Why is it that every coffee maker I have purchased in the last 20 years has a carafe with a spout scientifically designed to dribble coffee all over the counter no matter what angle you tilt it over your cup? How hard can it be to test a design and make sure it actually sends the coffee into the cup and not onto the counter? Old fashioned percolators didn't do this! I've had Mr. Coffee = dribble dribble. Cuisinart = dribble dribble. Black and Decker = dribble dribble. Braun = dribble dribble. I really hate crappy designs in things. If anyone knows of a coffee maker that comes with a carafe that doesn't dribble, let me know!
I didn't make our local Tea Party , but it pulled hundreds of people as well... Tea, anyone? from Father Hollywood by Father Hollywood Like hundreds of thousands of other Americans, the Hollywoods enjoyed a tea party this past Wednesday. "Tea party" (wink wink). Nothing subversive about sipping a little Darjeeling, eh wot? Nothing to see here, Miss Napolitano. Anyway, our local festivities were held at Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie. There were literally thousands of people crammed into the neutral ground (though on that day, the ground was anything but...), as cars and trucks poured by the busy boulevard laing on their horns in support. Here are pictures. And like every such gathering in our environs, there was even a brass band and an improptu "second line" parade. It was a "party" after all. But it was a party with a serious reason. The crowds were so overwhelming that it was hard to hear the speakers, and unfortunately, we did have a fe...
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