McUnbelievable

Another sign that the Apocalypse may be closer than you think:

McDonald’s malignant spread throughout Guatemala has undergone a new mutation: coffee shops grafted onto the fast food restaurants. So now you can wash down your super-sized fries with a grande cappuccino!

Do I really have to tell you what they are calling these new coffee shops? Yep, you guessed it… McCafes. (Although “McStarbucks” would've been a good guess, too.)

Will this new McTrend catch on? Well, walking by the brand new McCafé in the zona viva, an upscale part of Guatemala City, I wasn’t surprised to see the McPlace McPacked with McPeople.

McSigh.

I prefer escaping to Sophos, a café-bookstore in zona 10. It's a sweet place: classical music, all sorts of teas served in a teapot at your table, outlets to plug in the laptop, and a nice garden in back… occasional hummingbird, included. And even though it’s in the zona viva, the prices aren’t bad. I had two complete teapots (one with Japanese Genmaicha tea, one with African red tea) and an apple cobbler… over the very leisurely span of four hours… and it came to $6 total, tip included.

During that time, I worked on my homepage some, mostly behind-the-scenes stuff that I had to fix. I did edit another photo of the Empire State Building that came out pretty cool; I’ll add it to the site tomorrow.

I’m toying with the idea of promising to add a photo a day to the homepage. I’m not sure I’ll have the time, but it might force me to not be such a damned perfectionist with the photos. We’ll see…