Cream Cheese Theatre 2

Presented by an anonymous friend....

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Cream Cheese Theatre 2

Topic: Going Meat Free!
My friend Sumi wants me to stop eating meat. She almost had me convinced last night. We were on the phone and she said, "You really have to stop eating meat." And I was thinking, you know, maybe this is it! This is finally when I put my good health and the good of our planet ahead of the tastiness of the Chicken Torta sandwich they serve at the Love Cafe. But then we got off the phone and I got a text inviting me to a barbecue. It was a great barbecue!

Topic: The West Wing
When The West Wing is on TV, I don't even have to pay attention to the story. I can just listen to the music and vaguely scan the murmur of intelligent voices and I get all goose-pimply and optimistic for the future. And it feels like, by gosh, I've done my part for America. Thanks, The West Wing!

Topic: Expensive Cupcakes
Here at the Love Cafe, they sell really expensive cupcakes. Like $5 or something. And I come in here pretty much every day, but I don't buy the cupcakes. Don't look at me, they're $5! Instead, I have the granola or the tasty Chicken Torta sandwich. But while I'm eating my granola or my tasty Chicken Torta sandwich, I'm looking at those cupcakes, and I'm thinking, "I wonder if they're stale?" Because, guess what, friend: $5 cupcakes don't move. My mom used to do retail and always talks about wondering if she could get back in the game, but I don't even think my mom could move $5 cupcakes. Hey, Love Cafe — think about it!

Topic: What are you reading lately?
What are you reading lately? Is it fiction or non-fiction? Is it from the library or the book store? Is it by Flannery O'Connor or Elizabeth Dole? Is it a slender volume of poetry or an action packed Tom Clancy thriller? Is it serious creative non-fiction or is it a bodice-ripping beach read? Or are you making America cry by reading nothing at all?

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Comments

[Publicado por: Lionel W.]

It must be great fun to have an activist friend named Sumi. Whenever she gets all enviro-evangelical, you can throw it right back in her face with a petty, all-purpose riff on her name. Remember: A petty name joke never gets old. Such a joke, aimed at an aggressor, scores a bullseye every time.

Examples:

SUMI: You eat meat? That's bad.
YOU: So sue me.

SUMI: You drink bottled water?
YOU: So sue me.

SUMI: I'm not judging you. I'm not judging you.
YOU: Sumi PLEASE.

[Publicado por: Bras Cubas]

for a second I got excited that this was the same Love Cafe that Todd Barry goes to. Then I realized that was "Life Cafe." I have a hangover.

[Publicado por: brian]

Yesterday on my walk to work I found a book called "seeing beyond sight: photographs by blind teenagers" (Chronicle, 2007, capitalization theirs).

I walked half a block past the book, then I turned around and picked it up, figuring I'd at least check it out. Is it OK to produce a gimmick book based on minors' affliction? Parallel question: is it OK to identify blindness as "affliction"?

Anyway, I've got this book on my desk.

First line of the author bio: "Tony Deifell is a visual artist and social entrepreneur."

Is it OK to be a social entrepreneur?

[Publicado por: photographs by blind teenagers?]

goodreads.com is the greatest website ever. i wish there was one for movies and music. (is there one for movies and music?)

[Publicado por: cm]

i'm reading an biography of jerry garcia OUCH!