No Words
The News is soliciting entries for its local news haiku contest. Their sample entry:
Frieze Building must fall
New dorm will fill streets with cars
Town too weak for gown
The News is soliciting entries for its local news haiku contest. Their sample entry:
Frieze Building must fall
New dorm will fill streets with cars
Town too weak for gown
A Haiku contest?
posted by LittleB on December 6th, 2006 at 6:13 pmThis is so darn Ann Arbor -
Makes me want to spew.
Me? Write a haiku?
posted by AAMom on December 6th, 2006 at 7:35 pmIs this a requirement?
Is this on the test?
Isn’t a season word required?
As in
Fuck you fuck you fuck
posted by peg dash fab on December 6th, 2006 at 9:40 pmYou fuck you fuck you fuck you
Fuck you fuck you SNOW
Are you kidding me?
This drives a longtime lurker
To finally post.
Just this week I thought
posted by HelloSarah on December 6th, 2006 at 10:26 pm“My sense of reality
is being warped here.”
OMG, just saw SHOUT magazine, and it’s the best Ann Arbor blowjob EVAR.
They interview a guy who the most interesting thing in his life is that he lives at the top of the Towers, and has a 42 second elevator ride.
And the editor writes a glowing book review of her own book. AWESOME.
(Just checking in since I’ve not been commenting since I got y’all on RSS)
posted by js on December 6th, 2006 at 11:26 pmShoutsonline.com; check out the “What Handbag Fits Your Type,” Ann Arbor. Something self-aware, expensive and made of organic alpaca scrotal hairs, I assume (they also promise a blog!)
posted by js on December 6th, 2006 at 11:33 pmWell, writing your own reviews worked for Walt Whitman. If he was here today he’d have a totally pimped myspace page.
posted by stella on December 7th, 2006 at 8:05 amMaybe I should enter the Broadway Village Haiku (which, sadly, I did not write):
Ann Arbor has trees
posted by Dave Cahill on December 7th, 2006 at 10:53 amBuildings four stories or less
Let us see the sky
That one would probably have an excellent chance of winning.
posted by ann arbor is overrated on December 7th, 2006 at 11:10 amAnn Arbor has trees
posted by Dale on December 7th, 2006 at 12:00 pmBut we can’t see the forest.
How about some parks?
“Quality of Life”
Ann Arbor will define as
Property values.
Avarice a sin?
But we just want green space where
Your apartment is.
Oink, oink, oink, oink, oink
posted by Parking Structure Dude! on December 7th, 2006 at 1:05 pmSome more equal than others
Dave Cahill chuckles.
Any burg with Blaine
posted by David Boyle on December 7th, 2006 at 5:50 pmAND Mary Sue Coleman must
be overrated.
Or on a more poignant note for December 7:
Pearl Harbor we call
posted by David Boyle on December 7th, 2006 at 6:11 pmto mind, in this safe Arbor:
unforgotten loss.
Freakin’ hilarious. Since when do that many kids in the dorms have cars anyhow?
Greater danger has
posted by Boston Fan in Michigan on December 7th, 2006 at 6:34 pmnever been seen in this land:
Couches on porches.
Ann Arbor’s upside?
posted by Nick on December 7th, 2006 at 8:29 pmOnce you’ve experienced hell
You’ll never fear death
S’mores: hard to make
posted by Anna on December 7th, 2006 at 8:34 pmthe classic Ann Arbor way
just buy graham crackers.
I don’t understand
posted by LittleB on December 9th, 2006 at 7:25 amwhy there are not more Haiku
this is Ann Arbor!
Anna, I don’t get
posted by Carolyn on December 10th, 2006 at 8:17 pmwhat you mean about s’mores.
No marshmallows here?
Check archives, and find
posted by Anna on December 10th, 2006 at 10:56 pmblog entry about News piece:
s’mores a la A-squared.
You still in town on the 23rd, AAIO? I’ll be back fer Mittenfest.
posted by Brandon on December 10th, 2006 at 11:35 pmSure, why wouldn’t the proprietor of this fine weblog hang around his or her favorite city until the moment Santa arrived?
posted by Dale on December 11th, 2006 at 12:37 amBecause I need an excuse to abuse the comments section for promotional purposes, Dale.
posted by Brandon on December 11th, 2006 at 12:48 amYou need to start a new blog.
posted by Dale on December 11th, 2006 at 12:59 amBlogs are so 2003.
posted by Brandon on December 11th, 2006 at 1:35 amSo what’s 2007? Or are blogs like shows where you don’t go to the ones you don’t like the other attendees?
posted by Dale on December 11th, 2006 at 10:09 am2007
posted by peter honeyman on December 11th, 2006 at 10:25 amis a lot like ann arbor
it’s overratted
Let’s build a greenway
posted by Dave on December 11th, 2006 at 12:25 pmSo to behold nature from
My loft apartment
Too many rats in 2007? Bummer.
posted by LittleB on December 11th, 2006 at 5:55 pmoverratted?!? oops!
posted by peter honeyman on December 11th, 2006 at 9:44 pmbut now that i think of it
that’s what i meant! heh.