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Alright, I’m gonna let you in on a little secret. Training a barrista at Starbucks nowadays consists of teaching them how to steam milk properly and which buttons they need to push to get the Caffina machine to make the correct amount of crappy espresso. This was a publicity stunt pure and simple, and it was a pretty bad one. I worked in a Barnes & Noble Cafe (where they have been serving Starbucks coffee for over a decade) back in the day (high school and college) when we had to make every… Continue

Now, please don't get me wrong, I am a huge fan of movies and musicals where the soundtrack is provided by actors and actresses destroying the songs of great artists, really I am (Am I laying on the sarcasm thick enough for you?).

Moulin Rouge kind of made me want to vomit, although that wasn't so much from the music as it was the cinematography (which honestly gave me some mild form of motion sickness). Movin' Out, the Billy Joel musical, was a travesty (and I mean that in the nicest w… Continue