At the Happy Center Café...

... checking the rules of the game. *** Here's the game: Hive Carbon . That's an Amazon link. And if you happen to have any other sh...

At the Pool Table Café...

... you can call the shots. (The photograph was taken yesterday at The Raw Deal in Menomonie, Wisconsin.)

At the Caffe Dolce...

... life is sweet in Missoula. ( Caffe Dolce is a real place. We practically lived there for 3 days.) ADDED: A second view... showing a mor...

Things seen at a Madison café just now.

1. A centipede was crawling up the counter. A man came over and kicked it, and it wasn't crawling anymore. 2. A very large man with his ...

Remontant foxglove.

That's the first thing we notice upon leaving the house today. We drive over to the east side of town to check out the signs... ... and ...

At the Chocolate Chip Café...

... sit down and hang out. ADDED: I should have called this the Levitating Muffin Café. (Lem: "Is it me, or does the muffin appear to f...

Althouse is a bit off.

For some reason, I find this mistake hilarious.

At the Café Café...

... let's settle in for some good conversation about anything you like.

"Cafes... have always been venues for conspicuous contemplation... places to read Camus’ most obscure collections of essays, places to doodle evocatively in your large Moleskin notebook."

Free WiFi users wreck the hip LoFi ambiance of the coffeehouse in Greg Beato's brain. (Photo by John Althouse Cohen)

If you're traveling in the north country...

... where Highway 63 meets Route 2 ... there is a café... Casablanca Traders ... ... where the nice lady kept the place open for an extra 15...

Portrait of an Italian worker.

This picture is hilarious. From an article about Fiat's efforts to instill a work ethic and the larger problem of the underperformance...

Don't be irritating while I'm caffeinating.

Come on, café people. Fix your wobbly tables. (The main thing is: I'm learning iMovie . That was: My Very First Voiceover. Look out, de...

At the Stray Words Café...

In a bowl by the cash register, there are words to contemplate: There's advertising on the floor: And a fully painted mural where for ye...

At the Electric Café...

... you can take a good look at yourself.

"I am a local artist, who has created sculptings made up Duct-Tape.. 100% no wires, or fillers."

Dennis Gervasio has "created the illusion of pewter." His opposition to "fillers" may explain his shortening of the term...

Man in green sneakers reads Sartre. Dog arrives.

The Sartre book was "Nausea"   — great title for reading in a café. And the combination of Sartre and a café got us talking about ...

Talk about anything at the Autumn Leaf Café.

The Quiet Corner Café.

Talk about anything.

The Featherweight Café.

Where everything is light and airy. If your concerns are ponderous or morose, I must direct you back to The Willow Lounge .

Take a mid-afternoon break at The Fuzzy Thinking Café.

Riffs. Chatter. Free association. Nobody ever gets to the point at The Fuzzy Thinking Café. Come on! Feel the fuzziness.