The problem with Voodoo Doughnuts is that in the end, you are standing outside a tiny room with a buck and a quarter less in exchange for a Doughnut with Fruit Loops placed on the frosting.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a genius business model, I suppose — a drunken mob wander in and out with doughnuts with bacon stuck to them, leaving swiftly enough — by business design — so that another mob — this one of wandering goths, perhaps, can wander in.\u00c2\u00a0 The cash rushes in.\u00c2\u00a0 A veritable Portland Institution.\u00c2\u00a0 More power to them!
\nOn a whim and because I passed by it, I stood in line at Ben and Jerry’s on “Free Cone Day”.\u00c2\u00a0 The weather patterns of frequent shower-clusters rushing in at a moment’s notice shortened the line compared to last year, where the line was prohibitive enough that I passed on it.\u00c2\u00a0 Once in the Ben and Jerry’s, the man ahead of me asked “Hey!\u00c2\u00a0 Is this Dave Matthews?”\u00c2\u00a0 Sure.\u00c2\u00a0 Dave Matthews.\u00c2\u00a0 Phish.\u00c2\u00a0 The Greatful Dead.\u00c2\u00a0 On an endless loop.\u00c2\u00a0 And all merged together into a black vortex, a trinity, the alpha and omega Holy Trinity of Ben and Jerry’s background music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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