When I was in Orange County this past weekend, I was lured by the nostalgic glow of the local Dairy Queen with its cheerful, iconic red sign and had the soft serve chocolate dipped cone which triggered all my happy childhood food memories. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this little piece of fake vanilla and chocolate heaven. I generally prefer natural or organic food – the taste is often so much purer, fresher, and just better. And for a long time, I merely tolerated fast or packaged food as something to stave off hunger when trapped in hermetically sealed environments like the airplane, office buildings, and shopping malls. But there was something magical about this dessert. The vanilla soft serve melts in your mouth like a marshmallow cloud. The chocolate shell tastes nothing like grown-up, antioxidant rich, high percentage cacao content chocolate but instead, evokes the taste of “kiddie” chocolate – a cold-fusion of cocoa and partially hydrogenated vegetable oil that graces treats from Eskimo Pie to Klondike Bars. This was the kind of blissful sensory and taste combination that nature just can’t invent.
It may be hard to believe but I wasn’t always the cool and hip dude I am now. Believe it or not, I had awkward moments growing up and made my fair share of bad calls. So to help show that anyone can leave the shackles of pathetic-ness behind, occasionally I’ll post random excerpts from my journal so you can see how far I’ve come. 
Sometimes I wish I had been born gay or a straight chick (well, actually being a bi-chick might be more enjoyable) so I could be attracted to men. I get guys. I get what they want. I get what they are. Life would be so much simpler. As Roger hinted in his 
I often get asked what my favorite movie is. It’s a hard question to answer because, quite frankly, I feel like I have thousands of “favorites” and to choose just one seems like a disservice to all the other great works out there. But if I have to choose, the one movie I’ll select more often than not is 
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The Musa rubinea, a wild banana known only to exist in the western Chinese province of Yunnan:
And the Laotian rock rat (the photo at top of this page), which was thought to have been extinct for 11 million years until being discovered in this area.
Man, I’m behind in my work and wasn’t planning on posting any more blogs today, but damnit, today would have been 
