As far from coffee as you can get and still drink something brown
Francis exposes this horror to the world: a bottled espresso-like drink that uses the slogan “Icespress yourself” on top of a Fox-TV-style waving American flag, and crosses off “French” in “French Vanilla” with a big red line and replaces it with a bright red “American” in a cheesy font. All it wants now is a picture of Washington and Reagan crossing the Delaware atop the Liberty Bell while bearing the body of Betsy Ross wrapped up in one of her flags.
Also:
It’s “ultra light latte,” whatever the hell that means. Low calories? Light cream or milk? Less caffeine? Less coffee? Space that needed filling on the label? Staking a claim to the diet space of the ersatz coffee drink market?
The name of the product is creatively capitalized and abbreviated as “iced ’SPRESSO.” How about “icky ’SPULSIONE” instead?
It uses the artificial sweetener Splenda. Yum! None of that nasty sugar taste!
It’s made by “New York Coffee Co.,” thereby ruining New York City’s good coffee name.
And it has its own MySpace page.
Big photo here. Print it and carry it with you: should you lose your passport, it will serve as proof that you are a good American.
Naming trends: out of 20 boys, there are five Joshes and four Sams
What’s in a name? “Out of the 20 boys in Year 4, nearly half are called either Josh or Sam.”
“Why does it start with A B C and not F D Q?”
Elizabeth Hand reviews
David Plante’s book ABC for the Washington Post. She describes it as an eccentric contemporary folk tale about a grief-bound pack of new acquaintances compulsively in search of the origins of the alphabet. “What is an alphabet, really, but a means of expressing what is inexpressible: the sum of all human history and experience and longing? ‘They were aware of this, aware of every single object as an icon of some greater meaning than each object had in itself.’”
Climbing frame vs. monkey bars vs. jungle gym
Lynne at
Separated by a Common Language has given
monkey bars, jungle gym, and climbing frame and other playground attractions the American vs. British treatment in response to an email I sent her in March. Busy lady, hanging around with television stars and all. I’m surprised it didn’t take longer. :)
Skunks, bears, and chipmunks: prey caught by camera trap
Chris Wemmer is a Californian, biologist, and retired Smithsonian scientist who keeps an engrossing blog,
Camera Trap Codger, about the animals he photographs. His camera traps are set in the woods near water sources and other high-traffic animal zones, where the animals trigger the traps with their activity. Besides interesting photographs, Chris has a pleasant, easy-going manner as he relates tales like
those about a mentor and colleague and
these memory snips covering more than 50 years.
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