Welcome to Cafe, Etc!
Here at Cafe, Etc. We pride ourselves on a menu full of mouth-watering food to go with our unmatched hospitality and organic customer service. Due to our lack of coffee, food, location, or employees, we vow to do better in the future. In the meantime, please enjoy this smorgasbord of creative tidbits by our resident artist and founder, Bradley.
The Sailors’ Break
They came to Bradley in a dream—two smoking sailors who live in separate works of art. One is a rodent who’s fed up with the nautical nonsense of life on a boat. Fed up with peeling potatoes, the post-work smoke is where he finds the solace he lacks during his day job.
The other sailor, a humanist fellow with many angular features and a face one could describe as “terrainically chaotic,” is a freelancer who’s seldom seen without his signature pipe. Separate, they sail the spiritual seas looking for new hope and adventure. Together, they just might figure out what makes the Public Domain an inspiring culmination of the late great human race.
Tabby, the Tiger
When Bradley’s Tabby, Tiger, passed away in 2015, our writer vowed never to get another housecat. How, then, can he get a new one? He can’t. Which is why he journeyed through Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book to find the next best thing. Ladies, Gentlemen, and Enbies across the public domain; meet Tiger, the Tabby.
Things got off to a questionable start upon their first meetup when Tabby tried and failed to wrestle with his soon-to-be friend. Never one to let a meager mauling set him back, Bradley gained the tiger, Tabby’s trust with tales of his tabby, Tiger’s commitment to fitting in boxes much smaller than herself, her lifelong war against cups of water, which culminated in one last spill the very day she died, and her lifelong commitment to tormenting her fallen feline friend, Guess.
RIP to Guess, the (????), and Tiger, the Tabby. May Tabby, the Tiger, continue your legacy of Rascaldom and Tomfoolery.
A Tale of Two Archers
Naysayers question the efficacy of Robin Hood’s existence, but the public domain does not discriminate against fact and fiction. Some say there was a Robin of Loxley who usurped his life of privilege and eventually laid the foundations for the folk hero who redistributed the wealth with accuracy, wit, and a little bit of violence.
As most of you know, Lavinia died at her father’s hands after a life of pain and torment by both his father and the hands of men just like him. Now, she’s out for revenge. But don’t let the hooks fool you, she may have the quickest hands in the west, whether flesh and blood or molten iron.
Once you see her covered face, her lack of posable thumbs becomes her greatest weapon.
Fairly Used Revue: Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning (MXMXXV)
Thirty years agoago, Tom Cruise broke into his universe’s most well-guarded castle, and despite the sands of time doing nobody but he any favors, the multiprose’s most preposterous person remains among the most committed daredevils and artists in the game. In Cruise and Director Christopher McQuarry’s latest projective picture show, Ethan Hunt has one last chance to save the world from an artificial demagogue with no regard for safety, sanctity, or spirit. The results are a timeless celebration of the humanity behind the art that, while silly and farfetched, gives Hunt, Luther, and the rest of the gang the send-off they deserve, and this critic sat, mouth agape, throughout this mission’s Final Reckoning
Words of Wisdom
“If you’re going to fight, fight like you’re the third monkey on the ramp of Noah’s Ark; and, brother? It’s starting to rain.”
- A Meme
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