Photo Of The Day: President Barack Obama sits on the famed Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum following an event in Dearborn, Mich., April 18, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
"It makes me feel like Detroit is sacred. A lot of shit come out this bitch, like world changing shit, you feel me. That just don’t happen anywhere else. Cars came from this bitch, techno, Motown, you know we living in a big ass state that looks like a hand, you feel me. I don’t know man, there’s something about Detroit man."
— Sheefy McFly, on the legacy of Motown, Detroit hip hop and garage rock. Yeah, I feel you about the hand.
Shout out to @donnf for snagging a #megaman painting #marvelvscapcom (Taken with instagram)
Joey’s bday present. Look this guy up on Twitter at @TraeIsAAC or at Untitled Bottega in Detroit, he’s doing some great, affordable Marvel vs. Capcom art.
Way too nice out today, probably the last weekend like this for the year. Better finally get around to taking the new video camera and a notepad down to that Occupy Detroit campsite.
"I told Hansen every time I vote for reconstruction money in Iraq and Afghanistan, I think about the situation that the children in Detroit are living in … These are American children, and these children are forced into this existence because of their parents’ sins. And that’s not right."
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-Rep. Candice Miller (R-MI) explains why she’s cosponsoring Democrat Hansen Clarke’s bill to use Detroit’s federal tax dollars to rebuild the city. Nice sentiment, but maybe tone down the “parents’ sins” talk next time.
(h/t Yahkind)
Good week at work:
- Getting to know more coworkers, and the others are getting cooler the more I know them.
- The boss came through big today with the praise and the financial incentives. Not gonna lie, that was awesome. Looks like I may need to move to NYC sooner than expected. (Kevin follows me here, shouts out if you see this.)
- An old story of ours landed on Reddit and got outrageous traffic, which is fun to watch, and seems to put management in a good mood.
- Got the logins to our Chartbeat and Google Analytics, which are addictive. Now using them to plot new strategies in SEO-baiting, other dark arts.
- Work actually offered to fly me out to NYC and put me up for a long weekend (uncharacteristically — we don’t really travel or throw money around at all). This will be for our office Festivus party (of course) in early December.
- This is big: It’s getting easier to write quickly. Feeling the heat less. Starting to realize it’s not the end of the world if your argument isn’t all that sound in a snarky blog post, or if you miss some angle that the better bloggers would’ve nailed. Fuck it: It’s blogging.
- I can honestly say I”m grateful to be working at a business and finance site at a time when business is on the ropes and a world-historic populist movement is rising up against the financial system. I don’t know dick about these very important topics, but it’s fascinating to edit and research the stuff all day and chip away at my ignorance. Plus I’m gonna get to report on Occupy Detroit in a couple weeks, possibly make a video, and maybe even go report on Occupy Wall Street if I play my cards right. (Kevin, I’ll make it a cheap trip.)
Been a little weird working my way into a company entirely via IM and emails from home 600 miles away, but I guess that’s modern employment for you. At any rate, these people have been really good to me.
Dopehead: ”Airbags” (Sept. 2011)
One of the better rap videos I’ve seen lately from a new artist. Also probably the most realistic portrayal of the hood in Detroit in a video … um, maybe ever. (A lot of Danny Brown’s videos from last year are up there, though.)
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
“I got a Detroit state of mind. Coleman Young, ‘89.”
Warning, this song is lyrical, imaginative and *hard.* Not safe for the workplace or the sensitive.
http://fuckchips.bandcamp.com or, to get the album free, http://fuckchips.com
(This was the kid who was featured on a couple tracks on Danny Brown’s XXX, and the two of them are 2/3 of the “Bruiser Brigade” MCs)
No joke, this was really on MLive this morning. This is actually the second version; the first was more credulous, and they later updated the story again. Apparently the tweets in their own screenshot (“kindly step off, hoes”) didn’t arouse any skepticism. Top-notch work, guys
A party store inside of a vacant house! Peach cigarillo time! Red hot chips!
Nothing surprises me anymore from Detroit artists
(h/t Jane Fader)
Local rap synergy
Speaking of ‘Supa Dupa,’ Royal Oak boutique Burn Rubber’s gear is getting near ubiquitous with these new Detroit rappers. Can’t imagine owner Ro Spit will have trouble selling shit-tons of those robot logo hats as Sean’s videos start to hit MTV.
We have a Dennis Kucinich type on our hands, and I mean that in the best way possible.
Scott Kurashige from U-M is a baller and a gentleman, btw. Journos looking for a source, heads up.
