Monday, December 6, 2004Neighbourly LoveHouse fires are my number one phobia. I've (thankfully) never experienced one personally, but for most of my life, I've come home from vacations hoping that the house would still be intact, not a little pile of burnt rubble. I've never had a real reason for this phobia,but then again, most people can't explain their phobias. Given this phobia, I was more than a bit sympathetic when I first read about a housefire in Indian Village. Even worse than the thought of a beautiful old house being burned to a crisp was thinking of the poor chocolate lab that died in the fire. A few days later, however, more came out about this story. My level of feeling sympathy went down quite a bit. As much I do not advocate violence or arson or any other type of illegal activity even if someone is being an asshat of the century, I couldn't help but feel a Simpsons-esque "Ha ha" at the updated news story. From the article - About two months ago, she said, a man on a bicycle approached her and asked for money. She told him no, demanded he get away from her home and threatened him. "I wanted him to think I had a gun," Serra said. "I told him 'I'll drop you right here and nobody would care.' " As well as - Several months ago, Serra said, a woman was driving about 45 m.p.h. down her street, and the two exchanged expletives and questioned why the other was in the neighborhood. Given her profession as a social worker, I would have hoped this woman would have had enough brain power (and self control) to act like an adult in such situations, but apparently that was beyond her ability. Apparently "How to Win Friends and Influence People 101" was a class she missed out on. posted @ 03:00 PM EST [link] [more] Thursday, November 11, 2004Good question While I'm not sure if this is the start of some lame ad campaign against something, I'd like to think that just once, this billboard is simply as apathetic as it appears. posted @ 08:54 AM EST [link] [more] Friday, November 5, 2004Detroit Tourism 101In the flurry of election related issues earlier this week, I somehow missed this little gem about a tourism campaign to push Detroit to those in the metro Detroit area. This has to be a very expensive joke. While a lot of those outside the city yet in the metro area would likely be hard pressed to give a date of their last excursion into Detroit, is the "Tourism Economic Development Council" (I can't be the only one who thinks that name is missing an "and" or just very poorly worded) really that sheltered that they think a few tv and radio spots will suddenly prompt someone in Farmington Hills (or any other town in the area) to say "Ahh hah! Lets go to Detroit! I had no idea there was a big park in the river! An art museum?! I never knew!"? I'm willing to bet that the majority of those who avoid Detroit yet live in the metro area know what is here. There are endless media mentions (both local and national) of Belle Isle, various restaurants around the city, festivals, sporting events, museums, shops, Wayne State University, and dozens of other projects and spots. The issue is not that these people have managed to miss mentions of what is in Detroit, they simply don't care. They see the crap that His Royal Highness Kwame pulls, they see the often pushed crime statistics, and the treatment of abandoned buildings that many in the suburbs remember visiting as a child. Until deeper changes are made and a mayor actually does something instead of spending his term trying to look cool and get a few more women for him to have a fun time with, no amount of advertising will prompt those in the metro Detroit area to venture into Detroit. posted @ 04:08 PM EST [link] Minor housekeeping Yes, I changed the colours and title graphic. The page has only been tested using Firefox 1.0PR, so please, if you're using another type of browser and something is oddly out of place or the colours are so bad that you want to pick your eyeballs out with plastic sword toothpics, email me. Likewise, at least for now, comments have been disabled. I can't be on the computer constantly to immediately delete spam comments when they come in. Hopefully I can think of some better solution and bring back legit comments once again. And I do read all email I receive, but I am awful at responding to it, so please do not feel as if I am ignoring you. I'm not. You don't smell, I just seem to have major problems hitting "reply" and coming up with some sort of response. posted @ 03:10 PM EST [link] [more] Wednesday, November 3, 2004MoronsI know this article has likely been talked into the ground, but I just don't know when to shut up. Someone needs to bitch slap the moron in the photo holding the crowbar very hard. Then the bitch slaps need to be dished out to his little friends who think it's okay to use crowbars to break into buildings. And then they all need another bitch slap for talking about breaking and entering to a reporter and having a photograph taken with their faces shown. The cities they come from aren't exactly known for their high number of rocket scientists, but you'd think they'd have slightly more common sense. It reminds me of the bright person I saw on another site who proudly posed in vacant houses for photos while he shot his paint gun off. Not all publicity is good publicity. posted @ 05:56 PM EST [link] [more] [more] [more] |
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