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Simple Things

I had In-N-Out today. There is something exquisite about the simplicity of that burger. I thought about all the things I had prepared and eaten over the past few days -- homemade ragout, a balsamic and Dijon marinated London broil, vanilla-honey mascarpone with fruit. None of it really compared with this burger. I tasted the special sauce, American cheese, and ground beef as if I were studying it. I tried to puzzle out the secrets of this burger -- or its seeming lack of secrets, as it were -- such as, what cut of beef do they use to get this level of flavor? They don't seem to salt the patty too much. What do they use to dilute the special sauce, because it is too thin to be just the ordinary ketchup-mayonnaise-relish concoction? Is this true American cheese, because it seems more flavorful? And then as the blood rushed from my head to my stomach to digest, I lost interest in the whole train of thought and just ate lazily like a trucker.

While chowing down, I was watching Since You Went Away, though not very intently. Mostly, I wanted to envision how it came to be that David O. Selznick fell in love with Jennifer Jones while directing her in the film. How he then dumped Irene Selznick (nee Mayer, as in Louis B.'s daughter) quicker than yesterday's trash for Ms. Jones. Is it just Hollywood marriage that so frequently combusts, or is it just marriage in general? Marriage is clearly one of those things for which, after a period of time, people lose focus from and become distracted. It could be so simple. I think that we spend so much time being preoccupied and affected by nonsense, as an excuse to divert your focus from that actual non-problem we call boring stability. Maybe I'm not making any sense anymore. That burger really got the best of me.

Today, I made my peace with LA.

A little overdue, but once again, I very much appreciated the previous comments to my post from two days ago.

posted by Lucy Sloan @ 8:01 PM