Althouse: A morning coffeehouse.

April 22, 2007

A morning coffeehouse.

Let me declare this an Althouse coffeehouse. Have some conversation on me. I'll be joining you when I arrive at some airport hot spot.

UPDATE: I'm in the Manchester airport, where the WiFi is strong and free. New Hampshire is a good place for a blogger. In Hanover, the whole city had free WiFi. Madison has WiFi service, but you have to subscribe (through a complicated process), you can't pick it up everywhere, and the airport WiFi is a different system (I learned, after I paid for city WiFi and discovered it didn't work in the airport). Cities! I will judge you by your WiFi.

21 comments:

Gahrie said...: 4:45 A.M. for me on a Sunday here on the west Coast.

What the hellam I doing up this early?

Checking my Shogun Wars account.

http://shogunwars.com/register.php?commander=Gahrie; 4/22/07, 6:47 AM
Ruth Anne Adams said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 4/22/07, 6:51 AM
Mark Daniels said...: I'm about to shower and dress before heading to our church building. After a class and worship, it's to lunch. After lunch, I visit an ill man and his family, not members of the parish, but someone I've gotten to know through my community activities. Then, it's final preparations for a major class I'm teaching on Sunday nights right now. By 8:00 tonight, I think, I'll be able to relax a little. But, as the saying goes, "If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans for the day."

How about a few spontaneous puns (spuntaneous), Ruth Anne?

Mark; 4/22/07, 7:03 AM
Ron said...: My pot's on full boil, I've got some cream, even a ginger scone...my eyelids feel venetian blinds though, the kind that haven't been dusted for awhile...I don't have a Swiffer! Now that Ann's not here, let's discuss breasts again...mmmm, bacon, that's what I wish I had...that and a Swiffer! I used to read the paper about now, but look, I'm goddamn here! Ahhhh...Sunday can't start without the first Goddamn!

Have a deeeelightful afternoon...; 4/22/07, 7:28 AM
Ruth Anne Adams said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 4/22/07, 7:42 AM
hdhouse said...: sorry you are leaving NH. it was some of your best writing and posting. keep the muse.; 4/22/07, 8:02 AM
Rick Lee said...: I got one of those Senseo single-serve coffee machines for Christmas and I'm drinking more coffee than ever. I order all kinds of cool pods from various Internet sources such as bettercoffee.com. This morning I'm enjoying a 100% Kona coffee. What luxury!; 4/22/07, 8:07 AM
Jennifer said...: White chocolate mochas are my fave, Ruth Anne! I'm a coffee wimp, though. I like just a little bit of coffee with my cream. :P; 4/22/07, 8:17 AM
LutherM said...: It’s a still life watercolor,
Of a now late afternoon,
As the sun shines through the curtained lace
And shadows wash the room.
And we sit and drink our coffee
Couched in our indifference,
Like shells upon the shore
You can hear the ocean roar
In the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs,
Are the borders of our lives.

And you read your Emily Dickinson,
And I my Robert Frost,
And we note our place with bookmarkers
That measure what we’ve lost.
Like a poem poorly written
We are verses out of rhythm,
Couplets out of rhyme,
In syncopated time
Lost in the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs,
Are the borders of our lives.

Yes, we speak of things that matter,
With words that must be said,
Can analysis be worthwhile?
Is the theater really dead?
And how the room is softly faded
And I only kiss your shadow,
I cannot feel your hand,
You’re a stranger now unto me
Lost in the dangling conversation.
And the superficial sighs,
In the borders of our lives.; 4/22/07, 8:19 AM
Ann Althouse said...: Okay. I'm here, checked in, processed through security, and, after having driven for 90 minutes, finally drinking my first coffee of the day: a venti latte with an extra shot.; 4/22/07, 8:24 AM
vet66 said...: Fired up the Capresso Machine and made a wet cappuccino with plenty of delicious crema. I hate it when the Starbucks people put the shot of espresso in a shot glass then pour it into the cup leaving most of the crema on the side of the shot glass. When I call them on it they invariably say, "What's crema, I though that was foam."

On my way to San Diego, Laguna, and Solvang for business. Will be working off the cell towers. WiFi is great but I prefer the wireless card.

Shame about the Blue Angel crash. He ejected but was too close to the ground and parachuted into the flames. Probable cause; mechanical failure! I just watched them at Davis Monthan AFB in Tucson a couple of weeks ago. They are the best of the best!; 4/22/07, 8:27 AM
vet66 said...: luthern;

The words of the prophets are NOT written on the subway walls, tenement halls...

KODACHROME...; 4/22/07, 8:30 AM
Brent said...: Another Althouse Coffeehouse . . .

. . . you had a good time in Dartmouth, didn't you, Ann?; 4/22/07, 8:50 AM
Meade said...: Althouse Coffeehouse, huh? I like it.
Got any plain old Maxwellhouse?
Black please.
No crema.
No sugra.; 4/22/07, 9:08 AM
Victor said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 4/22/07, 9:17 AM
Victor said...: vet66 I'm with you about Sbux they are terrible that way. It's funny they made coffee culture more accessible but the coffee itself . . . and these giant coffees that people drink I can't see it.

Me, I like the latte extra hot, extra short, extra foamy, with a couple of sugars in the raw (cuban style).; 4/22/07, 9:19 AM
Beth said...: One of my first jobs, age 15, was at Cafe du Monde, serving beignets (ben-yay, a powdered doughnut) and strong coffee with chicory, cafe au lait when hot, steamed milk is added. Everyone who visits New Orleans comes to Cafe du Monde so it was quite an education for a teenager. I was among the second group of women to work there since it opened in 1862; the first bunch worked WWII then went home when the boys returned. The cafe closes only once a year, Christmas, or if a hurricane happens to aim right at us.

Starbucks is a welcome sight when I'm out in the rest of the world, if only because in so many of these states, what passes for coffee needs a few more beans dragged through the water.; 4/22/07, 11:59 AM
Simon said...: "I'm in the Manchester airport, where the WiFi is strong and free.

Be better of the coffee was strong and free, of course. ;); 4/22/07, 12:30 PM
Simon said...: 2 things perhaps of interst to Ann (and others): the 7th Circuit's Georgia Thompson opinion is out, and according to this story, the VA Tech shootings were all women's fault. Sort of. Camille Paglia "believes Cho is emblematic of the crisis of masculinity in America." Personally, I agree with this take - when are we going to stop blaming everyone and everything except the perpetrators?; 4/22/07, 1:10 PM
Maxine Weiss said...: It's a beautiful Sunday morning, here in the Land of the Free....as I prepare to start the day's subversion and obfuscation ....

Love Maxine; 4/22/07, 1:13 PM
Ann Althouse said...: I don't go to Starbucks in Madison too often. (Sometimes it's the only place open or the only place with seating I like.). But I'm thrilled to see it in the airport. I drove 90 minutes to get to the airport this morning on zero coffee. At first, it looked like the only coffee was in a "bar/café" that looked just like a bar. I was happy to find the Starbucks. A venti latte = breakfast.; 4/22/07, 2:37 PM