greetings from the beanery - where they have strung electricity to every booth!! yipee ki yay!

okay, this cranberry scone is just plain deelishus!! this is not a picture of the exact scone i am having, but a fairly representative depiction of the genus cranberrius sconae.

the other day on npr - which apparently my source for news - there was this story about busta rhymes. firstly, i would like to point out that this is not your granpappy's npr, with stories about busta rhymes. the story was about how ol' busta has made a rap song which arabs find offensive. firstly, welcome to the party, arabs! rap is degrading to everyone. there's a rap song to fit every minority's need to feel oppressed, and the ironicality is that rap is the music of the oppressed. in the npr story, this arabian rapper was saying how he was all sad & dissed by busta's song. i guess he thought all rappers would stick together, regardless of race, creed, or color. but, see - that's just the thing -- rap's pretty much about «i am cool. you da fool.» so there's really no room for compadreship with anyone who is not exactly like you, meaning of course, who is not your very self. because you know even rappers of the same race, creed, and color are all the time offing each other, so it's not like they are sticking together any better than the rest of us.

in conclusion - stop whining, arab rapper man! the song is actually kind of funny, and i know, i know, I KNOW, if i am going to laff at the arab song, i am going to have to put up with the hos & bichez songs, but i'd have to say that it might just be worth it all in the end. we should all just laff more, that's all.

plus, i would not argue with ol' busta. he does not look like one for the logic & talking, but more like the busta'ing. maybe i should invite him out for bean juice & scones. that would make him laff, i'd bet. not sure it's appropriate, but i am going to say it anyway - busta's not bad looking. there. i said it. i find busta rhymes to be an attractive man.


speaking of asians [which i am clearly NOT - i am speaking of arabs & africans, but originally remembered the busta rhymes song as being about asians, not arabs, and had to go back and change the first part of this post, but i had a theme going, so live with it.] speaking of asians, at our local quizno's which we have recently begun frequenting b/c junior introduced my old man to the concept although i have been saying for like YEARS that we should go there - oh, FINE, when JUNIOR says it, then he will go. okay. whatevs. the point is that the local q-biz is run by an asian couple. they are young, maybe in their 20s, and they have a young son, maybe 5 or 6 y.o., who wanders around behind the counter whining like any bored young man would do - except he's whining in an asian language, which you just don't hear every day in these parts. all three q-biz folks speak to each other in this language that is not english. if i had to guess, i'd guess they are chinese. his name tag reads «michael» and hers «kate», and i realize it's probably prejudiced of me, but i am going to go out on a limb there & say these two quirky kids' birth certs do not read «michael» and «kate».

that concludes today's installment of inappropriate talk about people of various races live from the beanery - where the coffee is free & the wireless is hot!!