Robert Jorin : Baking Light and Flaky Croissants
Paul Callahan : Almost nothing to do with grapefruit
"Cheese, by contrast, encompasses the entire range of human experience: birth and sexuality, the fecundity of nature from the sweetness of a wildflower meadow to the musk of a doe in estrus to the
wriggling of mosquito larvae in a stagnant pool, death, decay, vomit, oozing pustules, mystic visions, war atrocities. Well, maybe it's not the whole range of experience. For example, I cannot think of a
cheese that makes me feel the way I felt when I first saw the proof that a certain length of rope, hung in a certain way, takes the shape of the very same catenary arc, regardless of its weight. No, if cheese is unlike grapefruit, it is far far less like mathematics. Mathematics and cheese are in a very precise, dare I say mathematical sense, antonyms. And as you can see, cheese is a bit biased toward
one side of the spectrum of experience, particularly when you get to what I think of as the "advanced" cheeses. As for me, I'm a rank beginner, but I have a theory about cheese."
Adbusters : Vandalism is Art
"Vandalism is a kind of parasitism born from the essence of millennial western civilization. In our current culture we stand fractured, manipulated by technology and commercial interests. Marketers assign meaning to clothing, cars, furniture, even food; we choose our meanings with our products, simultaneously creating and eradicating our sense of our selves. We are commercial projects of meaning. We are host organisms and commodity culture is the parasite. We are vandalized objects - bent, warped, covered with markings we can't honestly say we chose by free will. Sapped of community and humanity, we have come to believe that we depend on our parasite for identity." I'm not sure I really agree with all of this, but the
Invasion of the Body Snatchers language cracks me up. One day, I noticed that a friend had a small card in her office that read "Yelling is an act of violence" (ugh.) While she wasn't looking, I quickly covered it with a new card that read "I need a more suitable host body."