[Chefelf]

I got some tea from Starbucks today and here is what it actually said on the back of the tea bag:

Boating down the Li River at dawn among ancient rock formations, many souls have contemplated their place in the universe with a cup of China Green Tips.

Are they serious? It has to be a joke. I can't imagine boating down the Li River and contemplating a universe where someone wrote that copy in earnest. Rather I imagine boating down the Li River and contemplating a universe where the pretentious mocha-scented bastards in charge of Starbucks' Yuppie harvesting program have been duped by goofy, grinning twentysomethings who have just passed off what they believe to be hilarity in the form of a tea packet blurb. Their hilarity is aroma therapy for the Starbucks executives.

So I know it has been a long since I last posted anything here on the blog. Not much has been going on. I have been working on a new design and format for the site (expect it up by the beginning of January). I have also been spending a lot of time back and forth between Rhode Island and New York. Jen and I are preparing for our Christmas celebration tomorrow where we will eat cinnamon buns and open presents. Then we go off to our respective families where we will have another Christmas celebration.

I probably won't update again until after Christmas where I will gleefully list the presents I received. If I'm not too busy spending the days after Christmas playing video games, that is.

Happy Holidays from all of us (read: me) at chefelf.com!

[Reader]

There's a Starbucks or Blenz on every corner downtown here in Vancouver. The yuppie's travel in hordes - you never see one alone. It's frightening. I can only hope that they all develop tumors from their cell phones lest the human race be destroyed by their incessant babbling and landfills full of double cafe mocha cups.

We need another stock market crash. Guys in suits ejecting themselves from high-rise buildings. blah blah blah

that's my two cents.

[barend]

there's one every hundred meters in Sydneys' CBD. :angry:

we hates them :angry:

but i love their mocafrappachino!!!

[Supes]

Hates thems we do precious :angry:

No! loves thems we do. The caffines they gives us.

Nice Starbuckses. Good Starbuckses. Always the fat Starbuckses watches us. :angry:

[civilian_number_two]

There's a Starbucks or Blenz on every corner downtown here in Vancouver.

Christopher Guest and company filmed BEST IN SHOW here in Vancouver. There's a bit where Parker Posey and Michael Hitchcock are talking about how they met, and they mention how she used to go to one street-corner Starbuck's for years, while he always went to the one on the opposite corner of the same intersection. Big cheer for that one in local theatres, since that phenomenon is in evidence at Robson and Thurlow. The cast actually saw that very streetcorner, and thought it was so odd that two Starbuck's might be so close together that they incorporated it into the film.

[Chefelf]

I've heard about that. It sounds like it's a joke but I've heard that it is actually true. I think Lewis Black has a bit about it.

[looktothesky]

I can't tolerate coffee, and the only tea I can tolerate is both bubble tea and green tea (NOT the packaged stuff, the kind you get from fresh Chinatown stores... ooo)

[Chefelf]

I felt this immense pressure to like bubble tea but upon having it with my girlfriend I discovered that it is uncomfortably similar to Orbitz. I just can't have that.

[Jordan]

There's a Starbucks or Blenz on every corner downtown here in Vancouver.

I live near one Vancouver is loaded with wannabe seattlites, seattltonians, seattlitinians? Seattle people

I had a nasty addiction to Iced Vanilla Lattes for about 2 years.

[Amber-Nicole]

Lewis Black does have a bit about it. He's my favorite comic.

[Heccubus]

His brilliance shines through on "Back In Black" on the Daily Show. I wish he was my father and Jon Stewart was my wacky Uncle who did that "got your nose" thing all the time.