Occasionally, anything as negative as
Occasionally, anything as negative as this weblog is bound to attract criticism. From rya:
If you think ann arbor sucks so much, then why don’t you LEAVE???I’m just confused as to why you’d spend so much time and energy explaining why your lameass thinks it sucks instead of doign something about it (to make it better) or moving away. ????? please explain.
When Ann Arbor Sucks (all right, “I”) started my CafePress store, the site asked “What’s your passion?” It seemed a little sad to admit that my passion was hating Ann Arbor.
But I wanted to start a weblog about something both a little more specific and, I hoped, a little more interesting, than my life. As far as I knew, there was no other blog on this topic. Ann Arbor seemed like the perfect mix of aspiring cultural mecca and Midwestern cow town to make it a target for satire.
And I’ll be in grad school for a while. So it’s unlikely that you’ll be getting rid of me any time soon.
In “Thatch,” one of my favorite comics, policy wonk Thatch is dating a woman completely indifferent to anything political. “Don’t worry,” she says when he worries that they have nothing in common. “You have your thing, and I have my thing.” “What is your thing?” he asks. “Hating politics,” is the response. So maybe that’s what I have in common with my readers.
And this is why I don’t do a personal journal! Back to criticizing Daily headlines tomorrow.