Starf**ked

Filed under:Uncategorized — posted by the Yearning Heart on September 25, 2004 @ 5:06 am
I’ve had it with Starbuck’s. My favorite freaking coffee shop has been Starfucked.
This once was a pleasant enough, genteel sort of place. The kind of place where they did not discriminate hiring on the basis of body art. They would hire people who looked like they bathed, and who could hold five orders in their heads at a time.
But no, it’s been Starfucked, as in bought out by Starbuck’s.
Now you can’t even get a Pitch Weekly. They don’t allow them in the store. They’re FREE for the luvva Fudd, but they’re not allowed to be distributed in the corporate death hole that is Starbuck’s.
Worse, they don’t sell a medium cup of coffee. I walk in, smile my crooked smile and ask for “a medium cup of coffee, please.”
“A Grande drip?” asks the perkyguy.
“No, thank you. I’d like a medium size cup of coffee.”
“We have Tall, Grande and Venti.”
“How horrible for you, that they make an intelligent young man like you say that to college-educated people with a straight face. I want the medium-sized cup of coffee. To go. Please.”
Vente is Italian for twenty. Grande is the name of a rio in Texas. And Tall – Why is the smallest one named Tall? for the same reason 350-lb. bikers are named “Tiny?”
I guess I have to elbow my way up to the counter at Muddy’s from now on.

wanted: boyfriend. Mine.

Filed under:Uncategorized — posted by the Yearning Heart on September 24, 2004 @ 8:58 pm

Sublime, yet overstated…

Filed under:Uncategorized — posted by the Yearning Heart on September 21, 2004 @ 8:35 pm

Mae goes to Lady Ann’s

Filed under:Uncategorized — posted by the Yearning Heart on September 19, 2004 @ 8:35 pm

the girl’s gotta have it

Filed under:Uncategorized — posted by the Yearning Heart on September 17, 2004 @ 8:20 pm

Where are the men of color on campus?

Filed under:Uncategorized — posted by the Yearning Heart on September 16, 2004 @ 4:42 am

what IS that smell?

Filed under:Uncategorized — posted by the Yearning Heart on September 12, 2004 @ 5:56 am

What’s So Funny ‘Bout

Filed under:Uncategorized — posted by the Yearning Heart on September 11, 2004 @ 2:28 am

Bush in Lee’s Summit

Filed under:Uncategorized — posted by the Yearning Heart on September 8, 2004 @ 9:45 am

One chance to make an entrance

Filed under:Uncategorized — posted by the Yearning Heart on September 1, 2004 @ 9:15 am


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