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Okay, I think I've cemented my status as a tea-obsessive.
Tonight I took some time off from work to sit and watch some rented episodes of The L Word. In two separate episodes there were scenes of intense and heated dialog between attractive lesbian lovers, and in both cases my eye was immediately drawn to .. the teapot on the table between them.
In the first scene it was a small spherical maroon-plastic and glass number of a type I've seen for as little as $5. No way to tell what kind of tea was in it as the glass front was facing away from the camera. It seemed odd for such a cheap pot to be featured in The Planet, the upscale coffee shop featured in the show.
The second scene featured a very nice glass Assam-style pot with a stainless-steel cylindrical infuser. The color of the tea liquor implied either a lighter Assam or perhaps Nilghiri, although I suspect it was actually a Yunnan dian hong (it was just that right shade of caramel/amber). A very nice pot indeed.
Even during the abundant sexually-explicit scenes in this fifth season of The L Word, I found myself often turning to thoughts of their teaware.
Sad. Very sad.
Tonight I took some time off from work to sit and watch some rented episodes of The L Word. In two separate episodes there were scenes of intense and heated dialog between attractive lesbian lovers, and in both cases my eye was immediately drawn to .. the teapot on the table between them.
In the first scene it was a small spherical maroon-plastic and glass number of a type I've seen for as little as $5. No way to tell what kind of tea was in it as the glass front was facing away from the camera. It seemed odd for such a cheap pot to be featured in The Planet, the upscale coffee shop featured in the show.
The second scene featured a very nice glass Assam-style pot with a stainless-steel cylindrical infuser. The color of the tea liquor implied either a lighter Assam or perhaps Nilghiri, although I suspect it was actually a Yunnan dian hong (it was just that right shade of caramel/amber). A very nice pot indeed.
Even during the abundant sexually-explicit scenes in this fifth season of The L Word, I found myself often turning to thoughts of their teaware.
Sad. Very sad.