“College Station” Was a Little Too Avant-Garde
Naming your band “Ann Arbor” just not enough to pay tribute to the diversity and people of our fine city? How about your kid? “Madison” is getting overused, anyway.
Naming your band “Ann Arbor” just not enough to pay tribute to the diversity and people of our fine city? How about your kid? “Madison” is getting overused, anyway.
Ah, that Midwestern complacently corn-fed look. Perhaps Ann Arbor might consider visiting South Beach.
posted by Laura on August 31st, 2004 at 9:06 pmSeems like there are so many things one could call midwesterners out on, why pick on a woman for being fat? Not to mention I don’t think you can tell from her headshot whether or not she’s overweight. Looks pretty normal to me.
posted by Alex(andra) on August 31st, 2004 at 10:00 pmThat’s normal? I don’t think so. Why pick on that? Because the hoggish consumeristic mindset is denuding the planet. But, to be politically correct, never mind that. At any rate, it’s a ridiculous name (no “u” in “ann arbor”?)
posted by Laura on August 31st, 2004 at 10:41 pmDoesn’t look at all fat to me. As for the fat=hoggish thing, I’m fairly skinny and sedentary and used to encountering much bigger people who are in far better shape than I am. It’s complicated.
Her parents really should have gone for the ‘u’ and the hyphen both.
posted by ann arbor is overrated on August 31st, 2004 at 11:05 pmRight, cause you *never* see fat hippies, environmentalists, or Naderites.
It’s comments like that that lead people like my cousin–who is 5′6″ and 125 pounds–to go on diets.
posted by Alex on September 1st, 2004 at 9:19 amI hate to say that I, too, think the poor woman should be left alone. She looks fine to me, too (actually, I think quirkily cute), and besides, would we even be discussing this subject if it were a man’s picture? Let’s forget about her weight and get back to important matters, like mocking her for her name.
posted by Anna on September 1st, 2004 at 10:08 am(sigh) OK, I’m back to mocking her for her ridiculous name. Although I’m toying with the notion of naming any future progeny Ypsilanti Bien.
posted by Laura on September 1st, 2004 at 10:00 pmUnlike most folks here, I actually like my new home of Ann Arbor (try living in Midland, Mich., for nearly 7 years and see what I mean). I even find its pretentiousness to be a source of amusement, such as this t-shirt I saw whilst window-shopping: “London, Paris, Rome, Ann Arbor.”
Uh, ok, AA has a lot going for it, but I don’t think it compares to the capitals of Europe. But how funny that someone made a t-shirt that does so.
And at least this poor girl isn’t named “Mid Land.”
posted by Dave on September 2nd, 2004 at 12:25 pm