tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post1432669398655270582..comments2023-09-29T02:49:02.989-07:00Comments on An Emphatic Umph: 4 things that drive me ape shitDaniel Coffeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-60121467957017440412010-04-28T14:48:05.322-07:002010-04-28T14:48:05.322-07:00"Cafe Lattes. All right, all right. I know pl..."Cafe Lattes. All right, all right. I know plenty of you heathens drink these."<br /><br /><br />( lol )@PierreDDNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00485581322634051533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-81990073161600548412009-01-13T18:20:00.000-08:002009-01-13T18:20:00.000-08:00I love lattes. I love the privileging of milk ove...I love lattes. <BR/><BR/>I love the privileging of milk over coffee. In fact, it is in the latte that coffee finally realizes in the mouth the promise betokened in the nose, and that precisely because it is reduced to a mere hint (In "The Anatomy of Disgust," William Miller writes about the disappointment that even the most avid coffee drinker must feel over the "falling away" between smell and taste -- enter the latte!). <BR/><BR/>I like the ritual of a latte, the paradox of slowing down to prepare something intended to speed you on your way. Getafix needs time to prepare the strength potion, and no, you may not have any, Obelix. And being a spiteful, disenfranchised son of a bitch, I relish this rare opportunity to bend others to my needs in a way sanctioned by the full freight of commerce.<BR/><BR/>Finally, your appeals to reductionism such as "shit drawn from a cow's teat" are unavailing: the bean was fertilized with literal cow shit (if you are lucky, petrochemicals if you are not), and the zoOedipal implications trouble me not at all.Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13632514764471339300noreply@blogger.com