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By April 20, 2011No Comments

So I’m in a Starbucks in the Times Square area try­ing to write my review of Water For Elephants and I see that they’ve star­ted put­ting sol­id met­al face­plates over what were power out­lets, so you can­’t actu­ally PLUG IN a com­puter while you’re using their stel­lar free Wi-Fi. What I wanna know is, when is Jeff Wells get­ting back to New York, because when he gets a load of this, the res­ult is gonna be some­thing like Falling Down crossed with Hobo With A Shotgun. 

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  • bill says:
    April 20, 2011 at 6:06 pm

    And now you bring up Wells? And you have the temer­ity to talk about tak­ing your own life? How do you think *I* feel right now?

  • jake says:
    April 20, 2011 at 7:36 pm

    I bet sil­ver dol­lars all those guys who go to Starbucks to write their screen­plays and nov­els will con­tin­ue to use their laptop, even if they can­’t plug it in. Because that’s not what they want plugged, nyuk nyuk nyuk.

  • christian says:
    April 20, 2011 at 8:05 pm

    All the cool inde­pend­ent cafes in New York and Starbucks? Wells, I under­stand, he’s the Ultimate Eloi…

  • lipranzer says:
    April 21, 2011 at 12:35 am

    I remem­ber in one or more of Roger Ebert’s yearly col­lec­tions of reviews, he had an excerpt from an Ed McBain nov­el (the name of which escapes me) where the detect­ive was tak­ing a state­ment from a man who killed someone in a movie theat­er for talk­ing dur­ing the movie, and the excerpt ends with the detect­ive won­der­ing if he would be able to write this up as jus­ti­fi­able hom­icide. I’d ima­gine Wells would be won­der­ing that if he heard about this.

  • I.B. says:
    April 21, 2011 at 5:51 am

    “Hobo stops beg­ging, demands change”.

  • Glenn Kenny says:
    April 21, 2011 at 10:46 am

    @ Christian: Well, yeah, but con­sider my geographical/temporal pre­dic­a­ment: between screen­ings, one at 55th and Sixth, the next in the middle of Times Square, and I’m on dead­line. I guess I COULD have hopped a sub­way and gone down to The Bean to work, but that would have been for­cing the issue in a sense, know what I’m saying?

  • Leila says:
    April 21, 2011 at 1:33 pm

    I love that you have a “deplor­able snark” category.

  • Jeff McMahon says:
    April 21, 2011 at 2:58 pm

    Now you’ve got me want­ing to write ‘Hobo with a Hissyfit’.

  • christian says:
    April 21, 2011 at 3:08 pm

    Jes bust­ing your balls a bit, Glenn. But maybe they blocked the out­lets spe­cific­ally because of Wells. “Oh shit, here comes that grouchy dude in the red NASCAR jacket…”

  • The Confidence Man says:
    April 21, 2011 at 4:57 pm

    In this cof­fee shop, you gotta get the latte first. Then when you get the latte, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the wifi.