Coffee, coffee, coffee

Posted on October 4, 2007 - Filed Under

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Dear Ad Wizard,
Do I need a Cleveland Steamer to make Icepresso?

And that reminds me … I’m not sure I grok how a book can be frothy, but whatever. What I really want to know is who GULPS cappuccino besides the staff at Essential magazine apparently?

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Claim Jumping

Posted on September 14, 2007 - Filed Under

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The Manhattan icon of the hot dog cart is an anachronism. Ignatius J. Reilly would find it even more tragic here, because the business model has morphed itself into all manners of foodstuffs, most of which outshine soupy weiners. Halal is presently king of New York, but you can find find much more [...]

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Paper, Rock, Schisms

Posted on December 19, 2006 - Filed Under

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James Wood, reviewing Sam Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation in The New Republic:
the jauntily unphilosophical way in which most popular atheistic writing simply ignores the Wittgensteinian dilemmas is disappointing, and explains why its explanations of the sources of religious belief are so jejune. Is there not a kind of insult to language in so [...]

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Possible blog name change

Posted on December 13, 2006 - Filed Under

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Black Market Kidneys may be getting a little stale. Dare I go with “The Infamous French Press Sludge”?

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It Gets Really, Really Bad

Posted on November 7, 2006 - Filed Under

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Today I see in my office breakroom that the (passable) Starbucks “House Blend” has been replaced with Folgers. Joy.

Poppers pop
Breakers Break
Raiders Suck
Writers Write:
“Watching the 2006 Oakland Raiders makes me yearn to read fiction about 9/11 written with many, many adverbs.”

Well-Balanced Bastards of the Day

Tire of Nick Hornby? Why not check out what’s on A.L Kennedy’s [...]

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No, the hunting partner wasn’t Scalia…

Posted on February 13, 2006 - Filed Under

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Even if I have watched at least some of every Super Bowl since John Riggins bowled over the Dolphins, I must confess that, Madison Avenue’s efforts notwithstanding, the only pre-dotcom Super Bowl commercials that readily come to mind are the yearly Bud Bowl installments.  In fact, I can even remember talking about it the following [...]

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Starbucks On The March

Posted on September 8, 2005 - Filed Under

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On a recent trip to Seattle, I noted some similarities between that city on the sound and my hometown, Omaha. Population: check [both in the 550,000s neighborhood, though Seattle's metro area being much larger]Music "Scene": check. Seattle: early 90’s grunge. Omaha: late 90’s Emo (wince)Coffee: No Check. Seattle is, of course, the home of Starbucks [...]

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