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

29 Responses to “No Words”


  1. A Haiku contest?
    This is so darn Ann Arbor -
    Makes me want to spew.


  2. Me? Write a haiku?
    Is this a requirement?
    Is this on the test?


  3. Isn’t a season word required?

    As in

    Fuck you fuck you fuck
    You fuck you fuck you fuck you
    Fuck you fuck you SNOW


  4. Are you kidding me?
    This drives a longtime lurker
    To finally post.

    Just this week I thought
    “My sense of reality
    is being warped here.”


  5. 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)


  6. Shoutsonline.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!)


  7. Well, writing your own reviews worked for Walt Whitman. If he was here today he’d have a totally pimped myspace page.


  8. Maybe I should enter the Broadway Village Haiku (which, sadly, I did not write):

    Ann Arbor has trees
    Buildings four stories or less
    Let us see the sky


  9. That one would probably have an excellent chance of winning.


  10. Ann Arbor has trees
    But we can’t see the forest.
    How about some parks?


  11. “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
    Some more equal than others
    Dave Cahill chuckles.


  12. Any burg with Blaine
    AND Mary Sue Coleman must
    be overrated.


  13. Or on a more poignant note for December 7:

    Pearl Harbor we call
    to mind, in this safe Arbor:
    unforgotten loss.


  14. Freakin’ hilarious. Since when do that many kids in the dorms have cars anyhow?

    Greater danger has
    never been seen in this land:
    Couches on porches.


  15. Ann Arbor’s upside?
    Once you’ve experienced hell
    You’ll never fear death


  16. S’mores: hard to make
    the classic Ann Arbor way
    just buy graham crackers.


  17. I don’t understand
    why there are not more Haiku
    this is Ann Arbor!


  18. Anna, I don’t get
    what you mean about s’mores.
    No marshmallows here?


  19. Check archives, and find
    blog entry about News piece:
    s’mores a la A-squared.


  20. You still in town on the 23rd, AAIO? I’ll be back fer Mittenfest.


  21. Sure, why wouldn’t the proprietor of this fine weblog hang around his or her favorite city until the moment Santa arrived?


  22. Because I need an excuse to abuse the comments section for promotional purposes, Dale.


  23. You need to start a new blog.


  24. Blogs are so 2003.


  25. So what’s 2007? Or are blogs like shows where you don’t go to the ones you don’t like the other attendees?


  26. 2007
    is a lot like ann arbor
    it’s overratted


  27. Let’s build a greenway
    So to behold nature from
    My loft apartment


  28. Too many rats in 2007? Bummer.


  29. overratted?!? oops!
    but now that i think of it
    that’s what i meant! heh.

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