Quite probably the single best and most important New York Times article of the month:

[mariness]

I thoroughly approve of this headline:

At Last, a $20,000 cup of coffee. Please, please do not distract me with your petty complaints about how this typifies once again just how out of touch The New York Times is with the rest of the country. (But although I'm not inclined to give any of the media, and especially The New York Times, a break this

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[lordsnotrag]

It must be said whenever something this mundane gets a ridiculous price sticker attached to it: a cup of coffee would have to perform a completely different form of oral gratitude to me to even be considered at $20K a pop. Even then, I'd probably feel ripped off.

[mariness]

Did you miss the part where bamboo paddles were involved?

I mean, I realize that bamboo paddles might not be your thing. But combine bamboo paddles with a bit of quality oral gratitude and one damn fine cup of coffee and that $20,000 might just be well spent :)

(At the very least it might get you to open up a sex filter on your LJ.)

[foms]

Goodness knows that the quality of heat from a halogen bulb is superior when applied to brewing. I don't drink the evil stuff. I can tell just by looking at the hype.