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Beanstreets Coffeehouse (DECOMMISSIONED)

poured in: Asheville, North Carolina

i end up here on sunday mornings. the place does not change in the months between. sometimes i feel that i recognize people whom i do not know. i do not live nearby. the interstate motel has been converted into condos up on the precipice overlooking the highway and the service court of the convention [...]

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Double Decker Coffee Company

poured in: Asheville, North Carolina

Double Decker Coffee Company

ideally, i would mysteriously awaken in places whose primary delight to me is the unexpected character of their spaces in relation to the parlance of their type, and especially in relation to what i saw from the outside, awaken there, transported in my sleep, to a contained world that i would seek to formulate a [...]

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Izzy’s Coffee Den

poured in: Asheville, North Carolina

Izzy’s Coffee Den

Autumn, near Halloween, in a strange town, strange to me and strange somewhat in its postured image for itself, on a Friday night and saturnine day, finds kooks aplenty roaming the streets. My colleague, who was in Seattle this same weekend, remarked that he saw people with the troll under the bridge made up and [...]

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