Archive for category ‘happening elsewhere’
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
there are now a few dents in the butcher-block counter and some shop regulars who join bar conversations like they've been kicking around for years. the low-tech pastry display -- glass-domed saucers -- seems a stroke of budgetary genius for the juicy baked goods therein. they attract quite the longing ...
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
that breathy l.a. times piece on the new hydraulic-laden intelligentsia coffee shop: which is worse, a hyper-focus on gadgets or the miS-cApitaliZation of M'lissa Owens' first name?!
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
we're sure that barista-poet jon lewis didn't mean to start an iron maiden riot on his first trip to colombia. but hey, he's new to this cup of excellence gig. give him a break!
lewis, of course, is in colombia for this week's national coffee competition as CoE's newly installed "membership ...
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
still more incisive observation from the globe-trotting blogfather, who, in his brief stint on the mother turf, has now sampled a large array of the finest coffee establishments in these states co-joined:
high-end coffee people tend to be one of two types: exceptionally nice or total jerks.
funny 'cause it's true! you ...
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
you know the high-end coffee movement has become a bona fide cultural oddity when traveling latte artist and erstwhile blog acquaintance justin teisl shows up quoted in our local newspaper:
no, this blog had nothing to do with the placement of this story. it came via the chicago tribune's wire service, ...
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
Bridal Shower
by George Bilgere
Perhaps, in a distant café,
four or five people are talking
with the four or five people
who are chatting on their cell phones this morning
in my favorite café.
And perhaps someone there,
someone like me, is watching them as they frown,
or smile, or shrug
at their invisible friends or lovers,
jabbing the air ...
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
and so the surreptiti-blogger tacy made a rather pointy point while this blog was out about the black hole that is ... well, it's a black hole. thus lacking basic tenets of existence. and the hole that is, currently, black might otherwise be described -- if it did exist ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
the moral of the story is, you need only say something truly nice about shannon's shop -- or coffee -- and you will end up on the wall.
we're not sure who the excitable hyperventilator is who thought blueberries grew on vines. but a good quote! and strangely perfect for shannon's ...
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
this blog thinks it's true that world barista champeen stephen morrissey will soon be arriving in this general southernular region ... it's true, at least, if atlanta's lamont isn't setting us up. but we never reveal our confidential sources.
which would be sarah palin big, no? like a visit from a ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
like a teetotaler's bar epiphany, this blog and c-n-c's shannon had a few shots of the korate berry-stew espresso in the gullet when the giggling and idea-mongering began to burble out. hey, this blog snorted, we could karate chop a random passer-by every 30 minutes! while screaming, "ETHIOPIA IS THE ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
hard to know why atlanta coffee establishments of note held rumored cuppings featuring famous barista persons with nary an advance word breathed on these here interwoven nets.
hmmm, lessee. nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope and nope. conspicuous!
UPDATE: it was a counter culture thing! note to lamont: the zombie would ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
you should probably read the RodBlog exactly because of how defensive it makes those protective coffee insiders.
note: the above link doesn't go to the blog itself. for "rod thoughts," click your way from the home page. top left.
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
when it comes to those "ellusive" and "exhilirating" coffee experiences, this blog can hardly think of anything more joyous than a good cologne and coffee pairing involving, possibly, a "coffee taster's helmet."
what will these studly taste geniuses think of next -- that is, when they get back from trotting ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
CI conspiracy theorizes so you don't have to: is there some clued-in coffee person on the new york times staff -- someone, say, with very close third-wave relations -- behind the paper's curious recent tandem of quality coffee coverage with snarky, skeptical starbucks riffs? or is it just deeply american ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
disbelief: that when this blog, in its work tie, stumbled into the vicinity of a computer at 5:20 p.m. looking for the name of this country's new national barista champeen, there was no one to tell us -- nary a typewritten word within reach! that for all the live, gooey ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
it's hard to discern the bigger trend: the sea salt in the competition signature beverages, the simultaneous spro, the widespread use of gravy boats or the sheer staggering volume of online barista hair jokes aimed in the general direction of those coffee persons most follicularly endowed. to say this blog ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
when it comes to respectful, dignified usbc spectatorship, this blog realizes that it falls miserably short -- somewhere between "spooky voyeur" and "slobbering fanboy."
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
breathless, knee-jerk reaction after a day-trip to the coast leaves this blog doing wee-hours competition catch-up: that's it?!
actually, no. th' feeds, we're swimmin' in 'em.
* noted: that blogging spasmodic girl is playing all five scaa bloggers to a draw, when it comes to value-added hilarity. "solid and woody" indeed. also, ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
that's the thing about blogging -- it's better if you're ignorant!
maxims for life from the u.s. barista championship, day one:
* live, streaming video of barista glitterati in action -- even hiccuping video with warpy sound -- is flabbergastingly more compelling than youtubed competition videos. clips: eh. everybody does it ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
this blog and the barista-poet are trying desperately not to dominate the live conversation over here, where in a few meager minutes the u.s. barista competition will be unfolding on these useful internets before your very eyes ...
but it's ... so ... hard.
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
if this blog were going to embark on long-awaited, long called-for total live-blogging blanket coverage of the biggest u.s. coffee event of the year, it might go ahead and start, you know, posting stuff. so that real people -- forum surfers, casual blog readers, non-insiders -- might get some notice! ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
--- "why don't you blog about the clover?" they said. "everybody's doing it!"
this blog has been mostly surprised -- and mostly in agreement -- with the various coffee thinkers we've encountered in recent weeks who, in the end, find the ballyhooed clover single-cup brewer overrated as a taste machine. it's ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
true's got the weekend pics, into which this blog's camcorder hand intruded a regrettable number of times. we're still wrassling with our video encoders, and are about to resort to the rude, crude, youtube. meanwhile, some girl with lip is mega-blogging the great lakes regional barista competition.
told you those trophies ...
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
is it just this blog, or is what we all want from the unfolding mountain regional barista competition (we snorking, angst-addled, competition fanboys) a forehead-mounted webcam from the barista-poet come blogger while he competes? you know, jon lewis performing live a la radiohead -- "lookit me! i am the perpetual ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
hat tip: barry.
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
leaving aside the sober implications of the mermaid closing for three hours today (how badly do their baristi need training?), it's worth noting the nimble and complementary (with an "e") approach of c-n-c's hudgens, who's serving all-free spro during the same time period.
on its surface, a tactical move to ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
somewhere in our aesthetic subconscious, this works: while absorbing the audio collage cockver10 from alarm will sound, blog learns that octane's ben takes 5 big g's from the latest latte art competition, putting a halt to other creepy juggernauts of latte art fame and cementing the reputation of a resurgent ...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
good authority: c-n-c's hudgens has ditched terroir for his regular coffee supply. judging solely by the price tags on the retail bags we flunkies buy off the counter, the boston-based terroir appeared to charge the roughly same for 12 ounces of regular priced single origin that north carolina's crema coffee ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
doesn't the logic contained in the first post of uberbarista chris owens' new blog more or less mean that the barista, relatively speaking, is the least vital link in the seed-to-cup coffee process? just asking!
p.s. no wonder those barista trips to coffee countries and local farmer symposiums are suddenly en ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
as if june's latte art purse winner layla osberg needed another wad. are we seeing the beginnings of career latte artists? layla's raked in $26,000 in five months ...
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