Month August 2008

Asymptotic Life has the details on the latest battles in the water wars. State against state. City against country. Town against town. It’s the wild west all over again.

Sweet Maria’s has an ultra-scarce super-quality Panama – for the eye-popping price of $125 a pound for green coffee beans (for home roasters.) In fairness, it must be said that most of their excellent quality beans are $5-7 a pound!

The new Batman movie, The Dark Knight, certainly is dark, almost relentlessly so. We are all dirtbags and will do dirtbag things when confronted with dirtier dirtbags seems the general tone of the movie. There’s lots of mayhem and it’ll…