Hey cool! That was shot in my home town. I had just finished a commercial for the Space Museum (where Space Camp exists) and got to meet Kate Capshaw on the set of that movie.
- Vermyndax
Actually, the camping in LOTR was one of the things I liked the most when I first read it as a teen in the 80s. Great escapism. Made me want to travel the world on foot.
- Bill Bittner
watership down! amazing...are you going to create a swordlaser FF room too?
- Pokai
Yea, hate CNN, but hate the American public more because that is what the masses really want to know.
- Kyle Johnson
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I despise the mainstream media as much as the next person, but it's not like the public isn't watching. It is not the publics fault entirely that they are this ignorant but they at the least culpable.
- robert steburg
not to be an arse... but I notice that you didn't click those very important political asides, but DID click the "pregnant skydiver falls 50 feet to asphalt" link... which means: it isn't CNN's fault that the public wants to read more about pregnant skydivers (and pregnant sisters of controversial head shavers)... they are catering to the common denominator...and, if they didn't (unfortunately), there would be no more cnn.com
- Rob Reed
Wow, and I just swore off Starbucks last week...
- Wilma Stoneflint
Perhaps a dead location in LA can be replaced with a Blue Bottle I hear so often about from Bay area folks.
- Mark Krynsky
I guess the "we want a store every two blocks in U.S." strategy didn't pay off. Too bad we've all gotten used 2 burnt coffee
- Kevin Hessel
Can we get Peet's in perhaps 1 out of 6 of these closed stores please?
- AJ Kohn
i hope this doesn't hold up the opening of the fifth one by my house.
- Christian Anderson
@Scott: Equipment! Yeah, some will cherry pick the real estate, others just an equipment grab. Anything but Starbucks, like Kevin said, they just burn the hell out of the beans.
- AJ Kohn
To be fair, it's about time. Even the joke about having 5 starbucks' per block is geeting old. At least at the place I work at there is a huge blow back against them....
- maxim shevertalov
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Aye.. good riddance. maybe the takers will make good coffee and free up the wifi.
- James
When I lived in S.F., there were 52 Starbucks within *2 miles* of my house. A yp.yahoo.com search shows there's still ~40.
- Kevin Hessel
Does anyone else ever notice that when the news starts talking about ways to save some extra money the first thing they tell you to do is ditch the $5 cup of coffee every morning. I don't think that advice helped Starbucks any.
- Tim Flint
Starbucks, the McDonalds of coffee.... Not a big loss to me. I prefer to visit local coffee houses, preferably ones that roast their own coffee on site.
- Jeff P. Henderson
I heard that French SB are loosing a lot of money as well (people prefer go to traditional bistrot, more "warm"
- Jean-François Amadei
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