James Lileks' The Diner Ricochet

Refrigerator's acting up. Will take my regional soda with ice. Hold the metal shavings.

Brown sugar. Butter. Maybe some cream. Perhaps a dash of vanilla and a pinch of salt. That's the recipe for Butterscotch.

Or you just follow the directions on that 10-lb bag of powder over there.

You write and you write and you write some more. And you keep writing until you're done.

An episode that asks the eternal questions:

Is this good? Better? Worse? Better here? Or better here? What's the lowest line you can read?

Something that you can only get at The Diner: A trip to the future on a trip to the past.

By your command...

An order of eggs, forget the bacon and bring us a side order of aesthetically pleasing buildings.