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The Percolated Pot: An Instruction Manual For Decent Coffee Coffee

The Percolated Pot: An Instruction Manual For Decent Coffee

John David Duke Jr February 15, 2023

I hereby condescend to show you the way to a decent pot of coffee, to give you...

Remote Barista: Cafe Con Leche

Christopher Bradley March 30, 2020

Now that everyone that can is (presumably) following the rules and staying at home, you may need...

An Instant Coffee Life: From Juan Valdez to Jean-Luc coffee

An Instant Coffee Life: From Juan Valdez to Jean-Luc

Genya Coulter November 25, 2019

My misadventures with instant coffee and foreign boyfriends

Sunday Morning! Beginning Balzac & Eugénie Grandet balzac

Sunday Morning! Beginning Balzac & Eugénie Grandet

Rufus F. July 28, 2019

I suppose by middle age it's high time I started with Balzac...

Starting The Day With a Breakfast Surprise CABriggs HtStDoW 3042 Pancakes

Starting The Day With a Breakfast Surprise

Clare Briggs May 6, 2019

Pancakes

Gastrodestination Portland IFRL-Mindiv-fernando-valenzuela-1229781-unsplash

Gastrodestination Portland

Burt Likko May 8, 2013

To the left is a meal I had in Portland, Oregon this weekend. It was not the best...

Briefly, On The Rational Consumption Of Coffee IFRL-NaPP-Space-31528824221_9af60ea3ba_c

Briefly, On The Rational Consumption Of Coffee

Sam Wilkinson October 4, 2012

Rose Woodhouse’s excellent post about voting and economic rationality once again rekindled my own interest in the...

Instant Pleasure (on Rufus Wainwright, Coffee, and Running Shoes) IFRL-NaPP-Asia-rawpixel-id-426260

Instant Pleasure (on Rufus Wainwright, Coffee, and Running Shoes)

Sam Wilkinson August 29, 2012

Rufus Wainwright got married, and although all of the “No gay marriages for ANYBODY!” crowd called immediately...

A Cosmic Question for Saturday Evening: why is the elderly gentleman at table 57’s coffee not hot enough? IFRL-NaPP-Space-nasa-europa

A Cosmic Question for Saturday Evening: why is the elderly gentleman at table 57’s coffee not hot enough?

Christopher Carr December 17, 2011

So I’ve been working part-time in a restaurant since August. I started as a humble bus boy...

Words To Live By IFRL-TLC-Scenery-natanael-vieira-578708-unsplash

Words To Live By

J.L. Wall December 16, 2010

[F]or about thirty years I have been showing my respect for the established orthodoxy by skipping breakfast....

InMD in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025I think Jay is right about this though. If you're going to get rid of him do it for that reason, not…
Dark Matter in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025The mistake was hiring him. He's doing things which are NOT compatible with his current job/role nor…
Dark Matter in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025Syria is complex but my impression is the US backed groups aren't in charge. The big group that did…
Jaybird in reply to DensityDuck on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025Any given special-interest group has concerns that are serious and legitimate and, unfortunately, so…
Philip H on American Foreign Policy Drive-by: Houthis and the Blowfish EditionAs with so much of this administrations work, performative war works for people with short attention…
DensityDuck in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025"It’s not related to his arguments that we should primary useless Democrats in safe seats. It’s beca…
Jaybird in reply to Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025And, to be perfectly honest, removing Hogg from his seat not because "you can't sabotage Dems in goo…
Jaybird in reply to Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025Even a blind squirrel is right twice a day.
LeeEsq in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025Like it should be blindingly obvious to people that there is a big issue in Islam's adopting to mode…
Saul Degraw in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025Eh. I think David Hogg should have stayed but that in the end this is kind of gossip for the very on…