I know where I want to go with a good cup of joe this Memorial Day weekend… We are so fortunate to live in San Diego! Coffee with a view…
Torrey Pines trails
Le Cupcake
By Jessica Percifield, copyright 2006
When asked what it tasted like, she said simply, “It tastes like RED.” Her teeth were bloody and when she smiled her eyes lit up in wild pleasure. “It tastes like RED,” she said again. My curiousity and ravenous appetite after 4 hours of sleep and a night of binge drinking soon had me at the counter where a very tall man placed each order in a perfectly square white box with a large lavender ribbon sealed with a circular sticker. You’d think you were being handed your wings in heaven by St. Peter. Even if the truth was that a squad of girlscouts were huddled in a dark basement somewhere being forced against their will to use their EASY BAKE play ovens to bake each cupcake, I wouldn’t care. Let them slave! I would have my hands on the red velvety sweetness! Oh yes, it would be mine. Three dollars poorer I undressed Le Cupcake and began my assault. Each bite like discovering a strange new place. And between bloody smiles and licking the wrapper I began to contemplate…hmmm…I couldn’t say what it tasted like, but oh it was sinful and in that moment I understood my friends description…it did indeed taste like RED. Brilliant and deadly party favor red. Who knew a primary color could have a flavor? Yet, hiding under a mound of creamy cream cheese frosting was this one decadent discovery. Manufactured, exotic and unexplored all at once. I’ve seen RED, but never tasted it…and now I’m pretty sure that in the Garden of Eden it was a cupcake tree that tempted Eve. After tasting the first cupcake, she sensually smeared the others over her naked body, and Adam seeing what she had done could not help but taste, Le Cupcake.
Just Say NO to Neo-Colonialism
When did Freedom become my enemy?
Was it before I was born back in the 60s?
Make Love Not War
If youre on the pill
youre not a whore
youre free
be who you want to be
Seems weve been
making War
not Love
In the end
Im still just a girl you fucked
once upon a time
in a land far, far away
Not much has changed
Women have learned to play
the power game too
to take on mans definition
of Freedom
choosing violence over Shalom
Making love a drug
that sucks faith and hope
from the hearts of men
leaving them as cold and hard
as Steel
Innocence and beauty
have paid the price
for feeling the I
in you and me
an individualistic gluttony
We wage War
with our Sex Appeal
all the while screaming, FREEDOM!
in the face of those who still believe
in tenderness and love
When did being Free become synonymous with War?
When did I become your whore?
to use for your release
to yield my arms
when you desire Peace
My broken spirit is the carnage
youve left behind
I know youve seen it in my eyes
Take your Freedom and GO!
You have depleted the resource
so vital to life
I am laid to waste
and I only have hate
for your lovely and loveless Freedom!
FUCK YOU and
FUCK YOUR WAR.
Open Mic Submission: Weird Shit I Like to Eat
The Mic is OFFICIALLY OPEN via San Diego Joe. What will you share?
I’ll continue to show you mine, if you show me yours? In the meantime, sit back and enjoy a cup of joe over this short video. I’m a poet and I DID know it ;).
Peace and Coffee,
JP
(Source: youtube.com)
Thanks Kathryn Nelson! You’re the winner of last weeks contest! Thanks for participating by posting a pic of your coffee BFF(s) to San Diego Joe’s Facebook Page! Expect a bag of yummy organic free trade whole beans from Nicaragua coming your way! xox
A day in the life of coffee—saving lives one cup at a time! That’s how joe rolls…
It’s Thirsty Thursday my little coffee addicts! Who wants to win some tasty grinds, compliments of moi??? In the next 24 hours, All you have to do is post a pic of you and your coffee BFF to San Diego Joe’s Facebook Wall (may be a coffee cup, your dog, a snuggy or an actual person, I won’t judge). The winner will be announced Friday at 4pm pst! Ready, set—Go!
Happy Posting, JP xox
I and my friends visit L.A. often, so this is good to know. I have a sneaking suspicion that a lot of San Diegans do too… so read up my little coffee lovers!
LA finally catching the wave. LA TIMES article.
- woman: What are you wearing?
- man: Zzzzzzz
- woman: Is it hot in here or is it just you and your aggressive silence on the other end of this chat window making it that way?...
- man: Zzzzzzz
- woman: that's it baby...
- you know I like it when you read it slow...
- man: Zzzzzzz
- woman: so slow...I'm not even sure you're reading it at all...
- woman: chat window closing now...along with another window called "opportunity"...