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Greatest Hits

For those discovering this site for the first time, I thought I’d pick out the “greatest hits” — posts that were significant in some way, or that I just happen to like. Notice that there’s nothing from the first year and a half of the blog’s existence. That’s not a mistake.

Of course, it was the reader comments that really made this blog what it was, and unfortunately I don’t have enough time to pick out the best of those. I miss all of you, and I even miss A2 once in a while.

  1. November 2003: Ann Arbor is selective in its opposition to chains, and we are proud of a particularly groan-inducing pun.
  2. December 2003: We disparage the “pampered college student” genre of news stories.
  3. January 2004: Not that great of a post, but we can’t leave out the “butternut soup will fool you” meme.
  4. September 2004: The world of competitive bird-listing is not for the faint of heart.
  5. October 2004: The neighborhood associations are on to us and our sophisticated technology.
  6. March 2005: Unfortunately, our Manhattan-inspired Ann Arbor neighborhood sobriquets never caught on.
  7. April 2005: Ann Arbor residents are not known for their understated rhetoric.
  8. October 2005: It’s hard to believe, but perhaps the October lease-signing frenzy is actually encouraged by landlords after all.
  9. January 2006: We suggest a drinking game designed to irk a certain councilmember.
  10. May 2006: Prison + needlepoint = Ann Arbor bliss.
  11. June 2007: It turns out that some councilmembers are more hip to new media (where “new media” includes anything newer than radio) than others.
  12. September 2007: We engage in our favorite pastime of amateur media criticism.
  13. February 2008: We bloviate about online free speech.
  14. February 2008: Todd Leopold announces (in the thread from the previous post) that he’s closing his Ann-Arbor-institution brewpub after years of being a voice for sanity in A2 politics.
  15. March 2008: Delicious irony arises when Ann Arbor’s cultural festivals and progressive labor laws conflict.
  16. April 2008: This op-ed is a sort of farewell piece; it deals with a particular development but attempts to incorporate everything we’ve learned about A2 politics and planning.

8 Responses to “Greatest Hits”


  1. OMG! An update!

    posted by __earth on February 10th, 2009 at 12:47 am

  2. All Right!! AAIO is back with a new thread!!

    posted by Kaptain Krunch on February 10th, 2009 at 2:15 am

  3. Keep it up and and there will be new Greatest Hits. So, everyone in AA, what’s the hot topic of the day?

    posted by Sammy C on February 10th, 2009 at 10:22 pm

  4. The hot topic of the day is the new anti-graffiti ordinance.

    posted by Rita Columbo on February 10th, 2009 at 11:11 pm

  5. The “drinking game” at #6 alludes to the puritanical attitudes of Councilwoman Joan Lowenstein. This was a very famous position she took.

    posted by John Dory on February 14th, 2009 at 5:05 pm

  6. My favorite is the “Nostalgia ” thread.

    posted by Rita Columbo on February 18th, 2009 at 9:37 pm

  7. Joan Lowenstein was a very popular member of City Council. I hope she comes back. Her opposition to the consumption of alcohol was something that I and many other citizens have applauded.

    posted by Kerry D. on February 21st, 2009 at 4:12 pm

  8. via the Ann Arbor Chronicle

    # A2: Business

    The Capital, a newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, reports that Mike Gibbons is opening two new restaurants there: The Chop House, and Real Seafood Co. Gibbons is a partner with Ann Arbor-based Main Street Ventures, with restaurants of the same names in downtown Ann Arbor. In Annapolis, he’s opening the restaurants in the Annapolis Towne Centre at Parole, a complex which his brother, Brian Gibbons, is developing. [Source]

    waiting for the inevitable blog “annapolisisoverated”

    posted by Edward Vielmetti on April 26th, 2009 at 4:45 pm

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