A spicy new world

Hee hee, I'm writing on Blogger for the first time in months!

It's like going home and finding out that the roll of wintergreen Lifesavers that you hid in the bookshelf is still there!

I should mention that I really like wintergreen. If it's done well. Some wintergreen has no bite. There's a brand of wintergreen candy-canes that my mom was so excited to buy when I was a kid, because she knew that I loved the flavor. Christmas finally rolled around, I got to take one of the candy-canes off of the tree, and... meh. It sorta tasted like the same mint, but it was bland and dull.

Like a "spicy" chicken sandwich from any of the fast-food joints. There's even a commercial where a guy's breathing fire and setting off the sprinklers in his cube farm from the heat of his sandwich.

Have you ever tasted one of these? I guess middle America thinks that pepper (as in plain, black ground pepper) is hot. Caliente, even!

Jeebus Criminy, I live in a country where half the population thinks that jalapeño is the hottest flavor out there! In fact, I have a theory: people who breathe fire from Wendy's chicken sandwiches probably vote republican. Yeah, I know that a lot of peppers should be around Texas, but I doubt the average Montanan or Utahian is expirementing with habeneros.

My wife's paternal side comes from the Midwest. Culinary daring-do out there is placing a slice of cheese on apple pie. Something tells me that there aren't a lot of Thai restaurants in BFE, Arkansas.

One of my friends is Vietnamese. When we were in high school, we used to place these little, unpronounceable, bright-red chili's into our Monday Night Football nachos. They would make your eyes water, your brow sweat, your balls drop, your throat clench and later, much later, your ass burn like Satan himself was giving you a rimjob.

What's my point?

Despite the herculean effort of Reese, this blog has seen better days. I'm wondering if we shouldn't infuse it with new blood? OF the founding members, only 3 have posted, well, irregularly at best. There are a couple of to be nameless contributors whose posts I can count on one hand.

But that's cool - maintaining one blog is hard work, especially considering that we've all been around for over a year. We all win the Dork award for Longevi-dorkiness. I'm not trying to single anyone out (especially my own post-negligent ass).

I'm calling for a new direction, perhaps. A new blog with new contributors. Something to work on, which will receive more than 3 hits a day (those are all mine, by the way).

Speaking of which, who removed my Blogpatrol counter? Hmm? I'm going to turn my back, and I expect it to be reinstated by the time I turn around.

Or I'll talk to Satan about rimjobs for all'y'all.