The Talented Mr Eugenides is pushing a campaign to ban Alistair “impose above-inflation rises on beer” Darling from drinking houses across the land.
Sounds like a plan. Just a half for me, though, I’m driving.
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Robert Toomey, an analyst at E K Riley Investments in Seattle: -
“They’re going to have to slow the rate of new store openings - definitely in the US and perhaps overseas as well. It goes back to the issues of a diluted experience and a saturated market.”
Finally, the Starbuckization of the high street may slow. […]
Justin on proposals to hike the tax on alcohol: -
I don’t know about anyone else but I’d feel less inclined to drink if this country, along with its culture and its politics, was just a little less unremittingly shit. That, of course, would require almost an entire generation of good-for-nothing-else chancers and mountebanks getting their […]
I’m out of coffee. This is not a drill, soldier. Procuring more coffee is priority NUMBER ONE. Now, get to it!!
UPDATE: PANIC OVER. Disaster averted. FairTrade Guatemalan coffee procured. Two in one, eh?
1. Coffee levels returning to normal.
2. Liberal, middle-class self-satisfaction assured.
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Monkey King tea, sourced from the Hunan Province in South-Eastern China, is the oldest known scented tea. Scented with jasmine blossoms, when it’s brewed it emits a heavy fragrance and its colour has a deep dark orange hue. Almost as if it has been collected from a rusty barrel.
In its dry state, however, the tea […]
When you have two kids your social life takes a kicking.
Even going to the movies entails a gargantuan level of preparation. So the parents of young children tend to end up at home most nights, sat there, hoping the sprogs sleep through the night, or at best, don’t vomit all over themselves. This is the […]
Just read the Simpsons article in the Guardian’s Weekend section. Don’t waste your time. Simpsons fans will learn nothing they didn’t know before.
Any new light the article sheds on the forthcoming film is contained in the following few lines: -
The secrecy surrounding The Simpsons Movie has been intense, but Variety, the industry newspaper, has already […]
Still celebrating (that’s my excuse ), I had a bottle and a half of Aussie Shiraz last night. I don’t drink very often so it has kicked the shit out of me. I feel terrible and I’ve had no sleep.
Feel sorry for me?
Oh, okay, suit yourself.
*tyger shuffles off muttering something about bastards and […]
The Talented Mr. Zhisou has tagged me. Apparently I am to divulge my obsessions, presumably on the point of death. I better get to it then, eh?
I guess I pass through phases of obsessive behaviour. When I was sixteen I could pretty much name every football player in Italy’s Serie A – […]
Everyone loves a dig at a huge American conglomerate (and I’m no exception).
Starbucks has become much more than just a coffeeshop, it’s a lifestyle choice, and thousands of willing Brits have signed up to an existence defined by over-priced coffee, blueberry muffins, and tapping their feet to the latest Nora Jones record. This is […]
Using Coffee To Trick Your Brain
I usually work on multiple projects at the same time, and whenever a new project comes along, I find it really difficult to actually get started. Once I’ve begun making progress, I’m able to move smoothly without any problems. It’s the getting started that’s really difficult, especially if it’s something […]
Starbucks, Newark Market Sq.
Newark has its first Starbucks. Now I’m not the sort of leftie that opposes all successful large corporations, but Newark has the most delightful little cafés, and they’re bound to be crushed under Starbucks’ mighty boot.
I was in Newark to visit my osteopath, […]
Don’t ask why, but out in Tallinn drinking whiskey, so if I never resurface you know I went down happy.
