By bluerasberry on 2023-02-10
Chinchilla Café is a concert venue, community center, and animal coffeehouse in Charlottesville, Virginia. Robin Brown, Gabriela Toledo, Eli Draizen, Fabian Garcia, and I Lane Rasberry established it last year in 2022. I want to describe what it is, the shows we have presented, and what we are trying to accomplish by hosting it. See […]
Posted in art, Charlottesville, festival | Tagged chinchilla, coffee, music, party
By bluerasberry on 2019-10-22
Fabian came to visit me in Charlottesville for the first time in a while on Thursday 17 October. He came to me at school then we joined Eli and Daniel at the Newcomb cafeteria for lunch. On Friday Fabian and I did a couples photo shoot with Gabriela. We talked about her photography hobby, and […]
Posted in Charlottesville, data | Tagged coffee, crime
By bluerasberry on 2018-09-03
I am visiting New York City from Charlottesville when I can. I visited for Labor Day weekend 2018 arriving Thursday 30 August and leaving Sunday 2 September. Fabian is one of the more active people in his union, IATSE Local 798, and I imagined that we would join the Labor Day march but I had […]
Posted in New York City | Tagged coffee, theatre
By bluerasberry on 2017-09-28
Fabian and I left NYC for Seattle in the late afternoon of Wednesday 13 September 2017. I had been telling him about Seattle for so long, and he had never been. My hope for the visit was that I could show him what the city meant to me, and how what I did in places around […]
Posted in personal, Seattle, tour | Tagged coffee
By bluerasberry on 2017-07-18
When X-Day happened on July 5 1998 I was living in Dallas, which was a holy city for the Church of the SubGenius. Leading up to X-Day various evangelists had graffiti’d the face of J.R. “Bob” Dobbs on everything, everywhere around. I acquired some religious pamphlets and took to the faith. I have been a […]
Posted in Seattle | Tagged coffee, SubGenius
By bluerasberry on 2016-09-07
I moved to New York from Seattle in April 2012. NYC has a reputation as a city which has everything, but after having visited 100 coffeehouses here over the past few years I am sure that Seattle has the better coffee culture. I miss it. I just visited Seattle again a bit over a week […]
Posted in Seattle, service industry | Tagged coffee, culture
By bluerasberry on 2014-08-15
I have been getting these lousy three euro coffees around Paris. I was reading my travel book and Rick Steves says that this place called Fouquet’s on Champs-Elysees has been famous since World War I for having good coffee which also now is the most expensive of anywhere in Paris at 12 euros for a […]
Posted in Paris, service industry | Tagged coffee
By bluerasberry on 2014-08-13
I have never been seen an automatic coffee making machine for single-serve restaurant use but they seem to be everywhere in Paris. Even some nice looking coffeehouse or restaurants here with perfect service do not have their staff make coffee except to have a machine produce it. I always wondered what engineering difficulties there might […]
Posted in Paris, service industry | Tagged coffee
By bluerasberry on 2013-06-17
Sunday June 15 I went to the bus station to check out the options for visiting any city in France. Mont Blanc was an option. It was an extra day for me because I arrived for the conference early so that I could be relaxed. The bus station was close to my hostel, and I […]
Posted in France | Tagged coffee, mountain, tourism
By bluerasberry on 2012-11-05
The 2012 Seattle HVTN conference was from Monday 29 – Wednesday 31 October. I went to Seattle for that and to see friends. I flew to Portland on Friday 26 October to attend the Wiki Loves Libraries event organized by Jason Moore, user:Another Believer, on Saturday 27 October. We went out for breakfast, did the […]
Posted in clinical research, HIV, legal, non-profit, Open access, research, rights, Seattle, Wikipedia, work | Tagged Adbusters, Brian Glanz, Christopher Sheats, coffee, conference, HVTN, Jacob Caggiano, Lisa White, Open Knowledge Foundation, Patrick, Patrick Earley, Victoria Chinnell