LAist: WARNING: There is a 50% Chance You Will Be Carjacked By A Yuppie Sometime Tonight Between 5:30 and 8:30

desiringmachine

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:00:17 -0800

I can't get into the rage at Starbucks, there has got to be a more worthy target for your contempt and ridicule. They pay & treat their employees better than any food service est. I ever worked in and when I've gotten a nasty cup of coffee from them (twice) they've replaced it and given me a coupon and a 'sorry' without a single sneer. So you don't like their music or their whimsical lamps or their uncomfortable chairs - I don't either - which is why if I go to a Starbucks it's because I want some coffee to go and they are convenient. Also, really, I have had coffee from Peets, Caribou, Coffee Bean, Gloria Jeans, Bad-Ass Coffee, Dunkin Donuts...some mom&pop place in Boston, at least some other chain variety place in DC...I have gotten bad coffee from all of them at least once. What kind of coffee are you drinking that Starbucks seems like such swill by comparison?

Ross A. Lincoln

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:45:45 -0800

Dang it. Okay, I tried to embed something. Didn't work. http://youtube.com/watch?v=64a_1fWTsls Anyway, that's all I have to say about it.

Ross A. Lincoln

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:42:31 -0800

futureperfect

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:12:25 -0800

ross, i'm sorry that my lexicon doesn't impress you, but thanks for illustrating my point that you are both pretentious and a douche. i'm fairly certain that aside from bret michaels, you're the only man on the planet still saying "hiyo." but i digress. your writing is more about sucking your own dick than about reporting and commenting. maybe if i threw in a word like "dilettante" you'd get a hard-on for something other than your own self-importance.

Ross A. Lincoln

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:03:23 -0800

Come on, "Future Perfect," really. The best you can come up with is "pretentious," "hipster" and "douche?" Here, let me help you: Ross is so pretentiously east-side-hipster douchey, he probably thinks this ironic T-shirt is about him. OR Ross is so full of himself, he belches pansies. HIOOO

futureperfect

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:44:09 -0800

the only thing more annoying than a huge corporate entity saturating the market is when a pretentious eastside hipster gets on his soapbox to bitch about it. your writing is consistently overdramatic, hyperbolic, and elitist. i will give it to you that you're not quite as annoying as the "other" ross who used to post on here, although your douche factor is almost as high.

novas

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:45:53 -0800

i buy trader joes cafe feminino - and get my hipster cred for fair-trade, organic, co-op grown etc etc etc - and brew it in my single-cup coffee maker. add some cold milk, put the lid on my awesome mug (OXO click top mug ftw!) and i'm good to go for cents/cup. :D

Zach Behrens

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:59:50 -0800

Yeah, Chris said it! He found a coffee shop better than Starbucks in Sherman Oaks! You go dude! http://laist.com/2008/02/15/new_independent.php

riley

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:48:44 -0800

Ahahahaha I love the modifier. It's alright, really. I hate lawyers, too. I just have to get uppity lest you creative types forget we're full of self-loathing already.

Ross A. Lincoln

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:36:02 -0800

HAHAH! Sorry Riley, I was in the middle of a rant and sort of, you know, slandered an entire group of professionals. I mean, don't get me wrong, I hate all lawyers, but you're one of the good ones. (emoticon implying mirthful humor) But seriously, a qualifier will be added shortly.

b3rti3

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:36:00 -0800

great publicity ploy SBX...guess they are hoping their falling sales will go up with this..but barista training won't change the fact the coffee tastes burnt

riley

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:31:33 -0800

Ross, as a lawyer who shares your vitriolic antipathy for all things Rob Thomas-related, I take umbrage to the "date" remark. Some of us live on the east side!

UltraO

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:14:24 -0800

I like Starbucks. I guess I’ve been won over by the fast service and grown fond of the acidic coffee, insta-push-button espresso shots and “safe” decor. I've nearly died while standing in line at the Bourgeois Pig while the grungy-cute employee trades endless witty remarks with the local patrons…yawn. I want that Starbizzle Johnny Cash TV show dvd they just put out!

Julie Wolfson

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:05:07 -0800

Hey Everyone. Head over to Trader Joe's and buy a can of D'Aquino Organic Espresso Coffee. It will get you through the evening and save you from your expensive Starbuck's habit!! For a special treat, I do love to splurge on Intelligentsia- yum.

Elise Thompson

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:56:29 -0800

EZ FINN: The Gap is for the workin man. It is seriously econo. How could Watt be against that?

Callie Miller

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:55:41 -0800

All one has to do is read Starbucked by Taylor Clark and you will never, ever, want to step foot in a Starbuck's again. Hipster or not. Yuppie or not. The kind of manipulation that goes into every detail of the location and the decor is freaky. And also - the coffee is horrible.

Carrie Meathrell

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:43:00 -0800

DUNKIN DONUTS. They ship that shit, ya know.

Ross A. Lincoln

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:37:30 -0800

I LOVE NEscafe. That's awesome.

dgonzale80

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:33:04 -0800

I guess I'll just have to make some Nescafe ::sigh::

Chris Ullrich

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:24:39 -0800

There's always LAist Editor Zach's new favorite place: M Street Coffee in Sherman Oaks. Been there a few times myself. I like it better than Starbucks. There, I said it.

ezfinn

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:21:51 -0800

After all the comments about hipsters the last couple of weeks (including my own) I don't know what I am anymore.....I'm wearing a Gap shirt listening to Mike Watt at the moment. Does that mean I should be kicking my own ass?

Ross A. Lincoln

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:09:21 -0800

Sadly, I think I probably qualify as a regular old hipster. I have a suspicious amount of clothing with Epelauts.

msperry

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:04:21 -0800

I think we should invent a new category: the anti-hipster hipster.

Celaphane

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:39:29 -0800

Screw starschmucks and intellegentsia. I get my fix at peet's. Mmmm...peet's.

Osmany Rodriguez

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:34:24 -0800

Its only deliciously monotonous icy sludge if oyu don't add any of their delicious fresh fruit or oreo cookies

ezfinn

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:25:45 -0800

Hey, not to worry, this is a good chance for everyone to up their indie cred by being seen at Intelligentsia.