Damn you Starbucks
I despise you and your cranberry oatmeal mountain bars and tall house coffees with room for cream. Your sirens whispering sweet nothings into innocent passerby’s. You mock my town by cloaking yourself in local establishments and yet you still survive. You’re like a light brown german cockroach impervious to insecticide. My town successfully squashed Wal-mart’s ambitions but not you. You somehow slipped through the carpet cracks and built your roach hotel right across from my work.
DAMN YOU!
I love you.
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Mel Hogan http://www.resolutionink.com
I too worship often at the Starbucks altar. It is a false god indeed. But sweet sweet seduction. It’s never fun hating a corporation that does its job so sickeningly well! And the people are nice too. DOWN WITH STARBUCKS, LONG LIVE STARBUCKS!
Bill
I feel dirty. And that in a shameful way.
My wife and I were just discussing their new in-fest-stallation at our university center… and… choking-back-the-shame… just how much more… *I can’t believe I’m writing this*… comfortable and… and inviting it makes that sterile excuse for a student gathering center!
And to think the warmth of that first cappuccino I purchased from there today can no longer warm my hands!
Sam
It’s so friggen cool to hate Starbucks. As a corporation, they do more social and environmental good, on a global scale, than all of the local mom and pop coffee houses put togethor.
Nathan Borror http://www.playgroundblues.com/
Sam, I agree, but there is something more “human” about the local shops. I just feel like the person on the other side of the local coffeehouse counter is more genuine. They see me as a person rather than an order. Starbucks corporate is no doubt fantastic.
I think America is turning its head to the way things used to be. The Wal-marts, Targets, McDonalds and Starbucks are in a way devaluing the meaning of community.
Sam
I agree with you, America (and the world, mind you) is moving away from community as we know it. Instead of seeing this as a negative, however, I am anxious to see how our society evolves, just as it did when tribal living gave way to communities centuries ago.
I always view it like this…if society didn’t want Starbucks and McDonalds on every corner, there wouldn’t be Starbucks and McDonalds on every corner.
Hey, I hadn’t mentioned it yet, but I’m loving the new design and layout, Nathan. Fresh as hell.
Nathan Borror http://www.playgroundblues.com/
Good point. I can’t help but point out the role advertising plays at convincing society McDonalds and Starbucks is a need rather than a want. Anytime something becomes slightly more convenient we jump all over it.
I fear the greater disconnect that’s upon us. I think it’s producing paranoia and skepticism. Journalism is feeding the fire while it neglects its primary role of bringing communities together. Thats a whole other bag of worms for another day though.
Mark me as a hypocrite because I say this right before I march over to Starbucks :)
Travis
I am curious to see how the world and ‘community’ are changing as well. In Seattle, the home of said angel, demon, socially responsible, mom and pop shop destroyer many small coffee chains have found their niche. My personal favorites are Cafe Ladro and Diva Espresso both with superior products and atmospheres to the Giant (and free Wi-Fi!). These small companies are flurishing in the birth place of the global empire.
Nathan Borror http://www.playgroundblues.com/
Travis, the same situation exists in Lawrence. One Man (Starbucks) among many rebels (indy coffeehouses). The indies are probably doing more business than the Man and most of that business is after 10pm which is when Starbucks closes.
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