Friday, July 04, 2003


another coffee crisis article

and thanks to bccy reader james severin, here's a link to a nice article on the coffee crisis. it even quotes our great pal mark prince.

thanks for the heads up, j! we here at bccy are otherwise celebrating the bright but somewhat hazy day with espresso. after spending the morning on the promenade reading the ny times, i had to notice that i just couldn't focus.

the allure of the charming mix of ferries, tugs, private sailboats, and occasional majestic schooner (yeah, yeah "my she was yar") plying the water against the panorama of new york from the verrazano bridge to the chrysler building keeps drawing the attention away from the dull newsprint.

it is amazing that the papers even bother anymore; the difference between their understanding and the amazing beauty of the actual new york is now so huge you'd think they'd just admit defeat and haul off to connecticut. but new york needs no eclogues from me. . . .

after all this view is basically what i see from my living room window every day, and it makes a fine backdrop for the fireworks this evening. we'll be standing on the roof of our historic building as usual to see the golden peonies of fire cascade over 70 pine.

and the whole time i will probably still be pondering my internal vision -- a kind of anatomy of melancholy, but about coffee. . .to filch from don schoenholdt of gillies, we could call it some about coffee!

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