Hometown Bash-ing:
My friend Amy pointed me to an online diary creatively titled Ann Arbor Sucks, a broadside of my beloved hometown. It’s pretty opaque and not just because of the black background. The diarist merely identifies his/herself as a “grad student at the University of Michigan” no major, no age, not even mention of a gender. They do however like Stereolab.
I grew up in Ann Arbor and naturally think it’s the greatest place in the world. But if I was graduate student age (and still as bitter and misanthropic as I was when I was a graduate student) I’d probably be knocking Ann Arbor about the ears too. It’s a beautiful little university town in which to be an elementary school student, a retired professor or hell, even a college student. But to be in your mid-twenties, looking for underground polka music, alternative puppetry performances or to just to culturally spread your wings, Ann Arbor feels pretty damn provincial.
I don’t live there anymore, if that’s an indication.
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Pioneer or River Rat? 🙂
Pioneer or River Rat? 🙂
Gryphon actually. Greenhills class of 1991.
Gryphon actually. Greenhills class of 1991.
Thanks for the writeup – if you look in the October
archives, I quote you. Basically, you explained it
better than I’ve been able to.
Thanks for the writeup – if you look in the October
archives, I quote you. Basically, you explained it
better than I’ve been able to.
Yes, I saw the write-up. Thanks! How come you don’t include your name anywhere on the site?
Yes, I saw the write-up. Thanks! How come you don’t include your name anywhere on the site?
ann arbor does suck.
It was on the Tip of everyones tongue, and I am glad you gave it a forum.
Ann arbor is cool when you are in middle school, and you see all the people who arent like the people at your school. Then you grow up. And you realize that these people spend lots of money on clothes in order to make it look like they don’t spend money on clothes.
And then theres the blind pig, god that place fucking sucks. It thinks it is still cool cause nirvana and some other bands played there in the 90s. The blind pig is like Poser headquarters. The point of going there is to see the latest trends in emo eyewear. Everytime I go there, I promise myself it is the last time, then I punch my self in the nuts for even going in the first place.
But alas, Ann arbor is fine as long as all the rich yuppie posers stay in the city. As long as they stopp migrating out into the once surrounding farm communities like chelsea and dexter. And they stay the hell out of the Lakes of Pinckney. Just stay in the city you posers and masturbate eachothers ego. You’ll be safe.
Steve Erskine
thanks for creating this forum
ann arbor does suck.
It was on the Tip of everyones tongue, and I am glad you gave it a forum.
Ann arbor is cool when you are in middle school, and you see all the people who arent like the people at your school. Then you grow up. And you realize that these people spend lots of money on clothes in order to make it look like they don’t spend money on clothes.
And then theres the blind pig, god that place fucking sucks. It thinks it is still cool cause nirvana and some other bands played there in the 90s. The blind pig is like Poser headquarters. The point of going there is to see the latest trends in emo eyewear. Everytime I go there, I promise myself it is the last time, then I punch my self in the nuts for even going in the first place.
But alas, Ann arbor is fine as long as all the rich yuppie posers stay in the city. As long as they stopp migrating out into the once surrounding farm communities like chelsea and dexter. And they stay the hell out of the Lakes of Pinckney. Just stay in the city you posers and masturbate eachothers ego. You’ll be safe.
Steve Erskine
thanks for creating this forum
Uh, sure thing I guess.
Uh, sure thing I guess.