7/30/2003

A SIMPLE EXPERIMENT

Try this:

1. Go to your local Starbucks. (Don’t worry, if there isn’t one there yet, there will be soon.)

2. Purchase the beverage of your choice, maybe a little nosh if you’re so inclined.

3. Find a comfortable seat.

4. Whilst consuming your beverage and/or food, start tapping your foot along with the music.

5. Count how many songs go by that are exactly the same tempo.

6. See if you can beat my personal record, which is 11 songs in a row at about 114 beats per minute, set this morning at the Starbucks in West Bend, WI.

7. Ponder just how many songs James Taylor intends to write about going back to North Carolina.

8. And why he doesn’t just shut up and move there, already.

Posted by Mark @ 11:56 am | | Permalink
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5 Comments

  1. Let’s see, 11 songs at approx. 3:30 per song, that’s almost 40 minutes. And they say you preachers don’t work hard!
    :-P

    Sorry to hear about all the funerals.

    Comment by Bryan — 7/30/2003 @ 12:58 pm

  2. God made coffee. Therefore, God is at least indirectly responsible for the coffee break. And when you’ve done five funerals in 4.5 weeks, I figure that gives you the right to take one.

    Comment by Mark Hasty — 7/30/2003 @ 3:38 pm

  3. Say what?! You have a Starbucks in W.B? I’m jealous since we don’t have one in big Chaboygan…. besides I couldn’t find a comfortable chair, and then when I started tapping my foot; my shoe got stuck on some gum. Then I got up, and found out pretty quickly that the young girl at the counter had no idea who James Taylor is…. so, I finished my coffee in the car; knowing that it was pretty good for the price….and happy the fat police weren’t watching me eating one of those new ‘griddle’ things….Ha Ha Oh, and I heard that James T. is for sure going to Carolina in the morning!!

    Comment by DickD — 7/30/2003 @ 9:33 pm

  4. Mark, Mark, Mark. Starbucks is a creation of the Devil himself, and you shouldn’t go in there. If you care about the way your coffee tastes, go to Caribou or a local coffeehouse — Starbucks buys inferior beans, roasts the hell out of them to disguise their poor flavor, and as a result their coffee always tastes scorched. Espresso shouldn’t taste burnt.

    Besides, all their caramel-coated-whipped-cream-adorned-coffee-mochaccino-lattes-with-sprinkles-on-top are for those who don’t really like coffee. What they’re looking for is dessert.

    [/rant]

    Comment by Vidiot — 7/31/2003 @ 10:27 am

  5. Starbucks is better than gas station coffee, which is the otehr alternative around here. And I don’t go for the whimpaccino grande or anything like that–I want COFFEE, period.

    Comment by Mark — 7/31/2003 @ 3:11 pm

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