24 July 2007

allow me to elaborate

"Sometimes there's no coffee in the coffee. I plow through it and it is definitely a coffee area, but there's no coffee in it. I always think they'll (sic) be a little at the bottom of the cup, but there never is. If it's missing at all, it's all missing. The fact is, coffee isn't just a substance--it's an event, and it's manifestation depends on countless subtle conditions, most of which are not speakable."

~Joe Wenderoth, Letters to Wendy's

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe he just means someone switched the labels on the decaf and the real stuff? I hate when that happens--that's really when there's no coffee in the coffee.

jmg said...

yeah...i put decaf in our coffee canister a few weeks ago. we both felt awful for 2 days before i realized what i did.