Back in The States with baked goods that don’t contain hot dogs, sweet cream, or mayonnaise substance. Other countries have more regionally distinctive cuisines than The States, e.g. Sichuan food (spicy, numbing, hotpot) vs Hunan (Spicy). Shanghainese (Oily, Fried) food for example. Looking at Asia as a whole the differences get bigger. What exactly is “American Food,” besides every other country’s food assimilated into one place? BBQ, hamburgers, and pizza come to mind (all of which I enjoy). Actually though,  peanut butter, cereal, cookies qualify too. I gather that Australians and Asian people don’t like peanut butter. And I’m not convinced that any other country can do Mexican right besides Mexico and the States. Anyway, it’s really good to eat American food again.

Spent the first night Stateside in Chicago, and while it’s got great architecture, food, and public transportation*, the city has yet to show me it’s not a colossally powerful magnet for bros. Big Ten bros. The bro factor/ concentration of borderline-retarded yuppies*1, young and old could possibly dwarf the city’s merits.

One of my all-time favorite songs. The intro never gets old. After listening to so much dance music in the last two years, really notice the drummachine disco/proto house style mechanical drumming on here. And the bassline…

Joy Division - Disorder

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*1 These two groups visibly overlap. Often a bro will transform into a borderline-retarded yuppie after getting a girl pregnant by engaging in unprotected sex while drunken on light beer. It differs from accidental pregnancies in the lower classes because the male may be employed by an accounting firm or in another white-collar profession.

*2 I praise Chicago on actually having a functional subway, a rarity in The States. Love for maintained antiquity aside, the Brown Line stopped for a twenty-minute breather over the river yesterday around noon and I consequently missed my train back to Kalamazoo, one in a series of encounters with bad luck experienced during the first twenty hours back.