not-your-perfect-teen asked:
Wow only a social media intern? I feel like you have the experience to give yourself a higher rank
Thanks for the kind words, but I am happy with my current role. Being the unpaid CEO of the Awesome Coffee Club, which is my brother’s job, seems like a lot of work.
One thing about me is that I would rather face a loaded cannon than answer a phone call.
Like, I cannot answer the phone. Even if a friend is calling.
Asking me to answer the phone is like asking me to perform a double kickflip on a skateboard: I have heard that people can do it. I have seen it done on television. I have even play-acted doing it in video games. But I cannot do it in real life. It is simply not possible with my particular genetics and disposition.
i love tumblr crying about how there will be so many celebs coming here to flee twitter and in the end three people turned up and one of them was john green
The definition of “celeb” must be very broad to include the unpaid intern of a coffee company that donates its profits to charity.
rosie-with-knives asked:
Hello coffee company! Coffee related question here. I’m fairly new to both making and drinking coffee and I was a little unclear about whether you sell grounds or if they are whole beans. Also, how do you personally (addressing the unpaid intern) make coffee? Should I invest in a coffee maker? I got myself a French press bc it was the cheapest thing in the store but I’m wondering if that was a bad choice.
Hi. The short answer is that, like a lot of things, coffee is as complicated as you want to make it, and we are here to support both people who want it to be complicated and people who just want to drink coffee.
We sell both ground and whole bean coffee, in both light and medium-dark roasts.
If you are new to coffee, I recommend getting our Octavia roast, which is named after a butterfly that lives in Sierra Leone. It will taste most like the coffee that you are probably accustomed to from Starbucks or whatever, except it will be so much better you will be astonished. (I am literally not getting paid to say this, as I am an unpaid intern.)
If you like lighter roasts (Starbucks’ “light” roasts are not actually light; they are still burnt like all of their roasts, because they are trying to get a consistent flavor profile from a wide variety of beans), our Calypso roast is magnificent, with tasting notes of baked apple and dark chocolate.
As for how to make your coffee: If you’re happy with French press, great! That’s a great way to make coffee! I often make coffee this way.
Also, if you have like $20 to spend to automate the process, I think drip coffeemakers are also great! In general I find them to be quite underrated, and they really are a wonder of technology, as explained in this technology connections video.
Fancy people tend to grind their own coffee because they want it to be ground to just the right degree for their particular method of brewing coffee. That’s fine. We want to support these fancy people in their endeavors.
But we also want to support people who do not own or care to own grinders. Our job as we see it is to provide coffee that is TRULY ethically sourced, that ACTUALLY seeks to support communities working to reverse deforestation, that tastes BETTER THAN ANY OTHER COFFEE, and then to donate all the profit to support stronger healthcare systems in impoverished communities.
So we are here to make great coffee that you can feel great about; we are not here to judge you for how you drink coffee.
Specifically, this is a coffee company with a tumblr run by unpaid social media intern and novelist John Green.
One unexpected development over the last decade has been the re-emergence of divine right monarchs, only now instead of Habsburgs worshipped by Christians, we have tech billionaire godboys worshipped by atheists.
It’s a nice reminder to me that the question is not so much whether you’re going to worship–we all devote our love and attention and soulstuff in one direction or another. The question is what (or whom) you are going to worship. And one should be very careful about what one worships, at least in the experience of this coffee company.
ghostspiel asked:
Hello Coffee Company Blog without a man named John running it, with the new year already well on its way (not really), do you have any more wisdom to share about coming to terms with the passage of time?
Insofar as it is real, in this universe time mostly just seems to be a measure of how everything is getting further away from everything else.
I for one am glad that things are a little bit further apart than they used to be, because when the entire universe was contained within an unfathomably dense point of matter, I could not drink coffee in the morning, and now I can. I will be able to drink coffee in the morning for a little while longer, as things continue to get further away from other things, and then I will not be able to drink coffee anymore, but that’s okay, because I will have spent my little flicker of consciousness as well as I could.
I am just a social media intern for a coffee company that donates its profit to charity, but I find time kind of comforting. I would not want to try to live without it.
limeshy-blog asked:
I miss interacting with John and Hank on Twitter since they’ve left but now I’m not on Twitter either much so I guess that’s a good thing.
Hi, limeshy dash blog. I am a big fan of tumblrs with -blog usernames.
Sometimes I hear people say, like, “Those early days of the pandemic were so beautiful–just being at home with family” blah blah blah blah. Like, humans can romanticize anything.
I mean, we romanticized tuberculosis, a disease that forces you to drown yourself. We were like, “Oh, sure, it strangles you from within, but it gives you such rosy cheeks. It makes you so delightfully thin. It quickens the human wit. The only reason Moulin Rouge Lady was so beautiful is because of tuberculosis. The only reason Keats was so great was because of tuberculosis. Oh, the glory of suffering!”
Our capacity for sentimentalization is simply unparalleled.
There are things I miss about twitter, too, but I do not miss the thing itself. God help me if I ever look back on twitter with fond wistfulness.
