ann arbor is overrated.

As the last blogger in town to pick up the Observer and feverishly page
through to their “Weblog Guide,” we don’t have a lot new to say. We thought that the “recent posts” they picked for us - “critiques of news articles, examination of the term ‘Michigan hookup’, blogger slang” - were appropriately representative of the depth and seriousness we aim for at this site. Although, we’re not the first to notice that, of the nine blogs they picked to exemplify the “opinionated, tech-savvy residents” that make Ann Arbor “fertile ground” for a vibrant Web culture, three of them are from Ypsi and one of them is specifically devoted to hating Ann Arbor.

The Observer also marks the five-year anniversaries of a few local
businesses, including Leopold Brothers - congratulations! And a letter
from Wazoo’s music buyer complains about the (lack of) coverage given to our favorite local music store in an article about record shopping in A2 last month. We have noticed a tendency for local media to slight them in favor of Encore or Schoolkids.

And one non-Ann-Arbor business to whom we’d like to give a shout out - our hosting company, 2Xtreme Media, who got this site back up in less than a minute of being contacted after we exceeded our bandwidth restrictions this afternoon.