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• Spoof?

  November 18, 2009

  • Another Wednesday, another image.  This is obviously a spoof, but it is really that far off?  
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• Comet -- Ann Arbor

  November 17, 2009

  • I was in Ann Arbor last week talking about my book and my good friend, Josh Cole, took me to Comet -- a bare bones, but still attractive, exquiste third wave coffee shop.  This is really a post-Starbucks store, where the performance is all about the coffee, not faux community or saving the planet.  (They do sell Ritual coffee with a hammer and sickle on the label.)   You can smell the coffee ...
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• Offending Cup

  November 11, 2009

  • Picture Day again.  This week the picture features one of the Starbucks cups with the quotes.  Starbucks introduced these cups to, in the company's words, support "good, healthy discussion.”  To add to that conversation, novelist Armistead Maupin wrote on his cup, "My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long, I surrendered my youth --- he continues -- to the ...
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