November 15, 2009
Time for some more plugs. My wife, Jane Rosenberg LaForge, will be joining New York University professors and students at the Liberal Studies Program’s Fall Faculty/Student Reading from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3, at the Telephone Bar and Grill, 149 Second Avenue (between 9th and 10th Streets) in the East Village.
Also, Jane’s “After Voices” poetry chapbook — published last month by Burning River of Cleveland — is now available at the McNally Jackson Book Store in SoHo, one of the few remaining interesting indie bookstores left in Manhattan.
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Tags: After Voices, Burning River, East Village, McNally Jackson Bookstore, Poetry, Telephone Bar
October 25, 2009
I haven’t had much time to find new coffees lately. It has been a rather busy few weeks, with a trip to Cleveland related to “After Voices,” my wife’s new poetry chapbook from Burning River, a local press. We’ve also had illness in her family, grim news in the journalism world, birthday gatherings and more happenings than I can count. On the Cleveland trip, we hit the highlights, with readings and a visit to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. We also stopped in at the local indie coffee chain, Phoenix Coffee, which also roasts its own beans. I’m kicking myself for not picking some up on the way out of town. Luckily, I still had this (shrinking) bag of beans from Stumptown.
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Tags: After Voices, Cleveland, Coffee!, espresso, Morgan Conservatory, music, Panama, Phoenix Coffee, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Stumptown, Visible Voice Books
October 25, 2009
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Tags: Adirondack Review, After Voices, Bateau, Books, Burning River, Burnside Review, Cleveland, deafness, Housing Works Bookstore, Jane Rosenberg LaForge, La Petite Zine, Makeout Creek, Morgan Conservatory, Noun Versus Verg, Ottawa Arts Review, Poetry, Tipton Poetry Journal, Visible Voice Books
September 19, 2009
I found myself on a fool’s errand trying
to research this coffee, suggesting that it has already sold out. And, as so often happens, I got distracted wandering the Internet. The seller, Ritual Roasters has a great video tutorial about espresso, using a French press, the Clover and other topics. I was hooked after the first one, in which the barista explains the wide variety in espresso flavors, even with the same beans, and he compares the intensity of espresso to the slap in the face of whiskey. I never thought I’d have this much fun watching videos of coffee geeks do their thing.
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September 13, 2009
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Tags: Blogging, Café Grumpy, Coffee!, drinks, espresso, Flor Azul, Intelligentsia, Nicaragua, Ritual Coffee Roasters, Stumptown, Verve Coffee Roasters
September 9, 2009
More often than I care to recall, I have impulsively downloaded a fancy new iPhone application, only to have it languish on my phone. That was the inspiration for the first “list of iPhone apps I actually use” last year, after the iTunes store started selling third-party applications.
Since then, the number of new applications has grown rapidly. Now there’s a cottage industry of lists, blogs and podcasts devoted to reviewing applications. Here’s a recent Techcrunch list of the “best” apps, which notes the store had 300 new apps rolling out every day. Here’s a similar post at Gizmodo, which put the total number of apps at more than 74,000. Many of the lists that try to sort out the best applications seem to focus more on flash than substance.
In August, I finally renewed my AT&T contract and upgraded to the iPhone 3GS. It seemed like the right time to reconsider the programs I had loaded onto my phone. Did I actually use them?
Here’s my revised list:
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