le Café
Posted on February 18, 2009 - Filed Under Caffeine | Leave a Comment
Behold the power of le Café le Café – Oldelaf (english subtitles)by Boebis
Read More..>>O! Omaha! Obama!
Posted on November 10, 2008 - Filed Under Caffeine, Politics | Leave a Comment
This is me celebrating the Nebraska electoral vote for Obama in my official “Big O!” Omaha mug. (Peet’s Darjeeling for those scoring at home)
Read More..>>Coffee, coffee, coffee
Posted on October 4, 2007 - Filed Under Caffeine, Pain, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
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?
Read More..>>Claim Jumping
Posted on September 14, 2007 - Filed Under Caffeine, Food | Leave a Comment
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 than that: [...]
Read More..>>Paper, Rock, Schisms
Posted on December 19, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Caffeine, Music, Theology | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Read More..>>Possible blog name change
Posted on December 13, 2006 - Filed Under Caffeine | Leave a Comment
Black Market Kidneys may be getting a little stale. Dare I go with “The Infamous French Press Sludge”?
Read More..>>It Gets Really, Really Bad
Posted on November 7, 2006 - Filed Under Caffeine, Pain, Sports | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Read More..>>No, the hunting partner wasn’t Scalia…
Posted on February 13, 2006 - Filed Under Caffeine | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Read More..>>Starbucks On The March
Posted on September 8, 2005 - Filed Under Caffeine, Turf Wars | Comments Off
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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