editing alert!

people have held property downtown for a long time, waiting for the prices to rise or the zoning to change. I knew someone who owned a bunch of buildings on woodward and he just wasn’t doing anything with them. But things got *really* weird when Dan Gilbert started buying up all of the property and turning downtown…

I wasn’t implying that social class = cheating. I was implying that the vows section really highlights a certain type of couple who has had a certain type of experience (generally, blandly successful or highly educated and quirky) and presents them in an aspirational fashion.

I have been visiting detroit for 25 years (and lived there for a little less than two years) and there’s a little less each time I go. the city and private developers have slowly been tearing down all the landmarks, rather than rehabilitating them, while trying to convince people that this is the only way to attract…

no, it’s true. you very rarely see anyone other than ivy league (or ivy adjacent) toffs in the vows section. and I say that as an ivy leaguer.

come on, lafayette. you’re better than that. this is what we expect from baton rouge.

hoo boy, the fact that they were even *thinking* about that should be actionable.

not at all. I found out about this and posted on the io9 article since nothing had been posted at the root yet. I’m a nerdy jewish guy who has been reading comics since the 70s. my dad was a brooklyn dodger fan, who was bar mitzvahed the same year that jackie robinson broke into the majors. I saw 42 which was…

don’t knock it, detroit has a beautiful grid plan.

it’s funny! and kind of sad. because detroit has all the tools. fascinating history. a renaissance grid plan. major cultural institutions. parks. waterfront access.

me, too! I just found out about this and came here because I wanted to “be around” people who felt the same way.

hardest part is getting in!

they were going to use the honey for rosh hashanah, I believe. apples and honey, sweet new year and all that.

Boooooo for slideshows!

thanks for that! my group did not make it much past the early 1980s and sadly, I never found new people to play with.

they actually died in the GW Bush administration, but this was setting the body on fire and then shooting the remains into the sun.

if that’s what a moon base is like, I would want one also.  those people look like they are having a great time!

man, I loved that show when it was first on.

maybe c64?

if you’ve been DMing for that long, were you pulling ideas from the dragon magazine? my friends and I did that all the time and had a lot of fun doing it.