A BRIEF ASIDE
YESTERDAY I posted about samsara and received an email reply asking for the recipe. It took me a few moments to realize the request was for a recipe for samosa, admittedly similar in written appearance and sound, but totally different in reality. Anyway, here’s a possible recipe: https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/... and, BTW, thanks for following my blog! The request did, however, get me thinking about the existential reason and logistics of escaping from samosas. Personally, I like them, so I wouldn’t want to escape. But, if one did, would it bring one closer to nirvana? My tastebuds and I personally doubt it.
It also brings up another, more cogent issue. While physical characteristics of animals, including humans, change slowly, perhaps over hundreds of thousands of years, one’s food preferences can change in the blink of an eye. And, to some extent at least, you are what you eat. Add to that the Malthusian Dilemma, that the curves for food production and population size will eventually cross and we will run out of, at least, “traditional” or first choice food or have to massively decrease the population, something I’ve been concerned about ever since being unable to book a popular San Francisco restaurant in pre-COVID times.
But I digress, and my brief aside is becoming less and less brief. Suffice it to say that these issues (aside from a samosa recipe) surface in my and William Maltese’s ribald yet serious novel of the TOTAL MELTDOWN of the United States of America published by Borgo/Wildside. The prelude to my newest novel, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor which takes up where TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese left off, NewAmerica, a shadow of its former United States of America, provides a challenging and dangerous future place for three young firebrands to live, and I would argue, takes up more cogent issues like the future of love, romance, pairings, family, adventure, coming-of-age and adult responsibilities.
Please enjoy this video book review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je6CC...
The Edge of Madness
Soon to be an Audible audiobook read by the incomparable Peter Pollock; purchased for manga, animated and cinematic treatment by K. Simmons Productions
It also brings up another, more cogent issue. While physical characteristics of animals, including humans, change slowly, perhaps over hundreds of thousands of years, one’s food preferences can change in the blink of an eye. And, to some extent at least, you are what you eat. Add to that the Malthusian Dilemma, that the curves for food production and population size will eventually cross and we will run out of, at least, “traditional” or first choice food or have to massively decrease the population, something I’ve been concerned about ever since being unable to book a popular San Francisco restaurant in pre-COVID times.
But I digress, and my brief aside is becoming less and less brief. Suffice it to say that these issues (aside from a samosa recipe) surface in my and William Maltese’s ribald yet serious novel of the TOTAL MELTDOWN of the United States of America published by Borgo/Wildside. The prelude to my newest novel, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor which takes up where TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese left off, NewAmerica, a shadow of its former United States of America, provides a challenging and dangerous future place for three young firebrands to live, and I would argue, takes up more cogent issues like the future of love, romance, pairings, family, adventure, coming-of-age and adult responsibilities.
Please enjoy this video book review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je6CC...
The Edge of Madness
Soon to be an Audible audiobook read by the incomparable Peter Pollock; purchased for manga, animated and cinematic treatment by K. Simmons Productions
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