What was once a running joke is soon to be a reality when the Glitter Bean Cafe opens in July.
When the Smiling Goat on Spring Garden Rd. closed, the baristas saw their chance to open a space that was truly their own.
“We’ve joked about it for years, like ‘why don’t you just open your own cafe and do it,’ a lot of customers said to us,” said Charlie Huntley, one of the baristas behind the new co-op.
“But the part that was lacking was the funding, so the stars aligned to make it a possibility.”
The Spring Garden space was formerly a Just Us! before being bought by Kit Singh, the owner of six Smiling Goat locations, in September. Singh, who has seen four of his shops close in the last several months, is involved in a number of lawsuits regarding alleged unpaid wages and supplier bills.
The nine baristas who lost their jobs when the Smiling Goat closed in April banded together to form the Glitter Bean Cafe which will be a workers owned co-op, centred around providing a safe space for the queer community of Halifax.
I’m plotting a hostile takeover of DC Comics with @kuttithevangu and we’re going to start writing Batman ourselves. Here are some of our plans:
–The Joker Goes to Clown College. The Joker has become tediously overused, unfunny, and ludicrously dark and gritty. He’s so fucking boring that we’re putting a ban on stories in which he’s a major villain for several years. In the meantime, Dick Grayson starts visiting him in Arkham with very special visitors in tow: professional clowns from Haly’s Circus. They offer constructive criticism and then help him get accepted to a four-year clown college, where he can get a degree in clowning, improve his comedy potential, and learn to execute jokes with fewer executions. Clown college in this world is just like regular university so The Joker has to like… write essays on Buster Keaton and stuff. [Alternative: The Joker accidentally turns himself into a hamster (with a Joker face) and has to live in a cage in the Batcave while they research ways to turn him back.]
–New Original Character: Brad. Damian Wayne isn’t Bruce’s only illegitimate biological son! Brad is a perfectly normal, well-adjusted teenager whose mother had a one-night stand with Bruce at a party years ago. Brad decides to reach out to his biological playboy father after tabloids confirm a paternity test. Damian finds this very threatening but there’s nothing he can do about it because Brad is an oblivious civilian who only visits every few weeks and has no idea that his father and half-siblings are vigilantes.
–Tim Drake Gets What He Deserves. Tim has been written darker and grittier with every passing year, a far cry from the fun dweeb he was when first introduced. As he becomes more and more like Bruce, he picks up another of his mentor’s traits: the ability to attract plucky youngsters who insist on cheering him up. Previous unsuccessful attempts to introduce Carrie Kelley to the main DC canon are scrapped; she’s BACK and she’s a 14 year old tacky gay genderfluid snoop who figures out his identity and passionately believes that Red Robin needs a Burger King, or something. She gets what she wants and she wants to play DnD. HOW THE TURNS HAVE TABLED, TIMOTHY.
–Batfamily camping trip. IDK, maybe Brad is responsible for this. It goes poorly because no one (except perhaps Babs) has any experience in legitimate outdoor recreation beyond hardcore wilderness survival.
–#batmanchallenge. The Batman Challenge starts trending and young people start coming to Gotham in an attempt to get Batman to punch them on video. Jason Todd gets in on it.
–The Secret Life of Alfred Pennyworth. Alfred has a whole secret social life that Bruce doesn’t know about because he has never once contemplated that Alfred is a sexual being with considerable game. He’s very popular among the ladies at the bridge club and Old People Who Love Shakespeare Club, which is for old people.
these are all great ideas and i endorse them wholeheartedly.
No but you don’t understand!!!!! Cher is totally demisexual (like I will fight for this)
Also Clueless is an adaptation of Emma by Jane Austen, and in every version Emma (Cher) is totally demisexual. Like even the original.
She isn’t attracted to anyone and actually wants to be an old spinster. She describes being in love as “not in my nature” the few times she experiences attraction it’s with people she’s close with. And when the friendship with one of them ends, the entire attraction part ends pretty much immediately.
She does ends up with someone. It’s someone she’s been close with for most of her life. She is pretty clear that if they weren’t so close emotionally she wouldn’t have ever been interested, or even attracted.
Emma Woodhouse is totally demisexual, and every version/adaptation of her is too, including Cher Horowitz.
Bestie is judging me for the sheer number of places around our apartment I’ve hidden tampons and pads. IN MY DEFENSE:
1) running out of tampons and pads when we need them would be an EMERGENCY. Thus, it makes total sense that almost *every* drawer or bin (including ones in the kitchen) in our house has a few stashed where we WOULDN’T EXPECT THEM. So that we don’t use them out of hand and then not have them for the DIRE FUTURE EMERGENCY.
2) SOMETIMES one realizes that PERHAPS one doesn’t need *quite* so many in one’s purse and/or suitcase. It’s simply natural that the removed tampons and pads end up in a nearby random corner. Where you might use them later. In an EMERGENCY.
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