Beans for Breakfast

Thank you to everyone who went down to the Elephant and Castle yesterday for the low key surprise party. That was really fantastic.
Now we’re off to Mt. St. Helens, I think.

An older man side-steps up to a middle-aged man and starts up a conversation. They’re both browsing the Religion shelf in the book area of a big charity thrift store.
“You know, of course, that Yahweh is the one true god.” His tone isn’t evangelical. He says this the way someone might say, [...]

While I’m here, I’ll stop to ponder the fragment of poetry that appears beneath the theater owner’s name in the over-produced jingle that preceeds the movie. Grammatically efficient, and yet somehow unbalanced: “An ONEX Company”.

There were three people on Pier 62/63, spaced out across the row of picnic tables at the foot of the pier. The man at the far end played “Making Whoopie” on a clarinet. In the middle, a man wearing a sport coat and a beret leaned back and watched the mountains, then stood [...]

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