But the universe came through in the form of a Shake Shack guy handing out coupons for free Stumptown coffee.
The universe always comes through.
Coffee grinder decided to quit this morning. It was too much for its poor plastic soul, and it gave up its plastic ghost in the form of mysterious plastic bits found inside.
This means, all of the accumulated coffee making paraphernalia is useless, and we must go without.
Baratza has an extensive and informative website on repair, but i don’t even know where broken plastic bits came from. This is when I wish I knew something about 3D printing.
“Infinity Mirrors” offers the chance to capture the lonely existential experience of infinity and send it to others as a selfie.
some article on Yayoi Kusama in The Atlantic
Red Hook was full of fashion photo shoots. Like Dumbo was once. I hope it doesn’t turn into Dumbo.
last week’s explosions in the sky outside my window
The cultural Left has a vision of an America in which the white patriarchs have stopped voting and have left all the voting to be done by members of previously victimized groups, people who have somehow come into possession of more foresight and imagination than the selfish suburbanites.
These formerly oppressed and newly powerful people are expected to be as angelic as the straight white males were diabolical. If I shared this expectation, I too would want to live under this new dispensation. Since I see no reason to share it. I think that the Left should get back into the business of piecemeal reform within the framework of a market economy.
This was the business the American Left was in during the first two-thirds of the century. We Americans should not take the point of view of a detached cosmopolitan spectator. We should face up to unpleasant truths about ourselves, but we should not take those truths to be the last word about our chances for happiness, or about our national character. Our national character is still in the making. Few in 1897 would have predicted the Progressive Movement, the forty-hour week, Women’s Suffrage, the New Deal, the Civil Rights Movement, the successes of second-wave feminism, or the Gay Rights Movement. Nobody in 1997 can know that America will not, in the course of the next century, witness even greater moral progress.
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