Sweet Juniper! | It will rise from the ashes
january 2008 by bkerr
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
november 2007 by bkerr
"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
QuackerCon 2008
september 2007 by bkerr
March 14--17, 2008, Chicago.
zefrank
theshow
org
events
rustbelt
chicago
chicka-quack-quack
september 2007 by bkerr
WDIV Detroit | Coffee Chain Changes Name Over Concerns It's An Ethnic Slur
september 2007 by bkerr
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
june 2007 by bkerr
"Real donuts are not available within Ann Arbor's innenstadt."
annarbor
breakfast
rustbelt
pastries
arborwiki
donuts
rant-of-the-week
june 2007 by bkerr
criticalbloggers.org
april 2007 by bkerr
Critical Moment's aggregator.
michigan
rustbelt
radical
weblogs
aggregator
gaggle
april 2007 by bkerr
90% Crud | Detroit Roundup
march 2007 by bkerr
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?
march 2007 by bkerr
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
february 2007 by bkerr
"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
january 2007 by bkerr
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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