So sensible I was. The briefest contact with a reasonably appealing manzanilla followed by half a pastry stuffed with chanterelles and a smidge of a minor Japanese seaweed for that bit of salty tang. Today, it is all beans and wieners as the holidays end.
And should they not end now? What a rollercoaster of treats since late November. Six fifty-secondths of the entire orbit of the planet dedicated to sugar and fat. Now is the time of the carrot stick and the forced march to the park for some exercise. Now is the time of watching TV to ensure 73% of what was just spent will be paid for by the coming of spring.
PS: hitting the barsniculars to the lower right will help with that last concern at no cost to you. Come to think of it, I need to attract more jittery readers who click through frantangulars over and over through an untreatable compulsion.
PPS: It appears begging works. Punts are up. Remember: your punting efforts mean strangers give me cheese...not you...strangers. I am completely confident that this is not indicative of any sort of bubble economy. I really am.
PPPS: Look what I found? An actual photo of the radio den at Castle Flea! From here he makes his pronouncements to mankind known. How do I know? The pipe, of course.
Fleatastic!
Comments
cm - January 1, 2006 1:24 pm
On my calendar the holidays don't end until Epiphany, leaving 5 more days of feasting.
Flea - January 1, 2006 7:44 pm
Nonsense. As if I would smoke anything but a Belge pipe while making pronouncements to mankind by wireless.
Alan - January 1, 2006 8:14 pm
Subtle deflection, Master. Perhaps this is just one of the way-stations for the outer ring of operatives. The secret could be that yellow pen, the pale wood panelling...it must be the Helsinki safe house for agents of the Flea!
Alan - January 1, 2006 8:18 pm
And now I have a fine link to a selection of pipes with seven doors to pursue therefrom.
Jay Currie - January 3, 2006 1:37 am
I fear that you have forgotten the first commandment of <i>cheese</i>, "Thou shalt not encourage or incentivize or draw attention to the <i>cheese</i>". And they really mean it.
You can lose your account in the blink of an eye. Check out <i>dairypunt</i>.com forums where compliance is discussed daily.
Which only goes to underscore the fact that <i>formage</i> and its clones actually get in the way of the internet experience.
I am working on something rather better.
Alan - January 3, 2006 8:04 am
I think it is silly to have something on my website that I cannot discuss. If the <i>Cheddar King</i> deems it inappropriate so be it. I make more collecting bottles by the side of the road of an evening...you did know that is how I spent my evenings.
SayNay? - January 4, 2006 1:02 am
Favourite Resolution: drink more, talk less.
Jay Currie - January 5, 2006 7:20 am
You have fooled the cheese bots. Nothing can stop you now...Nothing. Except, perhaps, a flea in the cheese sending secret messages to the plex d'fromage. (Or is that the name of the current Prime Minister of France?)
Alan - January 5, 2006 7:58 am
NEVER! The Flea and I have a secret alliance based on the pledge of a future pint. Nothing is more sacred as my uncle Joe used to say.<p>Which reminds me to remind you - punt a cheese today.