1. Catch the Scio Township Board of Trustees meeting at which raising water connection fees will be discussed.
2. Attend “Dueling Pianos” in Ypsilanti, where audience participation is “mandatory.”
3. Try the sandwiches at any of about fifteen chain sandwich places along State and South U.
A while ago, we linked to a Kansas small-town newspaper article about a high school girl for whom “cheering [was] her life,” and praised The Ann Arbor News for not printing anything similar.
Intrepid reader Merrie at mythoslogos admits that she reads this weblog “with a kind of religious fervor.” Because she “hold[s] out the precarious hope that the anonymous and bitter big-city blogger will come to embrace our life and forever after wish to be in old Ann Arbor town.”
Well that’s…really quite sweet.
Less sweet but maybe more realistic is a comment in response to the entry: “There’s no hope for this person.”
Oh, you wanted to know about the “redesign.” Well, the name of this weblog was, in fact, stupid. This doesn’t represent in any way a softening of its stance on Tree Town, but rather a broadening of its purpose. We (hey, James Taranto does the first-person-plural thing in the Journal, and we’ve resisted it long enough) are gradually phasing it out to discourage drunken Ohio State sophomores from continuing to comprise the lion’s share of this weblog’s readership. Along with a new title, new links to local bloggers and maybe even an actual redesign are on their way.
And inexplicable, bile-packed attacks on The Ann Arbor News? Not going anywhere.
Daily writer Joey Litman exposes Ann Arbor’s “faux diversity” for what it is in this week’s Weekend Magazine. Talking to custodial employees in the Union, he’s surprised that none lives in Ann Arbor. Litman concludes that Ann Arbor’s vaunted heterogeneity is a sham, at least when it comes to economic diversity.
He stumbles only near the end, when he argues that said economic diversity would be a good thing for students to experience, since they are often “kids who have lived comfortably for most of their lives.” But students are just as much victims of Ann Arbor’s overpriced housing and food as anyone else, especially non-parent-supported grad students. What Litman should have said was, real economic diversity would be a good thing for the yuppie landowners who congratulate themselves for living in such a quirky, open-minded town.
Robins are “the story of the year in the bird world.” The Carpenter Elementary School found a copy of More Ant and Bee: Another Alphabetical Story for Tiny Tots that could be worth $133, and are considering making the rare book a gift to the U of M.
Thanks, Talk About Town, for providing the makings of a great entry, were we feeling up to it.
“Have you seen those ‘i’d rather be in ann arbor’ bumper stickers?” asked a friend recently. “I just saw one the other day.” He saw it in Boston, where he lives.
An assignment of things from two groups to each other based on preference - people to cities, for instance - is considered unstable if there are two people who each prefer each other’s city.