Saturday, April 03, 2004


americanos on a gray day

we are definitely in that "april showers brings may flowers" portion of the calendar program here in bklyn.

thus on yet another gray day, i'm nursing along delicious americanos from counterculture's espresso toscano.

and into this goes those multi-nut mini-biscotti from yesterday. . . meanwhile i'm listening to night silence desert; for some reason track 5, called baroun or "rain," seems appropriate today!

"the pearl drops of your love are concealed within my weeping heart," mohammed shajarian passionately cries. this is a poem by contemporary author ali mo'allem, who seems widely recorded, but of whom info in english is hard to find. . .

but of course my fellow coffee lovers are not surprised, since anyone the least familiar with the history of our favorite and most romantic beverage understands that coffee and sufism (what us open-minded headstand pals would recognize as an intense bhakti yoga) have a long mutual and frankincense-scented history!

and in this moment, naturally the beloved googlebot sends us info on yet another study examining the beneficial anti-oxidants coffee offers us.

here at bccy we often wonder what the googlebot looks like. i personally imagine it as rather r2d2-ish: cute, friendly, and really smart. if linus van pelt were an android. . .

but back to the study. it's great to see these supplemental findings that move the discourse forward. but of course the basic news isn't surprising to long-time bccy readers, as we are all fans of the square-dancing coffee chemist himself, the amazing dr. joe vinson!

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