Posts Tagged ‘conscious cup’


Neil Young Suicide

Do you ever wonder, ever, why a song plays at a time and place where you are?  Why a coffee shop would have Suicide is Painless playing (one with vocals), as you order a gigantic mocha with extra shots?  Is someone trying to tell you something?  Is this coffee, or any coffee, inherently evil?

Why do actions and/or items pop into your life at certain times?  Why do you not know any girl from a foreign country at all then suddenly know one from Czechoslovakia, Russia and Bulgaria, meeting them all within a 2 week period?  Is it inadvertent? Is it a grand master plan designed by some deity of choice throwing patterns into seemingly chaotic moments?

Work visas, permanent residential status notwithstanding, it is still something to make a man ponder.

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Suicide is Painless.  Opening the door to Conscious Cup I did hear the tail end of Neil Young’s For the Turnstiles.  Maybe it is as simple as Neil Young just killed himself.  Hopefully not, but with his immense talent it would hardly be surprising if the right hemisphere finally completed its eclipse of the left.

Have permanently positive day, even if it takes medication.


The Pussification of America, Part I

The other day my son questioned my manhood. For once, I wasn’t running around the house in a slit skirt and poofy-sleeved blouse.

I was drinking a dark roast coffee. Albeit, not black, nor from the locally famous Conscious Cup. Had a bit of flavoring in it, which brought up his comment. It got me to thinking. Not regarding my manhood as my machismo is secure.

However, what about America’s?

This is no longer Hemingway’s America, or the romanticized version. Sure, Hemingway most likely not only drank his coffee black but waited until it congealed, spooning it up like it was hot fudge. Once the bitter concoction coated his tongue, he would proceed to wash it down with whiskey.
Now it’s the era of the metrosexual. You know one, a man who unabashedly takes on a mani or a pedi, tints his hair, wears hip huggers and flip-flops.

I question why as I sip my hot coffee flavored with creme brulee syrup.