for everyone out there who has no idea what good coffee tastes like, but still wants something 'good' that they 'like' here is the semi-retarded coffee flavor chart!
so to figure out what kind of roast you prefer on your beans you answer questions about the flavors you prefer with regards to other foods you eat.
my favorite being how do you like your marshmallows? I think the wine one is an interesting question as well. Of course my coffee tastes go all over, sometimes I just want a deep, dark, greasy roast-up like French, and other times a nice Ethiopian Yigacheffe does me up right.
It's pretty ridiculous but I'll bet it cuts down on the annoying customers bugging the baristas on which coffee they should buy.
i troll through the craigslist ads for housing in cities i daydream of escaping to. I started noticing a trend in the portland housing ads mentioning specifically if they would be accepting applicants with section 8 or not. Is this just Portland? Are they allowed to do that? Is it because they have so many crazies in Portland, or because there are so many fucked up war vets around now? My friend says more vietnam veterans died from killing themselves than in actual combat. I think the next few years are going to get pretty scary around here.
I then switched over to seattle's craigslist where I didn't see any disclaimers about section 8, but I did see a lot of creepy people posting ads. What is up with these people? They don't want roommates, they want fuck buddies, buff pool boys, french maid girls, why are they posting in the housing section?? Maybe their personal ads aren't getting enough attention.
This guy is great
$262 Let’s share One Bed Room Reply to: hous-555343798@craigslist.org Date: 2008-01-28, 11:44PM PST
Hi there,
I have posted this ad last time. However, I am reposting it since I wanted to include more information.
I have recently moved from CA and have been living in a 1BR. Its monthly payment including utilities is $524.00.
I am a man and have never had any drugs or smoking. I have a car and have been using the free parking spot.
If you have a car, there is no more free parking spot left for you. Please no drugs, smoking, or pets. I want you to move by February 1st. I prefer a female roommate.
I am afraid that I don't have a photo and my computer also doesn't have the necessary equipment to attach a picture. We can meet for coffee and I will show you the place.
If you are interested, please let me know your phone number and we will talk about it.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks.
I'm glad he reposted with more information, yet didn't bother to fix up the butchered grammar in the sentences.
This lady manages to be fairly creepy as well:
$300 female looking for male to share house Reply to: hous-556507205@craigslist.org Date: 2008-01-29, 10:56PM PST
i live in bellevue near ne 8st by myself and looking for a male roomate. it will only be me and you, the rent is cheap cause you will be responsible for all gardening and general maint when applicable. i have a furnished room with a nice view of downtown. i have a black lab so you must like dogs. please send me some general info and a pic of you, to make sure you dont look like a creep or something,ciao mikeb.
seriously? maybe she has assault fantasies.
i'm glad to see that the 1$/free rent guy is still posting. The notice changes wording ever so slightly but the spirit of the offer always stays the same:
Very nice penthouse apartment in Belltown, big deck with water and city views, very clean, plasma TV, hot tub on roof, BBQ etc..Near all the fun stuff, clubs cafes, walk to Seattle Center, AI, Queen Anne and the ballparks.
Nice business professional male 42 seeks female roommate 20-30, free utlities. food and rent. Seeking someone who can tease me occassionally and enjoys it..that's all...respectful clean, expect same. no pets please ...room available is a den with a view..small but smartly appointed lovely with windows....write for details
and female preferred? ha. The plasma tv and hot tub do sound tempting, and it has been during times of couchsurfing homelessness, but this is not an actual housing offer. Gross.
I wrote this in the 7th grade and sent a copy to my grandfather. My grandmother just found it and sent it back to me. The pages were out of order,the last page is missing, but I don't think she noticed. It's a very existential or some shit, story, I don't think they noticed that either.
Carefully picking her way through the rubble of the destroyed housse Jane neared a distraught family already surrounded by other reporters. Jane elbowed her way through tand started scribbling notes on her note pad. The father was speaking at the moment, the mother was staring in shock at the rubble that used to be their house. The two young girls were looking around at the police cars, fire engines and ambulances wailing by. "We came back from our camping trip just in time to see it," the man was saying. "The tree just swayed and toppled over, we were lucky we weren't in there." Here his gaze flicked tot he left and Jane followed it. Lifeless and twitching bodies were being carried out of the rubble on strechers to ambulances. Jane stepped back out of the crowd of reporters and sought out the chief of police. "Does anyone know why the tree fell?" Jane asked, scribbling some notes. He looked up and sighed. "This is it: It wasn't cut, the roots are right there. The ground was soggy from all the rain we've been getting lately, and the roots weren't very deep. And the wind the wind had been buffeting it, one last shove and it was over," the chief looked up and continued. "Four houses and one room were crushed." Jane stopped scribbling notes for a moment. "What does 'And one room' mean?" "Well, look at this," the chief made his way over to the base of the tree where the roots were sticking up in the air. "The tree fell at an angle, crushing everything. But this house," he points to a house that had only one back room crushed by the tree. "By the time the tree got to that house, it only got the den." "Lucky guy huh?" The chief shook his head. "He was in there, talking on the phone." "And this house," Jane motioned to a house where only the front was still standing. "Was that a families house?" Shakes his head. "Nope, a single guy," he said referring to his notes. "I think he's engaged." "He wasn't there?" "He was answering the door, some salesman," the chief looked around. "I'd better get back to work." Jane looked up from her notes and at her surroundings. Had the tree fallen backwards, Jane noticed, it would've fallen on the garage and the extensive backyard. Forward and it would have gotten the house across the street. Had it fallen the other way... here Jane looked behind her at the orderly row of houses stretching away from the rubble and chaos the fallen tree had created. Jane shivered and pulled her coat closer around her as a wisp of cold wind passed by. She finished the rest of questioning quickly, then hurried to her motorcycle. She threw her notes into the trunk and hopped on. The wind
yeah, it ends there. pretty heinous huh? I couldn't help myself and fixed a bit of the spelling and grammar, I kept in most of the crap. I just couldn't stand seeing the word 'cheif' misspelled constantly. It's all handwritten on that blue lines notebook paper. Neither my spelling nor my writing talent has improved much in the last 10 odd years. a little depressing actually.
It's an amazingly low budget fantasy, tv show about some british vapid hipsters, two friends with a a love/hate musical relationship who go on magical adventures together, all while being vain and self-centered. As usual the show will be even funnier when stoned. It's called 'The Mighty Boosh' and has no redeeming value whatsoever, except that it's very, very funny.
Do you find the phrase "mother-licker" to be inherently funny? Are little old ladies hilarious as well? Do actors playing multiple characters within the same episode, just dressed in various low budget costumes strike you as humorous? Is the occasional short musical set just what most comedies need?
If you think so too, then I'm sorry to say, you will find The Might Boosh to be very, very, entertaining.
I don't exactly know why, but little old ladies are hilarious, the episode 'Nanageddon' just cracks me up. There's a scene where all these little old ladies are marching along down a street to campy ominous music. The two main characters are dressed up as little old ladies, and are being chased by the crowd of evil little old lady demons. It's wonderful.
the really creepy character of 'Old Greg' is a spectacle that has to be seen to truly understand. To think this clip is funny in any way, you may have to watch it a few times:
I'm just learning a little bit of html now, but it's tons of fun, fun times. Being back in school surprises me inasmuch as I found myself testing out of math classes and being at the top of my computer class, when all along I thought i didn't 'know' math and that computers were 'too hard' for me. Fuck that shit. check out the image map I made from a sweet little picture of a mushroom
ridiculous and a little dumb, I know, but still, I like it cause I made it.
