Bill DeMarco Rates the Top 50 Starbucks in LA: This Week: #7

Bill DeMarco Rates the Top 50 Starbucks in LA: This Week: #7

#7: the Starbucks at Colorado and Eagle Rock, Eagle Rock. Sleep. Twisted sheets. Cups. Behind my eyes, beyond my bed, a shape takes shape. It’s…

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Bill DeMarco Rates the Top 50 Starbucks in LA: This Week: #8

Bill DeMarco Rates the Top 50 Starbucks in LA: This Week: #8

#8: the Starbucks in the Brentwood Village Court INTRO–EXT. DAY: a CRUISE MISSILE skims the earth sinisterly toward its target. CUT TO–Control Room: SOLDIERS with…

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Bill DeMarco Rates the Top 50 Starbucks in LA: This Week: #9

Bill DeMarco Rates the Top 50 Starbucks in LA: This Week: #9

#9: the Starbucks at Robertson and Third Beverly Hills. Dazzling. Where the women are women and men look like prunes brought to life by necromancers….

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Through a Headlock Darkly: Bill DeMarco Concludes His Business With The Cups of Coffee (Part the Last of a 4-Part Series)

Through a Headlock Darkly:
Bill DeMarco Concludes His Business
With The Cups of Coffee
(Part the Last of a 4-Part Series)

At first everything happens slow. Angry arms uncoil like ferns in a rain-spattered forest. Mine among them. I’m in a hallway of people who are…

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Bill DeMarco Does Not Exchange Pleasantries With The Cups of Coffee (cont'd.)

Bill DeMarco Does Not Exchange Pleasantries With The Cups of Coffee (cont’d.)

“You guys are fucking faggots,” I say, my trapezius muscles tightening into thick knots. The response is immediate. “Faggotsss?” answers the lead singer with an…

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