[mburbank]

There is an excellent coffee house between my hom and my train station, so I get my first dose their. One to two shots of espresso, the rest of the large cup filled with Tanzanian Peaberry when they have it, any dark roast when they don't. I then suffer through the day with whatever I can get. When making my own, I think anything made with a French Press (yes, damnit, FRENCH! I'll die before I call it a freedom press) comes out well. Like chocolate, I like the good stuff best, but even the really bad kind is pretty good.

My experience (and this could be totally in my head) is that if you can find a shop that roasts their own beans , patronize it. While Salem has several excellent privately owned coffee shops, unfortunately none of them roast their own, and the coffee roaster in Newbury port recently closed it's doors, so it's a luxury I'm currently without.

I have given up a good many vices in my life, leaving only coffee and a very speciffic type of pornography which I will not discuss, save to say that it is legal, though with my salarly I can only afford to look at the pictures and not partcipate.

I'm kidding of course. I like snuff films, I thought everyone knew that.

NO NO, JUST COFFEE FOR GOD'S SAKE!