I love this idea:
Speaking of caring, though, no discussion about coffee would be complete without mentioning the Neapolitan tradition of the “caffè pagato”, the paid-for coffee. What happens is after you’ve consumed your customary morning espresso sometimes you’ll choose to pay double, and leave a paid-for coffee. Thanks to this practice, the place will be able to cater for a few known customers who couldn’t otherwise afford their daily tazzulella ‘e cafè, without them having to ask or you having to offer.
I’d like to think it might save some of our beloved seniors from having to beg for the free cups at McDonald’s.
[via a post by Giovanni Tiso in the epic coffee thread at Public Address System]
Roger Ebert repeats an anecdote told him by Marcello Mastroianni about filming the famous Trevi Fountain splashabout in La Dolce Vita:
“The water, it was-a very cold,” He said. “Fellini, he shoots again and again. Finally, the time for the close shot of my fingers reaching to touch-a her cheek. I am always smoking, smoking, smoking. My fingers, the nicotine!”
He held them up to illustrate.
“Anita’s skin is alabaster white. Fellini, he looks-a my fingers against her skin, and shouts, Marcello! When-a you gonna learn the right way to wipe-a your ass?“
Made me laugh anyway.
My friend Alex, honorary international judge for this year’s 48 Hours (Wgtn) sent me a story:
I met a guy who lives in isolated Indonesia and builds medical centres
I asked him about the building materials- local
I asked him about the sanitation methods- pig
Yip
That’s right, there is a pig who lives under the building who gets shat on all day, who eats human shit all day, who doesn’t get out of the shit pen much
For its whole life
And then,
The villagers eat the pig
Nice story huh?
My friend Rachey is blogging at The Wire which means she is a person of some significance:
everyone I know went a bit crazy on the weekend with the full moon.
look
I fell over and scraped the skin of my knee.
was a little drunk.
had just eaten a pie.
[Post with picture of scraped knee, here]
