Will I ever eat beef, pork or chicken again? Is that the next step for me? Fuck no. That is disgusting.

I think something I will take from being a vegetarian is that I think I appreciate simple flavors from things like vegetables more and that food is better appreciated/cherished/understood in the long run. I pay attention more to what I eat, where it comes from and the quality and work brought to making it available to me. I think educating yourself about food is like doing the same with fashion, music, art, academics.