Lapine Welcomes “Lucky November” With Talk of Fresh Starts, Bad Coffee and Twelve Grapes

POLYGON — Lapine, a first-generation talent of Polygon, spent a Thursday evening stream, titled “Lucky November,” explaining the theory behind the name. In Lapine’s telling, whatever does not match a person’s energy is pushed out in October to make room for the good things that arrive over the next two months. Lapine said October had felt like a real new beginning and that things had kept improving since November began.

Early in the stream, Lapine said a demanding week had finished that day, which left the mood light, and looked ahead to an event on the 14th, saying everyone involved had worked hard on it. Lapine described November as a month that does not change people overnight but gradually helps them grow and adjust before a fresh start next year. Lapine said they were appreciating every day and every relationship, family and friends above all, and had been looking at the sky daily because it was so pretty.

“An Americano shouldn’t even be bitter.” — Lapine, on a morning coffee thrown out after three sips

The talk then turned to coffee. Lapine said the Americano that morning was so badly extracted and burnt that it went in the bin after three sips, and argued that a good Americano is not bitter at all. Lapine named burnt roasting and poor extraction as the two ways coffee goes wrong, and said they still go to coffee events now and then. Chat teased the self-described coffee nerd as the subject went on.

Later, Lapine said that last year’s attempt at the New Year custom of eating twelve grapes had produced nothing and that the plan was to try again this year. The conversation drifted to durian as a substitute and to a joke about wishing that friends turn into frogs if one is still single by year’s end. Lapine offered chat a choice between everyone becoming frogs and everyone staying single.

Lapine spent the later stretch finishing a piece of work while chatting, then signed off after about two hours. Lapine thanked viewers and wished them a November of new beginnings and growth, in mind and spirit alike.