That too…
Me: Can I use this picture of you?
Her: What? Why?
Me: Because you look so ridiculous, I wanna put it up.
Her: What? You don’t think I look cute there?
Me: Well, sure, that too…
If you managed to hack into my social media feed, you would find the following types of videos being shown:
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- Videos about food
- Videos about fighting
- Videos about wild boar hunting (don’t ask)
- Videos about mantis shrimp
For the last one, if you don’t know, the mantis shrimp has one of the most powerful punches on the planet, despite their diminutive size.
They can punch with the speed of a 22-caliber bullet and regularly smash aquariums.
Anywho, imagine my surprise when the Surgeon wrote me outta the blue.
Surgeon: I just saw mantis shrimp at a market in sunset park. Haven’t seen those since Vietnam.
Steel: Buy a ton of them and I’ll swing by tomorrow to cook them.
Surgeon: I got six pounds. Those dudes looked at me like I walked out of a UFO. (I’m regularly the only white guy in all of sunset park.)
Me: (laughing)
So, this past weekend, we all went to the Surgeon’s pad and had some.
Steel made a killer herbed butter to cook them…
…and then they prepped them…
…while I held down the rum-drinking portion of things.
They say that it tastes like a mix between shrimp and lobster.
I’d agree with that BUT I feel the texture is a bit softer, which I find slightly off putting but is otherwise, delicious (I prob just need to get used to it).
Afterward, we had some dessert before heading back home.
Unfortunately, there was an uninvited guest on the platform of our train.
Her: Rat aside, tonight was fun.
Me: They’re always a good time. Man, I had a lotta rum.
Her: At least it wasn’t mezcal.
Me: Ugh. Yeah…
Location: home, figuring out middle school stuff…
Mood: overwhelmed
Music: guessing that’s real good news (Spotify)
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