Bette Porter drinks coffee...probably black, and lots of it

I've been hesitant to update this blog for the past couple days because I know doing so will push the  inspired photo of Jennifer Beals (as Bette Porter) in Monday's post further down the page. It's such a fantastic image that I want it greeting visitors for as long as I can possibly manage.  And I, myself, have found it nearly impossible to turn away from...which is strange given that it's probably just a generic publicity still or screen capture from "The L Word" in which Bette is sitting at a table at The Planet, the café-cum-nightclub where all the characters hang out.

In this case it's daytime, probably morning since Bette is clearly dressed-for-success in her position as the dean of a California art school. She looks a little wistful...kind of like how I feel about the news that the show will stop production after Season 6. I know I've been kind of hard on it in the past and complained that the characters don't much represent any of the real-life lesbians I know, but I still watch whenever I can catch it on Sweden's no-rhyme-nor-reason-to-scheduling-practices cable TV networks.

So I've been staring at this picture off-and-on for two days now, knowing that there was something about it that didn't quite ring true...just like the show itself...but not being able to put my finger on what it was until just now.

It's the teapot.

I mean, c'mon...everybody knows that hip LA power lesbians drink coffee!

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