Erik's Rant
 

December 19, 2007

Snowboarding, Waterboarding, Recipes

Well, since I have written rants against snowboarding, and I post recipes, I, naturally, get google hits for "snowboarding recipes." The temptation is to talk about the various ways to prepare boogers, but I think that the typical snowboarder is a raw foods sort, in that regards.

Now, if you are looking for some apres-ski recipes, try my oxtail soup. Skiing, as you know, is a civilized activity, engaged in by civilized people, like Germans and Swiss and Italians and the better sort of Frenchman. Snowboarding is a half-savage grunt practiced by the sort of people who think that good music and good coffee come from Seattle.

You know, I really don't like Seattle, and I am not too keen on that old hippy Indian who was named after such a cruddy city.

Well, who knows? Perhaps Chief Seattle was an alright sort. What I object to is the fortune cookie/bumpersticker quotations:

Chief Seattle say Marxist notion of property actually make sense! How!

Or is he really supporting serfdom? Belonging to the land sounds like serfdom to me.

And serfing is sort of like snowboarding, which brings me to...

Is snowboarding worse than waterboarding? Does snowboarding make people confess or tell secrets as effectively? Do either of them work? Are either of them morally licit? If a person undergoing waterboarding thinks he is going to drown, does one undergoing snowboarding think he is freezing to death? Since there are perverts who go snowboarding for recreation, are there perverts who get waterboarded for fun? Do waterboarders listen to crappy music, too?

I have questions, dear readers, I have questions!

Posted by erik at December 19, 2007 9:17 AM
Comments

I say, Kelsey, you are pretty articulate for one of those snow-boarding nose-pickers.

Seriously, enjoy the recipe. I will probably end up joining the darkside, I mean, trying snowboarding someday...perhaps the day that I vote Democrat.

Posted by: Registered User at April 6, 2008 8:47 PM

Hello...was trying to look up your oxtail soup recipe a second time, having googled previously with your "rants &..." appearing at the top of the list. When I returned to your blog to hunt it down again I came across this offensive dig on snowboarders. I would have you know that we 'boarders don't all perceive nasal discharges as the height of culinary experience. Some of us like oxtail soup.... ;) Thanks for the recipe, I plan on trying it out next week for a European gentlemen we will be hosting.

Posted by: Kelsey at April 4, 2008 8:13 PM
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