Well, we promised a rundown
Well, we promised a rundown of the Daily’s Best of Ann Arbor list, but were feeling too - indifferent, apathetic, stupefied - to produce one in a timely fashion. Nevertheless, here goes:
Local Festival: Art Fair
Isn’t this a little bit like having an “Event Where They Set an Anthropomorphic Likeness on Fire” category in the “Best of the Nevada Desert” awards?
University Website: umich.edu
Weren’t you expecting emich.edu to take this one?
Compact Disc: Border’s [sic]
This is not the only rogue apostrophe that made the list - a reference to “Urban Outfitter’s” also makes an appearance. More to the point, we’ll defend Borders over the snotty independents for books - we don’t care how good the service at Shaman Drum is, the “shaman” reference is enough to put us off the place. But when they’re charging upwards of $18 for CDs you can get for $13 at Wazoo or even Amazon, we can’t fathom why they made the list, other than sheer voter laziness.
We’re too young to have an opinion on the “Furniture Store” and “Jewelry Store” categories, and too old to decide if Tri-Delt really is the best “Sorority to Party With.” Either that, or we’re in an extended period of “adultolescence,” and this list points out where we’ve gone wrong. Maybe everyone should have a short transition period in their lives where they can tell you both where to find the cheapest beer in town and where to pick up a mean armoire. This mid-twenties-adolescence thing is wholly a modern invention. Maybe the “Best of Ann Arbor” is trying to tell us something.
After all, it couldn’t be that we live in a parochial cow town or anything like that.