Good news: Lobster prices are at $2.20 a pound in Maine!
Bad News: Lobster prices are at $2.20 a pound in Maine.
Why would that be bad news? In almost the immortal words of Steve McCroskey: I picked a bad time to quit meat (And not live in Maine, but that’s another post.)
There’s always the other shoe dropping. I love being a lawyer, generally. But I have a hearing I am just not “into” this morning. That would be the bad news. The good news: It’s at 10:30am so I get to avoid the back-to-school, can’t-drive-in-rain morass that is our Miami-Dade County roads until 10am. (The ancillary good news is that I am procrastinating getting ready by writing this post.)
Good news: It’s Miami Spice month!
Bad news: See Steve McCroskey quote above.
For those of you outside of the Miami foodie scene, Miami Spice is where the best restaurants in town serve a price fixed three-course menu for a fraction of their normal prices. This altruism is really an effort to increase traffic during a traditionally slow season by getting the locals to try what is normally experienced by tourists. Their website is http://www.ilovemiamispice.com/. It works wonderfully. I have been a proud patron for ages and look forward to it every year. Now I find myself combing the menus to see how I can make it a vegan experience. I am not succeeding.
Maybe being a vegan is like being a lawyer. When asked what I do, I generally say I practice law. The reason every lawyer practices law is because you are never really perfect at it. Law is an ever-changing, living thing, incapable of being mastered. Maybe I am practicing being a vegan. Clearly I am not an “ethical” vegan, more of a “diet” vegan, but since I don’t have it down pat, can I just be a practicing vegan?
Good news: Oreos are Vegan!
Bad news: They are chock full of sugar without a single whole grain, total, in the entire package. Moreover, they are defeatist as the complete antithesis of what you are trying to accomplish, i.e. weight loss and increased health.
Sorry, I couldn't hear you over the elated oompah band playing in my head.
Good news: Oreos are VEGAN! ‘nuff said.
Good and bad. Ying and yang. Black and white. It’s always the dichotomy, because Life is just one ironic bitch.