Sunday, December 02, 2001


people often ask me what coffee web sites i prefer. . .

so herewith, the ones i read most often:


there are many more, especially shopping-type ones, but i'll list those later. in the meantime, i hope this helps.

while it's now old news, i must say that i'm still quite sad about george harrison. i found most of the obituaries to be oddly dismissive and off the mark. (maybe this one from the washington post comes out best? although this one from the london times is a hoot, considering. . .)

those that weren't seemed to be more about the writer (here and here) than about harrison. the music aside -- although i happen to love the beatles -- it's amazing to me how little most people still appreciate how much the beatles completely changed popular culture and american society. i find all the obituaries perpetuate this. . .and fail to examine how eventually most of the beatles' hobbies, interests, and attitudes percolated throughout society, to the extent that they still seem like the unexamined baselines for alt.hipitude today. . .

without them, we'd probably still be basically be two fools wearing bobby sox in frankie avalon's world (not to put those fine hair products down). . .as the boy-bands on mtv should prove to anyone. . .they may not be swinging on a rainbow, but their basic no-think no-threat sham-thrust is the same. . .

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