THE VERSATILITY OF COFFEE PT 2.

MEETING NEW FRIENDS.



OFFICIAL BEVERAGE OF KITTEN GLITTER PARTY!



TO BE CONTINUED...

THE VERSATILITY OF COFFEE PT 1.

DRINKING, RELAXING BY A WARM FIRE



BOOTING UP WORLD OF WARCRAFT AND SHREDDING DUDES WHILST ON YOUR HIGHEST BUZZ-RAGER



TO BE CONTINUED...

listen up all you jam hands!

It's young matt here and I have a mission for you! If you bring me a copy of a burned cd today (the twenty-sixth of january) I will personally give you one free coffee of your choosing. However, there is a catch!
You have to bring me a copy of calvin johnson's mix called

LOST GIRLS 1977-’82 female new wave / punk underground


I have it at home so this is a one time offer. I need to listen to this so badly!
Come onnnn I know you guys have resources and internets, just give it a chance, what do you have to lose?

in my joy i would like to announce that we will be naming our love child
douglas matthew.. after our favourite gay couple in the whole east end

gasp! i can feel the light within my womb growing! addy just impregnated me with her beauty!!
i so happy!!

come share in our happy love.. aj and addys romantic weekend getaway... at mercury...
a toast to our upcoming marriage,, true love forever t.i.d. t.i.n.d.

"The Wow! signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected by Dr. Jerry R. Ehman on August 15, 1977, while working on a SETI project at The Big Ear radio telescope of The Ohio State University. The signal bore expected hallmarks of potential non-terrestrial and non-solar system origin."

This is a mystery of the universe. A signal that makes no sense, but potentially bears some form of consciousness behind it. Through examining and studying the Wow! Signal I have come to my own theory concerning whether or not it is a sign of intelligent life. I propose that it didn't come from outerspace, but rather from jaded coffee customers who have woken up too early for their own good. If you think about it, we've all been there. Waking up at 4:30 a.m. muttering letters and numbers that seemingly only make sense to ourselves.
For someone who sees themself as the Carl Sagan of the espresso biz, I'm working with a crack team of baristas/meta-physicists to crack and decipher what the Wow! Signal might mean. Latte for here? Extra shot? Who knows. We've tried our radio telescope in South America to try and beam similar messages to the sender in hopes of a clarifying response:

pew! pew!

We've also tried to send them a wake up call by imprinting the basic fundamentals of life on earth and in our solar system on a golden disc, much like the golden disc sent out on the voyager spacecraft. Should someone come across it by chance, they could glean some knowledge of what it is like to be in the world and perhaps we will be able to further interact, lessening the confusion between us.

We even put johnny b. good on it.

So far, however, we have had no luck, just more muddled transmissions from Extra-Terrestrials/morning customers. With all of the other sources of confusion in the world (Miley Cyrus et al.) it's easy to feel why all of us in this espresso industry sometimes feel like a pale blue dot.

R.I.P. Carl Sagan, Tupac, Etc...

sometimes, when the world is cloudy, the sunrise looks like the apocalypse.


come have a coffee with me. apocalypse. coffee. apocacoffee. apocoffee. cup of coffee. mmm. sunrise...

espresso •basso, El Paso, Picasso, Sargasso, Tasso •fatso, paparazzo, terrazzo •Brasso •espresso, gesso •intermezzo, mezzo •scherzo •peso, say-so •calypso, dipso •schizo • buttspresso • torso • also •amoroso, capriccioso, oloroso, so-so •Caruso, Robinson Crusoe, Rousseau, trousseau •so-and-so •Curaçao, curassow •Thurso, verso

No two vortices are the same so the math describing vortex movement is extremely complex due to periodicity, chaos and the fractal type structures witnessed there. The vortex is the means by which states of motion are transferred from one condition to another. Twin opposing electrical vortices are therefore the means by which the infinite variety of motions and their resulting physical forms manifest themselves in our Universe.

Hi guysz, it'sd Mert and Nield here 1nce more to tell you thast we are having one jamminh new year here at mert's erepsso bar! this landscape of our fair city of toronto has changed vastly upon the last year or so so wer'e going to tell you about what's happenign! first we saw the opening gof our new rivla bar-> ice cream shop: Gary's! IT is located across the street and they serve our ice cream frflavoured espresso! Next down the road we got the new guys from new zelend "te air". These guys operate their new machine (wich they just bought) "air roster".

MErt's here, being my place of working, has added new coffeeee classes, so beyond the working class and upper middle clas. We have brought you! the public some opportunities- not- to- be- missed!!!!

I'm going to hand it over to Nield right nouw for some educations about what our coffes are like here at our salon, go nield1!!

Nield here! I;''m a guy i life to dfrink yerba mate here with the party of espresso roosters! we can win this coffee fight togehter right now: ethiopa yerchaffe off with some dark cittay coffee!! k thaxnks! have a nice 2010

BYE UNTIL LATER!

Hello everyone. Here are our Holiday Hours:

Dec.24:6:30a-5p,
Dec.25th:Closed,
Dec.26th:8a-5p,
Dec.31st :6:30a-5p,
Jan.1st-Closed.

Happy Holidays! and a Happy New Years.
Thanks again for being so amazing!

GUYS! MATT HERE! AERIN IS TOTALLY BIRDO! THOSE LASHES! THAT WINK! TOTALLY!!!!!!

some of you may or may not have noticed that it is in fact december.

actually, matt taylor has yet to notice, because he is still sporting his trusty movember stache. i can't bring myself to tell him because, well, because i'm new here, and also because i don't think he would part with it anyways.

but, and so, it's obvious that as head of the mario kart family, matt actually needs to have a mustache and i think he's just finally realized this so that's okay.

matt taylor

and, also, his brother luigi has obviously also not realized that it's december, and this too is okay, because luigi is supposed to have a mustache as well.

neil rankin

so, actually, the whole movember thing was just a ruse for their true personalities to have an opportunity to come out. and for everyone's true mario personalities to come out, i've noticed.

doug tiller


matt davey


robin


aj


katie


addie


chris swimms

i don't have a character yet because i haven't advanced to the next level. next month if i'm lucky.

but so in case you forgot again, it's december, so here's a list of reasonable things to do with all yr time:
1. skating (hot chocolate necessity both before and after, or risk losing the value of the full skating experience)
2. hang out with yr dog (always an option, but more so when winter is suddenly here and yr pet conveniently has more fur than you and is therefore a mobile blanket for yr personal cuddling enjoyment)
3. go sledding (enough said)
4. post on blogs, or better yet, make witty comments on my blog post
5. stuffing (the turkey and the stocking)
most importantly:
6. hang out with me at mercury and drink espresso, or cappucinos, or if you must, a latte or two. i'm accumulating points to cash in for my mario kart character.

Happy December to you all! With the holidays hovering over us, we scramble around trying to figure out what to present as a present. How 'bout a gift certificate for your favourite coffee shop? But wait... Hold on! In addition to the usual $5 and $10 Mercury Espresso Bar Gift Certificates, we'll be selling cerificates for our first in a series of Coffee Education and Cupping Classes. For $60 you can get that caffeine crazed friend or family member one of 10 spots open on Tuesday January 26, 2010 at 7pm. The course will include a journey that takes you from the cherry to the cup. We'll be discussing growing and harvesting, processing(and how each process is integral to the cup), and of course a tasting! We'll sample 6 coffees prepared in 3 different ways. Not to mention a few interesting tidbits along the way. Of course you'll also take some top notch coffee home with you as well. You can share your new found knowledge with anyone who'll listen. Come on down and let us know how many you want and we'll hook you up. Again, the date of the first class is Tuesday January 26, 2010 @ 7pm. We'll be doing a regular series of these classes and each time we'll focus on coffees that are in season at that time. Can't wait to see you there!

miss your momma?
why not come in for one of ajs warm breast milk lattes..
fresh.. hot.. welcoming... like mommys love
combined with our rwanden feature..
everyone wins
even yer mom

dear leslieville
could someone please help aj administer a coffee aenima? i hear its REAL healthy
especially if you enjoy the smokey jasmine hues of yirgacheffe...
ims gonna be clean as a whistle!

is it wrong to make love to my americano? pucker up black cat
ajs in the mood for LOVE

SILENCE AND "THE ESPRESSO"

I got to thinking about 20 minutes ago when I was asked to write a blog about something that's been on my mind for a while now. Something that every barista has experienced; Silence. Silence, as we all know can be like a warm toilette over the face, or it can be a maddening prison where all of our perverted thoughts run rampant in our ever-so-derranged minds... wait, you guys don't have derranged minds? Don't bullshit me... Anyway, let's get started.Really? Are you some kind of Moron?

Perhaps the most irksome request asked of a barista nowadays (none-"why-bother" drink request) is the "could you please turn the music down?" question. Admittedly, sometimes people do get carried away, but come on, SLAYER IS LIKE MOZART! This is obviously and stance of the barista protecting themselves from POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS SYNDROME by using noise as a distraction from TERRIBLE 'NAM FLASHBACKS.

Johnny?
John?
JOHNNNNYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
WHY?!!!!!!!!!!!?!?!?!?!?

But really... are they? What some people don't understand is that Silence does exist in the loud coffee environment, and it is not all unwelcomed. It isn't a desolate, baron, antarctica-like silence, but rather a staggered silence throughout the day. These staggered silences are usually the result of someone lifting the needle off of the turntable so that it makes that "RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRURRRRPPPP" sound. It's kind of like listening to early hip-hop once every three hours for about 10 seconds. 10 Seconds of in-between-ness (Fig 1a).

(fig 1a) As you can see, silence is distributed evenly and fairly throughout the day. It is also green.

This is an instance of when complete silence is totally and wholeheartedly embraced. More are embodied in the list that follows:

• Early mornings when you just want to be left alone, with your thoughts (Why am I up this early? Where am I? This hangover sucks.)
• After DEATH METAL FRIDAYS 1-3pm when people are done assaulting you with torches and pitchforks accusing you of satanism.
• When we are closed
• At inopportune moments when you are trying to insult a jerk behind his back
  
• oh wait that last one shouldn't be on here.

SILENCE: BLISS OR HELL?

THIS IS THE QUESTION.
ONLY ONE ARBITRATING FORCE CAN QUELL ANY CONFLICT BETWEEN THESE TWO TENSE FORCES:

GOTTA CATCH 'EM ALL

Charizard is my FAV!

DOUG IS GONE TO SPAIN



TIME TO CUT LOOSE!!!



FRIGGIN PARTY OVER HERE!!!!!