Urbandictionary.com:
Pete Martell: “How do you like your coffee?”
Special Agent Cooper: “Blacker than midnight on a moonless night.”
Pete Martell: “…pretty black.”
Special Agent Cooper: “MMM, that’s damn fine coffee!”
Always did disagree with Coop about how to take coffee. It should first be made as black as midnight, but then? You need to add a little something special.
I mentioned my fridge is broken, right? I can now afford to replace it, but I’ve got used to not having one, and, well, I’m almost certainly moving soon so pointless. Anyway, last night, I made myself a cup of coffee, but the milk was off. Pas de problem, I can do something special. Y’see, Tesco seem to have over ordered Carte d’Or Vanilla this summer. Normally, a little pricey, and not a brand I normally get, nor a flavour (Green and Black’s Orange Chocolate please. Or Ben and Jerry’s). But, if it’s on two-for-one? I’ll buy that for, well, a bit more than a dollar TBH.
Mat, what has ice cream to do with coffee?
Well, y’see, little trick I picked up on from a Slovenian friend (really should have tried to keep in touch with her, ah well). Instead of adding milk, add ice cream to your coffee. She called it ‘iced coffee’, but it’s not Greek Frappé style, it’s real ice cream in real coffee. The more expensive the ice cream, and the better quality the coffee, the better this works.
Put in about two spoonfulls of ice cream into a nearly full mug of coffee, stir gently and allow to melt. Use a spoon to eat the froth off the top, then drink the coffee. The froth? A mixture of cream and coffee taste, much better than from a latte or a cappucino. The coffee itself? Soooo gooooodddd…
I’m about to make my second mug of this evening. Um, this may effect my ability to sleep properly this week. Ah well, off work next week, of to Londres. ? We may need to investigate a cheap way to get you a freezer compartment for some ice cream.
September 21st, 2006
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The only comic I buy regularly these days is 2000ad. It’s British, it’s normally well written, it’s grown up with its reader base (and I do shudder when it’s put in the kids comic section of a newsagent, kids really shouldn’t be reading it), and it’s an anthology.
The advantage of an anthology comic is that there’s always something you like. If it’s a standard comic, it’s one story, one character, one writer. If it sucks, it all sucks, you’ve wasted your money. With 2000ad, there’s always something I like, even if it’s just one little story in an issue full of dross. With the current arcs, I’m a bit meh about the Judge Dredd (just kill him off and give us Rico already), Stone Island is a bit arse, but Nicolai Dante is always good, and Banzai Battalion is just silly. But Malone? Who cares? It’s the denouement today, the final installment, it’s even on the cover. Meh, says I, but buys it anyway.
Y’see, Malone is the story of an amnesiac drifter getting a job in a bar in an obscure colony world and trying to figure out who he is and where he’s going. He’s obviously ‘useful’, and good with a gun, but hasn’t got a clue who he is. Cue the local gang boss trying to recruit him, a relationship of sorts with his cute younger neighbour etc. So far, so dull. Last week, at the end, a character shows up at the door who knows who he really is. The art is pretty poor, but it was a character that looked vaguely familiar. Meh, says I, I still care not, it’s a crap strip, move on.
This week? I read it through, again, as I always do on Wednesday lunchtime. The guy introduces himself as Rocky Rhodes. My memory refuses to tell me who that is. I turn the page, still not caring. I turn the page to the next panel, he’s going to say who Malone is, I’m hoping it might pique my interest. Speech bubble. “Your name is Finnigan Sinister“. Interest piqued. More than piqued.
Oh boy did that get my attention
It’s no longer a Malone story. It’s no longer a story abot an obscure backwater colony world. It’s about Downlode. It’s about Finny. It’s about what happened. It’s cool. Crappy story about a character I didn’t care about? It was until today.
The art’s still crap though.
D’you like how I did the lj-cuts? Do ya, do ya? Meh… Anyway, next post? Damn fine coffee
September 21st, 2006
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