Soul Kitchen

I was going through a gruesome time personally and didn’t need it. An online blog was like the last thing on my radar at that time.

Things are kind of better now so I’ll get the stuff I wrote earlier back up even if I may not be back to full time writing yet…or ever.

Don’t know yet but I really appreciate all the messages from people checking up on me and requesting for the content back.

In the meantime you can find the Cowboy Bebop essays below:

@louieseemsgay Um…well I only wrote one long essay on Bebop and Hemingway featuring the specific example of “A Clean Well-lighted Place” and how the nada/nothing in it is exactly as much not a nothing as the blank spaces in Bebop are not blank at all. :) Linking that below.

I love the parallels you come up with honestly and it’s very refreshing to see someone bring up Hemingway in this context. Though maybe I don’t see the young waiter as Faye because he had something to go home to while she has nothing. He would be Jet for me and how he keeps telling Spike to let go of his past etc. because he had the option to let go of his while Spike doesn’t. Spike’s past refuses to let go of him. In the story the young waiter wants the cafe to be closed because he has something to go home to while the older one doesn’t. Jet is still well-adjusted.

For me Spike and Faye are more parallels of each other and hence closer to the old man and the waiter who both had nothing. Like Spike can’t get away from his past to build a new life, Faye can’t do anything about her circumstances. Her insurmountable debt makes her a victim to doing the best she can but she can never get away from it and it keeps her from having any chance at a “normal” life.

Bebop also keeps building how similar both of them are to each other and of course I personally see a hell lot more in their relationship than people generally believe.

@louieseemsgay Very plausible scenario. Broken man with not a whole lot adopts kid who’s not got anyone else (assuming she never meets the Bebop crew in this scenario).

It would then proceed to be the wholesome story of a single Dad who finds something to live for with his innocent, loves-everyone daughter and dog. They’d probably go to parks a lot, take Ein for walks. He’d learn to cook her nutritious meals. She’d take care of the bird and read him stupid stories she wrote.

All his “nothing in the world worth believing in” would probably fade away and he’d get to dial himself back to a more human self.

10/10 would watch that.

That but with vicious and spike when they were young

@louieseemsgay Huh. Kinda interesting that you picked the Valery episode, another guy whose death is a literal question mark.

Netbop tried to look at this a bit. Their backstory with just bantery conversations and them screwing up on the job. I know they got made fun of for that but I thought that scene was done pretty well.

In the anime they're both larger than life, too cool for school who'd probably not mess up this way by the time we see them, but fun to imagine them as rookies screwing up and getting pulled up by Mao or someone just like Paulie and Chris get pulled up by Tony.

@louieseemsgay Yeah we covered this with the Ein thing. Topic closed. Man loves everyone but doesn’t know how to show it. Fights himself to an inch of death to save them. Next topic. Something around Vicious maybe?

@louieseemsgay Not sure why anyone would ask these questions of a confused mango residing alone on Pluto given that mangos can’t see televisions and hence I’ve never seen this show. Also we don’t get cable here. But it feels like a quest I must fulfil.

@louieseemsgay If Spike was real, the kind of emotionally-repressed, confused-in-the-head, ticking time bomb of a man he is….this has 97.6843% probability of happening.

Please also see under the Sundry Likely Instances section for activities like cleaning the Red Tail for Faye while claiming to hate women and buying Ed piyokos while saying he wishes they could drop her back to Earth.

Faye has been taken hostage by the red dragon. She’s at the opera house and has been seated she hears

*blup blup* “you’re trembling.”

Faye: who are you? Tell me!

*she turns to a man whose head is a fish in a tank connected to a human body*

“Fishous.”

@louieseemsgay Um. Ok let me handle this delicately. That’s actually the super-secret elite version of that episode which was only released to a select group of VVIPs. It seems you were there as well though, since all of us were also wearing fish in tanks as our heads, I cannot be sure of course.

Either way I would request you to not speak publicly of this ever again.