Dear Uptight Seattlite

[elfs]

I should send this into the Stranger (or is it the Seattle Weekly) to have them go over this for real:

Dear Uptight Seattlite:

Every month I go up to Capitol Hill to get myself the roasted coffee that I prefer. There are only two places I have found that sell my favored brand: one is a local organic co-op staffed with hippies struggling to survive against the onslaught of Whole Foods and Safeway. the other is a local coffeeshop staffed by goths struggling to survive against the likes of Starbucks.

Which one of these deserves my money more?

Comments

[nbarnes.livejournal.com]

I love the question and you should absolutely send it in.

[davidlevine]

Go with the hippies. They do less damage to the environment.

[omahas.livejournal.com]

Now, see, after I told him that, he still wouldn't send it in. But after you told him, he would.

I'm just not good enough for him. :(((

;)

[abostick59.livejournal.com]

Supporting the hippie organic co-op means supporting sustainable local agriculture. Supporting the goth coffee shop means supporting bad techno bands.

(Oh, my, I think I'm showing a bit of an attitude here.)

[elgatocurioso.livejournal.com]

Yeah, go with the hippies. Some might be preachy, but at least you know that they are willing to walk-the-walk as well as talk-the-talk.

On the other hand some of the cafe-goths really do mean well too, but a much larger percentage of them are just doing it because it's cool and if you looked you'd still find daddy's platinum card in their pocket.

[zvi-likes-tv.livejournal.com]

If you're grocery shopping, go with the hippies. If you're having a day out and want to have a refreshing beverage, go with the goths.

I am grimly predictable

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

Which one are cuter?

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[solarbird]

DINGDINGDINGDING WINNAH!

[sagittaria.livejournal.com]

I vote hippies. But you could always alternate between the two.

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[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

Ones. Ones, damnit. Sigh.

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[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

*bows*

(Huh, you know frobzwiththingz and used to be from MA... have we met?)

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[solarbird]

I wouldn't rule it out, tho' I don't recognise you from your icon pics. However, I used to be lyonesse's housemate in Seattle, if that means anything to you. I've been to a Baitcon (tho' not recently), I've practiced at the MIT aikido dojo, but am in Boston only every couple of years.

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[elfs.livejournal.com]

Gosh, hard to say. The cute chick behind the counter at Aurifice has a lip piercing, which is always a turn-off for me. I could kinda go for the white-boy-with-dreads at Madison. It's a toss.

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[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

Huh, I used to be lyonesse's coworker at the late lamented Left Bank Operation (circa 1997-9), and have been to several Baitcons over the last decade or so. But I've pretty much had That Hair the entire time, so if my userpics don't look familiar, perhaps our paths never actually crossed.

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[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

That's what I was going to say. Always favor the one with the cuter/hotter baristas.

[laplor.livejournal.com]

The totally pragmatic answer is go for whichever is more convenient, has a better price, and offers better eye-candy. As long as you chose one or the other, some real person will benefit. Ideally, it would be nice if both can survive so that there will always be a choice.

(I tend to prefer hippies overall, but I agree with you on the lip piercing. For me, those things distract in an unpleasant way.)

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[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

Funny, lip piercings are only a squick for me if they're poorly cared-for (ie: red, swollen, angry-looking), whereas dreads on white boys is an instant move-along-thanks-for-playing -- you just know they're going to try to get you to listen to Phish during sex.

To each their own. :)

[srmalloy.livejournal.com]

No... definitely the other way around.

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[solarbird]

Huh. Well, foo. Maybe in passing. But I'm not sure what you mean by That Hair, other than brightly coloured and short, which I like but which is not adequately distinguishing, I'm afraid. Oh well, we know people who know each other, we'll probably run into each other sometime...

[nbarnes.livejournal.com]

He needs to refine the parallelism between the two statements, though.

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[elfs.livejournal.com]

Phish while fucking is a problem similar only to the Dead while stoned: when you come back to reality your reaction is, "Y'know, they're not that good."

[norincraft.livejournal.com]

I say it doesn't really matter as both are good choices. But you should ask Uptight Seattlite anyway (since it's an illuminating question) and post the answer.

[fallenpegasus]

They smell worse, and are not nearly as cute.

[fallenpegasus]

IAWTP

[amythis.livejournal.com]

Since no one answered your other question, it's Seattle Weekly. My guess is ASU will tell you to order it online, and support our cyber-economy.

[slutdiary.livejournal.com]

Go to Madison Market and say hello to my beautiful partner, who works there.