Shrink in the Kitchen

I don’t know if it will be Palin-Brown or Brown-Palin in 2012, but, gosh, it sure isn’t gonna be Obama-Biden.  The banks, insurance companies, and pharmaceutical firms are pleased with the deregulatory positions of the current administration.  After all, nothing has changed or is slated to change in these industries.  But you know and they know that with Palin or Brown at the helm, things will change: Laws will be rolled back.

So I hope you enjoyed our version of Weimer as much as I did.  Next time around?  It’s going to be if you white you right, if you black, get back, as they said in my hometown of Plainfield, New Jersey, home of Texas red hots on Main Street, race riots in ‘67, and George Clinton, my personal guide.

“What would George do?”  I ask myself in any given situation.  It’s like having my own personal Jesus, as Johnny Cash sang or croaked, but with the liberty of funk.  Yeah, that’s right, you all citizens of One Nation Under A Groove if you just let it happen.  Serious.

Of course, the Palin-Brown or Brown-Palin regime will be good news for gourmands.  Food is the #1 distraction for the well-heeled whose appetites will be sated and imaginations quenched by 9-course tasting menus instead of taking it to the streets.

Sarah Palin has a view of food, by the way, consistent with a free range outlook on raising animals, no joke.  In a terrific review of her memoir, “Going Rogue: An American Life,” (implying perhaps that our current leader’s Indonesian childhood makes him funny in a Joe Pesci kind of way), Jonathan Raban, writing in The New York Review of Books, quotes her as saying: “I love meat.  I eat pork chops, thick bacon burgers, and the seared fatty edges of a medium-well-done steak.  But I especially love moose and caribou.  I always remind people that there’s plenty of room for all Alaska’s animals–right next to the mashed potatoes…”  http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23723

All this said, it’s the second night of the weekend!  The new Polanski!  Time to try a new Chinese place, East by Northeast!

The ship is up-ending!  Cocktails!

This would be nice on a bed of rice, grilled, and braised.  I’d call it, “Moose Three Ways.”