The first thing you need to know about cat poop coffee is that it’s not really cat poop. It’s civet poop. Civets are, according to Wikipedia, “cat-like creatures.” To me they look more like possums. I leave it to you whether this distinction makes the notion of drinking coffee brewed from the beans excreted with their […]
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forgive us our trespasses
My grandparents are Episcopalian and drive an hour out of town every Sunday in order to attend a service that condemns pretty much everyone. Remember that schism a couple years ago, when the Episcopal church was considering separating from the Anglican community in order to allow gay bishops? My grandparents have been hopping churches ever […]
Read more...grilled abacaxi
Oh goodness. Let me first say that I’m not entirely an unfeeling ice princess with a cold stone for a heart. I am sympathetic to the wife and the kids, and in a way, I’m also even sympathetic to Mark and Maria. We all get carried away and lose perspective—especially in intense and encompassing “impossible […]
Read more...how a raven is like a writing desk
… in which our heroine compares Creed to American Idol and, indirectly, monster-truck rallies. So it’s like this… this one time, I bought a Creed cd. I’m not going to bother defending this action, since the crux of my argument kind of lies in the ephemeral, simple beauty of not having to. A few weeks […]
Read more...what I think about giving up stuff for Lent
I think giving up stuff for Lent is stupid. It’s not that I don’t value life changes and sacrifice, and I mean no disrespect to Catholics—it’s really to the secular community that I’m referring. If you’re a practicing Catholic and got up this morning to have some ashes rubbed on your forehead, carry on. But […]
Read more...getting it out of my system: a letter to [Tom Daschle]
Dear [Tom], I realize this is my third open letter in two days, but I felt compelled to write and tell you how—-Ahh, fuck it. I give up. EDIT: [Caroline Kennedy, Rod Blagojevich, Nancy Killefer, Timothy Geithner, January weather in Kentucky]
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A Notebook in a Bottle to Remember in Rodanthe
I keep two pretty well maintained lists of likes and dislikes on my facebook profile. I recently added the item “everything ever written by Nicholas Sparks—I’d probably even hate his grocery lists” to my dislikes list, which gave me a grand idea. I’m pleased to present Nicholas Sparks’s grocery list: messages bottles a row boat […]
Read more...political posturing
I’ve been working on a rant about our current political situation for a couple days now, trying to figure out exactly how I want to word things, but the recent events surrounding the bailout negotiations forced my hand, and I’ve got to post this piece of it now. When McCain announced he wanted to delay […]
Read more...OH GOD THE CARNAGE
Every time it rains, I’m faced with a moral quandary. See, I’m sure you’ve noticed the worms. Perhaps you’ve taken a step out of the way to avoid smushing a worm when you’re walking around puddles. Perhaps you are even one of a bold few who pluck worms up from the sidewalk and toss them […]
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Water for Elephants
This book came highly recommended, so I was genuinely surprised that I spent the majority of it waiting for it to improve. About two-thirds of the way in, I realized that this was as good as it was going to get, and that even if the ending was spectacularly awesome and twisty, that didn’t take […]
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