Venn Diagram of Awesome: Trains, Chocolate, and Caffeinated Hipsters

STEP Fundraiser hosted by Taza Chocolate
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Bloc 11 Cafe, 11 Bow Street, Union Square, Somerville
6:30 to 9 p.m., $25 suggested donation

Somerville Transportation Equity Partnership can list a lot of fine reasons to extend the green line into the town that sits north of Cambridge like a jaunty sailor cap: pollution, population density, lawsuits, "revitalization". Bostonist has selfish reasons of our own, and they live in Union Square: crack-laced cream of wheat at The Neighborhood, the sandwiches at Sherman's, discounted clogs, local bands, Mexican groceries, Korean knickknacks, a park full of happily off-leash puppies, organic leeks, and, now, the just-inaugurated vaults of Bloc 11, heir to the Diesel Cafe's excellent coffee, comely baristas, and inevitable Craigslist missed connections.

Likewise, tonight's STEP fundraiser is a virtuous endeavor on which we'll be dropping $25 for purely gluttonous reasons: dark, stone-ground, single-origin chocolate, courtesy of local bean-to-bar mavens Taza Chocolate. Not that we don't want those trolleys to show up and alleviate Somerville's lung cancer and whatnot—Bostonist will toast to that. Preferably with dainty cups of thick hot cocoa.

Diagram giddily photoshopped during the ninth inning, with images swiped from Taza, STEP, and our own gawking at Bloc 11 this past weekend.