The Marijuana Fest.

I walked downtown along the lake path this afternoon, went to a café to work for a while, and then started back home by way of the Library Mall. What…

Easter on State Street.

I took a yellow pad and a book I need to write about down to a café on State Street. I also brought the NYT crossword puzzle and some admissions file…

"I always wanted to go somewhere which could be all about musical appreciation, to hear someone dig really deeply into their record collection and explore their private passion."

"These speakers were built totally without compromise. When you have equipment this good, it can deliver such high quality that it emotionally c…

"Something of a woozy existential hangover."

That describes residents of "an island off the coast of Europe" -- aka Manhattan -- as they wake up after the election, in this nicely writ…

Late morning at the Talk to Strangers Café.

Come on, talk. I'll meet up with you later. I'm going to go listen to Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute talk about what sort of judges we m…

At the Secret-Ingredient Café...

... what do you know? It's "Black Friday," an occasion to remember to do your shopping through The Althouse Amazon Portal .

Indoor woman, outdoor man.

At the Laughing Pumpkin Café...

... it's too late to cling to the past. Halloween was more than a month ago. And last Saturday was a conflagration ago .

"The Death Café is a global movement in which strangers gather over tea and cake – or, in this case, tea and couscous – to discuss death."

"It’s not a support group; the point is simply to encourage more frank conversation."

There are the cafés with free WiFi, the cafés with paid-for WiFi...

... and then there are the cafés where they ban computers:

Siskel and Ebert, uncensored.

The deleted scenes. I haven't watched them yet, because I'm in a café and forgot my earphones. But judging from the comments at the link -- i…

"I always wanted to go somewhere which could be all about musical appreciation, to hear someone dig really deeply into their record collection and explore their private passion."

"These speakers were built totally without compromise. When you have equipment this good, it can deliver such high quality that it emotionally c…

At the Slow Start Café...

... what is there to write about? I'm still trying to figure that out....

Your café doesn't have WiFi?

Neither did photoblogger Rick Lee's café , so he just installed it for them. More café pictures too, including one that shows his laptop screen v…

3 dogs in a baby carriage.

At Starbucks on Montague Street. AND: Knows he's cutest:

Free rider.

As I spend a third hour in this coffee shop without buying anything (brought a sandwich with me, in fact) and listening to a killer playlist for free…

The Marijuana Fest.

I walked downtown along the lake path this afternoon, went to a café to work for a while, and then started back home by way of the Library Mall. What…

At the Late Morning Café...

... settle in.

At the Sepia Café...

... you can talk about your faded dreams.

Reacting to the usual email from georgewbush.com

Every morning I get email from Patrick Ruffini who runs the official Bush website . I didn't sign up for this email, but I get it because they li…