an angry latte

This is reference is really hilarious to me for some reason. The last sentence, I mean.

gawker: Speaking of blogs, for those of us who think the internet was invented in 2003, you were an early adopter, writing for Feed. What do you think about what's out there now as compared to back in the day?
Lipsyte: Things were just more wild back in the day. Drugs, orgies, harder code. Actually, I never learned anything about computers; I just worked on writing and editing good stories for the culture section. But I saw some of the best web designers of my generation walking the Soho streets at dawn looking for an angry latte.

It's from this here interview with Sam Lipsyte.