It's Not Addiction, It's Love

I got this quote on a Starbucks cup years ago, found it really inspiring, and then proceeded to rip off the quote and bury it in my room at home for years. It’s probably still there. What I didn’t know is that years later the person who said this would end up becoming one of my favorite authors. I still find this quote as moving as that first day I read it, years ago.

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So…I love this man. That is all.

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Mum said that last night I was laughing in my sleep 

I was dreaming people were dying

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More than anything else related to this post, I love this gif. I wish I could be as awesomely dramatic as Bert.

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drinksthrowsthoughts:

“Well… whether it’s Nothingness, Allah, Brahma, Jesus, or Loki, we’ll find out for sure once we’re dead.”

This statement is obviously a code for, “please stop haranguing me with your ideology and leave me alone.” But I think it also implies a worldview that nags at us in the back of our…

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One of my professors from a previous semester, Jabari Asim—a great nonfiction writer and an incredible teacher—just came up and told me that one of my current professors, Jonathan Aaron—a very well respected and established poet—was raving about me and the book that I’m working on in the faculty copy center. Jabari promptly went up to him and asked, “Are you talking about Ryan McDonnell? I already told him that this book of his is a great idea. When that book’s on the shelf, I’ll be there at the book signing, but I don’t know about you. Don’t try to claim credit for what I already did!” They both laughed, and Jabari recounted the story to me when he saw me a few minutes later. He told me, “I just want to let you know that you’re highly thought of.”

Well, probably the two most accomplished teachers I know at Emerson are fighting over which one has more of a right to be at a future book signing of mine. Dang. This is a little surreal.

If you’ve talked to me at all in the past half a year, you probably know about this kid, Nick de Valpine. He’s a ten-year old yoyoer with an incredible amount of skill and style. Give it a few years’ time and he’ll be winning world contests. Also, he’s one of the nicest and coolest kids you’ll ever meet. I love how he’s totally not out of place in a group of twenty-year old guys.

The semester’s over! Since this was originally a blog I ran for a class of mine, I no longer have to keep it coffee-specific. Like this hedgehog, I’m climbing out of the coffee genre for a bit.

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spiegelman:

- No filters.

- Washed, reused the last filter.

- Forgot to put in filter before scooping coffee grounds.

- Remembered filter but scooped coffee grounds into place where the water is supposed to go.

- Poured milk into place where water is supposed to go.

- Poured orange juice into place where water is supposed to go.

- Turned on coffee machine before scooping coffee grounds.

- Turned on coffee machine before pouring water where water is supposed to go.

- After either of previous two errors: fully expecting coffee to come out of machine.

- Successfully put everything where it was supposed to go, turned on coffee machine at proper time, created coffee, then poured coffee onto cereal.

- Created coffee, forgot to drink it.

- Poured coffee into travel cup because I’m late, forgot full travel cup on the table.

- Forgot to turn off coffee machine, coffee remains in pot, come home end of day to pot full of sludge.

- Forgot to turn off coffee machine, pot empty, come home end of day to smell of burning.

- Poured rotten milk into coffee.

- Poured rotten milk into coffee and still drank it “just to make sure.” 

These are pretty fantastic. 

latte-art:

Turkish coffee ! (by OOSH Ana Halah)

This is really impressive.

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