weekend update: plasma lol porkle chop

show me the plasmoids

yesterday a good friend of mine sent me several voice texts out of the blue — which is always a treat. this time, they were talking about plasmoids.

if you have been following the plasmoid discourse, you likely already know the theory that there are plasma based (proto-) life forms out there all around us in the greater consciousness field ‘beyond’ our minds, and that they are attracted to areas with large amounts of electromagnetic energy…

space shuttles see them frequently, they have been seen swarming satellite tethers, above thunderstorms in the earth’s atmosphere … i am not saying that all ufo/uap are definitively plasmoid, but surely a good chunk of them are.

my friend’s voice text was connecting the plasmoids to the mathematical concept of the spinor — something i do not understand but is fun to read about — but one way they explained what they meant is imagine a tesseract (4D cube) in an amorphous organic shape, and that is sort of what plasmoids are doing…

you may start to see how the very structure of a plasmoid resists three dimensional human understandings of ‘outside’ ‘inside’ ‘forward’ ‘backward’ etc. i will stop babbling here because i will begin to devolve into some time cube shit. (which i hate to bring up so peripherally… deserves its own post later. people shit on it for being ‘bad theory’ when it is really poetry… defunctionalized adornment, actually quite baroque)

regardless of if it makes sense or not, hearing my friend theorize about this sort of thing made me wake up a little bit inside. i was so happy that i have someone to talk to about these things — things that feel so ‘out there’ for many people, but for me feel closer to reality than the dissociative state that late capitalist social life and increasingly fascist politics has plunged me into.

i do not know what this cession of logical reality means ethically, because there is the age old fight of “X” being a distraction from “Y” in the government — which i’m not convinced it has to be zero-sum like that. i also found 2 dollars on the grass while discussing plasmoids, and i think that they were looking out for me. if anyone is interested in doing CE-5 techniques with me in the near future please reach out.

lol: lack of love (NOT FUNNY)

on the way home from work on friday i listened to an album called LOL: Lack of Love by Ryuichi Sakamoto. it struck me that so many styles of music could be on one disc: jaunting accordion bops, tender music-box tinkles, intense jungle-beat critical mass type ish… i was whisked away by it, which was a great relief because i was stuck in sacramento traffic…

upon further research, i found that LOL: Lack of Love (2000) is actually the OST to a videogame of the same title made for the sega dreamcast, led by ryuichi himself! the design is beautifully late-90s techno-optimist, with sleek yet chunky polygons and minimal visual noise in each of the environments, yielding captivating textures.

i of course was captivated by a play-through i then found on youtube. the game begins with a simplistic shrimp-like aquatic creature emerging onto land—there are few instructions other than to survive. you eat plants and dead organisms and avoid predators—and through symbiotic connections with other organisms (we could also call this love), your creature begins to evolve/metamorphosize.

the main enemy you must avoid, however, is a group of robots and machines deployed by a future version of the human race who is attempting to colonize and terraform your native planet because they already ruined earth. this is where the title comes from — humanity lives with a ‘lack of love’ (and by extension, lack of symbiosis) and this is the result of such a barren condition. there’s a good essay about the game here that compares it to the colonial-capitalist enclosure of the commons/leopold’s land ethic, speculative science fiction a la kim stanley robinson, etc. much more well thought out than my blurb here.

mostly i suggest doing some DEEP LISTENING to the album and ponder its DEEP ECOLOGICAL implicayshuns… in the future i will be writing more about bioregionalism and its potentials for avoiding such tragedy as witnessed in ze game… i also like that the makers of this game met at a techno club.

ms. porkle

porkle = pork + pickle

yesterday i made pork chops and they were really scrumpshhh. here was my recipe:

brine for 4 hours in

• 1 cup pickle juice

• ¼ cup kosher salt

• 2-3 cups water

• fresh dill

• orange peel

• black peppercorn

then batter with

• flour

• panko bread crumb

• i also used some of this box of mccormick’s ‘cajun batter’ i had

• and for good measure a lot of slap ya mama, more black pepper, and some seasoning called chick-a-lick-a-bam-bam

• i did not use eggs or buttermilk — but you could try this if you want to be extra

then fry them up in vegetable oil, make sure internal temp is at least 140 F 🙂 

THEY WERE SO GOOD!!! so pickly