[lit-ideas] Re: Advent Poem
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:48:22 -0500
The way coffee prices are moving, it won't be long 'till it's six of one and
half dozen of the other. (Haven't you heard? The U.S. might be heading
toward an eventual recession! <rolling eyes>).
One the rare occasion that I do drink coffee these days, I use an Italian
stove-top espresso maker -- I like my coffee roughly the consistency of
thick motor oil. If I'm feeling particularly hedonistic, I add a couple
Tbsps of sugar, or a bit of vanilla bean, or <gasp> a bit of heavy cream,
and meet heaven.
Julie Krueger
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I started drinking coffee when I was 14 -- drinking it black. I used to
> drink coffee like a reformed alcoholic, always a cup in my hand. Until the
> last decade or so I would drink at least a dozen cups a day. And I'd drink
> late into the night and it never kept me awake -- could have been all the
> beer I drank alongside the coffee that counteracted the caffeine. I still
> have 2 or 3 mugs of French Roast (espresso grind) in the morning, but none
> after that, don't even think about coffee after the morning libations.
> Actually, I think I could get addicted to B&B in the morning and give up the
> coffee for good, but who can afford that? If you can, call me. Any way,
> that's my story.
>
> Mike Geary
> Memphis
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Sent:* Saturday, April 19, 2008 4:51 PM
> *Subject:* [lit-ideas] Re: Advent Poem
>
> Nothing will match the pure elegance of the coffee bean. Save, perhaps,
> coffee beans lavishly coated in deep, dark chocolate, and kept in the
> freezer.
>
> One must, however, exercise restraint.
>
> I learned the hard way -- not one to do much of anything half-way, my
> first taste involved a large handful.
>
> I was awake for a month, I think.
>
> Does anyone else find their tolerance for coffee abating at some point?
> For 20 years I was an entire pot (4 very large mugs) of coffee a day
> person. One day a few months ago I sort of just forgot to brew the coffee
> and I've drunk maybe 6 cups since. I don't miss it, which possibly should
> scare me.
>
> Julie Krueger
>
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The competing theory to the old "Sol Invictus" dating for Christmas is
> > that the vernal equinox was metaphorically considered the day of man's
> > creation. So Mary gets pregnant by the Spirit on the vernal equinox and nine
> > months later Jesus is born. That was March and this is now, at least in
> > theory. Today is the beginning of Passover, or one day after Einstein died
> > in '55 ... depending on your competing theory. Yet it must be the advent of
> > something ... maybe an earthquake, a superior performance of Mozart's Prague
> > Symphony, or a new invention involving caffeine.
> >
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