{"id":760,"date":"2007-05-14T18:37:59","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T08:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=760"},"modified":"2007-05-14T19:41:02","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T09:41:02","slug":"coffee-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=760","title":{"rendered":"Coffee in America"},"content":{"rendered":"

America starts the day with coffee – for some it’s a simple filter coffee, for others a double decaf latte with complications. But it’s always coffee.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it’s a pre-breakfast business meeting – notice the power relationship: semiotically (proxemics – spatial orientation – gaze, dress), two have coffees and are leaning forward aggressively while the third has nothing and has his arms folded defensively – this is not a pleasant meeting…<\/p>\n

\"business<\/p>\n

Or a couple bored with life and each other – both with arms folded and looking away from each other, lost in their own worlds and present to neither, each tolerating the other’s presence but wishing they were elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\"couple\"<\/p>\n

And sometimes, it’s a bite out of time to escape into a good book and leave behind the mundane for a little while. This woman let her coffee go cold – such was the power of narrative!<\/p>\n

\"reader\"<\/p>\n

Gradually the Mall rubs the sleep from its eyes and begins the day.<\/p>\n

\"Tysons<\/p>\n

Somehow the off-white tiles stay clean. Every second person carries a take-out coffee and the other half are talking on cell-phones – perhaps to each other.<\/p>\n

The stores beckon with the lure of the exotic – Shogun of England, Clarks Shoes (England), Lenkersdorfer, Haagen Dazs – European names and references to that which is not here.<\/p>\n

\"Nordstrom\"\/<\/p>\n

\"Macys\"\/<\/p>\n

\"Bloomingdales\"\/
\n
\nCheers
\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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