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Sweet Juniper! | It will rise from the ashes
The old Detroit Public Schools Book Depository: "Pallet after pallet of mid-1980s Houghton-Mifflin textbooks, still unwrapped in their original packaging, seem more telling of our failures than any vacant edifice."
detroit  detritus  michigan  rustbelt  book  preservation  entropy  archive  big-here 
january 2008 by bkerr
Jack Lessenberry | Michigan's Marketplace - 11/15/07
"What had you expected? I asked. The answer was dark and gloomy factories. Acres of frozen rubble, punctuated by gunshots. Maybe Dr. Kevorkian scuttling off to put some poor sufferer out of his or her misery."
michigan  rustbelt  perspective 
november 2007 by bkerr
Pasta&Vinegar | Mini street art
"Mini street art seen last week in Amsterdam, a little door+street number plate that we encountered while wandering around."
streets  micro  doors  amsterdam  not  annarbor  art  or  cloying  rustbelt  eatertainment  fairy  door  bullshit 
october 2007 by bkerr
WDIV Detroit | Coffee Chain Changes Name Over Concerns It's An Ethnic Slur
CEO sez: "That just doesn't really fall within our mission to have a name that is derogatory."
dumbass  rustbelt  chain  beaner's  coffee  via:revgeorge 
september 2007 by bkerr
ArborWiki | Donuts
"Real donuts are not available within Ann Arbor's innenstadt."
annarbor  breakfast  rustbelt  pastries  arborwiki  donuts  rant-of-the-week 
june 2007 by bkerr
90% Crud | Detroit Roundup
George on Rep. Walberg's quote: "What's great about this is that the analogy is arguing that 80% of Iraq and Detroit are 'reasonably under control' which means the guy is using Detroit as a point somewhere on the line between IEDs and Broadway musicals."
detroit  detritus  michigan  rustbelt  real-estate  future  combat  employee  compensation  etc 
march 2007 by bkerr
inkling | How many people will attend the a2b3 lunch in Ann Arbor on Thursday, 1 March 2007?
Lunch tomorrow (Thursday) noon at Eastern Accents. Currently trading at $15.00. Last week's market closed at $12.50, actual value $26.00.
inkling  prediction  markets  predictionmarkets  a2b3  annarbor  michigan  rustbelt  planet-earth  mega  supermassive  bibimbop  lunch  send-your-armies 
march 2007 by bkerr
Jack Lessenberry | Essay: Michigan's Future - 2/27/07
"I know some educated and cultured conservatives, and when they want to get away for an interesting weekend, they generally don’t go to rural Alabama. They go to high-tax places like New York City or Los Angeles or Boston."
michigan  rustbelt  taxation  crap  future 
february 2007 by bkerr
John Manoogian III | Why I Left
Interesting meditation on networking in SE Michigan (skim over the Richard Florida crap)
detroit  rustbelt  via:deusx 
january 2007 by bkerr

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