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Cafe haiku: book and website

Here's a book to put you in a mellow mood: Cafe Haiku, by Zenbu Nometa (text) and Jeffrey Goldsmith (photographer). It's a collection of haiku mostly having to do with coffee, coffee houses, and related themes. (There's a tie-in website here.)

I really liked this haiku from the book:

Enjoy this moment.

No matter how still we sit,

time passes quickly.

Just substitute "green tea" where you see "coffee" or "espresso" in the book!

What do you mean "girdle"? This isn't a girdle. It's functional underwear.

Here's an unexpected story about Japan—the guys in Japan, that is.

Japan's undergarment manufacturers are selling more and more girdles for men.

Of course, no one calls them "girdles." If a man buys it, it's not a "girdle." It's "underwear with tummy-flattening, posterior-compressing design features."

Think that's strange? Then you ain't seen nothing' yet. Check out the iPod underwear.

—Mellow Monk

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