Rev. Billy, a coffee achiever

PERFORMANCE ART: When culture-jamming character Rev. Billy (Bill Talen) unleashed what the NY Times (via WWRN.org) called his unholy war on Starbucks, it was on Reseda Blvd. --- probably Reseda, maybe Northridge. The Greenwich (NY) Villager has a photo of Talen in character. INeedCoffee.com has an essay by Talen describing a raft of culture-jamming events at least a year ago in New York City. A must-read to get the context of this absurdity:

We pretended to break up. I took the 6 train down to Bleecker and ran up the east side of Broadway to sneak into Barnes and Noble the back way, but plainclothes cops were with us the whole way. When we got there they said, "Billy there ain't any episode of Law and Order that don't feature that move, for chrissake. What are we, chopped liver? You insultin' us." The play at the cafe in the anchor store of so many malls across the country, Barnes and Noble, was "The Neo-Liberal and the Happy Fetus." The actors in this case, Ben and Sara, really did a great job. Quite a nice gradual rise to a stand-up opera of an argument. It's a great moment when Sara belted out I AM THE MERMAID AND I WANT MY NIPPLES BACK!!!

A restraining order that resulted from his Reseda Blvd. venture likely inhibits such things by Talen these days.