I Less Than Three Detroit

(via Beer Joint: 1905 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)

I never actually watched Detroit 1-8-7, but this was in the Free Press today and I really liked it:

Dear Paris of the Midwest,

We will miss you.

Together we did some things we should all be very proud of.

We employed more people of color than any show in the history of national network television.

We had blacks and whites working shoulder to shoulder and it was frictionless.

We froze our tokhes to the bone until ungodly hours of the morning — and lived to laugh about it.

We created a drama most critics confirmed as one of the best of the season.

We started our relationship skeptical of each other, settled our differences, then got on with the business at hand.

We showed the world what the D really looked like. We taught each other. And most of all, we got some folks paid!

Alas, our love affair was short-lived. …

I think it was because not enough found out how truly beautiful we were together. I think sometimes when you break the mold the mold breaks you.

I think sometimes when you lose your incentives, you lose your incentive. The governor asked the wrong people if the tax break was good for Michigan. Those folks were already getting paid.

I think if the governor had vision he would have seen the people of Michigan gaining not only financially, but emotionally, artistically, and creatively. He would have seen the opportunity to promote the state worldwide as well as the tarnished image of Detroit. The tangible as well as the intangible.

I think when you fall in love there are no guarantees, and life isn’t fair.

Thank you, Detroit, for giving me one of the best years of my life. I will always remember you fondly.

Yours truly,

James McDaniel

(via Postcards from Detroit)

See. Beautiful fountain.

Friends of Belle Isle event to help restore Scott Fountain | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

It was a beautiful fountain

greatlakesstate:

Vintage Stroh’s beer can painting.

From Etsy.

Mmmm…Stroh’s is some delicious beer.

I was very sad to learn last night that The Burton Theatre was closing. I only got to visit it once, but it was a really cool place and I was trying to put something together to go back to see The Room in a couple weeks. I guess that won’t be happening now.

Sadly, my Tigers lost tonight. :(

I made my first trip to Eastern Market for 2011 today. It was so nice when I woke up, I just had to go, even though not much is really in season just yet. I did get some potatoes though. And some organic oatmeal.