D:

[sabotabby]

Dear coffeemaker,

We sure had some good times together, didn't we? Waking up in the morning, me whispering sweet nothings into your filter, you gracing me with warm, delicious caffeinated beverages. You weren't fancy or expensive or anything, but you always made me great coffee, and I really liked you.

I'm sorry that I didn't even notice that you were sick. You made me a great cup of coffee yesterday, and that must have been your swan song, because this morning, well, you were dead. I ground up my hippie fair trade organic shade-grown coffee from Bolivia, poured in the water, flipped your switch, and—nothing.

I guess I'll find another coffeemaker eventually, but we were together for years and I'm really going to miss you. In the meantime, there's Tim Horton's. But anyway, if you had to die, did you really have to kick the bucket on Labour Day when all the stores are closed?

Woe,

Sabs

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On an unrelated note: Hollywood's 5 Saddest Attempts at Feminism.

Comments

[captainmushroom.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. But much as I understand the emotional strain this of this loss, I cannot fully engage myself in commiseration. Perhaps it is too soon to speak ill of the dead, but that coffee maker was an inconsistent friend at best.

The horrible design that doomed any first-time user, and the occasional sleepyhead, to an impossible mess was just too much for me. I couldn't feel love. Not even with the great coffee that came out of it from time to time.

If you're home today, I can bring over the coffee maker that Zingerella's been loaning me.

[sabotabby]

It wasn't initially a horrible design. I used to have a carafe that actually fit it, but when that broke, I replaced it with one that was too small.

Don't you need a coffee maker? Anyway, I'm home now, but I'm in a rather smelly state that's about to become a not-as-clothed state.

[esizzle.livejournal.com]

maybe it's just off for labour day.or it just needed to sleep in. it's the holiday. you're up early too for a holiday.. did u end up going to the labour day march or something? was gonna join the labour for palestine thing but i couldn't get out of bed before 10a.m.

[sabotabby]

I wanted to go, but instead I proved to be the most awesome friend ever and helped brownfist move on my last day of vacation. If I wasn't Jewish, I'd be a shoo-in for sainthood.

[orpheus42.livejournal.com]

Alas, poor coffeemaker. I knew it, Horatio.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Awwwwww RIP Coffee maker...

[austintacious.livejournal.com]

Isn't that always the way??? R.I.P. Sabotabby's coffee maker.

[shirl-64.livejournal.com]

My deepest condolences for your loss.
I know it hurts right now... but we all have to go sooner or later.

As for your immediate need... might I suggest cowboy coffee...
a bit gritty.. but it beats chewing on coffee beans for your morning caffeine fix.

[rojonoir.livejournal.com]

As for your immediate need... might I suggest cowboy coffee...
a bit gritty.. but it beats chewing on coffee beans for your morning caffeine fix.

Heh. If you have some chocolate chips, you can chew them with the beans. It's a mocha!

In a pinch, though, you can stick a filter in a funnel, stick the funnel on a big cup, and pour some boiling water in. If wanna be a crusty punk you can use a sock.

[sabotabby]

If wanna be a crusty punk you can use a sock.

...

o_O

[shirl-64.livejournal.com]

Mmmm... sock coffee...

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. I actually considered burying my first coffeemaker, once it finally gave up the ghost.

Interesting link. All of the saddest attempts are in Sci-Fi and Fantasy!

[sabotabby]

A lot of other genres don't even make an attempt, mind you.

[shelestel.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't read it like that at all. Who even said these were attempts at feminism? These are fandom-gone-mainstream pictures. Why expect any egalitarianism or fluidity in their two-hued universe? "Other genres" are typically concerned with representing life as it happens, you know.

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

Witch King: No man can slay me! Mine is an evil laugh!
Eowyn: Behold my vagina!

*actually chokes with laughter*

[fanciulla.livejournal.com]

You make me laugh :D

On the same unrelated note

[shelestel.livejournal.com]

That article is so terribly banal, I would have said a year ago.
That article is so terribly banal, how come so many people don't get even that?

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

Not only is Padme the youngest elected Queen in history (eh, we'll have to do another article on George Lucas's poor grasp of what a monarchy is)

Lolz

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

I guess it just felt it had no reason to live, now that the bean grinder is gone. Who'd'a thunk our appliances had a co-dependent relationship?

[dendritejungle.livejournal.com]

*doffs hat*

My condolences.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Your package is enroute to you via UPS. It should arrive by Friday afternoon.

And once you are done with those, I have another bundle almost prepped.

Have I ever sent you any Max Friedman books?

[sabotabby]

I haven't, but I've been dying to read those.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

The Max Friedman stories are now complete - I even have the old, out-of-print books including his formative Hungarian Rhapsody. However, the Jew in Communist Prague stories are unfortunately still a work in progress. Shall I enclose those as well? I think there is only one last volume to go, so what I have ends on a bit of a cliffhanger*

Speaking of complete works in progress, the second volume of Jason Lutes's Berlin (City of Smoke) is complete leaving only one more volume to go. The collected trade paperback comes out later this month, but I already have all the issues. I will resend you Volume 1, City of Stone, along with the issues since it has been a while. If I get the trade paperback first, I'll send both collections instead of the loose issues.

I can also lend you the Internationale DVD along with Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press which spends a good portion of time on his coverage of the Spanish Civil War.


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* I almost forgot: Giardino also does semi-colonialist porn. I should enclose some of that as well.