I'm Not going to Lie

If by some magic the wind stayed down, the temperture never dropped below 20F or so, and the snow remained light enough to be pretty but nor paralyzing, I could be perfectly happy in a world where it's always winter.  It is truly delightful in its mild form.  I know that there needs to be some consistent warmth somewhere for food to grow. That would be a problem sure. 

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Speaking of food, I could seriously dig on this.  I'd be well satisfied with a diet of mushrooms, olives, peppers, perhaps double the amount of wine recommended, Shiraz or other such of the thrat-melting dank red shit, and the occasional slice of chicken. 

I have been considering giving up mammal.  I think pork and beef are maybe too bloaty for me  More to the point I've always had an affinity for cats & dogs, so simple yet so vivacious and distinct in personality, and it does bother me how people can rightously rail against those who abuse conventional pets while at the same time dismissing vegetarians as foolish or weak or radical.  There's an obvious insecurity in that, one that evokes C.S. Lewis' 'mere difference' spiel in the assumption that personally choosing to not eat meat is in itself a claim to superiority over those who do. 

It does require some distinctly magical thought, to see a cow as obviously inferior to a dog when they are in scientific fact about equal in mental and emotional complexity, to love one as a member of the family while viewing the captivity, slaughter, and consumption of the other as the primal true order of things.  Still I'm not saying I agree with vegans and vegetarians.  I'll always be able to eat bird with conscience clear.  Birds are disgusting lizard-beasts who torture their younger siblings to death and then grow up to feed vomit to their young.  I'd even go so far as to say that the Cougar should replace the bald eagle as our national animal, though on that matter there's no need to rush.  Heaven knows our future masters will be placing their own feline visage upon every emblem of power after the Day of The Tooth falls upon us.