barry burton
“While cycling I thought of nothing at all. On a bike your consciousness is small. The harder you work, the smaller it gets. Every thought that arises is immediately and utterly true, every unexpected event is something you’d known all along but had only forgotten for a moment. A pounding riff from a song, a bit of long division that starts over and over, a magnified anger at someone, is enough to fill your thoughts. During the race, what goes round in the rider’s mind is a monolithic ball bearing, so smooth, so uniform, that you can’t even see it spin. Its almost perfect lack of surface structure ensures that it strikes nothing that might end up in the white circulation of thought. Almost nothing, that is—sometimes a microscopic flaw still manages to strike a chord.”
—Tim Krabbé
December 2008
7 posts
Home brew: Special coffees, locally roasted, worth the price to Birmingham-area customers →
blog.al.com
Birmingham News article on specialty coffee, heavily featuring Primavera. Found on the front page of the Food section in today’s (17 Dec) Birmingham News.
Most of pictures in the print version of the story are from our shop, though we aren’t sure about the old-ish looking coffee with lots of floaters at the bottom of the page.
Kind of accurate, at least for a Birmingham News article. Please note that coffee is actually way too intense and unbalanced the first 24 hours out of the roaster rather than being at its peak for the 24 hours. The paragraph on heirloom varietals is very nice, though.
laments the modern state of the bowling alley rental shoe.
Detroit Churches Pray for ‘God’s Bailout’ →
nytimes.com
NY Times article on the impact of the foundering Detroit automakers. There is literally a car on the stage. Maybe even being anointed with holy oil. At any rate, nice to see another city taking a little pressure off of Langford et al—is it really fair to expect them to be able behave in such a way as to fill all of the many media outlets in this country with stories of ridiculousness?
is on the run from Johnny Law. Ain’t no trip to Cleveland.
Back to Reality →
judson.blogs.nytimes.com
Olivia Judson’s NY Times blog: “The most notable characteristic of the Bush administration’s science policy has been the repeated distortion and suppression of scientific evidence in order to fit ideological preferences about how the world should be, rather than how it is.”
