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800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
I'm waiting for the design-snobs to take this and RUN with it.
But gus, not even their soft, chewy ginger cookies??
I mean ... seriously.
- your coffee sucks
- the absense of cafes serving real coffee sucks
- vulgar tacky mega chain franchises like starbucks are not the solution
- boycott starbucks and get yourself some indpendent cafes like the rest of the world has. It's not that hard is it?
- getting take away coffee in a disposable cup defeats the purpose of the cafe, which is to sit down and talk with people. Cafes can only justify high prices if you're getting an hour or so of 'sitting around chatting' time on their premises, otherwise it's a rip off.
- disposable cups are a waste of scarce resources, and are ugly even if they have a lady picture on them.
- get some class americans! if Seattle can't get the cafe thing right, what chance has the rest of your country.
I'm still waiting for the Onion's report of a Starbucks Phase 2 to commence.
Also, there is absolutely no way to prove that take-away cups are a misallocation of scarce resources. Have you considered the energy required to produce and wash ceramic cups?
And I do respect the smoldering anger of their baristas, furiously awaiting the improvement of the job market so they can get the hell out.
Let's face it.
No one on this blog is going to like the Starbucks logo until they put a Mer-dude on the other side...
Your asinine, sweeping generalizations make you appear ill-informed and pretentious.
Mermaids traditionally come in both one and two-tailed varieties; the original $BUX logo was based on an old woodcut from the 17th or early 18th Century IIRC.
@17:
That sort of jibes with what I've been hearing from my friends who work there. $BUX isn't just about coffee anymore, but they're apparently trying to sell the brand as an "experience" that goes beyond simply pushing over roasted caffeine beverages, and so they're de-emphasizing the coffee part by eliminating both that word as well as their very name, which the suits spent so much time essentially making synonymous with "coffee". It's rather like, when your brand becomes so big you don't even NEED words to identify it - think Chevy's "bowtie", McDonald's "golden arches", or NBC's "technicolor peacock", just to name a few. Anyone seeing one of these immediately knows what company it stands for, which from a multi-national perspective is ideal, since it eliminates any sort of translation requirement on the part of the viewer.
And Jeebuz-on-a-Ritz-Cracker @23, you literally cannot swing a dead squirrel in this town without hitting an indie coffee shop. Maybe you should try getting out of the youth hostel or wherever you're holed up and check out what's going on outside of the twelve block radius between you and the bus station.
(And P.S. the absolute WORST cup of coffee I've ever had in my entire life was in Paris - and NOT at a McDonald's, so KFO.)
It makes damn good coffee that way.
Subliminal seduction forever!
The grinding part, or the peeing part??
(...or both? just so you know, I am not into that...)
and: the colors aren't reversed.
The sirens of Greek mythology were crosses between women and birds, NOT between women and fish; it's a common mistake, I think because the Romans later changed them into aquatic creatures. But, Ovid in The Metamorphoses describes them as having wings, not tails.
The two-tailed mermaid, again IIRC, was a fairly common motif in both ancient Greece and Crete, and was also used in medieval heraldry, particularly in France/Burgundy region (from whence, I believe, came the source for the original $BUX logo). But, regardless, she's definitely referred to as a mermaid and not a siren.
Just adding a good link re: OMG TWO TAILED MERMAIDS
And on and on it shall go forever into infinity.
Also, boobs on mermaids make everything better.
Ok. I stand corrected. Me tourist - You locals. And I only visited Seattle briefly once. I
And yes, I saw more independent cafes in your town than any other North American city. I admit that. And I did hang out at Cafe Vita, and was pleasantly surprised by the number of nice little independent joints around capitol hill, and yes, I didn't go much further than Capitol Hill, Belltown and Bellard, so I'll look further next time, but I've counted over 30 starbucks joints in and around Seattle.
There's no snobbery required to comment that a mega corporation like Starbucks getting its greasy paws into some of your best real estate there is a threat to the character, atmosphere, identity and economy of your city, and the more people tolerate them the more likely they are to squish out the independent cafes with their mu$cle.
Not shopping at mega chains is about not letting soulless mega corporations colonise your town. I say this stuff cause I care, because I love Seattle. I'm just an Australian for fuck's sake, I criticise my own city more than yours. I'm only here criticising you for your tolerance of Starbucks because I think they're a threat (even if they are from Seattle in the first place) and if you let them, they will make your city look like every other North American city.
However the new reminds me of what happens to Salmon when they finally make it back to their source and rot to fertilize the woods. The new logo makes the mermaid look like SUV roadkill on a Northwest Mountain; a face between tread marks.