Michael, Evo, Jack, Sheila and Lorrie. The pool party scared off everybody else.
First Drink of the Day: Anchor Brewing Company’s Liberty Ale for Evo, Anchor Bock for Jack, and for Mike, Sam Adams Chocolate Bock.
Also on this show:
- Evo, apparantly having drunk some Lazy Bastard, wants you to stitch together some promos for us.
- Don’t miss the blockbuster duel of the year: The Clash of the Ego, Without Evo.
- Evo comments on the comments listeners gave on the flickr pics.
- We’re out of beer openers. So, if you’re waiting on your order, more are on the way.
- Evo and Sheila are gonna go see Nacho Libre. Also, if you’re not a fan of Tenacious D, what’s wrong with you?
- A Haiku Moment: Fight something or other
- Evo talks about a South American culture that has a unique sense of time.
- A Geek Fu Essay: Does a Good Theme Trump Bad Game Design?
- Evo cleans out his game closet, and makes a million dollars on Ebay!
- Scifi Poetry Slam: The Divine Matrix
- Poonini talk.
- Evo talks about an East Indian minister’s gift to his new wife. Evo, reading all this news? Sorry ’bout that, just passed out a little bit.
- Matt goes to Hell. Michigan, that is. Matt sends us some postcards from the 6/6/06 party.
- Mike and Evo forgot to give many mad props and muches shoutouts to Classic Candies for the fudge they sent.
- Oh, I’m sorry, did you miss that? That’s… Classic Candies; 300 West Apache Trail, Apache Junction, AZ 85220; phone: (480) 982-6008).
- A bonnie lass yearns for her long lost man in white.
- Mike needs all the calendar pics by the end of June.
- Joe’s taking a mental health month. And the guys; schedules are hurtin’ in July. So, what could they possibly do?
- Jack’s comment section for his Mur Lafferty interview… hawsome!
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Promos:
The Dragon Page With Class
Does My Geek Look Big In This?
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GOOD! Now maybe theyll stop making beer…
No, Alvie…like Disney, AB’s ultimate goal is complete global domination. Therefore we must drink good beer and piss on Mickey Mouse.
Have you tried the Starbuck Coffee Liquer? Its actually not bad, like a slightly sweeter Kahluah.
Starbuck’s…I forgot about them….
All part of their plan Charlie, all part of their plan.
I will not contribute any more to the Evil Empire. Anytime you get a McDonalds or a Starbucks on practically ever corner, it’s a sure sign of the Four Horsemen.
However, if you put an Irish pub on practically every corner, hmmmm….Heaven!
So we have McDonalds, Starbucks, AB, and the Bush Regime as the four horsemen?
Lesse: Death, Famine, Pestilence, War…
Yup, thats bout right.
I take that back. Disney makes a much better Famine than does Starbucks.
Mark feeling somewhat co-conspiratorial blurts out,”It was the Burger King guy killed President Kennedy. I promised not to tell but I got wired on some expensive Starbucks coffee, raped and pillaged a village here in an Asian 3rd world country,then went whoresback riding with Dubya.” When we got to DisneyLand in HK we threw up on Mickey’s shoes and started laughing our asses off. Ah, glad Sat is here I need some rest.
Starbucks is actuallly a really green company.
Jeremy, they may be green, but they are extremely predatory. They are the WalMart of coffee shops, driving out small local stores just because they can.
I concur on the predatory part, but not the Wal-Mart part. Wal-Mart has way too many really bad practices that Starbucks does not use, like paying their employees so little, and asking the local governments to partner with them and help subsidise their taxes, and have built in welfare assistance becasue so many of their employees make so little they need to be on it while they work there, ruining the economy of small towns by building two stores then closing one, trucking all the cash out of state to their home state (thereby actually draining the local economy), leveraging below market prices out of manufacturers by threatening to undercut them with their competition thereby forcing many manufacturers to outsource to keep costs down thereby distroying American Jobs…shall I continue?
People go to Starbucks for a reason, so its up to the consumers to choose their local coffee house. They don’t do it with pricing, I guarantee you that; their coffee is usually more expensive.
Well, perhaps my comparison to WalMart was overblown. On the other hand, I’ve seen Starbuck choose locations that are within doors of other coffee shops and then offer incentives to get people to buy coffee there. I don’t like that practice, but that’s beside the point. Anyway, enough about that.
You’re right about the price. IMO, people tend to go to Starbucks because 1) they are lazy, 2) many can’t tell the difference between quality coffee and OK coffee, and 3) people prefer brand-names.
Well Starbucks only move into neighborhoods where the median income is of a certain level. There was a period of my life before my husband and I started making decent money that when a neighborhood became too expensive for us and we would move to a cheaper neighborhood. Everytime within 4 or 5 months of us moving a Starbucks would open. Starbucks is a sign of status I think, and I think that is why people like them. I think their coffee stinks- I only go for their espresso.