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About Me

Likes: Detroit, old architecture, the Detroit People Mover, Paul Newman's salad dressing.Turn-offs: Mike Ilitch, white jelly beans, pigeons, Bruce Springsteen.Well, www.buildingsofdetroit.com has yet to recover from the nuclear meltdown back in October, and I know nothing about HTML stuff, so I don't even know where to begin on fixing it. Sean's busy with school. That means, I suppose, that the site stays retarded for a while.But that didn't stop me - being delusional enough to think people might actually want to see stuff about Detroit - from putting some of my videomathingies up on YouTube.There are only six of them up so far, but a couple of 'em turned out radder than fishsticks. Or at least that's what mommy said.You'll laugh at the sight of the train station with people - AND TRAINS. You'll cry at the sight of photos of old City Hall being demolished in 1961. You'll smile at the realization that this place is pretty frickin' boss.So add our channel ... or don't.http://www.youtube.com/user/BuildingsofDetroit

My Interests

Hating Bruce Springsteen, music, pianos, sarcasm, Sour Patch Kids, Diet Pepsi, sleeping, good grammar, Detroit, the No. 2, record shopping, Faygo, alcohol, old architecture, urban exploring, and rejecting friend requests from shitty bands I've never heard of.

I'd like to meet:

People who say nice things about Detroit.

Music:

Howlin' Wolf, Black Keys, Elliott Smith, Harry Nilsson, David Bowie, Kills, Clinic, Velvet Underground, Love, eels, The Yardbirds, Sleater-Kinney, Dirtbombs, Beulah, Fiery Furnaces, Man Man, Belle & Sebastian, T.Rex, Captain Beefheart, The Kinks - but none of that "State of Confusion" shit.

Movies:

Citizen Kane, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Day the Earth Stood Still, Royal Tenenbaums, Transformers: The Movie, Donnie Darko

Television:

I do not like television, Dann I am.

Books:

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut

Heroes:

Coleman A. Young and Chester E. Lemon

My Blog

Detroit Prog Rock City

So Steve and I went out for drinks last night at the Magic Stick. Hadn't been there in a while and most of the other Detroit haunts close around midnight on Sunday.There, the world's worst DJ was spin...
Posted by Newspapermann on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:53:00 PST

Smokestack writnin: Detroits other train station

The Union Depot, designed by J. Stewart & Co., opened in 1893.This was the smaller of Detroit's two major train stations, the other being the Michigan Central Station, which closed in 1988 and has bec...
Posted by Newspapermann on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 02:30:00 PST

A return to Tiger Stadium

Stepping through the center field tunnel and into the sea of blue was an overwhelming feeling, numbing yet familiar. "Hello, old friend," I said. "Good to see you again.""Welcome home," she seemed to ...
Posted by Newspapermann on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:01:00 PST

Piece of the Corner in my corner

Well, Mr. UPS Man delivered my Tiger Stadium seats today. The box weighed 90 pounds; guilt is heavy, you know. Imagine my puny ass struggling to get it up the front steps and into the house. Stop laug...
Posted by Newspapermann on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 02:33:00 PST

"This is the city I would like to live in"

I know exactly how you feel, Rose. I feel the same way.
Posted by Newspapermann on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 02:36:00 PST

Why Im proud to be a Detroiter

I've become addicted to collecting old Detroit postcards from the 1910s and 1920s. They offer a peek at what my city once was. Some of it is horrifying: the sight of an amazing building then that is n...
Posted by Newspapermann on Mon, 14 May 2007 08:34:00 PST

Attention, Detroit record nerds

So I started a free forum for record nerds in metro Detroit to unite, trade records and sell records and talk about records and stuff.If you like records, you'll like http://detroitrecords.informe.com...
Posted by Newspapermann on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:27:00 PST