Starbucks

[Craig Clark]

Stefan Schuber writes:
 > Henry M. just referred to the Starbucks folks as "coffee nazis."

Murthy sez: 
> Around here, it's fairly appropriate - they have extremely uncomfortable
> chairs and a very small space to sit in. Their goal seems to be to get
> the customer to buy something and move on. Unless you're truly stuck
> without alternatives, why not go to a more comfortable place where you
> can actually hang out?
> What's gratuitous about an anti-corporate blast? Didn't you get the
> pynchon-l intro packet? Corporate Bad, Small Beautiful!

I say: Corporate Bad, Small Barely Tolerable, Free Exchange In 
Collectivist Socialist Economy Best!

But seriously, foax, Starbucks? Who they? Some multinational who 
haven't penetrated to this corner of the Third World yet?

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"