Where’s the Outrage?
We seem to have a lot of energy to be disappointed about the football team, but “where’s the outrage over things that REALLY affect our lives?” a letter in the News demands to know. Yeah, Ann Arborites! In case you haven’t heard, there’s a war going on. And handbills being posted, if you read the next letter.
God damn every single person in Ann Arbor who bitches about handbills on posters. The independent artists and musicians in Ann Arbor who aren’t sanctioned and approved by the city need affordable, easy ways to promote their artistic/music endeavors. Not everyone can afford an advertisement in one of the local publications. Just for the record, FUCK the Main Street Association and the DDA. They are nothing but a bunch of honkey-assed capitalist pigs, who care nothing about members of the community that aren’t part of their social class. I agree that out-of-date handbills and posters should be removed from poles and light posts regularly and I encourage other artists to remove old handbills while posting up new ones. I think working with and encouraging the local artists and musicians who post handbills to act responsibly is a better way to handle the situation, instead of trying to ban the act of posting handbills. When you see handbills and posters promoting events in your town, it should evoke a feeling of pride in the fact that your town actually has some kind of local independent culture and identity that isn’t just the one pushed on the residents by the local ruling class.
posted by Anonymous on September 20th, 2007 at 12:39 pmWe don’t need the Main Street Association paying for this — we’ve got white knights and vigilantes tending to our poor, poor light poles and sidewalks.
posted by Dale on September 20th, 2007 at 2:13 pmI’m with anonymous.
why don’t they put some kiosks up for signage? they have them on the campus!
why do they care if their are flyers on the pole at the corner by the fleetwood?
the way the Current has changed their format , one needs flyers!
and football, ah just a distraction for people.
posted by anon on September 20th, 2007 at 2:22 pmviva la flyers….. I personally love them, the trashy, the grungy, the information. Anonymous is right, it shows you something is going on in this town besides sitting home on a saturday night twiddling thumbs.
Besides artistic thingys, flyers on lightposts get other community news out there. Not everyone wants to ask the manager at Panera if they can post something on the board, or hope that you’ll see it at the library.
I would much rather see handbills covering utility boxes than the “artwork” that the youngin’s “beautify” this town with.
posted by christina on September 20th, 2007 at 4:56 pmAnd as far as the football issue goes, I am a lifelong fan of the wolverines, one of my mothers tit’s oozed blue and the other maize, still as a rational adult I realize sometimes the team ain’t so good. In some sense I agree with the editorial. All these people calling for Carr to be fired? WTF, let’s impeach that other dude first.
posted by christina on September 20th, 2007 at 4:59 pmHandbills for what? I read in the Ann Arbor News today that there’s nothing to do in town but go to bars.
http://www.mlive.com/annarbor/stories/index.ssf?/base/features-0/1190299936170350.xml&coll=2
posted by Jen on September 21st, 2007 at 9:55 amSomebody gets it.
“For a single person to meet people would be very hard. There’s not much to do besides the bars,'’ said Laura Hurst, 28, as she had dinner with friend Casie Ruhlia, 27, last week. Both said the transient nature of the people associated with the university and the price of housing makes Ann Arbor not a friendly place for single people in their 20s and 30s to live.”
posted by Dale on September 21st, 2007 at 12:04 pmLong live the staplegun cowboys.
posted by Nitro on September 21st, 2007 at 2:53 pmNitro, I miss seeing your flyers around town. Dan Mulholland’s were also great.
posted by Chaka on September 21st, 2007 at 10:19 pmOh, thx so much! ’svery nice. I love seeing the State poster stuck up in front of the Fleetwood. It’s like the taste of madeleines.
posted by Nitro on September 21st, 2007 at 11:00 pmErmmmmm….Forgot all this football talk…The BIGGEST legend in this damn town will be memorialized this Sunday Sept 23rd at 1 pm at Muelig Funeral Home. Let all of us get out priories STRAIGHT!!!
God Bless you MR JAKE WOODS as you strum your way to heaven!!!
posted by I will miss Jake! on September 22nd, 2007 at 1:06 amWie say - wen das complainin geht so laut, MOVE YOUR ASS OUT - Ann Arbor was fine until crybaby ass people make a web-site. Das grass ist grune in Columbus, oder?? Or do they smoke it too soon? Take youre mouth and just leave. Bitte.
posted by Anonymaus on September 24th, 2007 at 7:46 pmthat comment is great, especially when you read it like lily von shtupp would. it adds a little something. bitte…baby. actually, anything in german is better in a lily von shtupp voice.
posted by anon the maus on September 24th, 2007 at 9:23 pmOK, I’m way late to the party, but wanted to throw in my 100% agreement with the first anonymous.
I respectfully disagree that it’s any more difficult to meet people in Ann Arbor than elsewhere, though. I met more people here within one year than I had in the previous five years living in another town.
Meeting people for a romantic relationship IS hard, no question. And Ann Arbor is a bit insular. But I don’t agree with the premise of that article.
posted by Dave on October 3rd, 2007 at 12:26 pmI think Ann Arbor is very insular. But once you’ve penetrated the barrier, you are home free. Don’t let the “groups” intimidate you — they are very welcoming. Well, maybe some aren’t, but then you wouldn’t want them anyway, right?
Born here (50s), live here (forever), will die here? (probably)
posted by uhright on October 3rd, 2007 at 8:29 pmflyers….? Who gives a shit.
posted by uhright on October 3rd, 2007 at 8:30 pmI do. Someone in my neighborhood is tearing down lost pet flyers within the first day. I call shenanigans on that.
This method gets the most likely people to be of help a picture and/or good description. A good one with a colour (most accurate) photo costs .49 cents. Thats about 25 dollars for 50 in case you didn’t notice. Not to mention literally hours of fliering. They do this because their good friend is missing and likely they are heartbroken about it.
Most of all it is legal.
The newspaper ad costs another $50.00. And is very brief and doesn’t give a targeted approach. So people are spending really hard to come by LOTS of money.
At least leave it alone for a week.
Also having been in bands I never thought fliering to be the most effective approach. However it’s a huge investment of time and money for those who do so. But I could write a monograph on boneheaded design and subsequent boneheaded placement.
posted by stella on October 3rd, 2007 at 10:31 pm