Seattle, Nov 9, 6:35 am. Music playing - “Leaving Hope” NIN

There is a store in Ballard called Archie Mcphee’s that sells all kinds of odd and interesting stuff. It’s not for everyone but it can be a lot of fun if that’s what you’re into. There was a place in Chicago called Uncle Fun which was very similar. I got a Jesus light keychain and [...]

Last Saturday I gallivanted over to another Seattle coffee shop called Victrola. I went to the one on 15th in Capitol Hill. Coffee was good and I played Scrabble with a friend. Not a bad way to spend an evening at all.

Always about the avocado…
“Dude, don’t you ever smile?”

Another Saturday and here I am in a new cafe. This one is called Caffe Vita in Fremont. I have had their coffee before at work where someone had brought in a pound or two. I am not too picky about my coffee. I like it, I drink it, no muss, no fuss. So in [...]

Photo by Rob. It’s an interesting phenomena that happens where people all go out together to be social and wind up spending a big chunk of their time txt’ing and checking email on these happy devices. Maybe life is easier to handle through a digital buffer zone. However, meatspace has cocktails!

Another weekend, another Seattle cafe. This time I went to Verite in Ballard. Free wireless is of course what brought me in, that is essential. But I wasn’t so crazy about this cafe. It was very loud and crowded. I think that was mostly due to the cupcakes they were selling, which I guess are [...]

I go where the free wireless grows. Once again I am in Vivace. However this time I am at the location on Yale Ave since the one I was in last week has been shut down to make way for a train station. This one is a little more polished and new, less wood tables [...]

Vivace is supposed to be the best coffee in Seattle, a town famous for it’s coffee. The location I am in today is being torn down and moved up the street somewhere. Today is the last day it’s open. I’m sitting at the window bar looking out over the park next door. It’s a beautiful [...]

This is the very first Starbucks ever. It is store #1 and it was opened in 1971, which makes it as old as I am. What was once a single coffee shop in the fish market district of Seattle has grown to be a ubiquitous brand that saturates the urban landscape all over the world. [...]

I like this shot because it looks like this woman and I are posing for the cover of our emo album. Like we’re a band called Everything But The Earl making moody music about how love sucks.