The Creative Class Must Have Its Doughnuts
Google, in its search for a location to build its Tech Center, has among its criteria “a 24 hr doughnut shop in close proximity.” Well, Canton is sort of close, right?
Google, in its search for a location to build its Tech Center, has among its criteria “a 24 hr doughnut shop in close proximity.” Well, Canton is sort of close, right?
Hey. They should locate in Ypsilanti. Ypsi has Dom’s which is open 24hrs I think. Well, the drive thru is open 24hrs.
posted by lynne on June 20th, 2005 at 1:23 pmUsed to be a 24 hour doughnut place on William, just off of State. They were open for under six months, I believe.
posted by Murph on June 20th, 2005 at 2:43 pmWell, given that criteria, Boston it is.
posted by E on June 20th, 2005 at 4:34 pmReally, anywhere in New England — there’s a Dunkin’ Donuts on every corner.
posted by Anna on June 20th, 2005 at 4:50 pmThe place on William went under because of a) poor start time (late May), b) staffing problems. There were two guys running it, along with various kids that were drafted in from the family. Then one guy got sick, and the other stayed in the little storefront for about three days straight. The place closed soon after.
posted by js on June 20th, 2005 at 4:54 pmI know of a GREAT place right down the street from the clark 24hr store that has pretty good dougnuts. Its a lovely 60+ acres on pristine Ann Arbor swampland…well there might be one problem with some salamanders but Google can figure that out.
posted by A2treekiller on June 20th, 2005 at 10:29 pmaaio,
I don’t know anything about the you-the person behind this web-site but I will stake my life on it that you are a 20-something, Caucasian kid, from an upper-middle class family, who has never had a REAL problem or faced any real hardships..
The tone of this entire web-site is beyond clueless and pathetic..quit it with the bloody whining already…you know who has problems? The people in Darfur have problems.. The Iraqi civilians who are being #$*&ked by your wonderful American govt. have problems..
Heard about the unrest in Syria? Those people have problems…
The “problems” you face due to having to live in a “dump” like Ann Arbor and tragedies like a lack of parking space, not enough shops closed after 11, etc.-these are at best inconveniences…
Only an overprivileged brat would make an entire web-site dedicated to whining about this…
seriously get a life and find a real cause or at least try to learn something worth learning…
My guess is that you are some disgruntled grad student who came to UoM, promptly started flunking every class you ever took and bitterly decided that the problem is with UoM and Ann Arbor…
posted by Anonymous on June 21st, 2005 at 6:21 pmYou need a healthy dose or reality with a few shots of self-awareness mixed in…
Ok that was not too many shops open after 11…
posted by Anonymous on June 21st, 2005 at 6:23 pmreading this web-site saps on’e intelligenc.
Anonymous poster, take a fucking pill.
Do you have even one brain cell dedicated to having a sense of humor? I say this as a “townie” in my early 40s who has met many of the people on this site, of varying ages and interests.
Wait, I’m sure that when you were in college you were dedicated to easing the burdens of the Kurds or some other noble endeavor. Read the entire site and don’t be such an asshole.
I think now that you have decided to try to pigeonhone AAIO, some of the posters here should attempt a personality profile of you based on your asinine post.
posted by OFWinsurgent on June 21st, 2005 at 8:08 pmWell, we don’t really need to resort to biographical speculation…this person’s posts speak for themselves.
posted by ann arbor is overrated on June 21st, 2005 at 8:28 pmHeck for that business Jennie should offer to build them a donut shop!
posted by Croaker on June 21st, 2005 at 9:56 pmActually, Anonymous, I’m pretty sure your hypothesis is wrong — I don’t think I’ve ever seen AAIO write anything negative about the UM other than that it wouold be better if it were located in Boston or Chicago.
posted by Anna on June 22nd, 2005 at 7:42 amI’M GOING TO MAKE A POST ON THE INTERNET WITHOUT KNOWING ANYTHING AND THEN BE ANONYMOUS BECAUSE I AM THE ALPHA MALE. LOL I AM TEH CLEV0RS.
Is that what you were looking for OFW?
posted by HNG on June 22nd, 2005 at 9:00 amno, actually.
posted by OFWinsurgent on June 22nd, 2005 at 9:53 amYeah, that anonymous post illustrates quite well why AA is no fun to live in - too many residents who take themselves far too seriously.
posted by Nick on June 22nd, 2005 at 11:15 amIt would appear that the presence of adequate donut providers is moot anyway — the searchers are also looking for “nearby public transportation and a rich urban atmosphere.”
Sorry, Ass Arbor.
posted by Morbidly Midwestern on June 22nd, 2005 at 1:04 pmMorbid, I think your comments are almost as clever as Boris’, which is really saying something. More, please.
posted by Anna on June 22nd, 2005 at 2:46 pmI fucking love you too.
posted by Morbidly Midwestern on June 22nd, 2005 at 7:27 pmhttp://www.kunstler.com/mags_diary13.html
Jim Kunstler visits Google HQ… and Berkeley:
” I was invited to give a talk at Google headquarters down in Mountain View last Tuesday. They sent somebody to fetch me (in a hybrid car, zowee!) from my hotel in San Francisco — as if I had any choice about catching a train down, right? Google HQ was a glass office park pod tucked into an inscrutable tangle of off-ramps, berms, manzanita clumps, and curb-cuts. But inside, it was all tricked out like a kindergarten. They had pool tables, and inflatable yoga balls, and $6000 electronic vibrating massage lounge chairs, and snack stations deployed at twenty-five step intervals, with lucite bins filled with chocolate raisins and granola. The employees dressed like children. There were two motifs: “skateboard rat” and “10th grade nerd.” I suppose quite a few of them were millionaires. Many of the work cubicles were literally modular children’s playhouses. I gave my spiel about the global oil problem and the unlikelihood that “alternative energy” would even fractionally replace it, and quite a few of the Googlers became incensed.
posted by Brandon on June 24th, 2005 at 7:33 pm“Yo, Dude, you’re so, like, wrong! We’ve got, like, technology!”
Yeah, well, they weren’t interested in making a distinction between energy and technology (or, more precisely where Google is concerned, a massive web-based advertising scheme — because it is finally clear that all this talk about “connectivity” just leads to more commercial shilling, shucking, jiving, and generally fucking with your headspace in the interstices of whatever purposeful activity one may be struggling to enact on the internet).
The taxi-cab ride to Berkeley (on Google’s tab) ran over $160 on the meter. In Berkeley a radical leftist grandmotherly lady interviewed me for a radio show and once that was over she began to tell me about the chemical contrails that Dick Cheney was cross-hatching across the Berkeley skies for the purpose of controlling the masses of earnest, whole-foods-loving, undyed-wool-wearing devotees of diversity and turning them into whorish Stepford sex robots. Everybody knew it was a cover-up, she said.”
Speaking of Stalin and Trotsky…here we have a person who is a perfect example of that. Yeah, okay the suffering here isn’t as bad as somewhere else, but so freaking what……
posted by Kozzie on June 27th, 2005 at 9:55 pmReally, Brandon, you’re missing the point of living in California - people in Ann Arbor wouldn’t know entertainment like that if it kicked them in the ass . . . Have a sense of humor.
posted by Nick on June 28th, 2005 at 12:28 amCan we get back to the donuts? It’s almost 1 AM and I want some chocolate-frosted goodness without having to drive all the way over to Dom’s and back.
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posted by Daniel Williams on November 30th, 2005 at 7:51 pmI was looking up driving directions from Brighton, MI to a speedway in Georgia and was told to head south on OLD US 23 toward Birch Run.
Doesn’t Google know that Birch Run is NORTH of Brighton, not south?
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