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Friday, April 18
wishing
i wish there was a starbucks in riverdale.
they are building one in marble hill, i think. what are they thinking?
it's so weird to live in a place that doesn't have one, single place to go have coffee. well, that isn't true. there are places, but it's really...generic coffee in the truest sense of the word.
10:03 PM
last night i detrained at 103 st on my way to shul and saw a starbucks on 102 st. i thought, this neighborhood was hellish when i lived here in the late 80s and now look! there's a starbucks. i played my time-travel game, in which i imagine going backwards or forwards in time, and pretended it was 1988 and that i was coming out of the subway and saw the eerie glow of the green letters in the night. i imagined someone telling me, "yeah, there are as many starbucks around as there are mcdonald's. people are into coffee now. you can pay five dollars for a cup in there." i only spent $3.57, but that's still a lot, if you think about it in general, and specifically, in the context of my time-travel scenario. then, coffee was no more than fifty cents, if that much. that's how much a cup of coffee should be - not seventy, not eighty. if you charge eighty, you are a bastard. at starbucks it's different because it's much higher quality bean and much more labor and product goes into that coffee. i tried to imagine understanding the starbucks concept in my 1988 mind.
12:01 PM
Sunday, April 6
coffee update
1. i was given a $100 starbucks card for my birthday. it's all gone. i have a new card.
2. i have been enjoying "drip" coffee for several weeks now, at starbucks.
8:34 AM
