Our shiny-faced morning friend, the ever-cheerful chrome peacock, coming up on fifteen years, took a big dump the other morning. This spawned all sorts of discussions (still underway) about getting a roaster PLUS a new espresso machine. In the meantime we discovered our neighbors just down the road had none other than the GS/3 Marzocco, [...]
Canine Sherman’s fentanyl patch… this week surgery is definitely in the air. the coffee grinder needed fixing… the WOPR got checked out, and i swapped out my laptop’s old hard drive for a new crazy fast solid state drive. wowee! it’s like driving a Prius. no moving parts. silent. the only thing i will miss [...]
It’s the end of summer, and Canine Sherman is happy to share her summer reading list. She’s busy writing her summer vacation essay too, titled “My Trip to the Soft Touch Plus.”
just a response to the comment regarding my post on chain stores invading NY.
time is a funny thing, especially “brain time,” which is the clock inside our heads that we rely on as “real,” even though it’s actually dependent on our subjective consciousness and perception rather than fixed increments of seconds, microseconds, etc. the April 25, 2011 issue of the New Yorker has a fabulous article by Burkhard [...]
every once in awhile we take a bullet and agree to work (gratis) for certain non-profits of a spiritual persuasion. we do this, despite what a friend of mine—a non-profit consultant by choice—says about dealing with those kind of non-profits: “RUN!” this year for their fundraiser they wanted to make t-shirts, and suggested putting a [...]
i’m working on a new title for the novel, so here it is.
my new favorite band, Best Coast, has the sweetest beach-fuzz sound i’ve heard in a long time. and that’s an earbuds-on-fire-i’ll-coo-with-you, long time. having spent many years on this best coast, one thing i thought i missed from the east coast were these swirly things that came down from the trees every fall. the few [...]
my teeth are in really great shape (“only floss the ones you want to keep!”) but i do make a point to see my dentist at least three times a year. mostly it’s because my visits include drinking coffee out of his vacuum pot with his freshly roasted beans (kenyan, usually). there’s a whole rigmarole [...]
just a short list for today: –a bonanza of fava beans. god, there’s never enough. lucky for me it’s also green garlic season so sauteing the two together in butter makes everyone lick their plates so clean there’s no dishwashing here until tomato season! –indecision: –crazy assed yet beautifully designed Chinese coffee tins: yes, i [...]
