10/08/2020
Going viral on TikTok for live-streaming yourself in an ambulance on the way to getting your stomach pumped, forcing your newly acquired Chihuahua to lip-sync or endorsing a laxative tea whilst sitting in a burger restaurant seems to be just another ā2020 vibeā that weāre forced to accept. For anyone 20+ the app is quite bewildering. Is that a real face that Iām looking at or some virtual-reality bot? Is that 16-year-old varsity cheerleader really purposely doing blackface or is it an insensitive filter? Or too much fake tan? AND how is this on my feed? Why are my algorithms showing me this???? WHY CANāT I DANCE TOO? Is that her voice or someone elseās? AM I OLD? WHATāS GOING ON? No worries about Chinese data mining, thereās bigger fish to fry. Like why is my cat video not getting views and going viral so that I can get agency represented and have my life funded by partaking in influencer marketing for teeth whitening?! OHH yeah and thereās also that other thing going on⦠the pandemic.
In times like these we seek comfort⦠or validation on the Internet⦠or escapism and intoxication through alcohol and mind altering substances, but for the sake of our sanity, stomachs and the South Australian economy letās stick with comfortā¦. comfort-food.
In this world it sometimes seems as though there are few things that you can utterly rely on. Marriages end, your Co-Star horoscope lied, that āfruityā natural wine was actually s**t, the pot plant didnāt really survive indoors and even your cat is probably cheating on you with your next-door neighbor, BUT in pasta we trust and in ācarbonaraā there is ācarbā.
Carbs are the basis of all humankind; the coal to our engines, the wind in our sails, the lightening charger to our iPhones and essentially the meaning for existence in this nonsensical world. So yeah, maybe try this carbonara. Look at the cheese. It was good.
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