$66. High Polish Blue, Deep Carve
Zippo Armor 1932 Filigree Design, No. 46776
$110. Tumbled brass, MultiCut.
Zippo Armor Crystal Waves Design, No. 46777
$100. “A crystal in the center of this Armor® Black Matte lighter among flowing Deep Carve waves“
Zippo Armor Deep Dots Design, No. 46775
$120. “Armor® Black Matte lighter in a MultiCut design”
Zippo Armor Deep Dots Design, No. 46812
$130. “A bold band of MultiCut dots spans the front and reverse sides of this Armor® Black Ice® lighter, surrounded by a flowing matrix depicted with our Photo Image 360° process.”
HBO Shows Watched -- It's Florida, Man
Dramatic re-enactments of true stories from Florida. I watched the first 23-minute-long episode which was about a gentleman whose arm was bitten off by an alligator. He miraculously survived three days in a swamp before finally being rescued by a passer-by.
This is exploitative TV, making fun of dumb, foul-mouthed, poor white people who have had some tragedy befall them. You’re supposed to laugh at them and marvel at their stupidity, I suppose. I wasn’t into it. Pass.
HBO Shows Watched -- Sharp Objects
Watched episode one of this and wasn’t thrilled… with the amount that Amy Adams drank, there’s no way she would be standing, let alone functioning. She wouldn’t look that good either. Vodka out of the water bottle combined with steady diet of Parliaments means old lady quick.
Amy is a reporter, haunted by some childhood trauma, maybe something to do with a dead sister, and now she’s back in her home town, reporting on some missing / murdered girls … it’s based in Missouri of all places.
This has strong girl vibes… the writer is a woman, the director is a woman, it stars a woman, the co-stars are women. I don’t think I’m going to continue this one. Amy Adams and her remaining weird little sister are definitely pretty, but that’s not enough for me to continue watching.
HBO Shows Watched -- Mare of Easttown
Winslet has a nice man-face with pretty eyes, but she has sort of a heavy bod like a rugby player. I thought she was a Hollywood nepo baby, but she isn’t .. and she’s British! Anyway she’s a police detective in some dying PA town southwest of Philadelphia (Delaware county). I love the way she pronounced “go” and “home.” I don’t know if that’s a Philly-area accent they were all faking, but it amused me.
I watched ALL seven episodes of this for some reason. It wasn’t terrible, but also not great. There are some red herrings and an ultimate twist. I laughed every time a bottle of beer was cracked open. Yuengling of course, and Rolling Rock.
Winslet’s daughter Siobahn reminded me of Jeanne Naujeck, a pretty girl I went to school with. They made her a lesbian and sort of glossed over the homosexual stuff. She had a hot high yellow girlfriend who attended Haverford College, which is a school like Hamtech, a little Ivy I guess.
Let’s see, what else do I remember about this show? I waited a day to write about it and have forgotten everything, which may be a sign. Oh, Guy Pearce is in it, and it deeply disturbed be how he sucked on a bottle of beer, like he was sucking on one of Kate’s tits, which he no doubt did.
Ah, Lori Ross was also in it… she was Esther Randolph in Boardwalk Empire, but I’ve seen her in something else and still can’t place her. She is a talented actress unlike Kate, who mainly relies on the mouth twist to express emotion, just like the worst actress of all time: Kristen Stewart.
This is not good enough to recommend, yet I inexplicably sat through seven hours of it. Walked on treadmill, not sat, but you know what I mean.
Brewing a Cup of Kotowa Chakira from Blendin Coffee Club
Once again Blendin Coffee Club has removed their web page for this coffee so I can’t link to it, although the promo on Instagram remains up. I don’t know why they scrub web pages and wish they didn’t.
Anyway, this is a naturally-processed Chakira, which is a new coffee variety, from Kotowa Farms in Panama. It cost $25 for 100 grams, no doubt priced that cheaply ($6.25 a cup) since no one has ever tried the Chakira variety.
Here’s the card for the coffee, which is useful since the web page at Blendin has disappeared.
Soft grind on the beans … I always use 25 Clix with the Comandante C40.
Do you even sift, bro?
20 grams of perfectly consistent grind. It is essential that you set aside fines (anything sub-800 microns) when making pour-over.
Lovely color in the hand-blown Chemex (pronounced “sha-may”). 50g of 200 degree fahrenheit water to bloom, 100g more on second pour, 150g more on third and final pour.
Yielding a perfect 10 ounce cup of coffee.
This was interesting … a more coffee-forward coffee, especially since I’m mostly drinking Geishas of late. It wasn’t bad, it was different. Glad I experienced it.
HBO Shows Watched -- C.B. Strike
Tom Harelip Burke plays a private dick in contemporary London … stories apparently based on J.K. Rowling books she wrote under a pseudonym, and originally a BBC production? … they give old Tom a CGI stump leg (lost in Afghanistan) and a rock star dad … he has a pretty, perky temp who becomes his partner in the business … made it through the first episode, but no interest in continuing since it’s formula TV, and I have 285 Original HBO series to work my way through by year-end.
