So I’m sitting at Barriques, enjoying a coffee and a bowl of soup when I see something unusual, an Amish couple. Well I don’t know if they were actually Amish. They could have been something else similar, I don’t have the knowledge to tell the difference. It was just peculiar to see that in a downtown coffee shop with wireless internet and computers everywhere. I was tempted to take a picture of them, they sat directly behind me, but I didn’t want to offend. Do they have rules about being photographed? Damn my cultural sensitivity.

Ann Althouse might move in upstairs. I’ve seen her in Barriques once. She loves the place. I stayed at a distance, staring at her. Creepy?