ann arbor is overrated.

Ann Arbor’s very own Found Magazine will be appearing on Letterman tonight.

With this kind of exposure, it finally seems fair to ask: Is it just us, or is Found a bit, well, overrated? Sure, it’s a neat idea with a great design. But the very premise - send in stuff that you find - leaves itself open to ersatz discoveries. At least with something like Gawker Stalker, the reader-generated celebrity-sighting feature of Gawker, corroborative evidence or lack thereof will compel them to acknowledge that, no, it wasn’t really Jonathan Safran Foer who was being nasty to that bagel-store employee. (It was just a fictional character who happened to be named “Jonathan Safran Foer”. But we digress.) But with Found, how do you know that that hilarious love letter was actually picked up off the ground by a swingset in Toledo? Maybe the person who sent it in just made it up. There’s really no way to know. Whether this does or should detract from one’s Found-reading experience is a topic that could fill books of literary criticism.

We never want to discourage independent arts and media, but you’d think that Found was the only interesting thing going on in Ann Arbor. (Oh, wait. It is.)