you think animals are sentient? i think pain is pain. if you don t respond to that, there s something seriously wrong with you. it s very buddhist of you, i think. look, when i worked in cape cod, my job is to load this steamer with lobsters, and they don t scream. but you know you hear them scratching against it. i have dreams i m in a sauna and i look through the window and there s a giant lobster like, you know, a bib with a chef on it, you know. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la sha la la la bhutan, a remote, relatively rarely visited kingdom of myth and legend, high in the himalayas, known as land of the thunder dragon. one of the reasons it s not on the tourist trail is it s hard to get to. flying in, you hang on to your seat as the plane negotiates some alarming maneuvers through narrow mountain passes, befo
they are really good. right, chili cheese momo. pardon? chili cheese momo. cheese momo? chili cheese. wow, everything s fine. good thing to do. okay. all right, here we go. mmm. that s excellent. yeah. that s spicy. that is. yeah, i m feeling that. mmm. i feel it in the back of my head. it s enlightenment. it s your third eye opening, man. i can t even tell what we re talking about. i m like so high from the altitude . morning in bhutan s capital, a kingdom that has existed contentedly in a state of self-imposed isolation for centuries.