Good morning! Welcome -- or, if you've been here before, Welcome back -- to The Point, your virtual Sunday jazz brunch by the sea, where we ask you to have a cup of (Fill in hot beverage of choice here) and tell us what's in your local newspaper, be it analog or digital.
Join me under the Socialist tangerine beignet for this morning's menu... and FYI We do have Socialist tangeine beignets on the Baked Goods tray. One to a customer, please.
Even though the fog is pretty decent this morning, we've got five-foot waves with good shape if you want to break out the wet suit. Please change before coming back in the restaurant, though -- the salt water does bad stuff to the antique rugs and the hardwood floors.
The coffee this morning is a free-trade Dark Sumatra, and the herbal tea is Red Zinger. Both can be iced at your order, and we can make it an Irish Coffee if that's how you want to start the day. The omelette of the day is shiitake mushroom with Vermont cheddar cheese, and the crepe of the day is blueberry with powdered sugar. As usual, we have locally-made sausage and bacon on our breakfast buffet along with thick-sliced Canadian bacon, Eggs Benedict, and hash browns (with and without bacon & sausage pieces). Fresh fruits are available in season.
While you're reading, typing and linking, here's your music for this morning:
Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro
Joe Locke/Geoffrey Keezer - Signing
The Cookers - Believe
Horace Silver - Song for My Father
Herbie Mann - Memphis Underground
Anta Cohen - Claroscuro
The goal is the same as always: Share something that's being done or said in your region, as reported by your local newspaper/blog/whatever. It could be political, but that's not a requirement. And if there's anything that's arts-related, please share it. The more arts in our lives, the better those lives are -- something Mitt "I'm going to fire Big Bird" Romney would never understand.
All that said, grab a seat by the windows, take a whiff of sea air, and tell us: What's in YOUR newspaper?