Coffee Break

I’d like to tell you all about the new Jura Signature Range Espresso machines not because I’m actually a coffee conossoir and not because this line of coffee makers and espresso machines will clearly rank somewhere in my list of the world’s most expensive coffee makers, but rather because I was sent a press release and haven’t written anything else in a while.

See, I wrote about a bunch of really expensive coffee machines a while ago and now I regularly get emails from companies that …

Sure, you like coffee. You buy gourmet beans from the specialty coffee store. You brew your own special blend to the rave reviews of friends and neighbors. You use a coffee-scented perfume or cologne. You snack on coffee beans and take vacations to Columbia just to inspect the trees. But you don’t really love coffee until you have it actually hanging on your walls.

If your walls are suspiciously devoid of any hangable coffee, fret no more! Just visit JustCoffeeArt.com …

My office is filled with weaklings.

These are people who are afraid of running a short hundred mile marathon. These are people who can’t last a measly fifteen rounds in the ring with a grizzly bear. These are people who can’t catch a bullet in their teeth, karate-chop their way through a brick wall or even kill a man with a plastic spork.

That’s right. My office is filled with tea drinkers.

They come in with their lemon-rosemary (an unholy combination if ever there was one) scented cups of hot water and take a few sips every so often, exclaiming how soothing or …