07 April 2004 16:39

jesus and loving the little animals

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i have all of these books that i want to read, but i have been reading the same book for like THREE WEEKS NOW!!!! three weeks! unheard of! [also unheard of: i just forgot which side of the keyboard holds the exclamation point key] however, i do find it delightful that i will finish the oh-so-blasphemous book about jesus during holy week. [imaginary friend, two things: 1. explain to me the difference in tone between sacrilege and blasphemy, please. 2. my grandmother was talking to me about easter baptisms for catholic converts, and i told her about you, my imaginary friend, and i think that if the phrase "right on!" existed in my grandmother's vocabulary, that's what she would have said under her breath. my grandmother is a very traditional, but very wonderful catholic.] i was reading a review of a new vegan restaurant in town, and it included the statement that "people who like animals are good people," which i thought was just dumb. who doesn't like animals, other than the psychopaths that you see on animal precinct, and even they probably think they like animals. even the pretender to the presidency has pets, for cryingoutloud. i eat animals. i am unconflicted about this, which surprises a lot of people (my meat-eating surprises a lot of people, too. i think i must give off some sort of false vegetarian pheromone). i am also an extremely well-informed eater. this is a problem where meat consumption is concerned; there are fewer and fewer sources from which i am comfortable getting my meat, and i am relying more and more on expensive organic purveyors. still, i like beef, and i love bacon, and i am not going to give them up any time soon. to me, it's an omnivore thing: i'm happiest eating the widest variety of things possible. also, i used to have snakes when i was very small, which had to be fed mice, and i also had mice as pets. perhaps i should attribute my ambivalence to that. anyhow, i gots nothing against the vegans (you know who you are). omnivoracity (!!!) means eating the meatless as well as the meated, and i am always equal parts in awe and absofucking baffled by people who have whatever quality it is that allows them to say "this giant class of things has no part in my life at all." it's like deciding to be chaste, or only to drink water, or like becoming amish or chabad. but i don't think vegans like animals more than i do. and i thinkk that people who make their dogs and cats vegetarian are going straight to hell. straight there. everyone's talking about meat, so that's my two cents. i'm going to go read about jesus now. love, might p.s. i get to start a WHOLE NEW medication. this will make the third time, which should be charmed, right? you wish you were me. my blood is a psychopharmacopoeia. hootenanny!