Tweet Against the Current

Went into Starbuck's the other day and ordered my usual grande non-fat, no-foam latte, and lo and behold they had a CD on sale called "Speakeasy Times," a compilation of prohibition-era recordings that was there in the same rack with Barbra Streisand and other more contemporary Starbuck's music releases. I have to say, "Speakeasy Times" contains nothing I hadn't heard before, and in fact I already had all but one of the recordings (a French song by Josephine Baker) in one or more formats--but it is nice to have Ruth Etting, The Mills Brothers, Bix Beiderbecke, Bessie Smith, Bing Crosby and Ethel Waters all together on one disk. I plunked down $12.95 to encourage this noble experiment, and if you're so inclined I suggest you go thou and do likewise.

I treated myself to a mocha the other day at the Starbucks in very pricy Palo Alto just south of the Stanford campus. I pondered the irony as i heard pouring out of the speakers both The Andrews Sisters recording of "One Meatball" and shortly thereafter Bessie Smith's "Nobody knows you when you're down and out."

greta

Friends don't let friends drink at Starbucks

Why are people going into Starbucks? Don't they have coffee where they are?

Bob