Category Archives: coffee sameness

the name of the thing

i’m working on a new title for the novel, so here it is.

the real best coast

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 [...]

why dentists like suction

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 [...]

things that make my brain go bonkers

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 [...]

i heart slankers

because the convalescent pup needs bones to keep her happy for the 60 (now 45!!) days of crate rest, we ordered 40 pounds of meat + bones from the wonderful people at Slankers. yes we had to fulfill the minimum by adding people meat parts to the order. so drool over this: coffee/cumin dry-rubbed meaty [...]

car-puccino

56 espressos per mile coffee breaks every 30-45 miles new filters every 60 miles not a bad way to go. courtesy of dailymail

argument

last fall a great Italian friend of mine was hired by the Met and i took a trip out there to show him—a babe in the woods as far as having never left the Florentine motherland—the glories of Bed Bath and Beyond & Ikea and to argue the necessity of spending the money for a [...]

line up kiddies

courtesy of The Nervous Breakdown

Napoleon had some sense

coffee goodness

good news for middle-aged Finns

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