Eastern Promise

I have of late, I know not why, been drinking rather a lot of raw, fermented kombucha root. The experience is rather like gulping down tangy mouthfuls of cold sea monkey tea. Apparently this healthy Chinese brew contains a significant number of "live cultures" - which always makes me think of groups of effete bacteria swimming around quoting Oscar Wilde: "Some of us may hide in the cracks behind the toilet but we are looking at the stars!"

I had hoped that imbibing this restorative liquid might improve my typing, and at four dollars per sixteen fluid ounces I don't think I was expecting much. Alas, I am still all hunt and peck with Constantine's finger at the keyboard.

(You will note that I am trying to include explanatory links in my posts since some readers still claim that they often have no idea what I'm talking about.)

Comments

[constantine's nail clipper]

the photo really clears things up,,. it always saddens me when these sea-monkey cultures continue to revere their islandic deities, stomping and singing even as he rains down a lava of disinfectant upon their village paradise. Nice connection you make between the marble relic of the big C's finger and the aerosol finger-trigger,(it could be Lysol,Lestoil, Chlorox,.. i'm not a brand snob) suggested by the toilet bacteria that must be extinguished through a chemical solution. And who is to say whether or not fermented kombucha root is not working its alchemical solution in the crucible bowl of your stomach, eh? Parallels everywhere!

[paracelsus]

also, drawing on distant memory, when a guy starts taking into himself weird esoteric concoctions, there is usually an alluring female lifting the goblet to his lips, promising great benefits from the vaporous essences. and usually, she is awful perty. say it aint so,..

[DarkoV]

Jealousy is too mild to express my emotional response to your entry. While my bathroom bacteria simply turns shades of grey and purple, yours are quoting Wilde.

"No bacteria left behind!", I shout. Where can I send in their enrollment forms?