Category Archives: Coffee

The power of the question.

Here’s a good cup of coffee: We might be tempted to think the question, structurally, as itself an emptiness, a non-presence represented to the subject as the gap of a power which cannot be named except in a metaphoric displacement along the signifying chain. I think this is wrong. I want to think the question

More Espresso Please:

It’s Saturday morning. I’m going through the motions of every saturday morning, enjoying that gorgeous cup of mottled espresso from one of my favorite coffee shops. Yeah, its time to talk about coffee again. I’m starting to get the little voice in the back of my head saying, “mod your coffee setup again.” This time

Cold Brew Coffee

Of course, cold brewed, Toddy method coffee is a total fad right now. In a sweltering summer, about which far too much ink or too many pixels have informed us, ice coffee is popular, and cold brewed coffee all the rage. In my experience, though, what you’re likely to get this summer is diluted. It seems most

The Good of Coffee

I’m always wondering what exactly it is that makes me love coffee so much. I can give any number of cynical explanations. I might say that I’m addicted to caffeine, or that I idolize it. Maybe I just like it without any good explanation. But I hope there is something more, and I wonder how