the side effect of there being a tim horton’s or a starbucks on every street corner is that they have become a third place in the lives of a lot of people. but where did people go before these things showed up? the library? maybe i was too young to notice then, but it seems like a third place is very important so there must’ve been some generational equivalent. also, why is it that there are timmy’s all over the suburbs but in downtown it’s mostly starbucks?
April 2, 2003