We offer food for thought, food for the soul, food for that obsessive streak that just won't shake things loose.

Take a look around. Sit wherever you like. Comfy? Good.

Here's today's menu (updated January 18, 2001):

BeastWatch(TM)! Track that rough beast as he slouches towards Bethlehem to be born. As of December 31, 1999, he was a mere 57 paces away from his destination. Since then, he's been kicking up a lot of dust, but we ought to have a bead on his location soon!

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Main courses

Cafe Compendium features tasty excerpts from Ladies' Fetish & Taboo Society Compendium of Urban Anthropology.

• What fools these mortals be! A cautionary tale of a wedding that really happened.
• I Love a Parade! A front row view of the Coney Island Mermaid Parade
• The Continuing Saga of a Boy and His Truck
• The Seventh Dwarf of the Apocalypse reveals its loathsome identity.
• Field Guide to Astrological Types
• 101 Ways to Sabotage Your Date Plagiarized across the Web and around the globe, this is the original. Scout's honor.
• Man and Amanuensis: The Wag-Log will tell more than you want to know about a beat-up, battered bust of a dead composer, which has traveled more in a couple of years than most people do in a lifetime.

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Chef's Specials

Two guitars. One keyboard. No sense. Red Room Records announces the release of its debut CD -- and it's "Inexcusable!" Featuring the inimitable (we hope!) song stylings of Lady & the Mant, aka Kathy Biehl and Rick Mantler. One keyboard. Two guitars. Infinite irritainment.

Gaze upon the astrological charts of the Marx Brothers (and read my interpretations) at Why A Duck?

Join me on a photo-filled, award-winning weird tour of Houston.

Visit my latest finds: The Shoe House The Big Duck Fairy Tale Forest The Galleon, the Santa Maria, that Ship outside Atlantic City Lucy the Elephant Jugg City, USA

A Solstice Tale: Theater under the stars...and streetlights....

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The Tea Room Need guidance in this confusing world?

Consider an astrological or Tarot consultation.

The services of Ask A Guy , our resident advisor in male-female relations and corporate politics, are now available to the on-line public. So ask him something, why doncha? Others have.

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Dining alone? Perhaps some reading would keep you company?
The Cafe's Bookshelf offers extraordinary literature in association with Amazon.com. Now includes Children's Literature for Adults, Humor, Deep Thought, and Film. (Updated May 19, 1999 with new selections.)

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Kid's Menu!

By popular demand (thank you, Nicola!), the Cafe now offers something with younger visitors in mind. Our introductory feature: Professor Biehl's Science Corner, courtesy of the youngest scientist in the family.

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Home Delivery

You've got two options, and they're not mutually exclusive!

Subscribe to Demitasse, the Compendium's free electronic newsletter.

And/or subscribe to good old original print zine, Ladies' Fetish & Taboo Society Compendium of Urban Anthropology," for a modest sum indeed. Published whenever, and we mean it. "Pushing publishing into the fourth dimension." -- Pagan Kennedy, Voice Literary Supplement.

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Tidbits

• Browse the Cafe Toyshelf!
• About the Cafe
• Care for some Advice?
• Meet some of our friends.
• These are a few of our favorite things -- and "The Sound of Music" is not one of them.
  • Music
  • Pop culcha
  • Amusements
• Who can resist dessert?
• Send a greeting from the Cafe.

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Kathy Biehl, Proprietress and Editrix
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