Millie, Stan is impossible in the most enjoyable way: part coffee vendor, part philosopher, part unlicensed distributor of whatever “Rocket Dreams” is doing to the human nervous system. The pricing logic, the banana-speedo crypto lecture, the wedding dress with New Balance loafers, and the recurring refusal to let “before” become “today” all make the piece feel delightfully unhinged while still carrying a real point. I loved the turn where the joke becomes clarity: Stan was never denying the past existed, only noticing how often we keep trying to order coffee there. Grateful for the humor, absurdity, and sly wisdom in this one.
Thanks #RevKev! You always find the nicest things to say. You’ve only seen Stan in a few posts, but he’s been altering people’s reality for quite a while.
Weddings are a thing on KW. If you hang out by the SM marker, you’ll see brides and their buddies in dresses quite often. The most I’ve seen there was four in one day.
What is more rare is seeing the wreckage after the after party, but people are generally encouraged to have a good time here, so its not unheard of.
I’m glad you like Stan. He makes me think, sometimes in ways I didn’t expect.
Millie, “altering people’s reality for quite a while” may be the most accurate Stan job description yet. The KW wedding scene by the SM marker makes perfect sense in this world: brides, buddies, after-party evidence, and Stan somewhere nearby turning coffee logic into philosophy. I think that is why he works so well as a character; the absurdity is funny, but then he leaves behind a sentence or image that keeps bothering the room in the best possible way.
Millie, Stan is impossible in the most enjoyable way: part coffee vendor, part philosopher, part unlicensed distributor of whatever “Rocket Dreams” is doing to the human nervous system. The pricing logic, the banana-speedo crypto lecture, the wedding dress with New Balance loafers, and the recurring refusal to let “before” become “today” all make the piece feel delightfully unhinged while still carrying a real point. I loved the turn where the joke becomes clarity: Stan was never denying the past existed, only noticing how often we keep trying to order coffee there. Grateful for the humor, absurdity, and sly wisdom in this one.
Thanks #RevKev! You always find the nicest things to say. You’ve only seen Stan in a few posts, but he’s been altering people’s reality for quite a while.
Weddings are a thing on KW. If you hang out by the SM marker, you’ll see brides and their buddies in dresses quite often. The most I’ve seen there was four in one day.
What is more rare is seeing the wreckage after the after party, but people are generally encouraged to have a good time here, so its not unheard of.
I’m glad you like Stan. He makes me think, sometimes in ways I didn’t expect.
Millie, “altering people’s reality for quite a while” may be the most accurate Stan job description yet. The KW wedding scene by the SM marker makes perfect sense in this world: brides, buddies, after-party evidence, and Stan somewhere nearby turning coffee logic into philosophy. I think that is why he works so well as a character; the absurdity is funny, but then he leaves behind a sentence or image that keeps bothering the room in the best possible way.