Tom Fassbender

“It felt like one of those horror-movie moments when a party of teenagers are lost in the woods and stumble upon some cute thing and everyone says, ‘Aw, isn’t that cute.’ Then it turns from cute to evil and kills them.” People told us that taking a walk through the Sacred Monkey Forest in Ubud, Bali is simply an amazing thing to do.

I can’t exactly remember when I first heard about kopi luwak, the legendary and exotic coffee that is discussed in hushed tones among elite coffee aficionados, but it was sometime in the early 2000s. We didn’t call it kopi luwak back then. We called it civet coffee. The less cultured among us just called it poop coffee. Crude, yes. But true. Because that’s kind of what it is. Press enter or click to view image in full size What is kopi luwak anyway?

Douglas Adams once made an excellent joke about telephone booth sanitizers – science fictional cleaners doing an important job that went unnoticed. Now, A.G. Rodriguez has given us Johnny Gomez, a janitor or “Space Broom” on an interplanetary cruise ship. He’s a man who spends his days deep in drudgery and alien excrement. When Johnny stumbles on a small “data-chit,” his life becomes dangerously interesting. The brown-stuff he’s wading through becomes more metaphorical but a lot more deadly.