October 17, 2004
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I have been asked by so many of you what the secret recipe really is for space-ade that I have decided to share it with you. It's kind of like sun tea here on your earth, but with a little more zing. (By 'here', I mean for you, since I am actually on my world and 'here' only as a p-brane holographic contrition, but I digress.) You set out a little pitcher of hydromix, dangle a few bags of ground dried matham stalks in it, set it outside, and let the starlight bathe it into a sparkling beverage. The timing is very precise. On earth you don't have enough starlight, being but on an outer arm of the spiral galaxy. On my own planet we don't actually have a 'sun' since our orbit wobbles slowly through a path of oscillating star orbits around a huge black hole (but not to worry, we are not near the event horizon), and we have quite a variety of names for different wavelengths of starlight, much as your indigenous northern folk do for snow. Certain areas of our eccentric path create far better strains of space-ade than others, but you earthlings aren't able to enjoy the fine and delicate nuances enough with your crude senses to know the difference. Not to be rude, of course. But that is the secret recipe!
