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Posted on 07.23.09 by evrwrldBB @ 11:37 pm
Comments on this: just one. Add your own.  evrwrldBB has been with us for some time now, patiently lying in wait to spring. Now, he has sprungified. Please welcome him with something I hope will be an ongoing series of bits: NostalgiAwesome! Which he calls... Products from your childhood, for all mankind. Give him a warm, espresso-heated welcome, would you? Here at Needcoffee, we try to prevent the world from spiraling to uncertain doom on many fronts, and one front that is currently not being addressed is children. The children are our future as they say, and an apocalypse is looming out beyond the horizon which threatens the future of life on planet Earth as we know it. Namely, smart people aren't having babies. Categorized as: Columns
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Posted on 07.14.09 by Rob Levy @ 10:53 pm
Comments on this: 2 so far. Add your own.  I am amazed that in these horrid economic times people are still spending their hard earned dollars on crap like Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift and The All-American Rejects. To make things worse everything old is new again as both musicians and labels cash in on an array of countless reunions, package tours and reissues. Nonetheless there are actually exciting new releases, summer tours and breaking new artists to check out. Kiss is prepping their first album of new studio material in over a decade. They’ll hit the road at the end of the summer and release their new yet to be titled album later this year. Paul Stanley is producing the album. Grizzly Bear will hook up with Beach House for a tour later this summer. The band recently announced that this fall they would be performing in concert with the London Symphony Orchestra. Categorized as: Columns
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Posted on 07.05.09 by Cosette @ 2:14 am
Comments on this: 3 so far. Add your own.  This rawhide bone tastes like a soul. Mmm nom nom nom. We've been wanting a Hellhound around the Needcoffee compound for some time, and finally this summer, we began looking for the perfect one. While a fully grown hellhound would be cool to have, we thought it best to get a puppy so we could start training the hound early. After all, a hundred pound toothy mammal that doesn't know how to behave and knows where you sleep...can be problematic, to say the least. We also wanted to get a mix breed--not only to save money and because "pure breeds" just seem so terribly frou-frou--but also because pure bred dogs have the potential for all manner of genetic problems. Saint Bernards are awesome beasts, but reading the laundry list of stuff that could go wrong with them is just sad. So after endless hours looking at Petfinder and other local rescue sites online, then meeting quite a few puppy candidates, we either hadn't felt a true connection with anyone, or else they were adopted before we got to meet them (yay!). And then, late one night in May, we stumbled upon two puppies that needed a home on the Adopt A Pet website. Categorized as: Columns
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Posted on 09.09.08 by Su @ 10:01 am
Comments on this: 5 so far. Add your own.  Chocolate. Just saying the word brings to mind stolen moments of bliss, sitting in a corner, in a car, in bed, savoring a truffle, a piece of fine dark chocolate, a Hershey bar. Just like there's no wrong way to eat a Reese's, there's nothing you can do to ruin a fine bar of chocolate. Or at least that's what I thought. Until last week. One of my good friends, knowing I was having a stressful week littered with mines called "deadlines," dropped off several bars of chocolate to help fuel my brain and ease my consternation. Looking at the wrappers, I knew she had taken some time and care before making her selections. The bars were not cheap. They were also organic (although I'm not fussy). They were waiting for me when I staggered back to my desk following back-to-back meetings about topics I know nothing about and care about even less. I spotted the bars on my desk and alighted on the first one, clutching it in my desperate hand. Doing a quick sweep of the room to make sure no one had seen the confection on my desk, I opened my drawer and swept the other two out of sight. Then, leaning back in my ergonomic office chair, I unwrapped the bar in my hand and took a huge bite. And promptly spit it out. Categorized as: Columns
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Posted on 09.01.08 by Su @ 4:04 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  I've found myself doing something a little strange lately, and I must admit, its improving the quality of my grocery shopping. I park in the parking lot, hit the Starbucks next door and arm myself with a latte containing lots of caffeine, grab a cart, buckle my purse in, and away I go! It happens as soon as I aim my cart toward the produce aisle. The music piping in from the overhead speakers permeates my brain, which blurts out, "Hey, I know this song!" Brain communicates with mouth and soon I am singing along. By the time I hit the cereal aisle, I've crooned two and a half songs. (The other half of a song was ruined by announcements about fresh bread and a deli special.) On that song, I kept singing and as soon as the announcement finished, the song resumed at the precise point where I was. The more comfortable I became, the louder I sang. I even broke into harmony on several songs. Categorized as: Columns
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