The Coffee Life
Dan takes his bass lessons downtown at the old Masonic Temple, now rehabbed as the "Temple for the Performing Arts." It retains many of the peculiar Masonic details, but it also has a Starbucks.
Dan had an hour-long lesson Friday. I drove the four blocks over so that Vickie could swap cars and run some errands, and Bobby and I hung out at Starbucks. I don't know how Bobby got this picture to come out this way, but I think it's pretty cool.
Somehow Bobby makes sitting at a computer in a Des Moines Starbucks look almost glamorous.
Dan had an hour-long lesson Friday. I drove the four blocks over so that Vickie could swap cars and run some errands, and Bobby and I hung out at Starbucks. I don't know how Bobby got this picture to come out this way, but I think it's pretty cool.
Somehow Bobby makes sitting at a computer in a Des Moines Starbucks look almost glamorous.
posted by Joe at 4:20 AM
2 Comments:
How many Starbucks do you have in Des Moines anyway? You mentioned one in Hy-Vee and now, one near where Dan has his music lesson. . . . It looks like Des Moines is a lot more cosmopolitain than I remember.
We don't live anywhere near a Starbucks. I think the nearest one is Glasgow (95 miles)
We were actually laggards in getting a Starbucks - we didn't get our first one (the one in the picture) until 2 or 3 years ago. We now have a bunch of coffeehouses; as far as I know, none of the old local coffeshops have closed in the face of the Caribou/Starbucks onslaught. Life is much better for us Central Iowa caffiene fiends.
Des Moines is a strange mix of cosmopolitan and insular. You can get bobo things like Ahi tuna and sushi at several Des Moines restaurants now, but if you try telling people that corn ethanol is a big scam, you get looks like you've just come out for spitting on Nile Kinnick's grave or something. All in all, though, it's a pretty nice place to live, much nicer than it was when I moved here 20 years ago.
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