Hard to Swallow  Triple Espresso has all the novelty of a
Starbucks.  Triple Espresso is like the first few minutes of a
dinner-theater production. You know, the part where the emcee
comes out and congratulates the people in the audience who are
celebrating birthdays or anniversaries, jokes with a pretty
girl, gets impudent with an older couple and asks how many
people in the audience are from Minnesota. You grin and clap and
put up with it because you've had some food and a couple of
drinks, and you know there's singing and dancing to follow. But
with Triple Espresso, the introduction doesn't stop. It goes on
for over two hours. More joshing. More audience participation.
What seem like hours of vapid sing-along. Even Meshuggah Nuns
has more of a point than this.  When the creators of Seinfeld
decided they could make a good sitcom about nothing, they
intended to find the absurdity in small daily events like eating
breakfast cereal and running out of toilet paper. Seinfeld's
success doesn't mean you can put a