I wrote The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill on three double espressos a day. I’ve been working at Street Song on two double espressos a day. For reasons that I won’t go into right now, I decided to purge the caffeine out of my system. For the last two weeks, I’ve been having some foggy days—been in a foggy daze. It’s been difficult to work on the book and impossible to work on this blog. I’m pretty clear now, though, and I find that I have much better energy without all that caffeine in my veins. In two days, I’m leaving for Winnipeg to attend a film festival where they’re going to show the parrot movie. I’ll be back early next week, and then I’ll start posting again.
October 22, 2009 at 8:10 am |
Congrats on no caffeine! It took me a while to emerge from the fog also. I love Teechino (available at Whole Foods and the like) as an alternative. Try it! It won’t replace the caffeine, but it will satisfy your palate. I can wait for the book if it takes a if it means cutting out the caffeine for you…
October 23, 2009 at 5:56 am |
Hey, maybe you were too hasty. Balzac wrote his whole oeuvre on big pots of the strongest coffee. “Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill” turned out pretty well on all that espresso.
October 23, 2009 at 10:17 am |
Jared, before buying Teechino or anything else at Whole Foods, please consider that there’s a robust and justified boycott of the place going on. Whole Food’s CEO John Mackay is an asshole who blathered away in the Wall Street Journal about his hatred of health care reform. We shouldn’t be enriching him.
October 27, 2009 at 6:40 pm |
Thanks Margaret. Reading the article, I see that JM wants reform, just in the opposite direction. Socialism or Corporatism, it all ends in fascism, right?
Teechino can be bought online directly or at your local, struggling granny’s health food store. Coffee can be bought at Starbucks.