Salty

This article is made of win. How Mac N' Cheese Is Like A Cigarette. I would support a tax on junk food and soda. I hate the idea of more taxes, but they're taxing the hell out of my booze and smokes. The food junkies can fucking pony up along with me. Don't read the comments, though. Half of them are written by whiny parents pointing their fingers at the food industry instead of shouldering the blame for what they themselves put in their grocery cart. These people should be shot in the face.

In other Selective Reading news: For quite a while, I crushed on Coilhouse pretty hard. When the original creators post, it's still wonderful. And I like David Forbes, who writes the SF literature articles. But some of their other guest bloggers? Um. Not so much. This was painfully spotlighted in this article here, which posted yesterday. Not only were there numerous spelling errors (which I can only hope were fixed soon), but some of them caused some LOL-ing. My favorite was the author's misspelling the name of the company French Melody as "French Malady."


Couple that with the (same) author's admitted ignorance of fashion, but who continued writing about...fashion. Not every writer for Coilhouse needs to breathe and bleed design, but this "see how funny I am when I'm writing about something you all care about but I don't" attitude is not interesting or engaging. This same writer recently posted another Coilhouse article, featuring a You-Tube clip of C-SPAN, that was mostly about how the author doesn't really watch C-SPAN. I didn't like his introductory interview, either, so I shouldn't be surprised. I wish Coilhouse's bylines would appear at the top so I could be warned not to bother when this particular blogger's posts appear.

I realize that the sacred and original triumvirate are overwhelmingly busy with the print edition. However, I'd rather have fewer but well-written posts than some of what's gone up lately. I know, I know! It's a free blog and I should just STFU. But it's disappointing when a personal darling fails to deliver. Repeatedly.

This morning, I kosher-salted my coffee. I grind the beans for the week and bring the grounds to the office, so instead of grinding with the salt, I sprinkled a pinch on top of the grounds before I started the pot. It's much less bitter, and has a smoother mouth feel. I didn't even bother sweetening it, and I like my sweet coffee. It makes more of a difference than I would have imagined. The girl who shares the pot of coffee with me even asked if I'd switched coffees--and I hadn't mentioned anything to her. nottygypsy, I bet it would help out with your budget coffee until you can afford some of The Good Stuff again.