{"id":1026,"date":"2008-07-14T19:23:25","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T23:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2008-07-15T12:45:38","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T16:45:38","slug":"murky-coffee-meta-petty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/07\/14\/murky-coffee-meta-petty\/","title":{"rendered":"Murky Coffee: Meta Petty"},"content":{"rendered":"

This isn’t particularly noteworthy, other than it reminded me just how ubiquitous blogs have become (or – really – how ubiquitous they’ve become in a very narrow segment of society). \"Fuck This guy<\/a> stopped in Murky Coffee<\/a> (which is just down the street from me), the barista played to stereotype, and he wrote about it<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 This other guy<\/a> overheard the conversation between the first guy and the barista, and wrote about it, too.<\/a> And then Boing Boing wrote about the first guy writing about it<\/a> (which is where I first heard about it).\u00c2\u00a0 And now I’m writing about all three of them writing about it.\u00c2\u00a0 And using a picture that someone else<\/a> took of the result of the conversation between the first guy and the barista.<\/p>\n

All that effort, and none of us have contributed anything useful to the world, I’m afraid.<\/p>\n

(FWIW, I’d trade Murky Coffee for the old junk shop that used to be there in a heartbeat.\u00c2\u00a0 And Murky Coffee should take that dollar bill down from the bulletin board and use it to pay their unpaid DC taxes<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> Murky Coffee owner Nick Cho gets in on the clown bandwagon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Photo: Tom Bridge<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This isn’t particularly noteworthy, other than it reminded me just how ubiquitous blogs have become (or – really – how ubiquitous they’ve become in a very narrow segment of society). This guy stopped in Murky Coffee (which is just down the street from me), the barista played to stereotype, and he wrote about it.\u00c2\u00a0 This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7,3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc","category-content-distribution","category-society","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t