Unsolicited Testimonials
I didn't set out to make this a political blog, but in recent months politics was foremost in my mind.
That hasn't really changed in the aftermath of the election, but I am ruminating on some things which I am not ready to write out. Lots of other folks have cogent things to say about politics right now, if that's what you're in the mood for.
Meantime, I have been meaning to offer some unsolicited testimonials for some stuff I really like:
Gimme! Coffee started out as a little corner coffee joint in Ithaca, New York; the corner happened to be the street I lived on at the time, and I became a Gimme! regular. Today they have several shops in the Ithaca area, one in Brooklyn (which I'm kind of peeved about, because when I left I was all over Kevin about opening up down here, and he said he would prefer to open a store in Prague, but that's another story) . . . and their exceptional coffee can be ordered online. (I'm partial to the Bahiazul for regular coffee, and the Leftist Espresso for lattes.) There are also how-to's on making perfect coffee on the web site. We're going to need plenty of caffeine to get through the revolution, so try this stuff.
I like to ruminate, particularly about fiction in progress, in a spiral notebook. This means I have stacks of notebooks, organized in no way except chronological, and no way to find specific ruminations when I want them. Which is why I have switched to NoteBook on my laptop. It looks like good old-fashioned spiral notebook pages . . . except they can be organized, searched, rearranged, etc. (And I don't know about you, but my typing is way faster than my longhand scribbling.) Works like a scrapbook, too; you can paste in text, pictures, charts, etc. from other applications, web links, whatever (e.g., the kind of stuff a writer accumulates while doing research). It's a wonderful tool for outlining a novel (which I am doing right now; 70,000+ words in, I finally realize I need an outline to figure out what the hell I'm doing . . . oy), keeping track of research, notes, ideas, web pages, and just jotting things down and being able to have a prayer of finding them again. Mwahahaha--there's no PC version; it's only for Macs. (Me and my cult faves: Mac, Saturn, liberalism . . . Joooooiiiiinnnnnnn usssssssss....)
And the four-legged members of the household have asked mSEND TUNA! WE WANT TUNA LOTS OF TUN-- hey, give me back that keyboard, Eggie--um, they would like to express their fondness for Trader Joe's cat food, especially thTUNA WE LOVE TUNA WE WANT TUNA EVERY DAY NO EVERY HOUR OF EVERY DAY--Eggie! stop that! (and when you learn HTML?) I was just about to write that you like their tuna for cats. Their web site says "our tasting panel tastes every product before we buy it." The cat food too? Eggie would like to sign up.
That hasn't really changed in the aftermath of the election, but I am ruminating on some things which I am not ready to write out. Lots of other folks have cogent things to say about politics right now, if that's what you're in the mood for.
Meantime, I have been meaning to offer some unsolicited testimonials for some stuff I really like:
Gimme! Coffee started out as a little corner coffee joint in Ithaca, New York; the corner happened to be the street I lived on at the time, and I became a Gimme! regular. Today they have several shops in the Ithaca area, one in Brooklyn (which I'm kind of peeved about, because when I left I was all over Kevin about opening up down here, and he said he would prefer to open a store in Prague, but that's another story) . . . and their exceptional coffee can be ordered online. (I'm partial to the Bahiazul for regular coffee, and the Leftist Espresso for lattes.) There are also how-to's on making perfect coffee on the web site. We're going to need plenty of caffeine to get through the revolution, so try this stuff.
I like to ruminate, particularly about fiction in progress, in a spiral notebook. This means I have stacks of notebooks, organized in no way except chronological, and no way to find specific ruminations when I want them. Which is why I have switched to NoteBook on my laptop. It looks like good old-fashioned spiral notebook pages . . . except they can be organized, searched, rearranged, etc. (And I don't know about you, but my typing is way faster than my longhand scribbling.) Works like a scrapbook, too; you can paste in text, pictures, charts, etc. from other applications, web links, whatever (e.g., the kind of stuff a writer accumulates while doing research). It's a wonderful tool for outlining a novel (which I am doing right now; 70,000+ words in, I finally realize I need an outline to figure out what the hell I'm doing . . . oy), keeping track of research, notes, ideas, web pages, and just jotting things down and being able to have a prayer of finding them again. Mwahahaha--there's no PC version; it's only for Macs. (Me and my cult faves: Mac, Saturn, liberalism . . . Joooooiiiiinnnnnnn usssssssss....)
And the four-legged members of the household have asked mSEND TUNA! WE WANT TUNA LOTS OF TUN-- hey, give me back that keyboard, Eggie--um, they would like to express their fondness for Trader Joe's cat food, especially thTUNA WE LOVE TUNA WE WANT TUNA EVERY DAY NO EVERY HOUR OF EVERY DAY--Eggie! stop that! (and when you learn HTML?) I was just about to write that you like their tuna for cats. Their web site says "our tasting panel tastes every product before we buy it." The cat food too? Eggie would like to sign up.
posted by Maines at 9:26 PM
1 Comments:
Just remember, Egg, too much tuna can be a bad thing--too much mercury or something. Also, you may just lose the taste for something if you overindulge (although that's never happened for me and pizza).
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