May 15, 2004

• Woo hoo! Tanks Forky! Wasabi is the best cure for sinus infections. Eating it, not snorting it.
• I love wasabi so much. The kick and the sweetness. When I take a dollop into my mouth, it feels like something hits me in the back of the head. Do others experience this? What is that, and why does it happen?
• It's because your taste buds are reacting as if they are in pain, and your brain in response is releasing a small amount of natural painkillers which names I forget, but they're like tiny hits of smack in your grey matter, which is also why I looooove hot food and particularly super hot Thai curries & soup. Anyway, you are mildly addicted to this harmless pleasure-hit. You are a wasabi-junkie. I love eating hot chilli food or whathaveyou and sitting there as my lips pulse with the sting, and my eyes water, and my brain quivers like a monkey spanking itself in a garden of dope.
• The best part is when the hit of wasabi goes right up from your mouth, through your nose. It makes your head feel alive. Yum.
• Nostrildamus knows! Wasabi lets me know what a fire-breathing dragon feels like for a split-second or two. Really hot mustard, curry sauces, chili peppers, the more the merrier.
• I had a friend once mistake wasabi for guacamole. That was funny - in a 'cause isn't me kinda way
• You mean that's not schadenfreude?