Okay…I know that I am not the only fan boy that misses the genius of Joss Whedon on the small screen. I loved Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly. I have also loved to read his Astonishing X-Men run, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 8 comics and look forward to the trade of featuring this Runaways run.
Whedon is embracing the internet to share with his fans Dr. Horrible the Sing Along Blog. These web episodes are a fun way of seeing the world through the eyes of a lovesick villain (or at least he tries to be). These episodes can be downloaded from iTunes or watched on Hulu. Whedon is also taking advantage of Twitter. It is a must see!
Anyone who knows me knows that I have a Starbucks cup in my hand for the most of the day. I am currently in Cincinnati and the first site I visit is a Starbucks. Of course, I think this is guided by fate…in the middle of OHIO (somewhere around Columbus) I take a random exit to take a break from driving and get gas…and there it was…a Starbucks in the middle of farm county Ohio.
Did I start out as a coffee junkie? Nope! My parents grew up during the first instant & automatic drip coffee pot era. It was not uncommon that their parents drank coffee all day, because it was so easy to make. I did not grow up with coffee drinking parents, so I never looked for it.
I didn’t start drinking Coffee until my 5th year of teaching…prior to this I survived on heavy doses of Mountain Dew. I had a close friend that escaped from school each day to grab a Starbucks during our planning time. I of course went…but didn’t like coffee, so I got Hot Chocolate. Who would have ever thought as Hot Chocolate as a transition to coffee??? Well it began with Mochas…to triple ventes…to quad ventes…more caffeine the better.
Why did I decided to blog about Starbucks and coffee, as I drink one? I was reminded of a friend who twittered the other day about how he loved a good cup of coffee. Well I began to wonder if I really liked coffee or victim of consumerism. This also reminds me of a conversation I had with a high school-er about how he described Starbucks as “being the Microsoft of coffee”…Wow he hit a nerve, I am a APPLE Guy.
I defended Starbucks and argued that Starbucks did not come into towns like a WAL-Mart and force smaller companies to close…Starbucks created the market for coffee (made it okay to spend $5 for a cup of joe) and if anything the company has promoted the growth of coffee shops around the country. Case in point…New Wilmington, PA…the small college town that I went to college in…a town surrounded by PA Amish. Not much business is done in the small downtown…Except a Coffee House that thrives even if College is not in session.
Could this happen without the Microsoft of Coffee?
I am not the only one who addicted to Starbucks…check out this website with very familiar Starbucks images. [http://www.sirensongdc.com/news/]
Although this post could be in the Geek section…the art shared on this blog for the LA Gallery 1988 is just to cool. The newest exhibit is TOYS consists of toys inspired art. Personally…I would have been lost without my Big Wheel.
I was doing several image searches on FlickrStorm. I came accross a lot of GEEKs sharing photos of their MACs and other APPLE toys. So I thought, “I can do that”. In this picture I was a father for about 4 hours and one of the first pictures of my daughter is posed in front of my G4 PowerBook. Hey, you know her first word was apple!
I have had the privilege of meeting and working with the writer, director & editor of this film. He is only a senior in high school. Some of the images captured in this video reminded me of the loneliness and paranoia I felt as a young adult. Feeling that people were always staring at you, yet not seeing you. I was extremely impressed and hope to see more from this young man.
