Hey readers, hope all is well! I'm working on a big blog project (and video from the spiritual home of Iggy Pop, Hamtramck) so I'm going to come back tomorrow with you tomorrow with new stuff. I hope you've bought Laura's book already! It's fantastic. The post title comes from an old campaign to make our beautiful city palatable to people. But you know what, fuck that! Detroit doesn't need nice things said about it -- it is a nice thing. Be well, my lovelies.
Michelle's Spell of the Day
"Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show." Iggy Pop
Cocktail Hour
Drinking music suggestion: The Idiot Iggy Pop
Benedictions and Maledictions
Happy Tuesday!
The heathen piss(Stella Artois) company bought Bud!--Ed McMann
ReplyDeleteZee Belgians haf zee beer gartens in Daytroyit, eh?--Inspector Clueso
ReplyDeleteThe White Stripes got nothing on the Igster. "I'm bored, chairman of the board."
ReplyDeleteThis'll probably get me in trouble, but now that the Belgians have bought the Budweiser factory maybe they'll start making beers that taste better.
ReplyDeleteTO DREAM OF SKATING ON ICE
ReplyDelete“To dream of skating on ice means
satisfaction with a current project.”
--Dictionary of Dreams
Amidst white groves
Inside a lilac tree
I gaze at airy flows across a frozen lake.
Like soaring birds
We are all of us, skating on ice.
Spanning dense curdling circuits
Ring-shaped,
Effortless,
Dazzling as a diamond dream
Before the break.
Beneath the brightness, I see a shadow
And the semblance watches me.
A shrill remembrance,
The impervious stare of quartz:
A trade-off between tomorrow and the past.
The break below shatters a ruptured skyline.
Its path
Squalls out for meaning.
The meaning is the sea.
I seize the mirror and the likeness looks at me.
Beneath the brightness, I see a shadow
Afloat beneath a pond of ice.
Freezing up in time and space
I drift inside the memory of a winter’s whorl,
Headed to where I came from.
What Tyree could find no Jim Beam bottles? The art is incomplete!
ReplyDeleteFuck no, don't say anything nice about Detroit, we are not particularly nice here. And that is a good thing.
Hamtramck is cool. Not the easiest place to pronounce, though.--Native Detroiter
ReplyDeleteWings Rule!!!!!!!!!!!--JLCGULL
ReplyDeleteMichelob Ultra pas mal.--Frenchy en Detroit
ReplyDeleteCome in to Covergirls in Detroit for a free MGD and schnapps of your choice in Christmas in July!!!--Shelly
ReplyDeletelol ...look more like weapons of mass indecision, to me ;)
ReplyDeleteRun like a villain . . .
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