The title of Lisa D'Amour's sharp, satisfying comedy "Detroit" (well directed by Anne Kauffman, at Playwrights Horizons) refers not to the city but to the state of collapse that it embodies.I have one thing to say to that:
The amazing Bonnie Jo Campbell will be back in Ann Arbor tomorrow for the State of the Book Symposium at Rackham. Back in September, EJ and I had a chance to meet BJC at the Kerrytown BookFest. She was super cool and a blast to talk to then she went on and moderated this awesome panel discussion on New Women's Voices in Fiction. Swoon. If you like Michigan Fiction, you'll probably love the State of the Book. Dave Eggers will be there too, but he's no BJC.
Check it out folks, ArborWiki has a slick new front page. Over on his blog, Ed Vielmetti has an explanation about the migration from the Mediawiki to Localwiki platform. So what are you waiting for gentle readers? Start adding and editing pages.
Yesterday I saw two young men riding mopeds across the Diag. I snapped a picture because I was going to write a long rant about how it's not OK to treat your moped like a bicycle. Fortunately as the bandits exited the Diag onto south State, they were stopped by a U of M Police Office.
And they say there's never a cop when you need one.
In-staters: In-staters are, incidentally, those students that hail from the state of Michigan. They pay approximately 5 dollars annually and can’t fathom why anyone out-of-state would pay close to $40,000 to attend. If you can’t understand why this would be infuriating to the out-of-stater, look at this way: it’s like formerly being the most popular kid in your high school, I mean local-celebrity-status, and having no one recognize you after graduation.Note: Bloomfield Hills betches are an exception to the in-state rule. All JAB out-of-staters want to find a friend from Bloomfield so they can go for Rosh Hashana or break fast dinner and pretend they branched out in college.
Out-of-staters: So then, you guessed it, the out-of-staters are indeed from those lesser known areas outside of Michigan--namely, Long Island. Out-of-staters are very proud of their non-Michigan resident status since it means they're paying extra to go there and this also implies that they like, had to fucking do something of note to get in.
North Campus Aliens: North Campus is the Alcatraz of Michigan because quite frankly, you might as well be in prison with no chance of escaping (without a doctor's note). Having only been there once and that was just to see it, it’s safe to say that North Campus is just as bad as they say. Isolated from the rest of the student population and the entire Michigan culture you waited all four years of high school to experience, North Campus boasts...nothing at all.
Saw this in the walkway in Randall Lab. Could someone get one this please?
This just in: The Lunch Room has been contracted by Rocket Fuel, an advertising company based in California, to give away a "boat load" of free food for a recruitment event. They will. They will post up on State Street in front of the Art Museum tomorrow and start serving food at 11 AM. Make sure you get there quick, the food will probably run out in just a few short hours.
