Oh, I *heart* this one…

“Here’s a chart that shows my coffee bias over the years.

For good measure I have added my bagel preferences over the same period. (1) Drip coffee, (2) Starbucks, (3) blueberry bagels, (4) sesame bagels, (5) poppy-seed bagels, (6) everything bagels

Please don’t hold my brief affair with blueberry bagels against me. I cured myself of this aberration.”

— By Christoph Niemann – The New York Times

“I get a lecture from my therapist every week which boils down to: pull your socks up. Okay, it’s a bit more sophisticated than that… it’s working and I love it.

Thoughts, my therapist says, are very untrustworthy things. Don’t buy into them. some thoughts are useful – learn to recognize these. Ditch the others. And just because you feel something, it doesn’t mean it’s true.”

— Amy Jenkins in The Independent

“Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.”

— Françoise Sagan

And the story continues… The story of the “never-working” espresso machines!

“My inner accountant quickly convinced me to buy one of those little espresso machines (for the price of approximately 10 tall lattes). It had a steam nozzle to heat milk, which one should clean very thoroughly after each use. I didn’t have the patience to do so. Within a few uses, an unappetizing, dark brown, organic lump developed around the nozzle. A few days later it had become unremovable, and I reverted to getting my coffee outside.”

— By Christoph Niemann – The New York Times

– I guess it’s not too late to make a new-year’s resolution. This year I resolve to stop doubting myself and have faith in my decisions… I wonder how long THAT will last.

– Four seconds by my watch!

And his charming story still continues… Happy Friday lovelies 🙂

“When I came to New York in 1995, I was delighted to discover deli coffee. At the time, I was focused less on taste and more on quantity and price. Thus, I was in caffeinated paradise. In January 1999 a friend seduced me into switching to latte. Within weeks a considerable portion of my budget ended up at the L Cafe in Williamsburg.”

— By Christoph Niemann – The New York Times

I feel sick and devastated inside out… I feel we are living in this bloody era when the world is being run by total idiots… The ones who don’t have the slightest idea that killing innocent people makes them inhuman and tyrannical, regardless of everything else… As John Kenneth Galbraith once said, “there are two classes of people who tell what is going to happen in the future: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.”

Well, these cruel morons are indeed in the second class! Get yourselves a life for lord’s sake before you disgust the rest of us even more…

S

Here we are again… This is dedicated to all the caffeine addicts; just like myself!

“When I was 21 I worked as an intern at a magazine. The art director and I would brew a gigantic pot of coffee around 9 a.m. to help us get through the day. The pot would simmer in the coffeemaker, and through evaporation the coffee strengthened noticeably at lunchtime. In the evening hours, the remaining coffee had turned to a black concoction with a stinging smell and tar-like taste. We endured it without flinching.”

— By Christoph Niemann – The New York Times