I don't want to run a coffee house, but if I did...
I sometimes toy with the idea of opening a coffee house. I wouldn't do it around here. It would have to be in a place that would attract the kind of people I'd want to hang around for eight hours a day. I'm not exactly sure where that would be, but it's definitely not here. I'm only half into the idea as well. Like Gary Trudeau, "I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence." That's why I'm in the web biz. You don't actually have to be there for that. Most of my clients lately are in California.
Still, I've had a love of coffee houses long before everyone wanted one, long before Starbucks took over. I used to hang out at Sitwell's on Ludlow Ave. in the Clifton Gaslight District of Cincinnati, back when they were in the basement, back when they were dingy -er. I would hop the Metro just to hang out at Sitwell's and visit the New World Bookshop down the street.
I l-o-v-e coffee. I was totally Seattle in the '90s though I've never actually been there. I did work as a barista briefly, but that was just for a couple of days. I tried to get a job at Sitwell's once, but I don't think I had enough piercings. All my tattoos are boringly covered.
Some possible names for the coffee house [never] to be:
Revolutions - because every modern revolution came from a bunch of disgruntled guys sitting around a cafe, plotting over black coffee. The decor would be all beatnik and have at least a few black and white photos of... well, disgruntled guys plotting over black coffee. I probably wouldn't go this route. It's all a little too Marxist. Obviously if I'm running a coffee house where I'm charging $3 for a cappuccino, I'm no Marxist.
The Bodhi Tree - named for the tree under which Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment. This would be awesome because I'd settle for no less than a huge fig tree growing in the middle of the room, like twenty feet high at least, in a solarium with the coffee house built around it. Around the tree would be a carpet of floor pillows. Scratch that. That's my ideal house!
Geeked Internet Cafe - No one I know likes this name but me, and I don't know why. It's a great name for an internet cafe because you've got all the geeky toys, computers, games, whatever, and everyone's getting geeked out on coffee. Every night there'd be a LAN party. I would personally drive hours to visit a place called Geeked, but then again, I am a geek.
All of the above was to explain my obsession with coffee so I can link it to my obsession with art. I'm trying (unsuccessfully so far) to create latte art like these:
It's harder than it looks. I've got a decent espresso machine, but like any other art it requires a pesky thing called skill.
view more latte art / learn how to make your own
Still, I've had a love of coffee houses long before everyone wanted one, long before Starbucks took over. I used to hang out at Sitwell's on Ludlow Ave. in the Clifton Gaslight District of Cincinnati, back when they were in the basement, back when they were dingy -er. I would hop the Metro just to hang out at Sitwell's and visit the New World Bookshop down the street.
I l-o-v-e coffee. I was totally Seattle in the '90s though I've never actually been there. I did work as a barista briefly, but that was just for a couple of days. I tried to get a job at Sitwell's once, but I don't think I had enough piercings. All my tattoos are boringly covered.
Some possible names for the coffee house [never] to be:
Revolutions - because every modern revolution came from a bunch of disgruntled guys sitting around a cafe, plotting over black coffee. The decor would be all beatnik and have at least a few black and white photos of... well, disgruntled guys plotting over black coffee. I probably wouldn't go this route. It's all a little too Marxist. Obviously if I'm running a coffee house where I'm charging $3 for a cappuccino, I'm no Marxist.
The Bodhi Tree - named for the tree under which Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment. This would be awesome because I'd settle for no less than a huge fig tree growing in the middle of the room, like twenty feet high at least, in a solarium with the coffee house built around it. Around the tree would be a carpet of floor pillows. Scratch that. That's my ideal house!
Geeked Internet Cafe - No one I know likes this name but me, and I don't know why. It's a great name for an internet cafe because you've got all the geeky toys, computers, games, whatever, and everyone's getting geeked out on coffee. Every night there'd be a LAN party. I would personally drive hours to visit a place called Geeked, but then again, I am a geek.
All of the above was to explain my obsession with coffee so I can link it to my obsession with art. I'm trying (unsuccessfully so far) to create latte art like these:
It's harder than it looks. I've got a decent espresso machine, but like any other art it requires a pesky thing called skill.
view more latte art / learn how to make your own
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